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Rifling Through Sarah Palin's Emails

Rifling Through Sarah Palin's Emails

Tidbits of news and reaction as the media pores over thousands of the former governor's messages, released Friday by the state of Alaska More »

Three Members of Anonymous Arrested for PlayStation Hack

Three Members of Anonymous Arrested for PlayStation Hack

The Sony PlayStation Network was recently shut down for about a month and some 77 million users' information was compromised More »

LulzSec Breaches British Health System in Polite Hack

LulzSec Breaches British Health System in Polite Hack

The mischievous hacking collective that has recently attacked PBS, Sony and an FBI security affiliate apparently does know when to stop More »

Pfizer vs. Libyan Forces: The Company Defends Viagra

Pfizer vs. Libyan Forces: The Company Defends Viagra

Following allegations that Qaddafi gave troops "Viagra-like" drugs to encourage rape, Viagra's manufacturer fights back More »

The Severity of Citigroup's Security Breach

The Severity of Citigroup's Security Breach

Hackers have accessed the private information from 200,000 accounts at Citigroup, one of the largest banks in the country More »

Why Europe Is Freaking Out About Facebook Photo Recognition

Why Europe Is Freaking Out About Facebook Photo Recognition

On Wednesday afternoon, the EU announced a probe to investigate whether the social network's new feature violates privacy rules More »

Bachmann Adviser Ed Rollins Pushes Palin Rivalry

Bachmann Adviser Ed Rollins Pushes Palin Rivalry

A top political strategist for the possible 2012 candidate takes aim at the former Alaska governor. Why? More »

Everyone's Angry at Weiner

Everyone's Angry at Weiner

Fellow Democrats, donors, the Clintons -- the scandalized congressman has former allies lining up to denounce him More »

The Veteran Twitter Warriors of the Conservative Movement

The Veteran Twitter Warriors of the Conservative Movement

The Times offers a glimpse into the small group of conservative Twitter users who warned young women about Anthony Weiner More »

Coming to an Airport Near You: Iris Scanners

Coming to an Airport Near You: Iris Scanners

Kind of like the failed puffer bomb sniffer, the Checkpoint of the Future looks like an illuminated car wash with three portals More »

The Most Anticipated New Features of Apple's Mac OS X Lion

The Most Anticipated New Features of Apple's Mac OS X Lion

The best of the more than 250 features in Apple's new operating system, which will be made available in the App Store this July More »

Japan More Than Doubles Fukushima Radiation Estimate

Japan More Than Doubles Fukushima Radiation Estimate

The revision indicates that the contamination is worse than originally thought and will likely lead to more criticism of the plant's operator More »

Palin Inspires Changes to Paul Revere Wikipedia Page

Palin Inspires Changes to Paul Revere Wikipedia Page

Supporters of the former governor try to amend history in light of her recent comments in New Hampshire More »

The Wikipedia War of Paul Revere and Sarah Palin

The Wikipedia War of Paul Revere and Sarah Palin

Palin will not relent in defending her revisionist history of Revere's ride from Boston to Lexington, in which Revere "warned the British" More »

Fox News Turns Away From Anthony Weiner Scandal

Fox News Turns Away From Anthony Weiner Scandal

While Breitbart pushes the story further, Roger Ailes cautions that media can cause unnecessary harm by pursuing such matters More »

What Techno Goodies to Expect From Steve Jobs Today

What Techno Goodies to Expect From Steve Jobs Today

After months of speculation, Steve Jobs will vindicate and dispel an assortment of rumors surrounding Apple's new line of hardware More »

Why Google Won't Survive the Facebook Threat

Why Google Won't Survive the Facebook Threat

Google's Internet monopoly is something to be envied. But is its crucial search feature vulnerable to Facebook as its reach grows? More »

Why French Broadcasters Can't Say 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' Anymore

Why French Broadcasters Can't Say 'Twitter' and 'Facebook' Anymore

According to a ruling out this week, French radio and television broadcasters must stop singling out the social networks on the air More »

China's Military Accuses U.S. of Unleashing an 'Internet Tornado'

China's Military Accuses U.S. of Unleashing an 'Internet Tornado'

The colorful allegation is seen as a reaction to accusations from Google that a sophisticated phishing attack originated in China More »

The 'Tupac' Hackers Who Went After PBS Now Turn to Sony

The 'Tupac' Hackers Who Went After PBS Now Turn to Sony

The group that posted that phony PBS news report about Tupac now says it hacked into Sony and stole more than 1,000,000 passwords More »

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