A British hacker has been arrested on charges that he illegally accessed U.S. government computer networks, including the Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Army, in order to steal the personal data of government employees. “You have no idea how much we can fuck with the U.S. government if we wanted to,” Lauri Love, the accused hacker, told a co-conspirator in a chat room, according to court documents.

It's not easy being a single mother, let alone a single mother going through a messy divorce while trying to take care of four-year-old daughter with bullying tendencies, a six-year-old son with Asperger's and ADHD, and a college student who was forced to take a year off from school.

[Woody Allen, Valentino and Larry David are getting into the Halloween spirit. Photos via @privategg, @neelshah, @derekblasberg]

A man suspected of groping an Arby's drive-thru worker was tracked down by police after leaving behind an incriminating trail of curly fries.

Police officers who responded to a call about an Oklahoma City man with a bloody face thrashing around his apartment arrived to find 22-year-old Jeremy Jarnell Anderson covered in soap and salt and ranting about a "possessed homosexual demon" who ordered him to "cook the Bible."

Hurricane-force winds smashed parts of the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany today The storm cut off power, caused floods and killed seven people.

Here is the most accurate and detailed explanation of Amazon's business model that you are likely to read this year. "Amazon has boundless ambition. It wants to eat global retail."

The man accused of stabbing a family of five to death this weekend was charged with their murders Monday morning. Ming Dong Chen, a Chinese immigrant, allegedly killed his cousin’s wife and four children with a meat cleaver late Saturday night.

Baylor is a Christian University, in Texas, with a student handbook banning "homosexual acts." That's three strikes against gay people already. But times are changing. Baylor may soon take a major step towards gay rights, by Baylor standards.

For a number of soldiers, the old drop-and-give-me-20 just isn't enough. Instead, they're resorting to quick surgery to pass the military's "fat test."

Waddle over, Birdemic — there's an even lower rent Birds homage in town.

A popular Afrobeat band from Western Massachusetts that was slated to perform at Hampshire College's annual Halloween party had their performance canceled at the last minute after students expressed concern that the band was "too white."

If you are lucky enough to have financial means and plenty of leisure time and a lack of more pressing responsibilities, you may be able to focus all of your energies on designing your "lifestyle" to your own utmost satisfaction. Congratulations on your good fortune. This does not qualify as a "job."

When I was in high school, a kid gave me this Velvet Underground tape. It was the first two records, dubbed onto a cassette pretty carelessly, with songs cutting off at the end of sides A and B. The kid who gave it to me was a fellow guitar player, but a lot cooler than me. He was a slouchy guy with greasy shoulder-length hair, and he told me stories about the Velvets tuning all their strings to the same note, or physically carving the frets out of the necks of their guitars so they could slide dissonantly between microtones during guitar solos. I put the tape on and it sounded like what I imagined taking drugs (a lot of drugs) felt like. It scared me. And it made me want to take drugs, which also scared me.

Today's new Banksy NYC piece is a robot stenciled on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island.

It's that time of the year again when we set a pumpkin on the dinner table and gather around with knives and hammers and ice picks in hand to watch YouTuber hickok45 demonstrate the latest foolproof methods for sending that foul gourd straight to Hell.

As the head of Facebook, with over one billion active users, Mark Zuckerberg probably has more influence on information technology than any one person alive. Now a couple of information scholars have archived his every public utterance into a massive archive they're calling the Zuckerberg Files.

A Wisconsin man who thought he was committing a run-of-the-mill hate crime against two Spanish-speaking men was probably red in the face from shame after learning that his victims were actually speaking Hebrew.

There's a sea lion who hangs out by the docks at Cabo San Lucas whose smarter-than-the-average-sea-mammal antics are so well known, that local anglers have actually named him.

Today, New York Times editor-turned-cranky-columnist Bill Keller's column consists of a long back-and-forth with crusading anti-imperialist Glenn Greenwald. The "must read" portion is not about the NSA, but about Times conservo-nerdlinger David Brooks.