Hundreds of Italian politicians, civil servants and celebrities have been implicated in a corruption scandal following the leaking of a list with their names on.

Italy's industry minister has already resigned after his name was linked to the investigation.

An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about "freedom from porn."

Jobs not only built and then rebuilt his company around some very strong opinions about digital life, but he's willing to defend them in public. Vigorously. Bluntly. At two in the morning on a weekend.

In a blog post, the company said it has parked its Street View cars and stopped collecting data after it realized that it has been inadvertently collecting data about people's online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks over the past four years.

Google said that it recently discovered it has accumulated about 600 gigabytes of data transmitted over public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries.

The code that was written to collect the data was part of an experimental Wi-Fi project started in 2006.

The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York picked up 336 PS3 systems in 2009 and built itself a 53 teraFLOP processing cluster.

The Air Force team ordered the hardware, spent days unboxing it and imaging each unit to run Linux, and then... Sony removed the Linux install option a couple months later.

All such projects will last as long as the machines survive or used machines are still available, but new hardware can't be added and refurbished machines can't be used.

The district court in Hamburg, Germany has issued an injunction against Cyberbunker and its owner, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, demanding that he cut off service to The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay has proved elusive, shuffling its servers, ownership, and ISPs around the world in an effort to avoid the studios.

Despite it all, the site remains accessible, though the MPA promises that "litigation is continuing against other facilitators in Sweden who are hosting trackers."

Back in January, we wrote about the story of a guy in the UK who was arrested and banned from his local airport after making a (bad) joke on Twitter about blowing the place up.

Andrew sent over a few more articles about the story, that highlight that the guy wasn't actually charged for making a fake bomb threat.

Instead, it appears that the police used a little-known part of the UK's Communications Act that outlaws sending a "message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character."

He was charged with making a bad joke, that someone misinterpreted as being "menacing."

EA does not like when you buy used games, and it keeps coming up with ways to incent gamers to avoid the used game section at their local retailer.

If you bought it used, you had to pay $10. With its sports games, however, EA is playing hardball: it will cost you an extra $10 if you want to play online with a secondhand game.

Will gamers balk, or shrug their shoulders and pay?

Astronomers have found the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen: the sexily-named SXDF-XCLJ0218-0510.

In the case of this newly found cluster, the light we see left it 9.6 billion years ago - making it 400 million light years farther away than the next-most distant cluster ever seen. The Universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so we're seeing this structure as it was not too long after it formed.

The US has evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder says.

Faisal Shazhad, 30, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, has co-operated with investigators, and admits receiving bomb-making training in the Pakistani region of Waziristan, prosecutors have said.

The first major update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in more than three years hit last month, and judging by the traffic that took down Red Hat's download servers, it's long over due.

Also new for virtual guests is the SELinux sandbox feature that allows guest machines to run in isolated environments. The new sandbox features can be applied to just about any untrusted code you'd like to execute, but it's particularly handy with virtual machines.