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• Petition to remove Reddit CEO tops 200K signatures

  An online <a href="https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-reddit-inc">petition calling for Reddit CEO Ellen Pao to be sacked</a> now has more than 200,000 electronic signatures.

• Reddit CEO Ellen Pao tries to calm furor with huge 'mea culpa'

  Ellen Pao, interim CEO of online community site Reddit, offered the site's users an apology Monday, saying that "we screwed up."

• Reddit sections go dark after exit of staffer

  The exit of a key Reddit staffer, who apparently played an important role in the bustling AMA (Ask Me Anything) question-and-answer section, has created an uproar on the online discussion website.

• Config error at Boston-area hosting company takes down Reddit, others

  A Boston-area hosting provider briefly knocked several large services and websites dependent on Amazon and AWS offline on Tuesday night, thanks to a configuration error.

• Reddit bans five groups on its site for harassment

  Reddit has removed five online communities, or subreddits, on its site, after they were found to break the website's rules against the harassment of individuals.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 15

  Google's prototype cars are hitting the road...smartphone upstarts put on the pressure...Reddit rules draw backlash...and more tech news.

• Reddit's new anti-harassment rules anger some users

  Upon learning of Reddit's plan to change its rules to prohibit harassment and make the site friendlier, some users reacted with resentment and confusion.

• Potential rival to Google's Project Ara booted from IndieGoGo

  A crowdfunding campaign for a sleek modular smartphone concept has been unceremoniously dumped by IndieGoGo, which shuttered the project's page on Friday morning.

• Microsoft Surface team to brave Reddit on Friday

  Microsoft's Surface tablet team, fresh off <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2904274/microsofts-surface-3-starts-at-499-eligible-for-free-windows-10-upgrade.html">introducing a new lighter and thinner model this week</a>, will take its chances with the Reddit crowd on Friday.

• Facebook clarifies rules for content, including definition of nudity

  Facebook has released a new version of its community standards, defining in detail what it means by offensive content on issues such as nudity, bullying and hate speech.

• Outage hits Apple services, including iCloud and App Store

  Reports of problems logging into a variety of Apple services, including the iOS and Mac app stores, iTunes, iCloud and even the company's support scheduler, washed across the Internet early Wednesday.

• Reddit bans nude photos, sex videos posted without consent

  Reddit, the online message board known for its users' unrestrained posts, is going against its laissez-faire philosophy and moving to restrict an abusive form of sexual content.

• Reddit handed over user info for 58% of government requests

  Reddit <a href="https://www.redditstatic.com/transparency/2014.pdf">today released</a> what it called its first "transparency report," which details requests for user information from both government entities and private lawyers.

• FCC banks nearly $45 billion in landmark AWS-3 spectrum auction

  The FCC announced today that Auction 97 spectrum auction has closed after roughly two and a half months, with winning bids totaling $44.9 billion for the 65MHz of mostly AWS-3 range. That figure is far and away the highest ever seen in a spectrum auction.

• Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year?

  Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform recorded impressive statistics for how reliable their public IaaS clouds were in 2014, with both providers approaching what some consider the Holy Grail of availability: five nines.