Federal court orders alleged hacker to pay for bail with cryptocurrency

Defendants in US federal court cases now have another option for staying out on bail: emptying their virtual wallets. A district court in San Francisco has ordered alleged hacker Martin Marsich to pay the equivalent of $ 750,000 in cryptocurrency if he wants to live in a halfway house while facing trial. It’s not clear […]

The royal family’s alleged plan to silence Meghan Markle’s dad obviously isn’t working

GMB/Twitter; Michael Probst/AP; Chris Jackson/Getty Thomas Markle has continued speaking to the press despite the royal family’s alleged attempts to silence him. His frank and embarrassing interventions break royal protocol, and have reportedly prompted crisis meetings from palace officials. Last week, unnamed palace sources told the media they had a plan to bring Markle “on-side.” […]

Former Tour De France winner arrested after alleged assault of prostitute

Jan Ullrich, the only German winner of the Tour De France, was arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting a prostitute in Frankfurt. The incident comes a week after the 44-year-old was detained in Spain for a violent act. A German police spokesman told AFP that the cyclist was in police custody, adding that he had […]

3 daughters ‘snapped’ & stabbed father to death after years of alleged abuse in Moscow horror drama

His body lacerated with dozens of stab wounds, Mikhail Khachaturyan stumbled from his Moscow flat and collapsed dead by the elevator. Disturbingly, for his teenage daughters, his death came as a relief after years of abuse. Khachaturyan’s daughters – Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18, and Maria, 17 – have been arrested and charged with stabbing their […]

Tesla fires back against alleged whistleblower: “He is nothing of the sort”

Enlarge Tesla is now wholly refuting the claims made by an ex-employee and self-proclaimed whistleblower who previously leaked information to the press. In a lengthy statement provided Friday to Ars via a Tesla spokesperson, the company flatly denied that Martin Tripp, the man that the company sued earlier this week for alleged trade secrets violations, […]

Alleged WikiLeaks source who helped expose CIA hacking tricks faces 135 years in prison

A former CIA and NSA programmer has been charged with stealing and leaking classified information and with possessing child pornography. Joshua Adam Schulte is thought to be behind WikiLeaks’ exposure of the CIA’s hacking arsenal. Schulte, 29, worked in the CIA’s Engineering Development Group, tasked with designing the clandestine tools used by the US intelligence […]

Audi CEO arrested over alleged role in Dieselgate scandal

Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was arrested today, a week after his home was raided by German prosecutors. He has reportedly been detained for his alleged role in Dieselgate, a scandal unearthed in 2015 that revealed Volkswagen, Audi’s parent company, had installed software in its vehicles that allowed them to cheat emissions tests. The “defeat device” […]

Assange willing to testify on alleged Russian hacking

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly willing to testify in the investigation surrounding alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. The claim that Assange is willing to speak to congressional investigators was made on Friday by his long time associate, Randy Credico. Radio host Credico told the New York Daily News that Assange […]