Neowin News Feed for: Suicide

Aaron Swartz's family blame US attorneys and MIT for his suicide

John Callaham — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:35:08 +0000

The family of the late Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz have released an official statement, blaming US attorneys and MIT for contributing to Swartz's suicide this weekend. Read more...

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Andrew Stevenson — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:16:21 +0000

It is with great sadness that Aaron Swartz, the co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification and one of the three Reddit co-owners, has taken his own life at the age of relatively young 26. Read more...

Woman commits suicide live on Facebook

Christopher White — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:07:54 +0100

A woman, upset that her boyfriend didn't visit her on her birthday, committed suicide while chatting with friends on Facebook and posted pictures during the entire process. Read more...

Workers in Apple iPad factories forced to sign anti-suicide contracts

Christopher White — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:15:42 +0100

Do you think you have a difficult job? Try working for Foxconn in an Apple iPad/iPhone factory in China. As reported by The Daily Mail, in addition to working nearly 100 hours of overtime in... Read more...

Teen commits suicide on live video site

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:57 +0000

We have all heard of Cyber Bullying where a group of users online would taunt and stalk helpless users until they break down online and even offline but this is a case where it went... Read more...

Ministers seek curbs on internet suicide sites for teenagers

James Hall — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:33:19 +0100

Websites which encourage vulnerable teenagers to kill themselves are to be blocked under plans by the Government to tackle the dozens of suicides that have been linked to internet chatrooms. Ministers are alarmed that... Read more...

Man Arrested Over Valentine's Net Suicide Pact

dbfriends — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:35:13 +0000

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An American man has been arrested after allegedly trying to arrange a mass online suicide pact for Valentine's Day on Monday. Gerald Krien, 26, was caught after one woman alerted authorities after hearing one of... Read more...

Trojan poses as bin Laden suicide pics

WishX — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:56:25 +0100

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Greetings, fellow Neowinians! I've recently joined the staff here at Neowin as a newsposter. Some of you may have seen other news submissions or forum posts from me as "WishX". Just a quick introduction to... Read more...

Tech Could Stop Future Hijackers, Suicide Planes

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:53:32 +0100

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The next time a terrorist aims a jet at building, maybe the plane should say no. From computers that could steer airliners away from skyscrapers to face-recognition devices already... Read more...