Two years ago, tech writer Mat Honan wrote a blockbuster story for Wired, describing how a child got into his iCloud account and briefly ruined his life. You may have heard that the same thing recently happened to some very famous women, almost certainly using the same method. Apple is making it easy for you to be next.

Silicon Valley's top tech firms are infamous for paying their help borderline-poverty wages, including private security. Today, some of Apple's retail and corporate guards protested their low pay at the company's flagship shop in San Francisco.

If the App Store presented developers with a potential river of revenue when it launched six years ago, it's little more than a trickle today. The Financial Times says profits are "squeezed" as the App Store becomes more "industrialized."

Apple is joining the ranks of Silicon Valley powerhouses that disclosure their employee diversity statistics. The company claims to "Think Different," but their hiring reflects more of the same.

For years, tech giants like Apple, Google, and Adobe made secret agreements to avoid hiring rival talent, keeping salaries artificially suppressed. These companies almost got away with paying a tiny settlement—but that monetary mea culpa just got shot down.

Apple is now facing a class action lawsuit for unpaid wages. The suit was originally filed on behalf of Genius Bar employees in 2009, alleging Apple denied workers their legally-required meal and rest breaks. Following years of litigation in California's Superior Court, the case was certified as a class action suit today.

Politicians have historically left Washington to land cushy jobs on Wall Street. But as the alpha males of banking have decamped to California in pursuit of startup riches, Washington's revolving door increasingly opens to Silicon Valley, not Wall Street. Now techies are charming the latest D.C. free-agent: former Obama flack Jay Carney.

The pending Silicon Valley wage-fixing settlement is a dud, but the upshot is a trove of private executive emails put into the public record. New court documents, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, show the leadership at Google in a fit over a very new rival.

The problem with treating the truth like a dirty secret is that it leads to situations like today's, where a CNBC panelist brought his own show to a halt after stating the obvious: "Tim Cook is fairly open about the fact that he's gay at the head of Apple, isn't he?" Silence.

It's silly, because the world has known Apple's chief executive is gay for years now, but the New York Times is practically gnawing its own arm off in the process of writing about Tim Cook's personal life. They clearly want to mention the sexuality of capitalism's most powerful man—so why won't they?

True or false: thoughts? Trick question, because the answer is leadership. How many iPhones would it take to fill up Tim Cook's duffel bag? Another trick: he hasn't owned a bag since 1999. One last question: do you have what it takes to land a job with a silly title?

Apple's long history of using tax shelters is finally coming under European scrutiny. EU regulators have begun "formal investigations" into Apple's tax practices, which are responsible for funneling company revenue into Ireland since 1980, saving Apple $74 billion between 2010 and 2013.

Recode's John Paczkowski reports Apple is looking for a new PR chief, and this time they should be a little nicer: "[Tim Cook's] paying particular attention to those he believes could put a friendlier, more approachable face on Apple's public relations efforts."

In case you thought the age of corporate paranoia had passed at Apple, well, it has not.

Cook is the CEO of Apple, that company that makes all of the things you either own or want to own at some point in the future. He's also gay. So why is the Times so emphatically saying "There Are Still No Openly Gay Major C.E.O.s" today?

Lawsuits and federal investigations against tech companies tend to end one of three ways. Corporations pay a pittance of a settlement, swear they'll do better without admitting guilt, or the whole ordeal is over before it starts. But one plaintiff in the class action wage-fixing case against Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe has declined to roll over.

You hardly ever get acquisition updates from World Star Hip Hop, but the blog just posted this video of Dr. Dre and Tyrese confirming Apple's $3.2 billion deal with Beats over some Heinekens.

After 18 years of spin, Katie Cotton, Apple's magnetically ruthless vice president of worldwide corporate communications, has left her job, and tributes from the tech press are pouring in. What no one will admit is that we were all afraid of her.