Twitter has made public its papers for an S-1 Initial Public Offering. We’ve got new details on the inner workings of the social network known for brevity. For one, Twitter wants to raise a cool billion dollars when it opens its doors to Wall Street. A nice big number considering the fact that like so many tech companies, Twitter isn’t really profitable yet.

As tech stories go, it doesn’t often get stranger than this. A man known as Dread Pirate Roberts was arrested by the Feds in San Francisco yesterday. His alleged crime? Being the organizer behind Silk Road. A kind of anonymous online black market where everything from illegal drugs to professional hit jobs can be bought and sold.

The website Reddit has grown exponentially in recent years. It now accepts 19 million up or down votes every day on links to everything from celebrity advice to pornography. This weekend, thousands of the website’s users will be going offline to gather in the real world for reddit’s second global day of service.

The Obama administration is rolling out its Affordable Care Act website tomorrow, but based on expected tech glitches, early adoption of health care tech might not be advisable. Twitter has kept quiet about its IPO — how might the site monetize its user base and make good on its billion dollar promise to potential investors?

There’s a lot of tech news out there about gadgets and software, but not many people look deeply and directly at the big question: Is technology making humanity better or worse? New York Times and Wired Magazine contributor Clive Thompson has a new book called ‘Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for The Better.’

Researchers at Stanford University built a computer this week that would disappoint most of us. No Angry Birds, no Netflix. The computer’s operating system really only let’s it do two things: count and sort numbers into different columns. But this tiny, basic computer could be the start of a revolution in technology, because the chip wasn’t made with the usual semi-conductor ingredient, silicon. Instead, this little gadget was made with carbon nanotubes.

When you think fast delivery of different products bought online you usually think of Amazon, eBay or Zappos. Well Google just rolled out a same day delivery service in the Bay Area. And Gizmodo’s Leslie Horn talks about why cutting edge tech has become so important to rap music.

At long last, a tech company has promised to tackle head on a problem it created. Google says it is making tweaks to the commenting on YouTube. The comment threads on the video sharing site have long been considered the seedy underbelly of self expression online. The company’s proposed solution is three-pronged. YouTube will allow the person who posted a video more control over the comments section. It will also leverage Google’s massive data powers to give people browsing a custom view.

The beauty of a footnote in a book or an article is finding that getting to the original source only requires a trip to the library. But as more and more literature lives — and is born — online, there’s a growing problem. Big enough that some of the most prestigious institutions in the country are banding together to try and fix it.