Selling You on Facebook  —  Many popular Facebook apps are obtaining sensitive information about users—and users' friends—so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.  —  Not so long ago, there was a familiar product called software.

When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops  —  This week's Boston Phoenix cover story — Hunting the Craigslist Killer: An Untold Detective Story from the Digital Frontier — would not have been possible without access to a huge trove of case files released by the Boston Police Department.

YouTube co-founders are working on a magazine publishing service called Zeen  —  It looks like you'll soon be able to discover and create “beautiful” magazines online.  In the last 24 hours, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who now run AVOS, posted a “Coming Soon” …

Google+ Grew 27% in March, Logged 61 Million Visits [STUDY]  —  Countering perceptions that Google+ is a ghost town few actually visit, total visits to the social network actually grew to 61 million in March, up 27% from the previous month, according to Experian Hitwise.

Square COO Keith Rabois Explains The Death Of The Web And How Square Will Move Beyond Payments  —  Keith Rabois has already lived several successful lives in Silicon Valley.  —  Like a lot of today's tech bigwigs, Rabois started his career at PayPal, then moved on to become an angel investor …

Hotel's Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras  —  Justin Watt, a Web engineer, was browsing the Web in his room at the Courtyard Marriott in midtown Manhattan this week when he saw something strange.  On his personal blog, a mysterious gap was appearing at the top of the page.

Philip Kaplan's Social Network Fandalism Has Quietly Grown To 350K Musicians  —  If you're wondering what Philip Kaplan, a.k.a. Pud, has been up to, wonder no longer: He's working on a social network for musicians called Fandalism.  The site went live at the end of January …

Randi Zuckerberg Defends Her Reality Show: Hey Silicon Valley, Stop Being Snobs  —  Randi Zuckerberg has ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement that she is co-producing “Silicon Valley,” a reality show set to air on Bravo that purports to be all about the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene.

Inside Twitter's Spam Lawsuit: Fighting Five Defendants Cost More Than $700,000  —  Twitter's costs in fighting the spam created by five defendants it's suing are more than $700,000 — and that may be a conservative underestimate.  The company is seeking full restitution of those costs and other damages …

Confirmed: Asus Plans Add-On to Fix Transformer Prime's GPS Issues  —  Asus confirmed on Friday that it plans to address GPS reception issues with its Transformer Prime tablet by releasing a kit users can add to their existing tablet.  —  The company said on Friday that it will officially announce …

Reported Tegra 4 roadmap hints at LTE, Q1 2013 release  —  Time to put on our “skepticles” as we pore over some reportedly leaked Tegra 4 details.  NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang went on record saying that we could expect a new Tegra “every single year”, so if anything, the fourth iteration of the series is slightly overdue.

Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say  —  When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future.  The video Google released yesterday showed us the point …