REDMOND, WA — After its failed bid to absorb financially troubled Yahoo!, software giant Microsoft Corp. set its sights on a different kind of challenge to search category leader Google. On Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed it is testing a new search engine based on...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Founders of notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay and their attorneys remained defiant on Tuesday as their two-week trial on charges of facilitating content piracy ended. “These kinds of abstract case are not supposed to be brought to the...

USA & UK — Say what you will about how shallow it is that people judge others by their looks – but it’s the number one way that heterosexual humans decide whether someone looks good enough for a quick romp or a lifetime commitment. Or, so say the researchers of two...

TEHRAN, IRAN — A group of adult entertainment actors, most of them “beautiful young women,” face the death penalty under Islamic law after being arrested Wednesday during a police raid on an underground pornography operation.The raid, carried out at house in a middle-class...

BOULDER, CO — Andrew Libby was a man on a mission – and if he needed to break the law in order to accomplish his moral crusade, then so be it. Alas for his desire to bust porn’s alleged rampant use of minors there not only were no minors to save but pretending to be a...

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft has adopted a “don’t ask; don’t tell” policy regarding gamer profiles in its Xbox LIVE online community, after the software giant endured howls of outrage for tacitly allowing harassment of and then banning a user who outed herself as a...

DES MOINES, IA — A bill pending before the Iowa House of Representative seeks to do more than slap the wrists of parents whose children view “obscenity.”House File 443 requires placement on the state’s child-abuse registry any parent or caregiver convicted of allowing...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — After nearly a decade under investigation, Private Media Group chairman, president and chief executive officer Berth Milton has been hit with a back-taxes bill amounting to 865 million kroner (about $100 million U.S.).Milton called the accounting, handed...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Can you fucking believe it? Some 15-year-old kid decides it would be fun to see if 10 million people in a big ass mega modern county can go a goddamn week without cussing – and the next thing ya know, the damn bureaucrats are pissing our hard earned tax...

YAKIMA, WA — For years, businesses that sell merchandise of an erotic nature have been pressing upon the moral sensitivities of churches in the Yakima, WA area – but no longer! After a number of contentious issues were resolved, the Yakima City Council is set to vote and...