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Paramount and CBS have set phasers to legal and are aiming at one of the most elaborate fan film productions in history.

The Force Awakens — aka the new Star Wars movie — may be the worst thing ever to have happened in the history of cinema. (I say “may” rather than “is” because, of course, only a Sith deals in absolutes).

Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the reported NSA spying on Israel that swept up members of Congress was “about trying to get through the Congress the Iran agreement” and “to win a battle with Congress”on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

(Reuters) — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.

With controversy over the Slave Leia costume heating up to the point where even Carrie Fisher felt obliged to weigh in, sex in nerd culture is once more getting smeared by the media. Indeed, one could argue that the Slave

LONDON (AP) — BBC says its main news website and other sites were knocked offline due to an attack. Service was out for more than three hours Thursday. Users received an error message and the broadcaster said on Twitter the

I can’t help but share this amazing anonymous smackdown of the odious cult of social justice with readers. It’s currently doing the rounds on Twitter and reddit. If anyone knows the author, do get in touch… “We are fighting to

Ian Murdock, a pioneer of Open Source software who created the Debian project, has passed away at 42 after a series of sensational public claims in which he alleged he was the victim of a serious incident of police brutality, threatened to commit suicide, and accused another Twitter user of wanting him dead.

San Francisco’s gentrification is slowly creeping into the Bay Area’s traditionally black neighborhoods, forcing out locals and slowly replacing them with Silicon Valley techies and professionals who are better able to afford higher prices.

Valve has shed some light on the difficulties so many users experienced with PC gaming digital storefront Steam over the Christmas holiday.

A Massachusetts-based insurance company found themselves on a post-holiday naughty list of 10,000 senior citizens in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

There are many problems with funding our gigantic, intrusive federal government by passing gigantic omnibus bills in a blind year-end panic, as has become customary in decadent Washington, D.C. One problem is that voters don’t know what their “representatives” have slipped into those gruesome trillion-dollar pork sausages. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is trying to repeal a controversial cybersecurity law that slipped under America’s nose in the omnibus package, despite public unease about similar measures in the past.

For almost 9 million users of Chrome, AVG’s “Web TuneUp” extension has become a major security concern.

In an unfortunate case of similar last names, Iyad El-Baghdadi, an anti-radicalization activist, was mistaken for the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by Twitter users and a number of media outlets.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said that the news that members of Congress were swept up in spying on Israel on by the NSA is “not unusual” and “when we listen in on foreigners’ conversations…we’re scooping up tens

An annual survey of abortion clinics in the United States finds a total of 82 abortion clinics either closed down or reduced abortion services during 2015.

It’s only people free of so-called oppression who can truly sort through the ever-more complex jungle of the progressive stack.

Internet policy in China is ‘a key component’ of the country’s political governing mechanism.

Twitter’s track record of punishing anyone who, say, dares to crack a joke at a feminist’s expense, while blithely allowing ISIS terrorists to recruit and advertise on its service, couldn’t be worse.

The New York Times doesn’t know when to quit. The paper recently published a long re-hash of a tired old video game-feminist argument: that there aren’t enough female characters in video games. The article recycles a number of unsubstantiated feminist myths,

He also believes that politicians have been given too much authority to govern medicine and technology without understanding either.

Twitter has hired former Apple executive Jeffery Siminoff, a white male, as vice president of diversity and inclusion, the company announced Monday.

Last week, one of Buzzfeed’s four “senior technology reporters,” Joseph Bernstein, published a story about me and about the “nascent counterculture” everyone else already knows as cultural libertarianism but which is apparently new to Mr Bernstein and which he has

A leading cyber-security expert has observed and demonstrated multiple methods of credit card theft that are disturbing in their simplicity.

Like many other young men, Lawlor believes that modern feminism has lost its way.

In these fear-struck times, shouting “Allah hu akhbar” on a plane is probably inadvisable. But what about toy planes that make similar sounds? A 3-year old in Whatcom County, Washington, was no doubt happy to receive a toy plane for Christmas. What

A male domestic abuse victim says he was blocked on Twitter by Vera Baird, the Police & Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, after he complained about the sexism of a police campaign that focused solely on female victims. The Northumbrian resident,

As drone sales soar, some insurance companies are quickly adapting their policies to exclude the unmanned aircraft.

If you’re registered to vote, you may be one of the more than 191 million U.S. citizens whose personal information was exposed through a misconfigured database that’s just been discovered.

Notorious social justice-slinging game developer Brianna Wu has been taking heavy fire from her authoritarian cohorts after a series of tweets made within the last 24 hours.

The People’s Republic of China has passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with all government requests for information, up to and including handing over encryption keys.

Super Bowl 50 (#SB50), scheduled to take place February 7, 2016 is geared to be the most technologically advanced Super Bowl to date and could draw the largest U.S. television audience in history, presenting a tremendous opportunity for business–both big and small–to piggyback off of the publicity it will bring.

Members of the online vigilante group Anonymous claim to have foiled an Islamic State terror attack on the nation of Italy.