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Virtual crime can lead to very real damage, and the European Parliament knows this well enough to have just issued a draft directive toughening up the EU’s penalties for internet-based violations. Get caught running a botnet and you’ll face a minimum of three years in prison; dare to attack critical infrastructure and you may spend five years behind bars. Don’t think of hiring someone for corporate espionage, either — the directive makes whole companies liable for online offenses committed in their name. EU nations will have two years to adopt the directive as law, although an existing, unofficial agreement suggests that at least some countries won’t wait that long to enforce the new rules.

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Via: Reuters

Source: European Parliament

Rust is the worst enemy of any classic car owner, but it’s also evidence of nature in the industrial age—an urban rot with occasionally beautiful side effects.

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There’s nothing worse than being stranded at the beach with a dead battery. But this summer, thanks to a pilot program sponsored by AT&T, no New Yorker will go without Snapchat again. The program will install 25 charging stations across the city, including parks and beaches, in a Parks Department-approved strategy to improve public infrastructure in New York.

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Customers with Sky Broadband might find their speeds crawling northward toward the end of the year. The broadcaster is paying Virgin Media’s business arm £49 million ($74 million) for some of Richard Branson Liberty Global’s deliciously fast fiber infrastructure. While there’s no mention of BT, we wouldn’t be surprised if this technological makeover was prompted by its corporate rival’s recent assault on Sky’s sporty golden goose.

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AT&T has announced that it will be dropping a cool $14 billion over the next three years or so to beef up its wireless and wireline broadband networks. Project Velocity IP (VIP) will see the company boost its 4G LTE network to 300 million users by year-end 2014 and expand its wired IP broadband base to 75 percent of customer locations by the end of 2015. In addition, the operator intends to have fiber deployed to a million business locations and plans to expand U-verse by 8.5 million users to 33 million customer locations. It predicts that 99 percent of customers will get broadband services either through terrestrial IP or wireless 4G LTE when it’s all said and done. $8 billion will go toward wireless projects, while $6 billion will help goose up wired broadband — so, nobody can say the telecom giant is hoarding all those profits. Check the PR after the jump for a full breakdown.

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