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• Prosecutors Drop Plans to Appeal Lori Drew Case

  Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice that they do not intend to pursue an appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy case. “We have a notice…

• MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood

  If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture…

• Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

  An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research…

• Feds Charge 3 With Comcast.net Hijacking

  Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis,…

• Judge Calls Bull on ‘Psycho-Acoustic’ Beatles Covers

  A federal judge dealt what may be a death blow to a Santa Cruz, California, company marketing Beatles music and other tunes as 25-cent downloads, despite the company’s claim that the tracks were computer-generated cover versions…

• Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records

  A health insurer lost 1.5 million patient records last May but waited six months to disclose the incident. The data, which was stored on a portable disk drive that disappeared from the insurer’s office, was…

• Copyright Czar Vote Heads to Full Senate

  The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination Thursday, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee…

• Computer ‘Glitch’ Grounds Air Traffic

  The Federal Aviation Administration blames an unspecified computer glitch for commercial flights being canceled or temporarily delayed Thursday. The glitch was related to a key FAA flight-processing system, according to ABC News. The problems were…

• It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

  Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established…

• Palin Calls E-Mail Hack ‘Most Disruptive’ Campaign Event

  Never mind the disastrous interview with Katie Couric or the blank stares in response to Charlie Gibson’s question about the Bush Doctrine. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin calls the hacking of her Yahoo e-mail…