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NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software — NEWS The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this.
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Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite To Feature 300ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year — Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen …
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Study of Bitcoin transactions suggests link between Silk Road operator and Satoshi Nakamoto — Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto — Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht …
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Like minds meet online and then travel to meet offline. Will this reorganize the world? — Software Is Reorganizing the World — For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday — As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on its home page.
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Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash — WASHINGTON — On a sultry day in late August, a dozen staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered at the agency's Baltimore headquarters with managers from the major contractors building HealthCare …
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FindTheBest destroys “matchmaking” patent, pushes RICO case against troll — FindThe Best employees Aly Dupuy and Meghan Harris dressed up as patent trolls for Halloween. — Six months ago, a shell company called Lumen View Technology told Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest that it should pay $50,000 … | Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Reports Of Xbox One Disc Drive Issues Increase — As we continue to hear from more and more brand new Xbox One owners who say their disc drives don't work, Microsoft's solution remains the same: contact customer service. — That's unfortunate news for affected gamers who thought … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
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Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber — Slow Internet speeds and a lack of competitive pressure on Internet providers is a fact of life in communities throughout America. We've seen that competition can make a difference, notably with the entry … | Joseph Ax / Reuters: |
Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter — (Reuters) - A federal jury on Friday ordered two media companies to pay $1.2 million to a freelance photojournalist for their unauthorized use of photographs he posted to Twitter.
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Online ad tech may become the real-time processing layer driving more of our transactions — Why The Banner Ad Is Heroic, And Adtech is Our Greatest Artifact — Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote The Search, that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone …
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16 years after Deep Blue's historic victory, computers augment (not replace) human chess skill — Chess-Championship Results Show Powerful Role of Computers — The digital revolution has pushed human abilities to new heights … In the world chess championship match that ended Friday in India … Sponsor Posts
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