The Cult of the Dead Cow collective started in Texas in 1984. Although its title sounds like a fitting name for a slaughterhouse, the group actually specialized in online hacking, said journalist Joseph Menn. Read more...

Photo: Journalist Joseph Menn spoke about his new book “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World” at the Hammer Museum on Wednesday. He was joined onstage by Brian Knappenberger, a documentarian who made the film “We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists” about the international hackers Anonymous. (Nina Young/Daily Bruin)

Christina Mitchell fell in love slowly, then all at once with “The Fault in Our Stars.” After reading John Green’s novel, the alumna said she scoured the corners of YouTube to see how others had responded to the book. Read more...

Photo: Christina Mitchell uses her YouTube channel “Christina Marie” to discuss issues of diversity, such as lack of representation, in the book community. Mitchell, frustrated by the silence on issues such as police brutality, uses her channel to speak out. (Courtesy of Christina Marie Mitchell)

An introductory computer science textbook inspired a story about algorithmically approaching father-daughter relationships. After numerous drafts, the short story became one of 12 in UCLA lecturer Xuan Juliana Wang’s book “Home Remedies: Stories,” which was published May 14. Read more...

Photo: (Rachel Wong/Daily Bruin)