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.

In the most recent episode of Startup Asperger's Action Squad, the boys of Pied Piper face a big problem: TechCrunch Disrupt is around the corner, and their software doesn't work. It also included some of the most true to life moments in the series so far

Twitter still doesn't make money, which is a problem when you're a publicly traded company. Part of the social network's financial ascendance could be the pitch it's making to TV networks: we will bring you (and your advertisers) valuable eyeballs. What if that's just not true?

HBO's Silicon Valley has been renewed for a second season, Variety reports.

Perhaps realizing that everyone is just going to use their former roommate's pilfered HBO Go password anyway, the series premiere of the (hugely smart and funny) Silicon Valley is now available on YouTube.

Until now, no one adequately embarrassed Silicon Valley on TV. All prior attempts either embarrassed themselves, or fell just short. But Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's HBO foray into the sociopathic pit of Northern California's tech scene is beyond adequate: It gives the fuckers the graceful slap across the face they need.

Dylan Smith co-founded Box, a storage company that's poised to be Silicon Valley's newest public company. Smith will make tens of millions of dollars (at least!)—perhaps enough money to erase his cringe-attack reality show moment from the internet.

It's 2014 and Twitter isn't a profitable company—but did you see how many retweets Ellen got last night? The Hollywood selfie seems like a giant business coup for ad-reliant Twitter, but it says more about the power of a century-old technology than anything else.

"You remind me of my son. He's got Asperger's too." It looks like Mike Judge has another fine piece of bleak capitalist dramedy prepared for the show's premiere on April 6th. What could be better than "Office Space" in 2014?

There have been two shots at bringing startups to television: Bravo's catastrophe, and Amazon's mixed bag. Now the legendary Mike Judge is taking a stab with HBO, and based on a couple preliminary dick jokes and Judge's cachet, it could actually be terrific.

Signs your tech company is doing very well: one of your VPs and head of sales is now starring in what will surely be a terrible piece of television programming. Meet Jenny from LivingSocial, y'all.

Hundreds of eager people are lining up outside AOL right now, hoping to be picked for a $700-per-day internet news anchor gig. First they have to audition on a live camera. Nerve-racking. What's more nerve-racking is that the whole thing is streaming for us to watch. Oy.

We had really high hopes for Bravo's Silicon Valley reality show—vivid dreams of coders and VCs going topless in hot tubs, turning over tables, and getting arrested on airplanes. Instead, it was just vaguely annoying and mostly boring.