Andrew Blake

Benjamin Netanyahu blasted for blaming Holocaust on Haj Amin al-Husseini

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under fire for saying Haj Amin al-Husseini, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem, convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate millions of Jews.

October 21, 2015

John Brennan and Jeh Johnson hacked; feds investigating breach of CIA, DHS directors’ accounts

Federal authorities are investigating the purported hacking of Internet accounts belonging to CIA Director John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson after two Twitter users claimed responsibility.

October 20, 2015

‘Slave auction’ held at Alaska bar despite objections by NAACP

A "slave auction" charity event took place as scheduled at a bar in Sitka, Alaska, on Sunday evening notwithstanding efforts from the NAACP.

October 19, 2015

Chinese hackers blamed for cyberattacks against U.S. despite truce

Chinese hackers are being blamed by security researchers in the United States for a handful of assaults waged against American computer networks in the wake of a cyber agreement reached between the two nations.

October 19, 2015

Jeremy Sumpter, Texas man, sentenced for pointing laser at police helicopter in Florida

Jeremy Wayne Sumpter of Garland, Texas, has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for aiming a laser pointer at a police helicopter in Tampa, Florida.

October 19, 2015

Google Books gets fair use win from federal appeals panel

Google has been given a victory in federal appeals court that will allow the tech giant to go forward with a project that has so far digitized and indexed more than 20.7 million books in the last decade.

October 16, 2015

Target shoppers shocked by loud porn noises broadcast inside California store

Target customers in California got more than they bargained for while shopping at one of the retailer's San Francisco-area stores last week: free porn, to be precise.

October 16, 2015

FBI’s largest ever human trafficking sting leads to over 150 arrests, 149 kids recovered

The FBI has rescued 149 sexually exploited children and made more than 150 arrests as the result of a recent human trafficking operation that the bureau is calling its biggest ever.

October 15, 2015

Tony Harris, Pennsylvania man, found dead after posting stacks of money on Facebook

Philadelphia police say a local man may have been killed as a result of a photograph he published on Facebook of his wife holding what appeared to be thousands of dollars in cash.

October 15, 2015

Obama-led drone strikes kill innocents 90% of the time: report

Drone strikes conducted by the United States during a 5-month-long campaign in Afghanistan caused the deaths of unintended targets nearly nine out of ten times, leaked intelligence documents suggest.

October 15, 2015

Hackers say smartphone voice commands can be spoofed from across the room

Google Voice and Siri by Apple have given smartphone owners by the millions a way of doing everything from drafting emails to getting directions by barely raising a finger. Now French security researchers say that hackers can do just as much on a victim's device, and without even being within sight.

October 14, 2015

Naval Academy teaching future sailors to use sextants amid cyberwar fears

Students taking classes on the Navy's Annapolis, Maryland campus this autumn are being taught celestial navigation for the first time since 2006, and Navy officials admit the curriculum change is at least partly to blame on budding fears of extraterrestrial cyberwar.

October 14, 2015

James Mitchell and John ‘Bruce’ Jessen, architects of CIA program, sued for torture

A federal lawsuit alleges war crimes were carried out by James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, the psychologists who designed, implemented and administered the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial enhanced interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists.

October 14, 2015

Twitter suspends Deadspin and SBNationGIF sports accounts over copyright claims

Twitter took action against the accounts of sports websites Deadspin and SBNation this week after receiving takedown notices from the NFL and UFC, among others.

October 13, 2015

Sarah Ray, paramedic, responds to accident scene in wedding gown; photo goes viral online

Sarah Ray, a paramedic from Tennessee, didn't let her wedding day get in the way of work. The newlywed was en route to her own wedding reception earlier this month when she put her plans on hold after learning her relatives were in a minor car accident a few miles away.

October 13, 2015

Christopher Columbus statue in Detroit vandalized on Columbus Day

A statue of Christopher Columbus that's been on display in downtown Detroit for more than a century was found vandalized on the very federal holiday named in honor of the explorer.

October 13, 2015

China arrests hackers following request from U.S. - report

China reportedly arrested several computer hackers at the behest of the United States government weeks ahead of President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House last month as the U.S. continues to weigh imposing sanctions as a result of cyberattacks blamed on Beijing.

October 12, 2015

Halloween cancellation at Connecticut schools provokes parents to push back

The Milford School District in southern Connecticut won't be holding its usual Halloween festivities this month, and parents of students enrolled there and other local residents aren't too enthused.

October 12, 2015

Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks source, sues Justice Department over FOIA documents

Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of disclosing state secrets to document-dumping group WikiLeaks, is suing the Justice Department over the government's failure to heed her Freedom of Information Act requests.

October 12, 2015

Walter Palmer, American dentist who killed Cecil the Lion, won’t face charges in Zimbabwe

Government officials in Zimbabwe said Monday that they won't charge American dentist Walter Palmer in the July death of Cecil the Lion.

October 12, 2015