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Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old hacker who was once affiliated with Anonymous, was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for various cyberattcks.

This self-described “hacktivist” says his days of launching cyberattacks are over— but his prison sentence is just beginning.

Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old college dropout from Chicago who was affiliated with the worldwide hacker group Anonymous, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge on Friday.

Secret Service agents and managers have engaged in sexual misconduct and other improprieties across a span of 17 countries in recent years, according to accounts given by whistleblowers to the Senate committee that oversees the department.

Sen. Ronald H. Johnson (Wis.), ranking Republican on a Homeland Security subcommittee, said Thursday that the accounts directly contradict repeated assertions by Secret Service leaders that the elite agency does not foster or tolerate sexually improper behavior.

WikiLeaks has been promising a potential bombshell today, and now it’s here, a very recent draft chapter from the already much-criticized Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty (which involves nations all the way from the US and Peru to Australia and Japan). The Verge summarizes, as it digs deeper into the doc:

The leaked chapter focuses on intellectual property rights, and is part of a broader agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) that has been in the works for several years now between the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, and several other countries. Though the draft is being written in secret, it’s rumored to be moving toward a fast track through Congress.

A group of Occupy Wall Street activists has bought almost $15m of Americans' personal debt over the last year as part of the Rolling Jubilee project to help people pay off their outstanding credit.

Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills. By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.

A Canadian rower says she has become the first North American woman to complete a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean.

Montrealer Mylene Paquette announced on her website Tuesday that she reached Ile d'Ouessant in France after a four-month voyage from Halifax. She rowed some 5,000 kilometres on a 129-day crossing that began July 6.

Paquette, 35, is planning to reach mainland France later Tuesday in Lorient, where she will be greeted by family.
"It feels like a dream," she told Montreal radio station FM 98.5 in an interview after passing the French island Tuesday at 11:09 a.m. local time.

The day after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippine coast, a team of 15 doctors and logistics experts was ready to fly here to the worst-hit city to help. On Tuesday, five days into what could be the country's deadliest disaster, they were still waiting to leave.

Aid is coming to Tacloban: medical supplies, pallets of water and food piled on trucks, planes and ferries, sent by the Philippine government and countries around the world. But the scale of the disaster and challenges of delivering the assistance means few in this city, strewn with debris and corpses, have received any help.