Tom Dworetzky

Firefox Add-on DeSopa developer Tamer Rizk created a simple way to defeat SOPA--the Stop Online Piracy Act. Today we present an exclusive interview with him on his motivation, the troubles it may case and the ways tactics to defeat Internet Freedom will fail.

A Fort Greene Deli is being sued by watchmaker Rolex.

The scissor-stabbing of a teen at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn has left a boy in critical condition.

Two stores with idiot-proof rolling machines that would sell you cigarette-paper tubes and loose 'baccy and let you use machines on the premises to bang out your own will stop it.

Talk about dead on arrival, SOPA, the pathetic Stop Online Piracy Act aimed at clamping down of freedom of speech-excuse me-on copyright infringement--is already toast, thanks to an easy Firefox add-on developed by Tamar Rizk of Cambridge, Mass., company Inficron.com and launched Dec. 19.

A scam has stolen millions of dollars from an Orthodox rabbi, according to the New York Times.

Bon Jovi is dead! The speed with which misinformation is spreading these days is altering the news. And that threatens democracy, because an informed citizenry is essential to a functioning democracy.

Bon Jovi is dead! The speed with which misinformation is spreading these days is altering the news. And that threatens democracy, because an informed citizenry is essential to a functioning democracy.

A firefighter trapped in the third floor of a Brooklyn building has suffered burns over approximately 42 percent of his body, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told those at a press conference scheduled to announce the new Cornell science campus agreement. The mayor had arrived late because of the tragic situation, which unfolded moments before the press newser was about to start.

Winter Solstice is approaching this Dec 21st-early Dec. 22. the shortest day of the year. As usual there's the pressure of too much to do during the holiday season and too little time to do it. But this year, I've started to think about next year already--It's supposed to be the end of the world in 2012 on the next solstice. I'm jammed with deadlines already. What about my bucket list?

Is this the heir of Kim Jong Il? The photo was taken when the man, now thought in his late 20s, was 11 years old.

Wow, the NYPD mobilized a massive sting operation to arrest 141 guys who were selling hot iPhones. Where are all the undercover guys pretending to be clients of high-end financial houses getting those guys on a wire and busting them?

Wow, the NYPD mobilized a massive sting operation to arrest 141 guys who were selling hot iPhones. Where are all the undercover guys pretending to be clients of high-end financial houses getting those guys on a wire and busting them?

Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear plant cleanup is going nowhere, freelance investigative journalist Tomohiko Suzuki told the audience at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on Dec. 15. Suzuki went undercover as a worker at the crippled plant for a month, employed by the Toshiba Corp. Absolutely no progress is being made, he told club members.

No one wants to die alone. But its legal hassles, and new alternatives, may be killing the institution, especially for the young.

Six thousand registered nurses are ready to walk out of three of the biggest city hospitals, Mr. Sinai, Montefiore and St. Luke's-Roosevelt.

Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012--the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids-- the most in any election since 1948, the Center states in the Poll's overview.

Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012--the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids-- the most in any election since 1948, the Center states in the Poll's overview.

Of course, when a leader is pressed by domestic trouble, his thoughts turn immediately, as they do for all leaders, to distracting the population with a foreign enemy. And today, that would be us.

Suzanne Hart, 41, was crushed in a freak elevator accident at 285 Madison Ave. in mid-town Manhattan this morning

Tonight's Panel for Educational Policy was shifted quickly to Queens from Manhattan, which is easier to get to from the Cobble Hill neighborhood where the Success Academy charters wants to expand--and which is on the table for discussion.

The tragic shooting death of Officer Peter Figoski highlights the need for control of illegal firearms in New York. This is now being addressed by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who recently announced this month that she will back a bill to target those gun dealers and criminals involved in bringing guns illegally into New York State.

The tragic shooting death of Officer Peter Figoski highlights the need for control of illegal firearms in New York. This is now being addressed by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who recently announced this month that she will back a bill to target those gun dealers and criminals involved in bringing guns illegally into New York State.

Manhattan mogul The Donald has put the kabosh on his much-touted Republican presidential debate--after all the other candidates save Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum declined the invite.

The Higgs boson news caused cheers from me, too. Because I have been searching high and low for the Higgs right here in New York. That is, I have been searching tirelessly for that thing that gives substance to the insubstantial. And I would like to report that I have found it, too, all over the place.

The Higgs boson news caused cheers from me, too. Because I have been searching high and low for the Higgs right here in New York. That is, I have been searching tirelessly for that thing that gives substance to the insubstantial. And I would like to report that I have found it, too, all over the place.

New Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is planning a presidential run-against Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 Russian Presidential election. For the first time the United States now faces a frightening billionaire gap.

Retired New York City police officer Clarence Cash, 49, shot his wife, Tracey Young, in the head and torso, killing her in their Briarwood, Queens, eighth-floor apartment.

Just a token bet for Romney. He probably couldn't conceive of betting less. Doesn't that say it all? Do you make friendly bets of 10 grand with your friends? I was not amused. I don't have $10,000 to squander like that. That's about what I pay for health insurance every year.