In Palm Beach County, the results in a race for county judge have flipped twice, as thousands of ballots have been lost and found, while vote tabulation machines spit out different results on every recount. With November around the corner, voting advocates worry that the Sunshine State may wind up at the center of a new presidential election fiasco.

America is becoming so lousy at building spy satellites that "the United States is losing its preeminence in space," a Congressional intelligence report declares. What's worse, the decline comes as "emerging space powers such as Russia, India and China" are getting better and better at snooping from above.

Both the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama are calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to use internet technology to open up the general election debate formats to better reflect the questions on the minds of the electorate.

Searching for terrorists in masses of electronic data doesn't work and will lead to unacceptable privacy invasions, a government-funded commission reported Tuesday. Instead, the government should carefully evaluate how it uses the same technology as book recommendation software, and update the nation's privacy laws.

A federal judge seals a decision tentatively blocking RealNetwork's sale of DVD-copying software.

The Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize to get entrepreneurs and tinkerers to come up with radically new ways to supply power to the all those gadgets a soldier has to lug around. But the winner, the Pentagon declared today, is as traditional as it comes: DuPont, the chemical giant -- and military supplier, since 1802.

Global markets sell off after European governments take steps to limit the damage from the growing global financial crisis. U.S. stocks appear headed for a steep drop at the opening, and the credit markets remained under strain.

If a false entry in a database leads to an unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you? That's the question the Supreme Court will tackle on Tuesday.

A college student who allegedly rigged a woman's laptop to snap nude photos through her webcam faces federal charges this week, and tops Threat Level's roundup of cybercrime in the federal courts.

Saying intellectual property theft has cost 750,000 American jobs, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged President Bush to sign legislation creating a copyright czar a czar on par with the nation's drug czar. The chamber said the 750,000 number came from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Commerce Department, which often cites the figure, said it got the number from the Chamber of Commerce.