A judge in San Francisco federal court hears arguments from the Justice Department and Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding lawsuits against telecoms that cooperated with the Bush administration's once-secret domestic spy program.

Sonic blasters and private security teams have been billed as some of the best bets to ward off pirates. But an incident off the coast of Somalia is calling the effectiveness of the weapons — and the guards — into question.

Scientists are still debating whether electromagnetic fields — like the ones generated by your cellphone — are bad for your health. The United Nations is pushing ahead with the idea that the fields are a "Potential Threat as a Terrorism Agent."

The jury forewoman in the Lori Drew trial says jurors wanted to convict Lori Drew on three felony counts for unauthorized access to MySpace's computer system, but were stymied by lack of evidence from the prosecutor and had to convict her of misdemeanors.

The jury radically reinterprets a 20-year-old anti-hacking law to find Lori Drew guilty of three misdemeanors. But juries do crazy things all the time. The only opinions that matter are those of the trial judge and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, neither of whom have weighed in yet.

The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants.

The Mumbai terrorists used an array of commercial technologies -- from Blackberries to GPS navigators to anonymous e-mail accounts -- to pull off their heinous attacks.

What if a sniper could fire a bullet that changed course in mid-flight to hit its target? The Pentagon hands out nearly $22 million to try to find out.

A Pennsylvania National Guard unit will get a new toy before it deploys to Iraq in January — an odd-looking robotic recon aircraft, sometimes referred to as "the flying beer keg."

First-hand accounts of the deadly Mumbai attacks are pouring in on Twitter, Flickr and other social media.

The government does not need a judge's approval to wiretap Americans overseas, an appeals court ruled, rejecting the appeal of an American convicted of helping plan the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings. The ruling comes as rights groups challenge the government's warrantless wiretapping program and newly granted powers to set up electronic dragnets inside the United States.

The jury weighing a landmark federal cyberbullying case against 49-year-old Lori Drew resumes deliberations after asking the judge a question which suggests they have reached a decision on three of the charges and might be facing a deadlock on the fourth.

Don Ayala, a U.S. Army contractor accused of a revenge killing in Afghanistan, is back in the United States and out on bail in New Orleans. Ayala was part of an Army "Human Terrain Team," a program that embeds social scientists in combat units.

The landmark cyberbullying case of Lori Drew, accused of participating in a MySpace hoax that prosecutors said prompted a 13-year-old neighbor to commit suicide, is in the hands of the jury after three days of testimony from fifteen witnesses.

The landmark cyberbullying case of Lori Drew, accused of participating in a MySpace hoax that prosecutors said prompted a 13-year-old neighbor to commit suicide, is in the hands of the jury after three days of testimony from fifteen witnesses.

A former Connecticut school teacher prosecuted for endangering children when they saw pornographic pop-ups on a school computer dodged felony charges and pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge. But a technical report prepared by outside experts shows the computer was infected with adware and lacked anti-virus software. The report suggests the woman was innocent and did not knowingly download pornography on her computer.

Hackers and scammers are still meeting up in online forums to buy and sell millions in stolen credit card numbers and online banking credentials, a security company reported Monday. While hackers offered enough cards to total more than $5 billion in collective balances, credit card numbers sell for as little as 10 cents now thanks to increasing security measures by online merchants, Symantec reports.

When Tonia Mullins decided to hire a hit man to kidnap and murder her lover's wife, she didn't scour the local underworld dives. She texted.

A federal judge will rule Monday on whether the case against a 39-year-old woman accused in a deadly MySpace hoax can go to the jury, after testimony shows the defendant never saw the MySpace terms-of-service she's accused of criminally violating.

Some Verizon Wireless workers are suspended after peeking at the president-elect's calling records.