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Police nab copper thief at Apple’s “spaceship” campus site
Police busted a man for allegedly trying to steal copper material from the construction site of Apple’s new “spaceship” campus over the weekend.
Jezebel editor causes outrage with ill-timed political tweet
News of actor Paul Walker’s death was met with a wave of shock and disbelief on social media, but for Jezebel news editor Erin Gloria Ryan, it was an opportunity to have a political discussion.
Syrian Electronic Army hits TIME’s “Person of the Year” poll
TIME Magazine’s annual “Person of the Year” online poll was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army on Friday, the latest in a campaign of cyber attacks focused on the media by the pro-Syria group.
Hard drive used by Adam Lanza contained pro-pedophile material
A computer hard drive used by Adam Lanza contained pro-pedophile literature among other things, a report released Monday afternoon revealed.
White House “Photo of the Day” upsets political journalists
Journalists are upset over a White House “Photo of the Day” they claim was released as a crass response to a complaint made earlier in the week.
Tribune Company to lay off 700 employees
The Tribune Company will lay off approximately 700 employees working in “non-editorial functions” of its eight newspapers.
The web could save Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera is not a hit with cable viewers. The channel should stop looking to cable and start looking to the web if it wants to survive.
Six things revealed from newly-unclassified NSA documents
The Desk spent most of Tuesday pouring over the thousands of documents released Monday by the ODNI. Here are some key takeaways from the now-unclassified documents.
NSA: Some call logs contained personal names, credit card details
The National Security Agency acknowledged it received some financial and personal information when it collected telephone metadata in 2006.
Chicago Sun-Times website victim of weekend cyber attack
The domain name registrar that serves the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper experienced a cyber attack on Saturday, leaving some readers unable to access the website over the weekend and into Monday morning.
Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters cut journalism jobs in 2013
Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg LP have slashed newsroom jobs throughout the year. And if things don't change, expect more jobs to be lost in 2014.
China blocks Wall Street Journal, Reuters news websites
Global variants of the Wall Street Journal and Reuters websites have been blocked for internet users in China, according to several internet monitoring agencies.