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January 16, 2015, 11:10 AM

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UK cybercrime unit and FBI arrest man in UK for DDoS attack on Playstation Network and Xbox Live — Man arrested for ‘swatting’ and denial of service offences — SEROCU, has worked closely with the FBI on the operation which focused on the denial of service attack of Sony Playstation …

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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:

Hacker's List matches professional hackers with those needing their service for $100 - $5,000 — Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are for Hire Online — A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord's website.

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Douglas Soltys / BetaKit:

Founding partners of Teehan+Lax, the design firm behind Medium, join Facebook — Teehan+Lax shutting down as partners join Facebook — A new era begins for the Toronto design community as the founding partners of Teehan+Lax announced this morning they are shutting down the company to join Facebook.

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New York Times:

EU regulator says Amazon's deal with Luxembourg could amount to unfair subsidy, violate EU law — Amazon's Tax Deal With Luxembourg May Break Rules, E.U. Regulator Says — BRUSSELS — The European Union's antitrust office on Friday released a preliminary finding that a tax deal between Amazon …

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James Ball / Guardian:

Newly uncovered US cybersecurity report finds encryption vital to protect private data and is at odds with David Cameron's proposal — Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data — Newly uncovered Snowden document contrasts with British PM's vow to crack down on encrypted messaging after Paris attacks

More: PandoDaily, Graham Cluley, Boing Boing, Ars Technica and The Hill. Tweets: @dangoodin001

Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

Mt. Gox CEO Denies Silk Road Involvement: ‘I Am Not Dread Pirate Roberts’ — Mark Karpeles, the CEO of Mt. Gox—which was once the world's most popular Bitcoin exchange—has denied any involvement in Silk Road and has told Motherboard that he's not Dread Pirate Roberts, the man who allegedly ran the site.

More: The Daily Dot, Business Insider, Gawker, TechSpot, Electronista, SiliconANGLE, The Verge and TechCrunch

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

DHS suspected Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles may have been Silk Road's mastermind, Dread Pirate Roberts

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Knowledge Graph Now Showing Social Profiles For Brands — In November, Google began adding links to other social networks, outside of just Google+, within the knowledge graph box - but only for personalities such as famous actors, political figures and bands.

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Timeline news app launches to give the historical context behind the day's headlines — Timeline Launches News App To Give You The Context Behind The Day's Headlines — One big complaint about current news coverage is that there's not enough context — an article or TV report might tell …

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Stephen O'Grady / tecosystems:

Apple's Swift rises from 58th in Q3 '14 to 22nd in Q1 '15 in Redmonk's language ranking list that uses Github and Stack Overflow data — The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2015 — With two quarters having passed since our last snapshot, it's time to update our programming language rankings.

More: Fortune, Telegraph, Wired, Global Nerdy, iMore, MacNN, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, ReadWrite and The Loop

Reuters:

China to create $6.5 billion venture capital fund to support start-ups — (Reuters) - China will set up a government venture capital fund worth 40 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) to support start-ups in emerging industries, in its latest move to support the private sector and foster innovation.

More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, ZDNet, Business Insider, Wired.co.uk, China Money Network and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @bgurley

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Mobile Industry Generated $3.3 Trillion Last Year, Created 11 Million Jobs — A new study finds that the mobile industry last year produced more than $3.3 trillion in revenue. — That breaks down to more than $400 for every man, woman and child on earth. So everyone must be feeling a little wealthier, right?

More: www.bcgperspectives.com and Associated Press

Steven Sande / TUAW:

Parallels Access 2.5 released, adds file manager, computer-to-computer remote access — Starting today, Parallels is shipping version 2.5 of the Parallels Access remote access and control app. Parallels Access has been a favorite of TUAW bloggers, featuring precise remote control …

More: Gigaom, Android Police, Ausdroid, 9to5Mac, Android Central, AppleInsider, App Advice and Lifehacker

Joe Rossignol / 9to5Mac:

Apple planning 5 new Chinese retail store openings by Feb, hiring for 15 new locations — Apple is committed to its promise of expanding its retail presence in China from 15 to 40 stores within two years. Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts told Chinese website Xinhua that the iPhone maker …

More: Xinhua News Agency, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo and InvestorPlace

BBC:

Google Glass to become an independent division reporting to Tony Fadell; Glass Explorer Program shutting down; production of device in current form to end — Google calls end to Glass programme but says kit is not dead — Google is ending its experimental Google Glass programme, the BBC has learned.

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe settle US poaching lawsuit for $415M — Apple, Google settle U.S. poaching lawsuit for $415 million — SAN FRANCISCO - Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple Inc and Google Inc agreed to pay $415 million to resolve an antitrust class action lawsuit …

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