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When we talk about pacemakers here at Techdirt, the focus is usually on how the devices have paper-mache grade security, allowing anybody to assassinate the cardiac-challenged with relative ease. In fact we've reached the point where the FTC had to recently...

Authorities from Ohio arrested a man named Ross Compton and charged him with arson and insurance fraud based on his pacemaker data. Compton told the police that when he saw his house burning on September 19th last year, he packed his suitcases, threw...

I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on Penny Dreadful, The Hotwives of Orlando, Eric and Jessie: Game On, Home and Family, The Strain, Michael...

HAMILTON, OH (AP) – A man charged with arson based partly on data collected from his pacemaker has pleaded not guilty to setting his Ohio home on fire. Court officials say 59-year-old Ross Compton pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Hamilton to aggravated...

The fire, 1988. One of Woodstock’s saddest stories got its penultimate chapter written this month with the conviction of Ralph Miller, an owner of summer stock theaters up and down the East Coast — including the Woodstock Playhouse when it was torched...