After a man made a "dongle" joke at a tech conference, two people lost their jobs: the man who made the joke — and the woman who publicly called him out. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control. At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Another day, another boneheaded sexist misstep igniting a blamestorm in the tech ...

An incident at the annual Python developer conference has led to allegations of sexism, death threats, the firings of two people, and—apparently—multiple DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.

On March 4, 2012, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, President of the Django Software Foundation, ran the Pi-Day River Rotation Half-Marathon in Lawrence, Kansas, beating his 2011 Pi-Day race time by more than two ...