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A French government crackdown on digital piracy backfired Thursday as rebel conservative lawmakers endorsed amendments to legalize the online sharing of music and film instead of punishing it.

A serial rape suspect who escaped from jail by climbing through a ceiling vent and rappelling down the side of the building on tied-together bed sheets appeared to have outside help and used tools that had been smuggled in, the city’s police chief said Thursday.

Online retailing has vastly increased in the wake of a transport strike in New York City. The city’s bus and subway networks have been completely shut down by industrial action since Wednesday, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost store revenue in the final run-up to Christmas.

A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said.

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will report in tomorrow’s (Dec. 22) issue of the journal Nature that Albert Einstein’s formula, E=mc2, is correct.

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A U.S. mortgage firm owned by Dutch bank ABN Amro Bank NV said Tuesday it had retrieved a computer tape with data of 2 million customers that was lost by delivery firm DHL, sparking a data security scare.

California’s top election official will ask the federal government to review the security of software used with Diebold Inc.‘s electronic voting machines and investigate claims that results could be vulnerable to hackers, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

A group of malicious hackers is using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer software to push copies of movies and Disney cartoons onto infected machines.

Hundreds of human footprints dating back to the last Ice Age have been found in the remote Australian Outback, an official and media reported Thursday.