WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost control of more than just the U.S. State Department cables he possessed. He has also lost control of a memoir he had planned to publish.

Assange’s British publisher, Canongate Books, announced on Wednesday that it would release an unauthorized memoir about Assange on Thursday, despite his objections to the project and attempts to pull out of a previous agreement with the publisher.

The now-unauthorized authorized autobiography is said for the first time to address the events between Assange and two women in Sweden that led to sex-crimes allegations...

The white iPhone 4 will soon be joined by new members of the iPhone family. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Key insight on the timing of Apple’s next iPhone release appeared today, and this time it’s no rumor. The news came straight from the mouth of an Apple insider.

Former United States Vice President and sitting Apple boardmember Al Gore made specific reference to the release of one or more new iPhone products in October while speaking at a conference on Wednesday, according to an attendant of the conference.

“He was talking quite passionately about global warming, Moore’s Law and its effect on c...