The democratically elected President is putting aside half an hour each evening to talk to citizens on Twitter. Last night he had to reply to just eight questions--the network is not widely used in Egypt--but is seen as a media-savvy move that counteracts recent crackdowns on journalists and activists.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are marching onto the streets of Cairo. President Mohammed Morsi has fled the Presidential Palace. And Egyptians are recording every minute on Twitter.
Twitter has purchased Android encryption software RedPhone--and made it temporarily unavailable to Egyptians. The move comes after one popular Twitter personality was jailed on terrorism and murder charges, and another was sexually assaulted and had her wrists broken while in custody.
British firm Gamma International was found hawking spyware to foreign intelligence services that installed onto users' computers via an iTunes security hole. The breach has been fixed, but documents indicate that the exploit was used to snoop on the email, Skype, and social media activities of users worldwide.
New evidence suggests the Arab Spring wasn't caused by the slow boiling of political grievances, but by a sudden rise in food prices. Next year, prices will soar even higher.
Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering.
