“We have downloaded a sufficient amount of information from your internal networks, and we advise you to contact us as soon as possible, to prevent leakage,” said the hackers.

Thieves broke into another D.C. public school last week, making off with a number of electronic gadgets. All told, some 230 computers or other gadgets have been stolen from D.C. schools since 2009.

Thieves broke into three D.C. public schools over the Thanksgiving break, making off with more than 10 computers.

The 15-year-old hacker who in April brought down D.C. government websites has been sentenced to six years of probation, during which he won’t be able to access the Internet.

In April, D.C.’s government websites were brought down by hackers—one of which is a 15-year-old boy from California.

D.C. police are looking for five men who broke into the Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library last week and made off with six computer monitors.

On public computers inside Brooklyn’s public libraries, you are welcome to watch pornography. No, really. The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blog confirmed it after hearing about a fight that broke out between a guy who was watching porn and another guy who wanted to use the computer. This, of course, begs the question: are the District’s libraries similarly cool with customers watching pornography inside its facilities?

Friend of DCist and proprietor of We Love DC, Tom Bridge, shares the visual evidence that Apple employees at the company’s store in Clarendon were very, very excited about this morning’s launch of the iPad. How thrilling, the running of the nerds!

Photo by Fredo Alvarez Are you a nerd? Do you really like baseball? Have you often considered that a life completely controlled by robot simulators might actually be preferable to all this “free will” jazz you hear so much about? If your answer to all three of those questions is yes, then yesterday was probably a big day for you: Baseball Prospectus, the hardball geek’s bible, released its annual Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization…

It’s almost as if the District’s Office of Tax and Revenue has been looking for more ways to come across as a bunch of buffoons. Today the Examiner reports on how one persistent Capitol Hill resident, Noah Meyerson, was responsible for forcing the office to fix an error they had not even detected which allowed roughly 300 homeowners to skip out on an entire property tax payment last year. The tax office is naturally downplaying…