C.I.A. First Planned Jails Abiding by U.S. Standards

After the Sept. 11 attacks, the C.I.A. considered operating overseas prisons similar to American penitentiaries, like the one in Florence, Colo. Credit Bureau of Prisons Just six days after...

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'Game of Thrones' Cast Signs for Season 7 with Big Raises (Exclusive)

HBO has renegotiated the stars' contracts using a tiered system to factor in a potential seventh season HBO has locked up its Game of Thrones stars for a potential seventh season of the hit drama. The principal Thrones actors, who were signed only through six seasons of the show, have completed an extensive renegotiation...

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Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users

Twitter is using a newly discovered hidden code that the telecom carriers are adding to every page you visit – and it’s very hard to opt out. Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden, undeletable tracking number created by Verizon to track user behavior on smartphones and tablets. Wired and Forbes reported earlier this week that the two largest cellphone carriers in the United States, Verizon...

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Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, dies at 71

Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn’t need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston’s economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. He was 71 and was diagnosed with advanced cancer not long after leaving office at the beginning of this year. “Visionaries don’t get things done,” he once...

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Former Navy SEAL Team Member Investigated for Bin Laden Disclosures

A former member of the Navy SEALs who wrote a best seller about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is under criminal investigation for possibly disclosing classified material, according to federal officials and his lawyer. The lawyer for the former SEALs member, Matt Bissonnette, said the investigation was focused on whether Mr. Bissonnette had disclosed classified information in the book “No Easy Day,” published under...

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Pirate Bay Founder Convicted on Hacking Charges

Gottfrid Svartholm The founder of the file-sharing site Pirate Bay was found guilty today in Denmark on hacking charges unrelated to the web site. Swedish national Gottfrid Svartholm was found guilty of hacking into servers belonging to the U.S. technology firm CSC after being partially acquitted of other hacking charges in Sweden....

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Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage

Although her face was blurred out, image had “part of her breast exposed.” Earlier this month, a Quebecois court in Montreal decided that Google owed a woman $2,250 for picturing her with “part of her breast exposed” in a Street View image. The woman was sitting in front of her house, and although her face was blurred out, she was still...

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The Birth of the Internet Troll

By Ashley Feinberg Trolls are shitting all over our internet. You can hardly search for something as innocuous as "dog" on Google without coming across inflammatory attacks on every possible dog-related opinion under the sun. All horrible things have to crawl before they can walk/crush spirits, though. Even trolls. And while the...

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Why Middle-Class Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities

Blue America has a problem: Even after adjusting for income, left-leaning metros tend to have worse income inequality and less affordable housing. By Derek Thompson On April 2, 2014, a protester in Oakland, California, mounted a Yahoo bus, climbed...

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The Horrible No Good Apple Pay War No One Signed Up For

By Brian Barrett Earlier this week, we walked you through the stridently awful Apple Pay alternative being cooked up by Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, and more. It is dumb and bad, but as a recent New York Times report indicates, it's also not going anywhere any time soon. But not because anyone necessarily wants it. It's probably helpful...

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