Postmates, a well-funded delivery startup premised on your inability to get out of bed, does not pay its couriers well. But according to one current employee, the company is at least admitting the money isn't that great.

Last week, Recode reports, "serial startup employee" Chris Zaharias compared unfair startup employee equity grants to the legal oppression of African Americans, and called for "a Rosa Parks moment" among tech workers.

Sarah Slocum, persecuted computer pioneer and San Francisco socialite, is experienced when it comes to privacy outrage: the LA Times reports Slocum was the target of a restraining order after allegedly peeping on her neighbors with a smartphone two years ago.

Steve Jobs is dead, but his haute design super-yacht will prowl the seas forever—right now it's off Cabo San Lucas. [Photo via Instagram]

Airbnb has been a blessing in disguise for San Francisco landlords itching to evict their tenants. The Chronicle says three-day eviction notices for Airbnb use are on the rise. Other landlords claim illegal Airbnb activity to skip the 72-hour "cure or quit" period.

If you squint a little, New York by the bay is slowly turning into a cartoon. The next step in our favorite class warfare diorama: a boutique hotel bucking the backlash by offering cocktails on the house for anyone with a locally despised, $1,500 face computer.

Every year, the Chronicle of Philanthropy puts out a list of the largest donors. (Mark Zuckerberg came out on top in 2013.) But Inside Philanthropy calls that a vanity metric. Looking at the percentage of wealth an individual has given away, they argue, is the best measure of generosity.

Not only do large multinational tech firms like Apple and Google try as hard as possible to avoid playing taxes on the planet Earth, our pesky Earth laws make it easy to dodge. Just look at le Google in France.

We almost made it through a single day of since the advent of the computer without someone typing something really dumb, but $900 million messaging company Viber broke the streak with this special holiday message.

GitHub, an immensely popular and influential social network for software code, is in the midst of a harassment controversy that's captivating (and horrifying) the industry. But the married couple at the center of Julie Ann Horvath's harassment story have remained anonymous—until now.

CNBC reports that a "mystery tech billionaire" purchased a life insurance policy worth $201 million. That beats out the previous Guinness World Record, a $100 million policy for "an unnamed American entertainer."

Julie Ann Horvath, an outspoken and well-known engineer at GitHub, a mega-successful social network for coders, says a toxic workplace forced her out. She's telling her story of harassment on Twitter, right now.

Last March, Sheryl Sandberg launched Lean In, a non-profit offshoot of her best-selling book. At the time of the organization's launch, it was too early to tell exactly who would benefit from the politically ambitious Facebook executive's top-down empowerment agenda. But now, one year later—after a high-profile publicity tour, a sworn commitment to diversifying stock photos, and the world's only meh Beyoncé video—and Sandberg still doesn't have a good answer.

People pay thousands of dollars to have lasers shot at their eyes so they don't have to wear glasses. People put little pieces of plastic right on their eyes so they don't have to wear glasses. People hate glasses.

Gossiping is good business: Secret, the anonymous chatter app du jour, just raised $8.6 million in venture funding. Investors are betting folks outside the tech corridors of California and New York—like the busted Twitter employee above—will be hooked next.

Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco resident, social nightmare, and self-professed cyborg hate crime victim, is also a liar. Watch her on local TV, describing the bar she recorded with her face computer, as she denies recording with her face computer.

At some point after investing tens of millions of dollars in 22-year-old Lucas Duplan, investors decided a boy with no experience wasn't fit for the job. So they installed the former CFO of Netflix, who just bailed. This company is fucked.

Perhaps "secret bank vaults deep in the earth" can save Bitcoin. Benchmark just invested $20 million in Xapo, which stores bitcoin code on computer drives. If the vault is breached, Xapo says it will fully insure all deposits. A guarantee that you won't lose your shirt in cryptocurrency? How innovative!

Today in the occasional internet diary blog of Mark Zuckerberg: the cherubic chief executive is cranky with the federal government, and is telling the rest of us about his spat with the president.