British police say they’ve arrested a key member of the notorious LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. “Topiary,” a 19-year-old who allegedly serves as the groups’ spokesperson, was arrested in his home and transported to a London police station, reports CNET . Cops also are searching the home of a 17-year-old in…
Continue reading …For at least one day, the force is not with George Lucas. The head of the Star Wars empire has lost a lawsuit against a prop designer over the right to sell replica Imperial Stormtrooper helmets, reports the BBC . The UK Supreme Court ruled that Andrew Ainsworth—who designed the…
Continue reading …Did Piers Morgan sanction a bit of phone hacking while in charge of the Daily Mirror? The CNN host has been denying it all week, after a British lawmaker accused him of it. But now, audio has surfaced online of a 2009 radio interview in which Morgan seems to admit…
Continue reading …Can the Walking Dead survive without its head? Frank Darabont—creator, executive producer, and director of the critically acclaimed AMC hit series—has stepped down as its head honcho, reports Deadline Hollywood . It’s unclear whether Darabont will depart the zombie show entirely or remain in another role.
Continue reading …Rupert Murdoch, his family, and News International editors and execs enjoyed more than 60 private meetings with British Cabinet ministers—107 meetings if social events are included—over the past 15 months, reports the Independent, which calls the meetings one of the strongest signs yet of the “unhealthily close” relationship…
Continue reading …Neil McCormick of the Telegraph recounts what he says is Amy Winehouse’s final interview, which took place in March as she visited Abbey Roads studio to record with one of her idols, Tony Bennett. “The Amy I saw seemed well on the way back to her best, which makes our…
Continue reading …A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration’s funding of embryonic stem cell research was thrown out today, allowing the US to continue supporting a search for cures to deadly diseases over protests that the work relies on destroyed human embryos. The lawsuit claimed that research funded by…
Continue reading …Tusks from large numbers of elephants killed by poachers in west and central Africa ended up in the hands of a Philadelphia art dealer, federal investigators say. The dealer is accused of paying a co-conspirator to travel to Africa, buy raw ivory for carving, and stain it so the specimens…
Continue reading …Rep. Peter King says his controversial hearings on Muslim radicalization in the US have uncovered some actual radicals. As the hearings resumed today, King declared that 40 Americans and 20 Canadians have signed up with Al-Shabab, a Somali insurgent group with ties to al-Qaeda, the National Post reports. “We must…
Continue reading …Those who make rape accusations generally do so with anonymity. It’s time to grant the same privilege to those being accused, argues attorney Roy Black in Salon . There’s no justice in parading someone in public as if he were “nuclear waste” when he hasn’t been convicted of anything, writes Black,…
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