After a jury awarded Hulk Hogan $115 million in damages against Gawker Media, including $55 in compensatory damages and $50 million for emotional distress, the online tabloid's CEO Nick Denton revealed the company plans to appeal the decision.

This week, Hulk Hogan took the stand in his high-profile lawsuit against Gawker Media, whom he claims violated his privacy and caused great emotional distress by posting a covertly recorded sex tape of the former professional wrestler.

4chan founder Christopher Poole has recently accepted a position at Google on the company's streams, photos and sharing team.

Many viewers of last night's Academy Awards ceremony were left perplexed when actress Stacey Dash was introduced as the director of the Oscar's new "Minority Outreach Program," and wished everyone a "happy Black History Month" after publicly denouncing the annual observance last month.

After Apple refused a court order demanding they build software allowing the FBI to bypass the lock code on the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the public debate around privacy and encryption has gone mainstream again.