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The simple, beautiful publishing service was one of the first to defeat vowels in tech company names. Now it's gunning for anything called a "blog." The "Ablogalypse" is nigh, and Tumblr is the format's Mad Max. Time to start stocking up on canned goods and bandwidth, bloggers

In July 2010, the editorial department of Scientific American where at the time I was on staff received a review copy of a book was slated to come out in September. It was a slim, drab-looking, paperback-bound volume, still without a cover design or page numbers

Until very recently, even Rupert Murdoch's sharpest critics might have admitted to envying the 80-year-old arch-conservative News Corporation CEO, who built a far-reaching media empire almost from scratch and made himself outstandingly rich even among billionaires. Now, though, amidst a phone hacking and corruption scandal that threatens to permanently damage his company, Murdoch is struggling to defend himself. Summoned to testify in front of a British Parliament committee investigating the scandal on Tuesday, he called it "the most humble day" of his career--and that was before a protester flung a shaving cream pie at his face

David Kravets, a writer for Wired's Threat Level blog, reports on the ruling handed down by a federal judge that, simply put, allowed for the reposting of an entire article without permission. To show how asinine that is, we've reposted Wired's entire article. You should actually go to Wired and read it.