After SXSW stated they were cancelling two panels related to the GamerGate controversy yesterday, the news sites BuzzFeed and Vox Media both announced they would be withdrawing from the conference if the decision was not reversed.

The landfall of the historic hurricane in Mexico, which was widely feared to be the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western hemisphere, stirred up a massive storm of chatter in the social media this weekend, but the residents in the region seem to have escaped the worst of it as the death toll remained relatively low as of Monday.

The Internet is buzzing about abnormal luminosity data coming from the WTF star in our galaxy, with some speculating it could be caused by an extraterrestrial megastructure known as a "Dyson sphere."

The men's interest magazine Playboy recently announced it will no longer include fully nude pictorials starting in March 2016, citing their inability to compete with sexually explicit online content.

After years of living in the shadow of her meme, Maggie Goldberger, a.k.a. Gersberms, Berks, and Ermahgerd, finally came forward and identified herself for the magazine, and the back story of how the photo came to be is fascinating.