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 list of can't-miss stories to read and reflect on. (You can find last week's must reads here.)
In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell student Robert Morris released a worm onto the Internet, sending computers to a screeching halt. It was an accident that would change Internet security forever. Now, 25 years later, the industry takes a look back.
The Mafia's strongest weapon is its ability to instill an unwritten code of silence among victims or witnesses of crimes — a code rooted in fear. An anonymous group of Italian citizens has built a WikiLeaks of sorts, but with a much narrower focus: it's a website for mob whistleblowers called MafiaLeaks.
Forget Indiana Jones — there's a new crop of archaeologists using space tech, like satellite imagery, to uncover the world's mysteries. Here, we dig into how specialists are discovering ancient sites once invisible to the naked eye — from thousands of miles away.
There's no shortage of companies throwing their efforts behind smartwatches. Samsung, Nokia and Sony, among others, are reinventing the simple wristwatch as a device that syncs apps and phone calls to our wrists. They're rapidly gaining popularity, but a major issue prevents them from going fully mainstream: appearance.
New York Times reporter Nick Bilton couldn't have planned a more perfect book release date if he tried. His new book, Hatching Twitter, was released two days before the social network went public on the New York Stock Exchange this week. In his book, Bilton describes the company's early days and brutal power struggle among its founders.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is hitting shelves almost exactly 10 years after the very first Call of Duty, and its creators seem to have adopted the mentality: "If it's not broken, why fix it?" Our comprehensive review makes the case that while the consoles may be new, the game has not evolved enough from previous generations to warrant a purchase.
Five weeks after the FBI shuttered what it called "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet" and arrested its suspected owner, a new online bazaar for drugs and other contraband has arisen from the ashes bearing the same name: Silk Road. The website's owner refers to himself as "Dread Pirate Roberts" — the same name used by the owner of the original Silk Road.
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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