TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Lawrence Livermore Employee Acquitted on Cybersex Charge: Michael William Lazzarini, a computer technologist at the national nuclear weapons laboratory in Pleasanton, Calif., was acquitted Friday of misdemeanor charges related to a larger investigation of sexually explicit images allegedly stored in lab computers by a fellow employee at a shared work station. Lazzarini was accused only of accessing 33 photos of bikini-clad women from an Internet site called “super models,” which he said he thought referred to engineering information. Lazzarini denied having anything to do with the 33,000 sexually explicit images allegedly stored in the lab’s computers by William Allen Danforth, who pleaded no contest to charges in that case in October.