The world’s dumbest idea: Taxing solar energy
By John Aziz In a setback for the renewable energy movement, the state House in…
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Mandatory Kill Switch in all smart phones by 2015
The “kill switch,” a system for remotely disabling smartphones and wiping their data, will become…
Oklahoma prohibits towns from setting own minimum wage standards
No city or county in Oklahoma will be allowed to set their own mandatory minimum…
Feds charge woman who hurled shoe at Hillary Clinton
The woman who threw a shoe at former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during…
FBI’s secret cooperation with Special Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan revealed
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been quietly embedded with US troops in…
Social Security, Treasury target Americans for their parents’ old debts
Many Americans expecting to see their tax refunds in their bank accounts soon are waking…
Music industry turns up volume on Kim Dotcom with new copyright lawsuit
Fresh on the heels of a lawsuit brought against Kim Dotcom by the MPAA film…
3 in 4 UK students will be repaying loans into their 50s – study
Three out of four of today’s UK university graduates will be paying back their student…
Bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping
by Dan Goodin For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update,…
7th grader’s pencil twirling leads psychological evaluation when called ‘gun motions’
By Charlene Sakoda Glen Meadow Middle School seventh grader, Ethan Chaplin, was recently suspended after,…
IRS pays out $53mn to whistleblowers on 2013 tax evaders
The US Internal Revenue Service paid millions to people who turned in their friends and…
CNN: Should people without kids pay higher taxes?
By Jeanne Sahadi The chat-o-sphere has been abuzz lately about a proposal by Slate columnist…
$6 bn worth of contracts misplaced by State Department
The US State Department is unable to explain how it spent billions of dollars worth…
Congressmen claim they are underpaid
Members of Congress make more than three times the median income of an American citizen,…
Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts
By Laura C. Mallonee What happens when a wide swath of history — previously only…
Hackers turn security camera DVRs into bitcoin miners
A computer security instructor says he’s discovered that hackers have been able to infiltrate standard…
GM saved only a dollar per car by avoiding defective switch redesign
Instead of recalling defective vehicles when it noticed they were built using flawed ignition switches,…
Boston Marathon bombing victim sues Glenn Beck
A Saudi Arabian man injured by one of the two bombs that detonated at last…
Inequality gap between super rich and poor continues to widen
Things aren’t getting much better for the gap between America’s rich and poor: a new…
Google accuses Turkey of blocking access by ‘DNS interception’
US web giant Google has accused Turkish internet providers of mimicking their Domain Name System…