To end a week that saw the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post all admit to long-term infiltration by hackers, Twitter has a data breach confession of its own.

FORBES: Twitter Says Hackers May Have Compromised 250,000 Accounts

The next day we were sitting on the deck and I was trying to get him to tell me stories or talk to me about ingredients, and it was like banging my head against a wall all day long, in the hot sun, with a hangover.

WSJ: The Chef and the Critic

They took some well-known methods from statistics, including something called matrix factorization, added bits of knowledge about movie recommenders (like the fact that movies seen long ago tend to be rated highly) and then threw all of it against the wall to see what stuck.

FORBES: Digital Tools

With the paperwork expected to follow as much as days later, there is the potential for a breakdown approaching the scale of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund debacle, which all but crushed Wall Street in 1998.

FORBES: Dangers Abound In Hedge Fund Trading

By midafternoon, I was sweating all over and my pulse was racing, so I decided to rest on a long bench by the wall, but I tripped and fell before I could reach it.

NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

She hid there for a long time, weeping, her head in her arms, arms against the wall, until all the noisy guests had gone and Benny found her trembling.

NEWYORKER: Waiting