After their initial blustery outrage at yesterday's revelations about PRISM, tech companies, including Facebook and Google, have admitted that they have cooperated with the government, even changing their own computer systems to better monitor users under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook account today to address charges that his company has cooperated with a secret NSA program called PRISM that monitors private citizens' internet activities. Zuckerberg called the press reports about PRISM "outrageous," and said Facebook has never given the U.S. government direct access to its servers (though, as Buzzfeed's John Herrman notes, "a lack of 'direct access' does not preclude the type of sweeping surveillance described in the leaks").

As many as seven people—including the shooter—were killed today in a violent rampage across Santa Monica. Read updates to the situation here.

Our hate mail this week questioned the nature of tips@gawker.com, proposed a great idea about buying gold dust bars, and suggested some confusing courses of action. Some examples of the enlightened correspondence sent to us this week are included below.

Welcome to Annotate This, where we gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies coming out this week. It will help you decide what to avoid, what to see, and what to pretend to see. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.

Here's a series of clips of Jaden Smith babbling about the realism of sci-fi (aliens are making it realer, and The Matrix and Star Trek are so close to how reality could be, FYI). He also compares acting after growing up in the Pinkett-Smith household to speaking French after growing up in France. That seems like science, too.

It's comical, but no real surprise, that pop-science plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer appears to have lifted someone else's work for his new book proposal. Lehrer has established by now that he is a pathological fraud. The question on the table is: What kind of a fraud is Jonathan Karp, the publisher of Simon & Schuster, which bought the book?

An Ohio grand jury has indicted Ariel Castro on 329 counts of kidnapping, assault and sexual abuse of three women in Cleveland.

The most Canadian fireworks display of all time took place early this morning along the Trans Canada Highway near Wawa, Ontario, after a truck transporting fireworks struck a moose and exploded.

Taking a cue from Justin Bieber, the singing fey children from the band One Direction have launched a perfume named after a misleading assumption that you have spent time with them. It's called Our Moment, and like Bieber's Girlfriend perfume, it's a reference to one of their songs, "Moments," from their first album.

"Aspiring Internet porn performer" Valerie Dodds (porn name: Val MidWest) says she was constantly mocked by her fellow classmates at St. Pius X High School for her decision to enter the adult entertainment business.

Disgraced Florida man Allen West, who was forced out of the Army before being voted out of Congress after just one term, is now a Fox News talking head, naturally. One of his first orders of business? Getting to the bottom of this question: Is America's sitting attorney general more dangerous to us than a terrorist leader focused on murdering as many Americans as possible?

Most of the new jobs in America pay below-average wages.

Yesterday, LA Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald created a bit of an e-gay stir with an essay whose headline wondered, "Is L.A. Gay Pride an Outdated, Adolescent Mess?" Los Angeles' Gay Pride weekend kicks off today, hence the question. The answer, according to McDonald? "An unqualified yes."

Glenn Greenwald, who is on some kind of master cleanse of only leaked documents, obtained a "top secret directive" from President Obama ordering "his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks."

Three people were wounded in a shooting today at Santa Monica College, and a suspect has been detained in the college library.

Cameron D’Ambrosio is the Massachusetts teenager and amateur rapper who was rather outrageously charged with terroristic threats last month after referencing the Boston Marathon Bombing in lyrics he’d posted on Facebook. On Wednesday, a Grand Jury declined to indict D’Ambrosio; yesterday, the high-school senior was finally released to his family on his own personal recognizance. This was after the 18-year-old spent more than a month locked up and less than 10 days after a Massachusetts Superior Court judge denied a bail request.

On the latest episode of his popular YouTube toy review show, toy collector Hendrik Ball features four unusual toy guns he's been holding on to since the mid-80s.

Television producer David Simon, who made his bones fictionalizing the foibles, corruption, and inescapable humanity of the City of Baltimore's public servants, has complete and unalloyed faith in the NSA's pure intentions in hoovering your telephone data until someone proves otherwise.

Ever since 9/11, the American government has been busily constructing the most comprehensive surveillance state in this country's history. This vast and invasive bureaucracy is too big to hide, but the public has done its part by politely ignoring it. No longer. Now is when we, the people, choose whether or not we will accept the end of privacy as we know it. If history is any indication, we will.