Australia's Department of Defense has gone with a distinctly American company to help manage its internet environment in a $50 million deal.

The U.S. Navy and Jefferson Lab are teaming up in the development of a new type of laser that is so powerful it can burn through 200 feet of steel in one second. It now holds a new record in sustained voltage capacity.

Sir William Blackstone famously said the Royal Navy was something along the lines of being England's "ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island." But then there weren't many computer viruses around in the 18th century.

British citizen Gary McKinnon is either a master hacker who perpetrated the biggest US military computer hack of all time or a bumbling nerd obsessed with aliens. Whatever, the Americans want to throw him in jail and throw away the key. The European Court of Human Rights says they cannot have him, at least until the end of the month...