As Bachelor Pad fanatics already know from Twitter, BP3 contestant Jaclyn Swartz flew to Chi town to spend her birthday weekend with none other than Ed Swiderski. Accompanied by her Pad co-stars Rachel Truehart and Chris Bukowski on her trip to the windy city, Swartz was pictured in a photo... Read More full story ![]()
About 150 people gathered at Dewey Square this afternoon to remember Internet activist Aaron Swartz, some holding signs saying “Aaron’s Law” and listening to folk songs like “We Shall Overcome.” Supporters of Swartz claim that overly aggressive prosecution of him contributed to the 26-year-old’s decision to take his own life in January.
boston.com (1 month and 9 days ago)

WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials will brief members of Congress on Friday afternoon on DOJ's handling of the case against Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who was facing years in prison when he took his own life, a congressional aide tells The Huffington Post. Steven Reich, an associate deputy attorney general at DOJ, will brief members of the House Oversight...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 7 days ago)

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department never intended for Internet activist Aaron Swartz to go to jail "for longer than a three, four, potentially five-month range," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing on Wednesday. Calling Swartz's January suicide "a tragedy," Holder defended the Justice Department's handling of the...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 19 days ago)
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the release of previously sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide in January before going to trial for allegedly stealing millions of academic articles from a private database using a computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
yahoo.com (10 days ago)
Tech pioneer and internet activist Aaron Swartz was remembered at a memorial service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday as a young genius who wanted to make information freely available to the public.Swartz’s father, Robert Swartz, ticked off a list of a half-dozen tech pioneers who broke rules and even laws in the pursuit of their goals, including Bill...
bostonherald.com (2 months and 13 days ago)
Former Arizona State player Jaclyn Sweeney won the Symetra Tour's season-opening VisitMesa.com Gateway Classic on Sunday, closing with 5-under 67 in windy conditions for a two-stroke victory.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 29 days ago)
Former Arizona State player Jaclyn Sweeney won the Symetra Tour's season-opening VisitMesa.com Gateway Classic on Sunday, closing with 5-under 67 in windy conditions for a two-stroke victory.
nytimes.com (2 months and 29 days ago)

Attorney general expresses sympathy for Swartz's family but tells senators the case was a 'good use of prosecutorial discretion'The US attorney general has defended the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist who killed himself after being targeted for hacking into the computer system of MIT.After Swartz's suicide in January, his family and friends accused the...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 18 days ago)
MIT may redact the names of university officials and others when releasing documents related to the Aaron Swartz case, a federal judge ruled Monday, saying the disclosure could expose investigators to harassment and retaliation. Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist, committed suicide in January while he faced up to 35 years in jail for allegedly downloading more than 4...
boston.com (10 days ago)
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