Mark Zuckerberg won a legal battle against former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook, but the feud made famous on the silver screen is not over yet.
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The total amount of firepower used to flood Sony websites this week? It's only "medium strength," says a source at Sony's hosting provider who is not authorized by his employer to speak on the record.
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Prosecutors allege that Sam Chihlung Yin, 34, committed an array of computer crimes against the fashion label after having been fired as an network engineer for its US branch. ...

I took my sweet time to check if this was an April Fools joke to be put on our exhaustive 2011 list, but it appears to be as real as can be.
Larry Klayman, a renowned American activist, former Justice Department prosecutor, former U.S. Senate candidate and book author,says he has sued both Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg forover $1 billion after the social networking giant failed to remove a page calling for a third intifada against Israel’s Jewish population swiftly enough.
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For reasons unknown, Microsoft has changed the settings on Hotmail to disable HTTPS for users in several countries including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users in those countries can now be readily spied upon by ISPs and their governments. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some good perspective:
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