Stanford has been a west coast corporate feeder for decades, but now tech's trendiest degree is also the school's most popular: a full tenth of the school's 7,000 undergrads are declaring in CS.

Yahoo's betting its entire existence on a new wave of smartphone apps. None of it's come to fruition yet, but the mobile team is already being rewarded, says the New York Post: and the rest of the company's getting the shaft.

For the first time ever, Airbnb will proactively support an Airbnb host facing legal repercussions for using the company's service. But the "sharing economy" isn't as beneficent as it seems. Airbnb's head of public policy has previously stated his intention to make New York "the model city" for the startup's costly regulatory issues.

The east coast presence of Zynga, that once-proud and mighty maker of tractor simulators, has been decimated—but it looks like it's not completely gone. Yet. A skeleton crew of doomed software refugees is sticking around Zynga's Manhattan turf, given the terrible "choice" between staying on longer or forfeiting their full termination packages.

The Republican National Committee has hired a 32-year-old senior Facebook engineer and angel investor for its "newly created" Chief Technology Officer position. So much for the George Packer naysayers insisting that Silicon Valley is "decisively in the camp of the Democrats," despite evidence to the contrary.

A few game-makers who got the axe on Monday have already recovered—enough to dish on Reddit, at least. They're answering questions right now—and talking severance packages, game theft, and of course, corporate perks.

Software wealth emperor Larry Ellison, whose riches can now only be measured in parts of the Earth he legally owns, has reached a new mega-money milestone, the New York Times reports: His plans for the America's Cup sailing race are so expensive, dangerous, and insane, everyone else is quitting.

The BBC's Jeremy Paxman is none too eager to jump in the shower with Google Glass, if this interview with Robert Scoble is any indication. The veteran Newsnight anchor grills Scoble, skeptical about his vow to never live another day without Glass.

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While Zynga was busy laying off 520 employees without warning yesterday, including most of his officemates, Zynga's newly hired VP of mobile ad strategy Timothy Price piped up on Facebook to assure his friends that he wasn't one of 18 percent.

When California regulators told Sean Parker that the elaborate, Tolkienesque set for his wedding wasn't permitted, he went along anyway. Was this just eco-oversensitivity? Nope: Parker's grotesque ceremonial mound was a redwood-damaging, erosion-spilling indulgence.

Zynga's gargantuan purchase of OMGPOP, that company that made briefly mega-popular Draw Something, will now be an icon of tech collapse. Only slightly over a year after impulse-spending $200 million on the small company, Zynga is killing it.

According to Serkan Piantino, head of Facebook's New York engineering team, the crew's move isn't going to be just any humdrum relocation: Frank Gehry, legendary designer of big wavy metallic buildings, will be converting two entire floors of office space for the social network.

It turns out you can't evade the long, eco-regulatory arm of the law just because you're Sean Parker. Well, you can, but it'll cost you two and a half million dollars: the Mercury News says the environmental impact of his fantasy wedding set comes with a big monetary settlement. A Parker always pays his debts.

It's easy to mock Zynga right now as it starts to grip its stomach and collapse—but where were the skeptics before the IPO boom and bust? Too busy heaping praise on a company that sold virtual hay bales on Facebook—and it sure looks bad in retrospect.

AllThingsD's Kara Swisher says Zynga is on the verge of massive layoffs, as a bad year gets worse for the bleeding FarmVille firm. Maybe selling virtual castles is no longer a $7 billion business. Update: Zynga confirms layoffs.

If you're willing to ignore the existence of institutionalized prejudice and hustle, you might be the recipient of some cold cash from dot-com millionaire Jason Calacanis' impending investment firm. Let's hope he picks young startups better than he picks poker hands.

Google may have banned facial recognition on Google Glass, but boob appreciation is a-okay with the Burning Man regular Larry Page. Developers at MiKandi released the first porn app for the device, called Tits & Glass. More like tits and class, amiright? Update: Like all good things, this tit too must end.

Former rapper turned headphone mogul Andre Young and longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine just gave USC a $70 million donation. New library? Field hockey sticks? Way better! The duo are creating an undergrad degree program that tosses together nearly every Silicon Valley buzzword, simultaneously.