The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings. The measure, SB 1945, orders the Supreme Court to “permit television coverage of all open sessions of the court.” ...

The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings. The measure, SB 1945, orders the Supreme Court to “permit television coverage of all open sessions of the court.” ...

An advertisement for an Israeli cable TV company that jokes about attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities has been pulled offline in the wake of criticism. The ad, for Israel’s HOT cable service, features members of the Israeli comedy series Asfur who sneak into Iran in drag, dressed as Muslim women — ...

Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countries only where it was ordered ...

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled draft legislation Monday requiring mobile-phone carriers to reveal if they are employing tracking software such as Carrier IQ. “Consumers have the right to know and to say ‘no’ to the presence of software on their mobile devices that can collect and transmit their personal and sensitive ...

Photo: Randy Le'Moine Photography/Flickr In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make ...

Photo: MarkyBon/Flickr A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case. The defendant, accused of bank fraud, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against compelled self-incrimination. “I conclude that ...

Photo: Kolin Toney/Flickr MIAMI, Florida – A group of researchers has discovered serious security holes in six top industrial control systems used in critical infrastructure and manufacturing facilities and, thanks to exploit modules they released on Thursday, have also made it easy for hackers to attack the systems before they’re patched ...

A message Tuesday on Wikipedia giving notice of its self-imposed censorship Wednesday Hundreds, if not thousands of websites are expected to go dark or alter themselves Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that many believe goes too far fighting online copyright and trademark infringement. Josh Levy, campaign manager for Free Press, ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy says he'll consider removing mandated DNS-redirects from the Protect IP Act Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said Thursday he is having second thoughts on a major provision of a bill he is sponsoring that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement. The legislation under ...