Yesterday, Barret Brown, the American journalist and unofficial spokesperson of Anonymous who has spent the last two years in prison for his involvement in the 2011 hack of a Texas-based strategic intelligence firm, was formally sentenced to 63 months in prison and a fine of $890K.

In a recent interview with InTheMix, Finnish electronic dance music producer Ville Virtanen (a.k.a. Darude) responded to the online resurgence in popularity of his 1999 trance hit "Sandstorm," admitting he was "weirded out at first."

4chan found Christoper Poole (a.k.a. "Moot") announced that he is retiring from the imageboard after eleven and a half years of service.

Terror in Paris may have come to an end, at least for now, after the two brother suspects were killed by police during a tense hostage crisis yesterday, but the local contingents of Anonymous hacktivists are just getting warmed up as calls for vengeance continue to grow momentum in social media.

An outpour of condolences and heartwrenching tributes has taken over Twitter and the social media at large as the period of mourning begins for the innocent victims of yesterday's Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in France and the rest of the Free World.