During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee and lie back with our iPads, laptops, smartphones and Kindles.
Since you're bound to miss a few things during the daily grind, we present to you, in our weekly installation of Mashable Must Reads, a curated v of can't-miss stories to read and reflect on. (You can find last week's must reads here.)
Two weeks ago, California became the second state in the U.S. to ban revenge porn — the act of publishing intimate photos, videos and contact information online without the subject's consent — and New York might be next. Mashable spoke with victims, activists and lawyers about the swirling controversy over the First Amendment that the issue has opened.
The video streaming service is starting to lose sight of its own mission — to help people find and enjoy premium content when, where and how they want it. A former Hulu employee looks back at the company's history and wonders whether Mike Hopkins, Hulu's new CEO, formerly of 21st Century Fox, can be the change the company needs.
In parts of the world where repressive governments control the Internet with unassailable firewalls, netizens don't see the same web that people in other countries can. Google's uProxy is meant to be an easy-to-use, peer-to-peer gateway to the open Internet; with uProxy installed, someone in Iran could use a friend's Internet in another country to get across, say, Iran's firewalls and filters.
Most consumer electronic companies use hardware as a loss leader to sell more high margin software. But this week, Apple announced at an event in San Francisco that Mac OS X Mavericks and iWork would be free, while big ticket items like iPhone, iPads and MacBooks will remain unabashedly full price. That business model is backward, and it shouldn't work. So why does it?
Google's latest venture is not tech, at least not in the traditional sense. With California Life Company, or Calico for short, the company wants to extend human life by 20 to 100 years. Yes, it sounds like an amazing feat for humanity — but Google has dollar signs in its eyes. The quest to live just a bit longer is in high demand.
Don't have time to read them all now? In our Readlist below, export this week's must reads to your tablet to save for a time you have no distractions. Simply click the "read later" button alongside each story or or click "export" to send the entire list of articles to your preferred device.

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