After the initial emotional outpouring over Aaron Swartz's death, those close to Swartz are heaping the blame on MIT and the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's office. One of those two will look at what ...

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" ...

Aaron Swartz poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco on February 4, 2008. Internet activist and programmer Swartz, who helped create an early version of RSS and later played a key role in ...

A Silicon Valley congresswoman took to Reddit this week to propose tweaking a computer fraud law used to prosecute Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who committed suicide last week and had faced ...

(AP) Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment Friday, struggled for years against a legal system that he felt had not caught up to the information age.

The bill, named after Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz, is now under consideration from the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told reporters Tuesday that his committee "certainly ...

As Swartz’s friends were grieving in Chicago, several Capitol Hill lawmakers expressed sadness, shock and confusion over his death. One prominent U.S. lawmaker, Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), said she would ...

REUTERS - Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped create an early version of the Web feed system RSS and was facing federal criminal charges in a controversial fraud case, has ...

At the age of 14, Aaron Swartz was considered an Internet prodigy who developed a code still used to deliver changing content to the worldwide web. He was accused of wire fraud and unlawfully ...

WikiLeaks confirmed through a series of tweets the relationship with Aaron Swartz, who was a young computer programmer who committed suicide last week after being pursued by the U.S. government for ...