New Zealand Teen Hacker Escapes Charges

A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a major role in a worldwide cyber-crime ring, which led to millions of dollars of losses, was discharged from court yesterday without any conviction.

Yang Acknowledged Google Deal Is Anticompetitive?

Jerry Yang's facing all sorts of problems, and his own words may be digging him a little deeper.  According to what Microsoft's general counsel told a Senate antitrust panel, Yang recently admitted that Yahoo's deal with Google will more or less create a search monopoly.

Cutts Nips Net Neutrality Conspiracy Theory

Be careful with Google conspiracy accusations; Matt Cutts might make an example of you. After being accused of blocking anti-Net Neutrality pages on the Progress and Freedom Foundation site, Cutts gloats over data to the contrary on his blog. Brett Glass, via Dan Farber's Interesting People mailing list, discovered only pages on PFF.org's website pertaining to Network Neutrality were flagged by Google as hosting malware.…

Study Urges Legalizing Online Gambling

The U.S. and Canada should legalize and control online gambling to reduce negative effects, because gamblers play more aggressively online than they do in casinos, according to a joint study by the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.The study found that even though online gambling is illegal in the U.S. and Canada it is still easy for…