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To supporters, Swartz was protagonist for a cause

By DENISE LAVOIE and ALLEN G. BREEDAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Since his suicide, friends and admirers have cast free-information activist Aaron Swartz as a martyred hero hounded to his death by the government he antagonized. One newspaper columnist - whose piece on Swartz was accompanied by a

Oracle says Java is fixed; feds maintain warning

By RYAN NAKASHIMAAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was issued, the federal agency continued to recommend that users

Reddit co-founder dies in NY weeks before trial

By VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The family of a Reddit co-founder is blaming prosecutors for his suicide just weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles. Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment Friday night, his

Online activist, programmer Swartz dies in NY

By VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, has been found dead weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles in an attempt to make them freely available to the