The family of Aaron Swartz pulled no punches in their comments after the 26-year-old's suicide, blaming a "criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach." Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann is one of the individuals that's been named in particular —...
Were overzealous Federal investigators partially to blame?
CNET has confirmed what we reported this morning: the commercial-skipping Dish Hopper had been chosen for its "Best of CES" award before being overruled by parent company CBS. In a post, Editor-in-Chief of Reviews Lindsey Turrentine describes the...
Are news and reviews subject to different ethical standards? That appears to be the message from CBS in response to Dish's controversial Hopper DVR. Official CBS policy now bans CNET from reviewing products implicated in lawsuits, but claims CNET still has complete editorial independence over "actual news."
On Monday, CBS issued a statement to the New York Times calling the ban on the Hopper...
Defense Distributed, a group dedicated to making viable 3D printed firearms, has enjoyed increasing publicity during the recent debates over gun control. Now, it's directly addressing efforts to ban one of the most frequently criticized components: rifle magazines holding over ten rounds, often referred to as "high-capacity" magazines, like those used at the attack in Newtown, CT. In a video posted yesterday, the group demonstrated shooting from a 30-round AR-15 magazine made with a 3D printer, saying it shot a total of 85 rounds. While the printed plastic melted slightly, the group promised it should work "well past 100 rounds;" designs have been posted on 3D printed weapons site DefCad.
Making the currently posted magazine requires sanding the model down and assembling it, not just printing, and it's unlikely most people would...
"Here’s something to keep the prohibitionists up." Defense Distributed
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A Republican state senator from New York is blaming a controversial handgun map for the recent burglary of a gun owner's residence in White Plains. According to Newsday, at least two burglars broke into the home on Saturday evening, as part of an effort to rob the owner's gun safe. Local police...
Agents of the formless hacktivist collective Anonymous have left a political message on at least two of MIT's websites in memory of recently-deceased information activist Aaron Swartz. In stark red-on-black formatting, the message calls Aaron's...
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