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In a dramatic overhaul of the New York City Police Department, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has ousted numerous high-ranking officials, beginning with the Internal Affairs Bureau. This action comes just one week after a scandal involving allegations of a top NYPD official trading overtime for sexual favors was exposed by The New York Post. The purge started with the immediate removal of Chief of Internal Affairs Miguel Iglesias, who was dismissed on the same day the allegations against Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey were published. Following this, Deputy Chief Chris Morello was also removed from his position within the Internal...

Back in March, I wrote about the odd little attack by the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Mozilla's plans to put control of cookies firmly in the hands of users. Alas, the IAB seems not to have come to its senses since then, but has instead doubled down, and launched one of the most bizarre assaults on Mozilla and the open Web that I have ever read. I warmly recommend you to read it - I suspect you will find it as entertaining in its utter absurdity as I do. It's entitled "Has Mozilla Lost Its...

The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed. Meanwhile, officers from a special unit videotaped their faces, evoking for one demonstrator the unblinking eye of George Orwell's "1984." "That's Big Brother watching you," the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition. Mr. Liddy's complaint about police tactics, while hardly novel from a big-city protester, stands out because of his job: He is a New York City police officer....

WASHINGTON (AP) - Press freedom advocates normally direct their wrath toward countries where harassment or abuse of journalists is the norm. Lately they have come up with a new target: the United States. On Wednesday, a delegation from the Inter-American Press Association, a Western Hemisphere watchdog group, was making a pilgrimage to Washington to show solidarity with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6. An evening meeting with Miller was planned at the Alexandria (Va.) Detention Center, where she was being held for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak...