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For a brief, weird moment in the Myspace-fueled early 2000s, dance music felt truly alternative.

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If you know someone's date of birth, you can crack their Myspace account.

The year that politics got hacked was also a record-breaking year for sheer size of corporate breaches.

Each Saturday we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth at WIRED, but which deserve your attention nonetheless.

360 million old Myspace accounts are vulnerable in one of the biggest hacks yet.

Archive tools buried deep inside social networks make it easy to save a copy of your Digital Self. Take a look at the best (and worst) backup services built into Facebook, Google, Twitter, and MySpace.

At Cut Brooklyn, Joel Bukiewicz makes custom knives. Not cocobolo-clad showpieces shaped like ravens, but working knives for serious cooks.

Casey Neistat's bite-size Internet movies have so much viral potential they make influenza jealous. And they all have one thing in common: They're born in the filmmaker's Lower Manhattan studio.

Myspace, the social network that dominated the early part of this century, has risen from the ashes. Or at least, that's the plan, as Myspace's new website emerges from beta along with a new mobile app.

The new Myspace emerged to the public today, and the first thing you’ll see when it loads up is investor Justin Timberlake’s first new single.

Not too long ago it seemed as though fallen social networking giant Myspace may never make a comeback. News Corp sold the company for pennies on the dollar more than a year ago and little had been heard on the new owners' plans. Until -- seemingly out of the blue -- the site teased its rebirth, with a catchy video that actually made the new Myspace seem like a lot of fun. Actor/pop star/Myspace investor Justin Timberlake tweeted that video out last week and its infectious groove was chosen by Scott Vener. Wired talked to Myspace's new music curator about how he plans to bring the sexy back to the social networking site.

Federal regulators slapped Myspace's wrist Tuesday, finding that the company still exists and that it violated the privacy promises it made to its 25 million registered users. Myspace joins its more prosperous internet cousins, Facebook and Google, in the club of companies that have been slapped by the Federal Trade Commission with mandatory privacy audits for the next 20 years (though it's not clear anyone expects Myspace to last that long).

The social network's new Listen button instantly connects you with bands' music, played through Spotify, Rdio and other unlimited-streaming services.

If you are like me, you probably have at least a few friends that you only know on the internet. I’ve been on the internet for 15 years now, since my sophomore year in college. I’ve been a member of many forums and made many friends that I only know through the internet. Some of […]

With the online musical landscape growing bigger by the day, artists are turning to the music-nerd site of the moment for unique opportunities to connect with fans and promote new projects.

Google throws its latest hat into the social networking ring while assuring us that Google+ is nothing like Buzz, Orkut or Wave. To begin with, it doesn't sound like a rejected Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain. Secondly, it has circles or something.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A day after Google went public with a tilt at Facebook, today’s dominant social network, News Corp has found a buyer for MySpace, the ruling online hangout of yesteryear. The fire sale price is said to be between $30 million and $40 million — at best about 7 cents […]

I’m fortunate to work for a company that not only embraces geeks but encourages it. A perk of working in a hands-on science museum is that I can, at any point in my work day, decide that I need a break and go rewire a children’s toy, light something on fire, or puzzle out a […]

2004: Some college dudes unveil a website only Harvard University people can use. Seven years later it is worth $50 billion, and for hundreds of millions of people the site now called Facebook is so integral to daily life that, for all intents and purposes, it is the internet. Trying to remember a time before […]

If you’ve got a geeky guy in your life that’s into steampunk, SCA, or other forms of role-play, re-enactment, and costume fun, you might want to turn him on to Movember. What’s Movember you ask? Well its a month of men growing impressive mustaches on their face for the purpose of raising awareness for men’s […]

Poor America Online. After paying $850 million for the Bebo social network in 2008, the company now admits it can’t afford to keep the site running and will try to sell it soon. If that fails, AOL will close Bebo down entirely, according to an internal memo AOL provided to Wired.com. “As we evaluate our […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Don’t expect the bands and labels gathered at the South by Southwest Music Festival to forsake MySpace, Twitter and Facebook anytime soon. Most musicians and industry players find that none of these virtual connections replace the need to shake hands, look one another in the eye or bond over a couple of […]

AUSTIN, Texas — If you can play the guitar, you can quit your day job! Well, maybe. But independent musicians who are accepted by YouTube’s “Musicians Wanted” section will be able to do just that if their music videos and live musical performances draw enough views through a new feature of Google’s YouTube Partner Program. […]