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Virgil Griffith's Wikiscannner has helped uncover some new naughtiness by Sony, this time involving Wikipedia and a forthcoming competitor's game title.

MySpace aids Georgia police in tracking down a fugitive who made the mistake of using a public computer.

Doug Edwards, the ex-Googler who began blogging about his experiences at the search advertising company, forgot a basic rule of AdSense when he made a post in November 2005.

Some people deserve to get pinched and locked up for sheer stupidity; Social Darwinism would demand it. Boston police arrested a man for cocaine trafficking, setting up a bust after viewing an advertisement he posted on the Internet. He even included a phone number.

The problem with blogs is anyone can read them and they do. The recent adventures of an Iranian man who became a Canadian citizen on the U.S./Canadian border were all based on his blog. Customs found out about him, googled him and found his blog.

A report on an investigation into the assassination of the former prime minister of Lebanon was meant to withhold names of suspects with ties to Syria.

Corporate raider Carl Icahn fire burning arrows into the Blockbuster's tower yesterday during a teleconference call on quarterly earnings. The war of words with Blockbuster president John Antioco escalated the fight between the two corporate wizards.