Enlarge / Richard Stallman in 2015. Michael Debets/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 114 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story Free software pioneer Richard Stallman has resigned from his posts at MIT and the Free Software Foundation after leaked emails showed him quibbling over the definition of rape in a ..
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Enlarge / A police SWAT Team at work. reader comments 170 with 78 posters participating Share this story The teenager who arranged for someone else to phone in a prank police call that resulted in a man’s death is going to prison. Casey Viner, now 19, will serve 15 months in prison and pay $2,500 ..
Getty Images reader comments 48 with 23 posters participating Share this story Legal wrangling among the federal government, the state of California, and four automakers who—oddly—are asking for more stringent regulations got even more knotty this month, when the Department of Justice reportedly launched an antitrust probe into companies that struck a deal with California ..
Enlarge / Hacking for their home country, we guess. reader comments 37 with 32 posters participating Share this story The Trump administration is sanctioning three North Korean hacking groups widely accused of carrying out attacks that targeted critical infrastructure and stole millions of dollars from banks in cryptocurrency exchanges, in part so the country could ..
Enlarge / The dome of the United State Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Phil Roeder reader comments 58 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story The long summer recess for Congress is at last well and truly over. The House Judiciary Committee has ramped up for the fall season, ..
Enlarge / The Dallas County, Iowa courthouse, the site of a penetration test gone spectacularly wrong. reader comments 166 with 92 posters participating, including story author Share this story Two security contractors were arrested in Adel, Iowa on September 11 as they attempted to gain access to the Dallas County Courthouse. The two are employees ..
Enlarge / Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. participates in a town hall meeting in March 2019. reader comments 288 with 131 posters participating Share this story High-profile evangelical conservative Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch Trump supporter and president of Liberty University, wants the FBI to investigate current and former university employees for… forwarding emails. ..
Enlarge / California Governor Gavin Newsom. Ray Chavez/The Mercury News via Getty Images reader comments 194 with 80 posters participating, including story author Share this story Both houses of California’s legislature have passed sweeping legislation requiring businesses to treat more of their workers as employees rather than independent contractors. As a result, more workers will ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump displaying a doctored forecast map at the White House on September 04, 2019 in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 280 with 134 posters participating Share this story The White House pressured the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into backing President Trump over weather forecasters who disputed ..
Enlarge / LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. reader comments 95 with 53 posters participating Share this story Scraping a public website without the approval of the website’s owner isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that pits Microsoft-owned LinkedIn against ..
