https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
Neuromancer
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Main article: Neuromancer (TV [sic] series)
In February 2024, Apple announced that it had greenlit a 10-episode series for Apple TV+
In July 2025, Apple released a short video of a neon-lit bar with the caption "Welcome to the Chatsubo, cowboy. Neuromancer is in production".
Los Angeles Times
Plame's suit against Cheney, others dismissed
The ex-CIA operative wanted them to pay for blowing her cover.
July 20, 2007 Richard B. Schmitt Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Vice President Dick Cheney and others personally responsible for damages arising from the 2003 disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the civil suit by Plame and her husband, former envoy Joseph C. Wilson IV, was preempted by laws that protect federal workers.
He ruled that the actions of Cheney and other officials, though arguably "highly unsavory," were within the scope of their government service. Federal officials are normally granted immunity from being sued in an individual capacity as long as their actions fall within their customary duties in government.
Lea Anne McBride, Cheney's spokeswoman, said the vice president was "pleased" about the dismissal.
Lawyers for Plame and Wilson said they were disappointed but not surprised with the 41-page ruling, and said they would appeal.
The suit has paralleled a separate criminal investigation by a special prosecutor that resulted in the perjury conviction in March of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Libby, whose prison sentence of 30 months in the criminal case was commuted by President Bush, was also named in the Plame suit. So were Karl Rove, Bush's political strategist, and Richard L. Armitage, former deputy secretary of State.
Rove and Armitage have acknowledged that they gave information about Plame to columnist Robert Novak for a column Novak wrote that appeared on July 14, 2003, in which Plame's identity was publicly revealed.
Neuromancer
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Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, after its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
Neuromancer expanded and popularised the setting and concepts of an earlier Gibson story, "Burning Chrome" (1981), which introduced cyberspace—a digital space traversable by humans—and "jacking in", a bio-mechanical method of interfacing with computers.
Neuromancer is a foundational work of early cyberpunk, although critics differ on whether the novel ignited the genre or if it was lifted by its inevitable rise.
Plot
Case is a low-level hustler in the dystopian underworld of Chiba City, Japan. Once a talented computer hacker and "console cowboy", Case was caught stealing from his employer, who retaliated by damaging Case's central nervous system, leaving him unable to access the virtual reality dataspace called the "matrix". Case is approached by Molly, an augmented "razorgirl" and mercenary on behalf of a shadowy US ex-military officer named Armitage, who offers to cure Case in exchange for his services as a hacker. Case undergoes the cure, but discovers that Armitage has sabotaged him with a time-delayed poison. If Case completes the job, Armitage will disarm the poison; if not, he will find himself crippled again.
Armitage has Case and Molly steal a ROM module that contains the saved consciousness of one of Case's mentors, legendary hacker McCoy Pauley. Suspicious of his motives and the unusual nature of the job, Molly and Case begin to investigate Armitage on the side. They discover that Armitage is actually Colonel Willis Corto, the only survivor of the failed anti-Soviet mission "Screaming Fist". He was returned to the United States for extensive psychotherapy and reconstructive surgery, but snapped after learning that the government had been aware the mission would likely fail and went ahead with it regardless. He killed his handler and disappeared into the criminal underworld, eventually resurfacing under the name Armitage.
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The Seattle Times
Monday, September 29, 2003
Controversy deepens over inquiry into leak of CIA officer's identity
By Mike Allen
The Washington Post
The controversy erupted over the weekend, when administration officials reported that Tenet sent the Justice Department a letter raising questions about whether federal law was broken when the operative, Valerie Plame, was exposed. She was named in a column by Robert Novak that ran July 14 in The Post and other newspapers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
The Peripheral
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Published October 28, 2014
The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson set in near- and post-apocalyptic versions of the future. The story focuses on a young rural-town American woman who lives in the near future, and on a London publicist who lives 70 years hence.
A 2022 television series adaptation of the book, produced by Amazon, began streaming October 21.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_All_Access
CBS All Access
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CBS All Access is an over-the-top subscription streaming video on demand service owned and operated by CBS. It offers original content, content newly aired on CBS's broadcast properties, and content from CBS's vast library, along with live streams of the local CBS affiliate's main channel, where available. As of February 2017, the service has nearly 1.5 million subscribers.
History
On October 28, 2014, CBS launched CBS All Access, an over-the-top subscription streaming service – priced at $5.99 per month ($9.99 with an option for advertising-free streaming content)
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