It’s game over for three alleged Spanish hackers. Police in Spain arrested three men suspected in the online attacks against Sony, including one that shut down the PlayStation Network for a month. The men—all in their early 30s—are alleged leaders of a local branch of the international hacker…
Continue reading …A woman attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee has been found dead. Attendees camping at the event say that they found their friend dead at her campsite yesterday; Bonnaroo medical personal were on the scene within minutes and pronounced her dead at the scene; the sheriff’s office…
Continue reading …Constitutional scholars are raising their eyebrows over a new Tennessee law that makes it illegal to “transmit or display” an image online if it would “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress.” Doing so is punishable by almost a year in jail or $2,500 in fines. The bill is an…
Continue reading …The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 12,000 today, the first time it has dropped below that mark since March. Fears that the global economic recovery has stalled also weighed on other indexes. The market registered its sixth straight weekly loss, the longest weekly losing streak since the fall…
Continue reading …It might say something about the pace of soccer when a cow scores first. Late in the debut match at Kansas City’s brand-new MLS stadium, a fan in a cow costume rushed the field with a ball and kicked in the first unofficial goal at Livestrong Sporting Park, reports Huffington…
Continue reading …The council drafting Iceland’s new constitution is out to bring new meaning to the term “by the people.” They’re essentially crowdsourcing the document, the Guardian reports, using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to solicit ideas and get feedback from citizens. “I believe this is the first time a…
Continue reading …With two new elements on the periodic table this month, NPR offers a step-by-step tutorial on how you, too, can add an element—if you’ve got an atom-smashing device lying around. First, you have to make a new element by slamming atoms of two elements together and hoping their nuclei…
Continue reading …The two American hikers still imprisoned in Iran have been physically abused in Iranian prison, Sarah Shourd alleged in a BBC interview this week. She described one incident in which a guard threw Josh Fattal down a flight of stairs after he took some extra food, and another in which…
Continue reading …In an unexpected win for the notion of it’s-none-of-your-business, the mayor of Michigan’s third-largest city doesn’t have to reveal his age to run for re-election. The state appeals court entered the strange dispute yesterday by overturning a judge’s ruling that had required Jim Fouts to disclose his birthdate as he…
Continue reading …Paige Wiser lost the job she’d held for 17 years at the Chicago Sun-Times … and all because of a vomiting child. Wiser was fired as the paper’s TV critic because her “Glee Live!” concert review, published Sunday but since pulled from the website, described a song that wasn’t performed…
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