SF News Adobe Is Finally Killing Off Flash, Giving It Until 2020 To Choke And Die One of the internet's most hated and annoying bits of software, and one that endlessly needs updating due to security holes being endlessly exploited by bad guys, is finally going to die a
SF News Inside Cloudflare, The SF Web Company That Reportedly Helps Hate Sites Thrive A recent investigation alleges that San Francisco-based company Cloudflare provides extremist websites with data delivery services and delivers the contact information of people who complain about hate speech to the hate spewers. As
SF News Hacker Group Claims Responsibility For Friday's Attack And Warns Of More To Come Friday's attack on critical internet infrastructure is likely the first of many, with a hacking group claiming responsibility and saying that it was only a test and that another larger attack is still
SF News [Update] Twitter, Spotify And Other Sites Suffered Outages Due To DDOS Attacks A number of websites, including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Github, were down this morning, apparently due to a DDOS attack on the DNS provider Dyn that mostly affected the East Coast of the
SF News SF Man Hit With Hate Mail After Family Bounced From Flight Over Peanut Allergy When a San Francisco family was reportedly kicked off a plane over their child's peanut allergy, their story received national attention. But now, says the kid's father, the family is getting virulent hate
SF News Internet Addict? You May Get To Skip Jury Duty Legislation currently being considered before the state assembly would give certain judges the authority to fine jurors whose internet use puts the integrity of a trial in question. What's more, the Associated Press
SF News 100,000 San Franciscans Don't Have Internet? Perhaps reinforcing the idea that the divide between the haves and have-nots of San Francisco is very stark and wide these days, a new report by the city estimates that about an eighth
SF News The SFMTA Says You Can Now Fight Your Parking Tickets Online, But Only To A Point Getting parking tickets blows, even the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's chief admits. But getting them when you're not even at fault? That blows even more, which is why the SFMTA says that
SF News You'll Never Guess What Facebook Lets You Block Now, But The Answer Could Save Friendships In a move that really should have happened sooner, Facebook will now let you block articles and content from individual sites that you'd just rather not see in your news feed anymore. It
Arts & Entertainment Google Honors Rulings With Gay Flair [Update] In honor of DOMA's defeat and the re-legalization of gay marriage in the state of California, Google gave their search bar a 3D rainbow makeover. (Granted, it's not on the main Google page,
SF News Facebook Is Down, Feel Free To Panic [Update: Nightmare Over] Nope, it's not just you, Facebook is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. Around 6 p.m. PST, the site was merely showing an error page, denying scroll-happy users immediate access to their friend's
SF News Yahoo Officially Announces $1.1 Billion Tumblr Acquisition, "Promises Not To Screw It Up" Hey, everyone, now that Yahoo is going to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a Tumblr blog. She wrote this morning, "I’m delighted to announce
SF News Yahoo Will Buy 'Hipster Blogging Platform' Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [Update] UPDATE: Yep, it's official. Guess there will be big news at Yahoo's Monday product event in New York: The Wall Street Journal reports, "The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.
SF News Video: Googling In North Korea! On Monday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson on a humanitarian mission. Today the duo visited a computer lab at Kim Il Sung
SF News Google's Eric Schmidt In North Korea On 'Humanitarian Mission' Billed as "a private, humanitarian mission," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea on Monday. The noted internet powerhouse traveled to the sketchy country with Bill Richardson, former New Mexico governor
SF News Teens Drug Parents' Milkshakes To Use Internet Past Curfew In the timeless words of Will Smith, parents just don't understand. Two teenage girls were arrested earlier this week after allegedly drugging one of the girl's parents. Why? Because they wanted to use
SF News Google Debuts $199 Chromebook While Apple continues to price gouge people working on their Pintrest pages at cafes — if we may generalize sweepingly, no one using a MacBook at a coffee shop neither can nor should be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tumblr Highlights People Who Wait In Line Being seen waiting in line at, say, Mission Chinese Food, is part if not most of the fun of going out. It's San Francisco's latest boosterism quirky fad. And it's quite gross, really,
Arts & Entertainment Bemused: Willie Brown Column On M.C. Hammer's Birthday Bash Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, it seems, was one of the lucky attendees at MC Hammer's 50th birthday party at the Tonga Room. He wrote about the festivities in his Sunday column
SF News Reddit Fame Costs Tech Writer His License Plate David Murphy has a problem. It's not a big problem, but it's a problem. It's his license plate. A lot of people think that, after looking at it, he's a troll. Wrong! His
SF News How Does The Rest Of The Internet Feel About Ross Mirkarimi? With today's news that the under-siege Sheriff took plea deal it looks like this telenovella could be all wrapped up in a week. Now, because forming opinions is hard and we already heard
SF News MC Hammer Stands Against SOPA While the Internet blacked itself out to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act today, a group of local Internet luminaries gathered at City Hall to protest the bill and it's PIPA Senate bill
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'What Is Internet?' Today Show 1994 - What Is Internet? - Watch more Funny Videos Picture it: 1994, the Today show. Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel don't know what the @ symbol means, let alone what is
SF News Craigslist Shuts Down 'Adult Services' Section After Attorneys General in 17 states nutted over Craigslist's adult services section -- where one could hire sex workers to quench a bevy of desires -- the San Francisco company finally shut it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humorless Food Network Buys Parody Domain Name The fine ladies at FoodNetworkHumor.com recently learned what folks in the Bay Area have known for eons: most foodies lack funny bones. Case in point, the Food Network, in anticipation of its