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14 Nov 2014, 6:01 am
Cyrus Farivar Some prisoners told Ars that despite the cellphone ban, phones do show up on the inside. 23 more images in gallery Usually cameras are not allowed inside San Quentin State Prison, but for a special media event such as the one held on Thursday, an exception was made. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:00 am
Cyrus Farivar SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans want San Quentin State Prison inmates to learn basic computer programming as a way to better themselves. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 10:10 am
Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Freed After 5 months in Prison First off today, Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica reports that Peter Sunde, one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay convicted of criminal charges in relation to the site, has been released from prison after serving five months. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 5:06 am
" Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica reports that "Top appeals court to hear why NSA metadata spying should stay or go; DC Court of Appeals could confirm ruling that ended the practice, but was stayed. [read post]
25 Oct 2014, 11:45 am
Cyrus Farivar One of the three defendants indicted two months ago on federal corruption charges stemming from a major contract between Chicago and a major red light camera vendor will now plead guilty. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 7:43 am
Cyrus Farivar The California man who publicly accused Comcast of getting him fired from his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) after he complained to the highest levels of Comcast about his year’s worth of billing errors, has made good on his threat to sue his former ISP. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 3:30 pm
Cyrus Farivar PALO ALTO, CA—Speaking at the gym at the high school where he used to play basketball in the 1960s, Sen. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 7:34 pm
Cyrus Farivar OAKLAND, CA—Speaking over lunch last Friday, a Northern California man named Conal O'Rourke laid out what admittedly sounds like a crazy story: a year-long billing dispute over his home Comcast service that ultimately resulted in Comcast getting O'Rourke fired from his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in nearby San Jose earlier this year. [read post]
21 Sep 2014, 11:00 am
Cyrus Farivar RICHMOND, CA—Of all the places that have come up with a clever way to protest Yelp’s alleged aggressive advertising tactics, a small plucky Italian restaurant in a strip mall just northeast of San Francisco, is as unlikely as they come. [read post]
30 Aug 2014, 10:19 am
Cyrus Farivar - Ars Technica: [Executive Order] 12333 is used to target foreigners abroad, and collection happens outside the US,” whistleblower John Tye, a former State Department official, told Ars recently. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 3:40 pm
Cyrus Farivar On Monday, a federal court in Central California sentenced a 26-year-old to one year and nine months in prison for firing two different laser pointers at a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter over a six month period in 2013. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 12:00 pm
Cyrus Farivar SAN FRANCISCO—A three-person Korean-American team—including two 17-year-old college students—won a weekend-long hackathon sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) designed to help people in North Korea. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 3:56 am
Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica reports that Vigilant has filed another lawsuit, this time against the state of Arkansas, arguing that a state law curbing the use of LPRs by private companies tampers with its free speech rights. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 2:05 pm
Cyrus Farivar On Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld the admissibility of images taken from red light cameras as evidence of traffic violations in the Golden State. [read post]
12 May 2014, 5:35 pm
Cyrus Farivar Just days after HashFast’s CEO told Ars that his company was “as poor as church mice,” a group of five customers has filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the Bitcoin miner manufacturer-turned-chipmaker. [read post]
11 May 2014, 2:00 pm
Cyrus Farivar SAN FRANCISCO—Seated at a conference table in HashFast's offices, flanked by four other top employees, CEO Eduardo deCastro explained on Friday morning that the now-former Bitcoin miner manufacturer made key mistakes in late 2013 that lead to the company’s precarious position. [read post]
2 May 2014, 10:40 am
Cyrus Farivar SAN FRANCISCO—A San Diego lawyer has filed a motion to immediately put on hold last year’s lawsuit that Yelp filed against him. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 3:20 pm
Cyrus Farivar MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA—On Saturday, in the presence of local dignitaries, the local police department opened up a new substation in the neighborhood of Belle Haven, just a short block down the street from Facebook’s massive corporate headquarters. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 3:19 pm
Cyrus Farivar This is the nerve center of the new Belle Haven substation in Menlo Park. 12 more images in gallery Read on Ars Technica | Comments [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 2:42 pm
Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: RIAA sues Megaupload Over Copyright Infringement First off today, Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica reports that, just a few days after the movie studios filed a civil lawsuit against Megaupload, the record labels have done the same. [read post]
