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Celeb hacker Guccifer returns, forces Colin Powell to deny an affair

How the NSA used 9/11 to collect your telephone metadata

Why Reddit’s CEO got sick of r/Atheism and r/Politics

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.

Fernando Alfonso III

How Denny’s became Tumblr’s diner

The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire

U.S. government makes its first-ever Bitcoin seizure

The real origins of Tumblr

Fired Amy’s Baking Company waitress shares her story on Reddit

Etsy refuses to believe this guy builds his own synths

Video of drunk, dong-waving CEO sends two startups on a downward spiral

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw was a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Dutch prince’s royal folk-rap song rejected by entire country

Chase Hoffberger reported on YouTube, web culture, and crime for the Daily Dot until 2013, when he joined the Austin Chronicle. Until late 2018, he served as that paper’s news editor and reported on criminal justice and politics.

Chase Hoffberger

Subway issues disappointing defense of its 11″ Footlong

Mike Fenn is a former contributor to the Daily Dot whose beats included Reddit, YouTube, and all things WTF. His work has also appeared in Forbes and News.com.au.

Mike Fenn

White House petitioned to build the USS Enterprise

A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.

Kevin Collier

Leaked White House memo shows FISA was just as Obama wanted

Debunking Warren Buffett’s quick-fix Congressional plan

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