As some of you might be aware, the WIRED website underwent some cleanup and upgrades a couple of weeks ago. No sooner than those fixes started to take effect and all us bloggers started feeling our way around a new blogging interface, we got slammed with a malware attack. I’m a simple historian, so I […]
Sometimes I should have a stiff drink on hand to dive into a week’s worth of comments, preferably a stout in this awesome glass. But this week was delightful. On the East Coast spring finally sprang and the sun seemed to evaporate everyone’s dour, interminable bad mood like so much old rain water. Here are just a few of the stories that brought out the best of you this week. Click on the headlines to read the whole articles. And happy weekend!
In the latest episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy fantasy writer Elizabeth Bear explains why it took her nearly a decade to apologize to George R. R. Martin.
Word that IAC reportedly spent $500 million to buy another 10 percent stake in Tinder, the popular dating app, was met by most of the tech world with a healthy dose of skepticism. After all, could a site that's just 20 months old with no revenue model to speak of really be worth $5 billion?
The NSA knew about and exploited the Heartbleed vulnerability for two years before it was publicly exposed this week, and used it to steal account passwords and other data, according to a news report. Speculation had been rampant this week that the spy agency might have known about the critical flaw in OpenSSL that would […]