The Wall Street Journal was supposed to have the last word on the GitHub harassment allegations, but Julie Ann Horvath claims the story pivoted after cofounder Tom Preston-Werner resigned. For a look into the saga that might have been: here's Horvath's version of events.

Silicon Valley has never been known for its appreciation of subtleties. Case in point: eminent venture capitalist Tom Perkins, who co-founded mega-firm Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote one of the most disgustingly tone deaf statements on class tensions we've ever seen.

There's nothing worse than getting married, then realizing you could have done so much better. Such was the dilemma of tech media's preeminent naif, Farhad Manjoo, is ditching the Wall Street Journal to place David Pogue's crown upon his head at the New York Times, and is now the most coveted writer of our era.

Everyone knows Tim Cook is gay. Valleywag said it in 2011. His colleagues say it now. It's a social triumph that the arguably most powerful businessman in the world is also gay. So why, at one of the rare moments that Cook's sexuality actually matters, won't he finally say it?

Last month, Reuters asked if Rupert Murdoch could hold on to Kara Swisher, the "best journalist (so far) of the new millennium." The answer is officially no, according to Fortune's Dan Primack, who first reported that AllThingsD had tapped the investment bank Code Advisors "to find outside investors" for a deal "that could exceed $25 million" (the price AOL paid for TechCrunch in 2010.)

Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website. We'll always have Cyprus.