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FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading …
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Tweets: @scottthurm, @pkedrosky and @mims
| William D. Cohan / Fortune: |
Floundering tech stocks raise questions about the IPO process, cause problems for IPO-bound unicorns — Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem — VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck getting out.
Tweets: @katiefehren, @mims and @ellenhuet
| Alex Wilhelm / Mattermark: |
2015 Tech IPOs Underwhelm to the Tune of 30% From Their First Day Close — tl;dr 2015 tech IPOs aren't performing well. Their decline could limit 2016 IPOs, and dampen valuations for growing private tech companies. — The 2015 technology IPO market was lackluster.| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World — The stern woman behind the press desk at the United Nations is certain I've made a mistake about the person I'm here to see. “Mr. Mark Zuckerberg?” she says. “Who's he?” ¶ He's an Internet executive, I tell her.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple readies iPhone 5se for March/April with 4-inch screen, curved edges, Live Photos, 8MP rear camera, A8 and M8 chips, barometer, NFC chip, more — Apple readies ‘iPhone 5se’, not ‘6c’, for March/April with curved edges & Live Photos — That purported 4-inch “iPhone 6c” floating around the web yesterday?
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Tweets: @craigmod, @epro, @jyarow and @stevekovach
| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How Larry Page's interests in robots, nuclear fusion, and more are shaping Google's shift to Alphabet — How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business — Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype helps users avoid harassment by hiding IP addresses — Microsoft is finally making IP addresses hidden by default on Skype. Reports surfaced around four years ago noting that a flaw in Skype allowed malicious users to obtain IP addresses through the service.
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Skype, Kotaku, Ars Technica, Network World, VentureBeat, The Daily Dot, Gizmodo, InvestorPlace, Tech News Today, Thurrott.com, Consumerist, Wired.co.uk, Engadget, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Pocketnow, BetaNews, Windows Central, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, The Verge and TechSpot. Tweets: @lomadia
| Nitish Kulkarni / TechCrunch: |
Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Online payday loan provider LendUp raises $150M Series B, launches its own credit card and a companion app that can be used to halt or monitor purchases — LendUp Scores $150M For A Credit Card That Won't Screw You Over — Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help people avoid debt … | Eric Yoder / Washington Post: |
Obama administration says a newly-created agency will conduct federal background checks, and DOD will store records, after internal review following OPM breach — Pentagon to take over control of background investigation information — Updated: — The government will shift responsibility …
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