It's summertime and the European Union is feeling its damn self. Days after another complaint with the EU about Google's anticompetitive behavior, German publishers decided they've had enough of Silicon Valley as well.

You probably expected this, but Clayton Christensen—the Harvard professor who coined the term term that's become an almost religious byword in tech—is an arrogant ass. But in a new interview with Businessweek's Drake Bennett, you'll learn he's an even bigger ass that you ever imagined.

If Path cannot be Snapchat, then it shall be the world's 9,000th messaging app. Dave Morin just spent some of his shady new funding to acquire a startup called TalkTo. Like the saying goes, you gotta spend your investors' money to lose your investors' money.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco's Mission District, the neighborhood's ample stock of engineering talent is still finding ways to disrupt their license plates. [Photo: Capp Street Crap]

If Kevin Rose's apparent move to Portland was in any way motivated by getting away from the anti-tech activists that protest on his San Francisco doorstep, he blew it. The Oregonian reports hundreds of the Google executive's future neighbors are fighting plans to demolish his new home.

Young male founders must all be drinking the same Soylent. Either that or they have a hard time multitasking because these bros can't seem to disrupt anything besides doing your laundry. The latest entrant is Washboard, a subscription service for quarters. The $20 (of quarters) monthly plan will cost you $26.99.

This week, a group of otherwise mentally sound adults agreed to go fucking insane all at once. The object of their manic episode was Yo, an app that sends the word "Yo" to other people with the app installed. It's garnered over a million real dollars from investors. I talked to the one in charge.

Soylent, the semen-esque food substitute financed by venture capitalists, is nothing if not resilient. It can keep you sated for hours with a full, gaseous feeling. It can even withstand reports of rats in its kitchen and still show up in The New Yorker. But slurping the fun out of life's most basic pleasure requires some social media marketing.

Clinkle was supposed to be an app that used sound waves to make purchases from your phone. Now, it's some sort of vague (and vaguely sad) debit card—and based on this leaked email, the startup has to bribe people to use it.

Mother Jones dug into the numbers behind the tech industry's male-dominated pipeline for engineers. Women are half as likely to major in computer science as they were in 1985 and young girls predominately see computing as "typing," "math," and "boredom." If coding is "key to winning," young women are set up to lose.

Uber might have locked down a $18.2 billion valuation two weeks back, but that figure is already under scrutiny. Between increased competition, taxes, and operational costs, Aswath Damodaran, who literally wrote the book on valuations, put the number closer to $5.9 billion.

I don't know why Google would allow Matrix, a haircare company, to make a four minute video showcasing the utter uselessness of Google Glass. But I'm glad they did because now I know what quaaludes feel like. Okay Glass, play chillwave.

The story of how a young programmer named Aaron Swartz convinced celebrated academic Lawrence Lessig that no political progress could be made without first reforming campaign finance is now part of Silicon Valley lore. In May, Lessig launched a radical initiative to address the issue: MAYDAY, a SuperPAC that secured funding from two Silicon Valley billionaires in order to curtail the influence of big money.

The feds might've been clever enough to take down a shadowy internet drug ring, but it still hasn't mastered the email BCC: CoinDesk reports a list of people and companies interested in the US Marshals seized, $18 million Bitcoin auction is now out in the open.

The cost of everything is on the rise in the Boomin' Bay Area—rents, salaries, coffee, gourmet toast—so it shouldn't be much surprise that a startup is now offering up a $20,000 referral bonus.

Carmelo Anthony is a warrior for wearables.

Hi, Marc. I grew up using your work.

Warm up the Reddit bus: ESPN reports the Beef O'Brady's Bowl now has a somehow even lamer corporate namesake, courtesy of the most exciting cyber-currency around. Football and Bitcoin, the two most volatile American activities, together at last.

Uber's growing fleet of human drivers already have plenty of issues with the service: operators in Seattle want to unionize because of alleged managerial discrimination and UberX drivers have protested in San Francisco over low fares. Now Uber CEO's embrace of a driverless car future has infuriated its operators yet again.

Silicon Valley has traditionally fought off questions about the diversity of its workers, even claiming the numbers were a "trade secret." But following Google's lead, Yahoo revealed for the first time ever that its global workforce is 37 percent female.