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" ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology just released its internal report on whether or not the school was complicit in "targeting" Aaron Swartz for prosecution before his eventual suicide earlier ...

It’s been four months since Aaron Swartz, the celebrated computer prodigy and Internet activist, committed suicide in his Brooklyn apartment, prompting an outpouring of grief from his family, friends, ...

Six months after prominent Internet activist Aaron Swartz killed himself in his Brooklyn apartment, his father endorsed new legislation designed to reform the federal law that U.S. prosecutors used to ...

The U.S. Secret Service has released the first 104 pages of documents about coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in November, less than three months before his impending trial.

Aaron Swartz killed himself while awaiting trial in January of this year for downloading millions of articles from an MIT service called JSTOR—a paid searchable database of academic articles—and ...

The prosecutor who pursued criminal charges against Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet activist and computer prodigy who killed himself last week, has defended her actions after facing several ...

U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said Wednesday that prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Internet activist Aaron Swartz that warranted severe punishment. MIT to probe its role in ...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, lead prosecutor in the government’s case against influential programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, on Wednesday evening released ...

Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old internet pioneer, Reddit co-founder, and activist programmer who tragically committed suicide last week, made an intriguing entry into the art world last year at ...