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October 7, 2013, 4:30 AM

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

FBI can't find Ulbricht's personal 600k Bitcoins, plans to sell 26k seized from Silk Road users — The FBI's Plan For The Millions Worth Of Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road — When the FBI arrested Silk Road boss Ross William Ulbricht and took his site down, they seized the site's assets …

More: Bitcoin Block Explorer, Daily Dot, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Techdirt and The Genesis Block. Tweets: @forbes

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

After Silk Road seizure, FBI Bitcoin wallet identified and pranked — Summary: In the the arrest of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht the FBI seized around 26,000 Bitcoins. The FBI's ‘wallet’ has been identified and is now the target of micropayments with pointed messages. — Violet Blue

More: Gizmodo, The Verge and RT

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Purported Service Manual Gives A Look At The Next Nexus Phone, Reveals 32GB Storage, 8MP OIS Camera, Photos, And More — Courtesy of an anonymous tipster, we've got a nice weekend treat for those caught up in Nexus season rumor hysteria. A document, purported to be an internal Service Manual …

David Segal / New York Times:

Mugshot sites that charge for removal strike some as extortion; Google penalized several on Thursday — Mugged by a Mug Shot Online — IN March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf Shores …

More: The Verge, hilarymason.com, CNET, The Next Web and CodeGuard Blog

Tweets: @baratunde, @taylordungjen, @shane_bauer, @emilybell, @dannysullivan, @mattcutts, @mikiebarb, @kiracochrane, @jswatz and @nytimesbusiness

Wall Street Journal:

Nielsen Twitter TV Rating arrives Monday, shows gap between Twitter and mass-market popularity — Tweets Provide New Way to Gauge TV Audiences — Data Show Differences Between Social-Media Service's Users, Mass-Market Viewers — CBS Corp.'s “The Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS” …

More: New York Times, TechCrunch, AdAge, Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter

Tweets: @wsj, @stevesi and @ryanlawler

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Tom Gara / Wall Street Journal:

One Big Doubt Hanging Over Twitter's IPO: Fake Accounts

More: CNET, Forbes, The Register, ValueWalk and Business Insider

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem

Tweets: @monkbent. Thanks:@pickavet

Shaun Walker / Guardian:

Russia to monitor ‘all communications’ at Winter Olympics in Sochi — Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system - branded ‘Prism on steroids’ - to listen to all athletes and visitors — Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face …

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and bitofnews.com

Tweets: @headhntr, @harikunzru, @shaunwalker7, @markamesexiled and @juhavantzelfde

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's lucrative data mining business earned $47.5m in 2012 — Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative — Twitter Disclosed It Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information It Gathers — In its IPO filing Thursday, Twitter Inc. disclosed how much the microblogging platform earned …

Tweets: @allisonworrall, @sameerpatel, @yoreekoh and @spencerante

Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:

An Interview with John McAfee: The Antivirus Pioneer on D-Central, His New Device — It's been nearly a year since most people have thought about John McAfee, the permanently bleary-eyed antivirus pioneer who may now be more famous for his exploits in the jungles of Central America than for the software that bears his name.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @nxthompson

Danny Hakim / New York Times:

European Union considering tougher cloud privacy rules after surveillance disclosures — Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud — LONDON — The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. — They do now.

Tweets: @jfderico

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8 — Google unveiled its Chrome Apps initiative recently to launch apps that exist outside of the browser and extend its reach into more of a platform, but it looks like the company has a whole lot more planned.

More: TechSpot, Android Authority, T3 News, Softpedia News, Wired.co.uk, Engadget, Electronista, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gizmodo, The Next Web and 9to5Google. Tweets: @maguay

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: How the F.A.A., Finally, Caught Up to an Always-On Society — You know the scene in a movie when a character trails off into the past and is reminded of the moment it all began? I had one of those last week. — It was 2011, and I was engrossed in an e-book on my Kindle …

Tweets: @msuster, @jenny8lee, @mattlynley, @nickkristof and @dannysullivan

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism — Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter — Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …

More: BuzzFeed, New York Times, Business Insider, TechCrunch, StrictlyVC, NYT Bits, The Verge, Digits, Adventures in Capitalism, The Next Web and Mashable

Tweets: @dickc, @mathewi, @wadhwa, @dickc, @jhong, @jenbee, @howardlindzon, @karaswisher, @ericries and @anildash

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