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Jul 26th, 2012
A five-minute trailer for the sci-fi film Cloud Atlas has leaked online. The epic tale traces the path of love and heroics through past, present and future and stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon. (Source: AFP Relax News) -
Facebook became the first tech company implicated in the PRISM scandal to release a complete view of data requests received from U.S. authorities - secret PRISM requests and all - but Google and Twitter were quick to voice their displeasure with Facebook's apparent privacy triumph. Friday evening, Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot announced ... [Full Article]
By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ben Affleck will follow up his Oscar-winning "Argo" work by stretching his villainous muscles as an offshore gambling kingpin in "Runner, Runner." The high-stakes drama marks a departure for Affleck, who usually gets to wear the white hat even when engaging in criminality in films like &... [Full Article]
By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tom Hanks is reteaming with his "Cloud Atlas" director Tom Tykwer on a feature adaptation of Dave Eggers' novel "A Hologram For the King," TheWrap has learned. Tykwer adapted the book and will direct the indie movie, for which CAA is in the process of securing financing. "A H... [Full Article]
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The founder of the WikiLeaks website, at the center of the trial of a soldier charged with the biggest U.S. leak of classified material, solicited secret military information during a 2009 conference in Berlin, a Marine Corps computer security expert testified on Tuesday. On the witness stand at the court-martial of... [Full Article]
By John Shiffman, Mark Hosenball and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While working for U.S. intelligence agencies, Edward Snowden had another secret identity: an online commentator who anonymously railed against citizen surveillance and corporate greed. Throughout the eight years that Snowden worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and Nat... [Full Article]
Nothing says human rights, security in Asia, and the quashing of cyberwarfare like the forbidden love between two gay cowboys, huh? The cover of the new issue of The Economist (the regional edition running in North America, anyway) is stirring a minor controversy and cries of "awful" Newsweek-style trolling ahead of an historic and not-qu... [Full Article]
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - From Union Jack booties to "Born to Rule" sleepwear, the British royal family has joined retailers in offering baby products to mark the arrival of the royal heir. Analysts estimate the baby fever could boost the economy by 240 million pounds. A baby sleepsuit modelled on a guardsman's outfit i... [Full Article]