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An unreleased movie about the life of infamous hacker Adrian Lamo has leaked to BitTorrent. The movie, titled Hackers Wanted, failed to get a conventional release following alleged conflicts between its producer and others on the team. Lamo has been telling TorrentFreak how he feels about this unofficial release.

According to ‘Hackers Wanted’ director Sam Bozzo, the movie was set to explore the differences between true hackers and today’s “computer criminals” and would follow the lives of hackers who found themselves arrested after pointing out security holes in computer systems.

Pakistan is blocking the video sharing website YouTube one day after ISPs in the country received a court order to block Facebook. BBC News is saying reports are leading them to believe a number of Wikipedia and Flickr pages are also being censored. Pakistani officials say YouTube has been blocked because of its "growing sacrilegious content".

The videos of Michael Jackson's children Blanket and Paris were stolen and posted by a hacker, the Jackson family has alleged. Alejandra Jackson, ex-wife of Jermaine Jackson, said that case was "a terrible invasion of our family privacy."

"My home computer was hacked into by an unknown source and this is currently under legal investigation," the New York Daily News quoted Jackson as telling People magazine. The videos also feature some of Alejandra's own children too. She has three kids - Jermajesty, Jaafar, Donte, Genevieve and Randy, Jr - with Jermaine.

Atlanta singer/songwriter and VP of Island/Def Jam Records Leaked his song Champagne as part of a FBI plot to track down music pirating computer hackers. News of the song's leak, along with the song itself, spread rapidly on the internet yesterday (May 12). The song was encrypted with a federal tag which helped FBI investigators catch three individuals. Apparently, the R&B singer has been working with the FBI and using encryption tags on his music since 2009. He announced the capture of the three hackers via Twitter.

Kelly Clarkson is furious after one of her demo tracks leaked on the internet.

The Since U Been Gone hitmaker has blamed internet hackers for releasing unheard track Cleopatra online without her consent, and she's branded the perpetrators "sneaky little trolls".

In a series of posts on her Twitter.com page, Clarkson rants, "Cleopatra is NOT a song on my next record! It was written for another artist! I have no idea how it leaked, it's a rough demo, unfinished!

Michael Chertoff, former US secretary of Homeland Security; Richard Clarke, chairman of Good Harbor Consulting; and Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, share their views on how to prevent future cyberthreats. They outline areas of focus and how to protect against cyberthreats without imposing on privacy rights.

There's a lot you can forgive in films. In order to keep the plot moving along, you have to leave realism at the door at some point. However, there's a big difference between a bit of artistic licence and wholesale nonsense that gets a lazy script writer out of a plot dead-end he's penned himself into. The worst example of this has to be the way that Hollywood treats computers, 'sexing' them up to ridiculous levels.

Google’s video clip sharing behemoth has been down for most of this morning.

For several hours, surfers couldn’t get their fix of amusing videos of children spaced out after visiting the dentist, or cats playing the keyboard.

The reason for the downtime hasn’t been specified, and all YouTube said during the outage was that engineers were busy fixing it.

Geeks rock.

When Buddy Holly jerked onstage as a bespectacled counterpoint to the pelvis-swiveling cool of Elvis, it carved out a spot in rock and pop music for the kids more inclined to admire Stephen Hawking than Steven Tyler or Bill Gates than Billy Idol.

The South by Southwest Interactive conference kicks off Friday in Austin, Texas, offering up as pure a convergence of geek and rock sensibilities as you're apt to find. Started in 1987 to showcase Austin's burgeoning alt-rock scene, South by Southwest added interactive and film gatherings in 1994.

A vast number of people will be seated Sunday evening, desperate to hear a good joke while the movie industry pats itself on its behind.

I am sure you have your favorites. For myself, I only hope that the divinity that is Sandra Bullock wins an Oscar, as she would then complete the most coveted double of winning an Oscar and a Razzie (which she picked up in person Saturday) in the same year.