"This sucks, I don't want to do this," says Ken Hanson, middle, at 4 a.m. in the Vast offices in Austin. He's barely slept in the past three days aboard the StartupBus. "You just need some sleep," replies James Williams, left, who is working on the WalkIN Android app, "and a comb." "I have one of those, it doesn't help." says Hanson.

Fear and Coding on the StartupBus: Wired.com reporter Keith Axline was embedded on a StartupBus bound for the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. It was one of six such buses filled with coders competing to turn bright ideas into startup prototypes...

The U.S. government is getting closer to getting data from Twitter about various associates of WikiLeaks.

The people whose Twitter records were being requested had moved to throw out the government’s request for data, but a judge denied that motion Friday, ruling that the associates don’t have standing to challenge it.

The judge also denied a request to unseal the government’s application for the Twitter order.

Judge Theresa Buchanan, in the Eastern District of Virginia, ruled that because the government was not seeking the content of the Twitter accounts in question (.pdf), the subjects did...