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Sports fans tend to be pretty passionate folks, especially when their team is in a make-or-break game with the Stanley Cup on the line.

So it makes sense that Boston fans, having been deflated Monday after the Bruins lost to the Blackhawks, sought an emotional release through decidedly different means: While rowdy Chicagoans were out filling the streets, it seems Boston fans were at home, with the doors locked and the blinds closed, looking at porn.

That tidbit comes courtesy of Pornhub, an adult website, that released a screenshot of its Internet traffic from both Boston and Chicago in the hours leading up to 11:00 p.m. ET on Monday night.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex spouses in states where gay marriage is legal. The decision also has implications for divorces. “Before this ruling, there was no legal framework to deal with the dissolution of the marriage,” says Brian Moulton, legal director for Human Rights Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

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Steve Wozniak called whistleblower Edward Snowden a “hero,” lauding the former National Security Agency contractor for exposing the government’s classified Internet surveillance program.

“[Snowden’s] a hero to my beliefs about how the Constitution should work,” the Apple co-founder told The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove this week. “[He’s] a hero because this came from his heart. And I really believe he was giving up his whole life because he just felt so deeply about honesty, about spying on Americans, and he wanted to tell us.”

The Woz went on to say that he’s troubled by the idea that the technology he has helped develop is now being utilized to encroach on the privacy of ordinary citizens. “I don’t think the NSA has done one thing valuable for us, in this whole PRISM regard, that couldn’t have been done by following the Constitution and doing it the old way,” he said, referring to the NSA program by its code name.

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Even before President Barack Obama unveiled his sweeping climate change plan on Tuesday, Republican leaders were denouncing the effort as a job-killer. Any move to restrict polluting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, they maintained, would send energy costs up and lead to mass layoffs in a vital job sector.

At a press conference last Thursday, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) blasted the expected proposal as “absolutely crazy.”

“Why would you want to increase the cost of energy and kill more American jobs at a time when the American people are still asking where are the jobs?” he asked.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that in a move similar to Google’s request last week, Microsoft has submitted a motion to the secret FISA court to authorize the release of “aggregate data” about the requests it has received. Microsoft published the information it has so far been authorized to reveal a couple of weeks ago, lumping in national security related requests with stats for other criminal warrants and subpoenas. Google and Twitter have been among the loudest requesting the ability to separate national security-related requests like those at the center of the PRISM controversy, however it’s been reported that several companies are negotiating for the ability to be more specific.

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Source: Microsoft Motion (PDF), Wall Street Journal