Happy Birthday Twitter! Ten years in, and Twitter is at a crossroads. Twitter has been called many things over the past ten years. Fad was an early name, before Flight 1549 and the Arab Spring anointed it the most direct, truthful news service. A worrying liability and cautionary tale for the failing unicorns around it…

iCloud scammer pleads guilty to stealing celebrity nudes Joey davidson, Techno Buffalo Remember two years ago when someone allegedly hacked into the iCloud accounts of dozens of celebrities, mainly women, and stole nude or otherwise compromising photos of them? The event, dubbed “The Fappening” by certain parts of the internet, turns out to have been…

Google’s AI Wins Pivotal Second Game in Match With Go Grandmaster Cade Metz, Wired Widely seen as a test of the growth of deep learning and neural networks in artificial intelligence, even more than Watson’s defeat of Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! five years ago, Google’s AlphaGo has defeated Lee Sedol in the second of their…

Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets Patrick Howell O’Neill, The Daily Dot All major tech coverage the past few weeks has been on Apple’s fight with the Feds over encryption on devices. Google has backed Apple. Facebook has backed Apple. Even Microsoft has finally backed Apple. Apparently Amazon wnats…