Twitter is still receiving accolades for its role in the Arab Spring years later, but the corporation's decision block tweets in Pakistan for the first time ever is tarnishing its reputation as a free speech advocate.

PwC says Hispanic consumers are the fastest-growing segment of mobile technology users the U.S.—roughly 20% more likely to stream or download mobile videos than the general population. How long, you think, before Silicon Valley invests in apps that cater to them?

Mike Hudack is the Director of Product Managment at Facebook. He believes in the web. He also believes CNN, print newspapers, BuzzFeed, HuffPo, and Vox are terrible. "Someone should fix this shit," he laments. If he's looking for people to blame, he should start with himself.

Sometime within the next few weeks, your iPhone is going to start recording everything it hears when you begin tapping out a Facebook status update, hoping you'll include what you're listening to or watching. But do we want to carry around a hot mic for Mark Zuckerberg?

The revolutionizing powers of the tech industry haven't just been summoned as a middleman between you and local restaurants. No, Silicon Valley has also marshaled its intellectual superiority to put apps between you and local laundromats. New York magazine recently traveled to California to investigate this democratic tide (of delivery).

Fab will announce its fourth round of layoffs in 10 months tomorrow. The ecommerce company expects to cut 80 to 90 jobs, all from its headquarters in New York. A spokesperson confirmed the decision after Buzzfeed broke the news of an email from the human resources instructing employees not to come in tomorrow.

Tomorrow night marks the premiere of Winklevoss Radio, a new "an hour-long, limited-run" show on Sirius XM. Most of us only know Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss as Greenwich Ken dolls with opposable thumbs *litigation comes separately. So it will be great to introduce the element of sound at no additional cost.

Airbnb hosts in New York are about run into the business end of the sharing economy. According to a newly agreed upon subpoena, the $10 billion rental site will submit anonymized data on local hosts. But if the Attorney General suspects illegal activity, Airbnb will turn over your name, social media account, exact address, Tax ID number and more.

Google dismissed a recent "leak" about AdSense stealing money from publishers as "complete fiction." But its Kafka-esque tactics sounded familiar enough that one of the publishers it arbitrarily banned just before a big payout has filed a class action lawsuit.

The new groundswell of corporate feminism lives up to its name: the real benefactors aren't women, but the corporations that might employ them. So then, how does Facebook COO and celebrity author Sheryl Sandberg get such good press? She has her own employees write it for her.

Google may have been rejected by Snapchat and WhatsApp, but it's not always in the friend zone. When the SEC inquired about spending overseas profits, Google said it passed on a deal to buy an unnamed foreign company for up to $5 billion. Sure you did.

Dan Lyons, former Newsweek writer and real person behind the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon blog, will help tackle a new generation of still-living tech despots as a writer for HBO's startup comedy series.

Now we just need one for Adderall, Provigil, mushrooms, DMT, and Burning Man dust. And for those 154 people to stop playing [via Hacker News]

"World change" is such an amorphous ambition. To get a clearer picture of what that looks like on the ground, consider this statistic from San Francisco's Human Services Agency: income inequality in the cradle of innovation is now par with Rwanda.

If there's one thing "tech people" love more than making innovations happen at a steadily accelerating rate, it's making love. Usually it's weird, private, polyamorous love—the kind you don't want to ever look at. But New York's "nerd prom" is really pushing the public love angle, and it's a little painful.

Business Insider editor Jim Edwards found a way to disrupt disclosures: buying $1,000 of Twitter stock. "I found that owning stock made me much more sensitive to news about the companies and what was going on inside them."

When I last spoke to Ashwini Chhabra in April, the always dapper Taxi and Limousine Commission deputy was explaining local rules that protect riders from the downside of e-hailing apps like Uber. So I didn't anticipate Chhabra's sudden move from regulator to corporate fixer.

Unlike its disruptive, transatlantic neighbor, Europe still cares about privacy. That's why a European high court just affirmed the right to selectively erase oneself from Google. Google's privacy-adoring Eric Schmidt thinks this is a mistake. That is about as hypocritical as it gets.

Investor Marc Andreessen also dabbles in psychoanalysis. "The nature of the public market is that it is manic depressive," he told the New York Times. "It gets excited, it gets depressed." A couple impending M&As put tech stocks in a good mood today, but we'll see how long that lasts