Zuckerberg Releases Statement Calling PRISM Charges "Outrageous"

Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook account today to address charges that his company has cooperated with a secret NSA program called PRISM that monitors private citizens' internet activities. Zuckerberg called the press reports about PRISM "outrageous," and said Facebook has never given the U.S. government…

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Anatomical Confusion, Gold Dust, and More Hate Mail This Week

Our hate mail this week questioned the nature of tips@gawker.com, proposed a great idea about buying gold dust bars, and suggested some confusing courses of action. Some examples of the enlightened correspondence sent to us this week is included below.

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The Week in Movies: The Internship, Much Ado, The Purge, Tiger Eyes

Welcome to Annotate This, where we gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies coming out this week. It will help you decide what to avoid, what to see, and what to pretend to see. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.

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Jaden Smith: Soon Sci-Fi Is Just Going to Just Be Called "Science"

Here's a series of clips of Jaden Smith babbling about the realism of sci-fi (aliens are making it realer, and The Matrix and Star Trek are so close to how reality could be, FYI). He also compares acting after growing up in the Pinkett-Smith household to speaking French after growing up in France. That seems like…

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Jonah Lehrer Is Still a Crook, and Simon & Schuster Is His Accomplice

It's comical, but no real surprise, that pop-science plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer appears to have lifted someone else's work for his new book proposal. Lehrer has established by now that he is a pathological fraud. The question on the table is: What kind of a fraud is Jonathan Karp, the publisher of Simon &…

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Want To Know Everything About Everyone? Work the Prism For Palantir!

"I applied for a writer job at Palantir," a California journalist tells Front! "They specialize in using artificial intelligence to analyze data, something like that. My [Republican friend] works there. I have a few tidbits from the hiring process—they are sort of menacing, in retrospect." It's apparently a tough place to get a job.

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