In an emotional letter that may either refocus or amp up the conversation surrounding the tech pioneer's death, the girlfriend of Aaron Swartz has released a post on her Tumblr called "Why Aaron Died" ...

It started out as such a friendly joke: A couple of MIT sophomores sent a fake email around the university dormitories late last night, posing as the school's president and announcing classes were ...

WikiLeaks confirmed through a series of tweets the relationship with Aaron Swartz, who was a young computer programmer who committed suicide last week after being pursued by the U.S. government for ...

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A Silicon Valley congresswoman took to Reddit this week to propose tweaking a computer fraud law used to prosecute Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who committed suicide last week and had faced ...

Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, hanged himself in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn, apartment, his family in Chicago confirmed in a statement Saturday. He was ...

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 ...

Last week, a celebrated Internet genius committed suicide—having written about the ravages of acute depression. Do 20-year old restrictions infringe on a human right made possible by a rapidly ...