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A federal judge on Monday sentenced a man who hacked into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and other women to 10 years in prison. http://phys.org/news274985759.html Technology Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:56:04 EST news274985759 A federal judge has approved a $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach, rejecting a consumer-rights group's plea for tougher punishment. http://phys.org/news272317082.html Technology Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:38:09 EST news272317082 A proposed $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach is on the verge of winning court approval, despite a consumer rights group's cry for tougher punishment. http://phys.org/news272301159.html Technology Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:13:20 EST news272301159 (AP)—Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works. http://phys.org/news268569469.html Technology Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:38:03 EST news268569469 (AP)—A man who processed money illegally for three Internet poker companies whose U.S. operations eventually were shut down was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in prison by a judge who said he played a "catch me if you can" game with the government. http://phys.org/news268546270.html Technology Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:11:23 EST news268546270 (AP)—A Taiwanese company was fined $500 million Thursday and its former president and executive vice president were each sentenced to three years in prison for their leading roles in a global LCD screen price-fixing conspiracy. http://phys.org/news267377399.html Technology Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:30:06 EST news267377399 A judge has refused to lift a ban on US sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computers as legal brawling continued between the South Korean electronics titan and Apple. http://phys.org/news267288034.html Technology Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:40:40 EST news267288034 (AP)—A woman accused of sharing songs online owes record companies $222,000 for willful copyright violations, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, reversing a lower court's ruling in a long-running lawsuit over music downloading. http://phys.org/news266595112.html Technology Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:11:59 EST news266595112 (AP)—The Navy can build a $100 million offshore range for submarine warfare training, despite environmentalists' fears that war games would threaten endangered right whales, a federal judge ruled. http://phys.org/news266514788.html Biology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:53:14 EST news266514788 (AP)—A man who ran a Ponzi scheme disguised as an online advertising company has been sentenced to 78 months in prison. http://phys.org/news265481566.html Technology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:52:50 EST news265481566 (AP)—A federal judge sentenced a Chinese-born American Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing millions of dollars in trade secrets from Motorola, describing her as a soft-spoken, unassuming woman who carried out a "very purposeful raid" on the company in the dead of night. http://phys.org/news265477812.html Technology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:10:01 EST news265477812 The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial went to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers. http://phys.org/news264780304.html Technology Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:06:39 EST news264780304 Lawyers for Apple and Samsung debated the differences between copying and honest competition as opening arguments were held Tuesday in a huge patent trial involving the two tech giants. http://phys.org/news262965877.html Technology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:04:47 EST news262965877 Jury selection was set to open on Monday in a US federal court in the blockbuster patent case pitting Apple against Samsung, which accuse each other of copying patents for smartphones and tablets. http://phys.org/news262840627.html Technology Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:17:14 EST news262840627 Apple and Samsung are set to square off in a California court Monday in what is seen as the biggest patent US trial in recent memory. http://phys.org/news262672687.html Technology Sat, 28 Jul 2012 05:38:19 EST news262672687 An Estonian national was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for hacking schemes involving the theft or sale of more than 240,000 credit card numbers, officials said. http://phys.org/news261853029.html Technology Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:10:01 EST news261853029 Websites such as Facebook and Twitter will receive greater protection from lawsuits if they identify internet "trolls" accused of defaming others under a bill being debated in Britain's House of Commons on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news258713428.html Technology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:50:36 EST news258713428 (AP) -- A judge delayed the sentencing of an eyewear website operator who intimidated customers, saying he first wants to hear testimony from dozens of victims who reported they were threatened with violence, including murder and rape. http://phys.org/news255884199.html Technology Thu, 10 May 2012 15:56:46 EST news255884199 Oracle and Google are digging in their heels as they prepare for an upcoming trial. http://phys.org/news252213983.html Technology Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:26:48 EST news252213983 (AP) -- Nearly two years after his brother Gordon was killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, Chris Jones had planned to drive in from Baton Rouge with other relatives to attend the start of the federal trial over the nation's worst offshore oil disaster. http://phys.org/news249541623.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:07:09 EST news249541623 (AP) -- A judge is pushing back the federal trial over the nation's worst offshore oil disaster by a week, saying Sunday that BP PLC was making some progress in settlement talks with a committee overseeing scores of lawsuits, according to people close to the case. http://phys.org/news249498278.html Space & Earth Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:05:05 EST news249498278 (AP) -- Readily available, easy-to-use software can encrypt a computer hard drive so thoroughly it would take years for a hacker to break in. But that seems to be no impediment for government prosecutors, who have obtained an order compelling the disclosure of a computer's contents in one Colorado case. http://phys.org/news249063187.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:13:12 EST news249063187 (AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they'll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhumanely and need more protection. http://phys.org/news246867505.html Biology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:18:47 EST news246867505 A federal judge has ordered a woman to provide an unencrypted version of her laptop's hard drive in a ruling that raises the question of whether turning over a password amounts to self-incrimination. http://phys.org/news246687754.html Technology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:22:51 EST news246687754 (AP) -- A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in a Utah company's $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month. http://phys.org/news243318282.html Technology Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:25:30 EST news243318282 (AP) -- Jurors deliberating Wednesday in a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. appeared confused, sending at least five questions to the judge, one of which couldn't be answered. http://phys.org/news243147141.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:52:38 EST news243147141 (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday struck down most of a San Francisco ordinance that requires retailers to warn customers about cellphone radiation and its health effects. http://phys.org/news238992137.html Technology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:22:14 EST news238992137 (AP) -- A Southern California man was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatening to put them online unless they provided him with more. http://phys.org/news234114260.html Technology Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:44:48 EST news234114260 (AP) -- Recording industry attorneys are appealing a recent ruling that reduced the amount of money a Minnesota woman must pay for willfully violating the copyrights of 24 songs. http://phys.org/news233254516.html Technology Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:55:47 EST news233254516 (AP) -- A lawsuit that had threatened to end the Obama administration's funding of embryonic stem cell research was thrown out Wednesday, allowing the U.S. to continue supporting a search for cures to deadly diseases over protests that the work relies on destroyed human embryos. http://phys.org/news230997002.html Biology Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:50:27 EST news230997002