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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on 42nd St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan, someone robbed the Commerce Bank on Fresh Pond Rd. in Queens, and a severed limb on West 183rd St. in Manhattan.
- Someone in Richmond, Indiana won the Powerball lottery with a prize of $314 million and change. Mega-Millions is up to $250 million, however, so if you feel you're in want of a quarter-billion dollars or perhaps just $1 too rich, go for it.
- New York Press reported that bidding for the hacked iPhone allowing a different carrier than AT&T was up to $15,600.
- The Times has a piece on the Reggae Carifest, which was being protested against for the inclusion of performers whose songs are anti-gay. The paper characterizes the show as a disappointing bust.
- An inspector with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found a guard at a security gate at the Indian Point nuclear facility asleep on the job. The NRC downgraded Indian Point's safety rating earlier this year after a number of unscheduled automatic shutdowns.
- A 60-acre park in Ridgway, CO was recently dedicated to actor Dennis Weaver, who died last year. In the 1970s series "McCloud," Weaver played Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy who brought his Western crime-fighting skills to the streets of NYC.
- 30,000 respirator masks distributed to members of the NYPD (they can normally be seen in a pouch strapped to cops' legs) have been recalled by the manufacturer as possibly defective.
- Someone with an IP address associated with the American Enterprise Institute entered the Wikipedia fray last September, when they altered an entry on Mayor Bloomberg to read "F--k this turd."
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Daily News has an interview with the kid that hacked the iphone. He's exchanging it for a car with some tech geek. The ebay bidding is fake.
Regarding the kid hacking his iPhone, I hope his parents have a good attorney - I would think that this might invite litigation from either Apple or AT&T..?!
I was always under the impression that if you reverse engineered something, you could not be sued. its what happened with the ibm bios... ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible#Origins
so if this kid did it by just tinkering around with the thing, he probably won't run into too much trouble.