Pat Dollard

NY Times: Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard, according to a report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Prices on the 2012 model start at $103,000, including the destination charge. In a report filed recently on the agency’s Web site, [...]

DestructiveSec Tweeted out Wednesday morning that “we’re…HiJacking Twitter accounts #ExpectUs in 12 hours.” IBTimes: A hacktivist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for an e-mail snafu at the New York Times earlier that day in which the company sent an e-mail meant for 300 people to more than 8 million. DestructiveSecurity (aka DestructiveSec), a hacktivist group that [...]

SWAT unit aims at sniper Fox News: Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene. It sounds like a scene from The Minority Report, but it’s real. A new technology called ShotSpotter [...]

Defense News: The last F-22 Raptor to be built for the U.S. Air Force, tail number 4195, rolled off Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Ga., production line on Dec. 13, bringing to a close the procurement of the stealthy, fifth-generation air superiority fighter jet. The final Raptor will enter a series of company and government flight tests, [...]

NYTimes: A federal agency on Tuesday called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers — the most far-reaching such recommendation to date — saying its decision was based on a decade of investigations into distraction-related accidents, as well as growing concerns that powerful mobile devices are giving drivers even more reasons to look [...]

CBS: Fire Department officials say a woman has died in a freak elevator accident at a New York City office building.