Want to learn how to be a better online spy? Curious to see a very brief history of the Internet? Tired of all those TV spoilers from your Twitter feed? Read on. 

Also: Whatever you do, do NOT click that last link at the bottom. It might ruin your weekend.

1. This week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California unveiled YAPUB (Yet Another Phone Unlocking Bill). Earlier this year, a decision from the Librarian of Congress made phone unlocking illegal. After more than 100,000 people urged President Obama to reverse the decision, the White House urged Congress and/or the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it. The result: four bills from Congress (and counting). Lofgren’s bill — the Unlocking Technology Act — does the best job yet, proposing a “permanent fix” to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) that, unlike other bills, would actually amend the law to make it forever legal to crack the software in your phone and other electronics. Go here to support it. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for a bill that would stop mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon from locking your phone in the first place.


2. Wanna be an online spy? Amid suggestions that the U.S. government can access all of our phone calls — past and present — comes this handy primer on how to roll your own spy agency. Courtesy of the National Security Agency, the doc includes tips on how to find and exploit private data left exposed on the Web without breaking any actual laws. You know, the kind of stuff regular people get sent to jail for doing.


3. As the situation in Syria went from terrible to horrific, someone turned off the Internet. On Tuesday, all inbound and outbound Internet traffic to and from Syria was disconnected, effectively shutting the country off from the rest of the world. It looks like the Internet came back online about 19 hours after the outage.


4. Want the growth of the Internet illustrated in one simple chart? You got it.


5. So you missed the latest episode of Game of Thrones? Feel annoyed at all the spoilers on Twitter and Facebook? Don’t worry: Seventeen-year-old Jennie Lamere is on the case. She developed Twivo, “a new program that allows Twitter users to censor their feeds from mentioning a certain TV show (and its characters) for a set time period.” Even better: Lamere won a prize for it at a recent hackathon in Boston, at which she was the only female coder.


6. Calling all Robert Downey Jr. fans: Iron Man 3 is out. Apparently the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., makes a cameo appearance, but in a weird way: The city with the fastest Internet speeds in the country is actually portrayed as an online backwater. In the brief scene, Iron Man alter ego Tony Stark is searching for a fast Internet connection he can use to download a database. But in Chattanooga that shouldn’t be a problem — the city’s municipal broadband system offers gigabit Internet speeds at reasonable prices, which has brought flocks of new online businesses to the area.

And, finally, I guess it’s OK if you run out of diapers.