Federal agents have arrested 26-year-old San Francisco resident Blake Benthall as the alleged operator of the online drug marketplace Silk Road 2.0, which is estimated to have facilitated upwards of $8 million in sales as of September this year.

The founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based startup Breakr, which helps "connect fans and fandoms," claims his company played an instrumental role in perpetuating the #AlexFromTarget hashtag on Twitter.

The Internet's latest obsession with attractive retail service workers continues onward with a slew of spin-off characters both based in real life and fiction, like Kieran from T-Mobile and T-Bo from Groovy Smoothie (iCarly).

It looks like Jeremy Meeks has some new competition after Santa Cruz resident Sean Kory was booked this weekend for attacking a man dressed as a Fox News reporter at a Halloween parade.

Last Thursday, Facebook launched the application "Rooms" for iOS mobile devices which allows users to create their own custom chatrooms separate from the social networking service.