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Hackers attack PBS website, claim Tupac is still alive
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Hackers attack PBS website, claim Tupac is still alive

Tupac Shakur is still alive and living in New Zealand. Thanks to some snarky hackers, that's what the PBS website was reporting last night… Jessica Gentile   |   05.30.2011   |   Comments (5)
Links: Wikileaks' Bank of America leak doesn't reveal much, contrary to hype
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Links: Wikileaks' Bank of America leak doesn't reveal much, contrary to hype

Julian Assange apparently has over 5GB of documents from a Bank of America exec's hard drive, and yet early reports suggest the documents are… Ben Reininga   |   02.9.2011   |   Comments (1)
Links: Wikileaks nominated for a Nobel Prize
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Links: Wikileaks nominated for a Nobel Prize

Wikileaks — the site that's been accused of terrorism, theft, and host of other very bad things — has been nominated for a Nobel… Ben Reininga   |   02.2.2011   |   Comments (4)
Julian Assange will get $1.3 million for his autobiography
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Julian Assange will get $1.3 million for his autobiography

Wikileaks' Julian Assange is getting paid huge amounts of money to write his autobiography. It's the most recent item on his list of… Ben Reininga   |   12.27.2010   |   Comments (0)
CIA creates Wikileaks Task Force, or as they call it, WTF
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CIA creates Wikileaks Task Force, or as they call it, WTF

This might be the most hilariously misguided shorthand since conservatives in Texas started telling everyone they were Teabaggers. The CIA has… Ben Reininga   |   12.22.2010   |   Comments (2)
Wikileaks' Julian Assange: My next leak will force a major bank executive to resign
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange: My next leak will force a major bank executive to resign

Julian Assange is out of prison, at least for the moment, and back on the offensive. In a statement today to a British paper, he claimed that his… Ben Reininga   |   12.21.2010   |   Comments (5)
Hustler's Larry Flynt donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks defense fund
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Hustler's Larry Flynt donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks defense fund

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt thinks Wikileaks' Julian Assange is a hero-journalist. And he thinks that if Wikileaks had existed back when… Jeff Mills   |   12.20.2010   |   Comments (0)
Julian Assange wins Time's 2010 Person of the Year poll
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Julian Assange wins Time's 2010 Person of the Year poll

The man we can't stop talking about, Wikileaks' Julian Assange, has garnered the most votes in Time Magazine's 2010 Person of the… Jeff Mills   |   12.14.2010   |   Comments (1)
WikiLeaks shows we should let our TV do our diplomacy for us
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WikiLeaks shows we should let our TV do our diplomacy for us

Some new diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have confirmed that America's greatest export, and our best tool for preventing terrorism… James Brady Ryan   |   12.8.2010   |   Comments (0)
Watch: The sex life of Wikileaks' Julian Assange explained by Glenn Beck and a chalkboard diagram
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Watch: The sex life of Wikileaks' Julian Assange explained by Glenn Beck and a chalkboard diagram

Glenn Beck has many sides — the blowhard, the weeper, the DC rally organizer — but perhaps none is more terrifying and strange than Glenn… Ben Reininga   |   12.7.2010   |   Comments (13)
Wikileaks' Assange arrested on sexual assault charges
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Wikileaks' Assange arrested on sexual assault charges

Authorities may be having trouble pinning him down for, you know, blackmailing the entire world, but Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange has… Virginia Smith   |   12.7.2010   |   Comments (11)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blackmails the entire world with cryptic "Doomsday File"
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blackmails the entire world with cryptic "Doomsday File"

The latest salvo from that everywhere-and-nowhere, international man of mystery, Julian Assange, is a doozy. The vigilante hacker has widely… Jeff Mills   |   12.6.2010   |   Comments (9)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on international most-wanted list for sex crimes
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on international most-wanted list for sex crimes

Interpol has placed WikiLeaks founder and International Man of Mystery Julian Assange on its most-wanted list. The move is unrelated to his… Ray Rahman   |   12.1.2010   |   Comments (7)
Wikileaks distributes thousands of secret documents to NYT, The Guardian, Der Spiegel
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Wikileaks distributes thousands of secret documents to NYT, The Guardian, Der Spiegel

Wikileaks' plan to deliver thousands of leaked government documents to the public began this afternoon. Five papers have exclusive access to… Lindsay Cutler   |   11.28.2010   |   Comments (2)
WikiLeaks releases giant trove of Afghan War documents
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WikiLeaks releases giant trove of Afghan War documents

Wikileaks — the amorphorous whistleblower website that published leaked governmental documents — has just released a massive trove of… Ben Reininga   |   07.26.2010   |   Comments (2)