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Curt Hopkins

Internet defends teen girl targeted over same-sex relationship

18-year-old Kate Hunt is being expelled from school and charged with sexual battery because the girl she was dating was underage.

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By Curt Hopkins — May 20
22 million Yahoo Japan users hacked

The Tumblr acquisition isn't the only big Yahoo story this week.

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By Curt Hopkins — May 20
Why Anonymous provocateur Barrett Brown matters

Brown is not a hacker, but he's being charged as one.

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By Curt Hopkins — May 20

What the Dwolla seizure means for Bitcoin's future

With all Dwolla payments to and from Mt. Gox frozen by Homeland Security, what's next for Bitcoin?

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By Curt Hopkins — May 16
Britain's MI5 scraps $116M IT system

The system was supposed to act as a sort of digital Department of Homeland Security.

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By Curt Hopkins — May 16
Stuxnet virus may have actually helped the Iranian nuclear program

A new report claims the virus was ill-timed and ineffective, diagnosing a vulnerability in Iranian's system that had not yet been discovered.

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By Curt Hopkins — May 15