Monday, January 14, 2013

Reddit Founder's Death Fuels Probe

Internet wizard Aaron Swartz has been found dead at his Brooklyn, N.Y., home. Authorities say Swartz, who helped create the web feed format RSS, committed suicide just weeks before going to trial on charges he stole millions of electronic journal

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched an internal probe of the events leading up to the suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was facing federal charges for allegedly hacking into the school's journal archives. "It pains me to

Technology's brightest minds are memorializing Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old programmer and digital rights activist who committed suicide Friday.

On Friday, Internet pioneer and open information activist Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26. At the time of his death, Swartz was under indictment for logging into JSTOR, a database of scholarly articles, and rapidly downloading those

A restless character who dropped out of university after only a year, in his short life Swartz was involved in several companies and pressure groups before, in 2011, he was charged with stealing scientific documents from a computer archive at the

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