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Michelle Carter sentenced in texting suicide case - also gets total media exploitation ban + video4/8/2017
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Fascinating story here in Variety magazine on the recent Netflix/Orange Is The New Black hack – turns out the weak link was a single PC still running Windows 7!
  With all the recent stories about cybersecurity, ransomware and the WannaCry hack, here's Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, in action spraying holy water around a Russian police control centre to protect it from computer viruses.
A GIF counts as a deadly weapon, a Texas grand jury has agreed this week. The decision came as part of the case against John Rayne Rivello, who stands accused of sending a flashing animated GIF to journalist Kurt Eichenwald in a bid to cause an epileptic seizure. Story via The Verve.
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Weird Tales Radio Show
Episode 18 of the Weird Tales Radio Show is our “Down with the codfish aristocracy” edition… We look at the mystical side of Japanese martial arts + get the inside skinny on Goth culture from alternative fashion, culture and travel superstar blogger La Carmina (pictured above) + we report on the builder who sold his soul to the Devil and is now trapped for all eternity in a churchyard porch + in a true WTF?!? moment, we learn about a deadly riot in New York that was sparked off by a dispute over who was the best Shakespearean actor treading the boards.
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This is Urban FantasistCurated by former barrister and Reuters correspondent turned writer, award-winning tech journalist, best-selling non-fiction author, sometime werewolf hunter, and internet radio host Charles Christian – Urban Fantasist is here to inform and entertain you with news and comment on weird tales, geek stuff, tech, urban myths, and folklore.
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