Two LulzSec members, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday. Two other defendants will go to trial in April. [NYT] Previously.
LulzSec members plead guilty
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Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet
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