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) ...

A developer tweets her objection to jokes told at a conference, leading to the dismissal of one of the men -- and herself as well. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...

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, ...

Adria Richards — the developer "evangelist" fired by startup SendGrid last week because of a tweet about sex jokes that turned into a backwards conversation about free speech and sexism in the tech ...

A minor skirmish has erupted in Geekland today, with accusations of sexism and overreaction on the parts of several minor Silicon Valley characters after an imbroglio involving an insensitive joke ...

This week, Twitter turned seven years old, South Korea suffered a massive cyberattack against banks and broadcasters, and NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that all we can do is "pray" should an ...

Dongle Jokes, Tweets End With Firings, Sexism in Tech Debate A tweet from the audience of a recent tech conference has resulted in several people losing their jobs and reignited a debate about sexism ...

Though the joke in question didn't discriminate against women directly, it was borderline enough to make Richards uncomfortable. As opposed to making a dick / sex joke that made a female uncomfortable ...