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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Feds Take Down Online Fraud Bazaar ‘Silk Road’, Arrest Alleged Mastermind — Defendant Charged With Drug Trafficking, Hacking, Money Laundering — Prosecutors in New York today said that federal agencies have taken over the Silk Road, a sprawling underground Web site that has earned infamy as the “eBay of drugs.”
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Silk Road's mastermind allegedly paid $80,000 for a hitman. The hitman was a cop. — (Photo by Valerie Everett) — The government says that Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged founder of the Bitcoin drug market Silk Road, tried to pay to have two different people killed in the last year.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @csoghoian, @csoghoian, @qhardy and @caseynewton
| Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: |
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Edward Snowden's E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show — The U.S. government obtained a secret court order demanding that Edward Snowden's e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over its private SSL key, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service's users.
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| AnandTech: |
They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks — Thanks to AndreiF7's excellent work on discovering it, we kicked off our investigations into Samsung's CPU/GPU optimizations around the international Galaxy S 4 in July and came away with a couple of conclusions:
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent troll Lodsys chickens out, folds case rather than face Kaspersky Lab — In 2011, Lodsys seemed like it was working hard to earn the title of the nation's most-hated patent troll by sending threat letters to small developers. At the end of the day, it turns out that Lodsys is one tremulous troll.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Smartphones Detailed: ‘Project Smith’ 3D Flagship Model And A Value Handset With FireOS — Amazon is in the process of developing two smartphones, one inexpensive model and one with a 3D eye-tracking interface, TechCrunch has learned. The details are somewhat sparse …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo and MobileSyrup.com
Tweets: @joshconstine and @panzer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup — Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition technology.
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Engadget, GigaOM, Y Combinator Universe, PC World, The Verge, SlashGear, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac and ZDNet
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash — In a bid to up its mobile development expertise, the Web-focused software company Pivotal has made its first acquisition: Xtreme Labs. — San Mateo, Calif.-based Pivotal, which started its life as a joint venture of EMC and VMware …
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GoPivotal, Global Nerdy, The Register, ZDNet, BetaKit, VentureBeat, bizjournals and GigaOM. Tweets: @kunalfrompolar
| Matt Phillips / Quartz: |
The complete history of Twitter as told through tortured descriptions of it in the New York Times — Twitter needs no introduction. But it wasn't always so for the “blogging-like tool for quick updates” (2006), which grew into “another leading social network” (2013).
Tweets: @mhelft, @joshconstine and @nickbilton
| Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post: |
As Comcast faces less competition, only its highest-paying customers get big speed increases — These charts show Comcast acting more and more like a monopolist — In a recent article, I suggested that broadband speeds were stagnating in the United States. Comcast, the nation's leading broadband provider, begs to differ.| Damien McElroy / Telegraph: |
Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination — The head of Iran's cyber warfare programme has been shot dead, triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country's security apparatus.
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Forbes, Jerusalem Post, DEBKAfile … and Zero Hedge
Tweets: @johndalytv, @nycjim, @jebboone, @draglikepull and @ggreenwald
| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
N.S.A. Experiment Traced U.S. Cellphone Locations — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency conducted a secret pilot project in 2010 and 2011 to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans' cellphones, but the agency never moved ahead with such a program, according to intelligence officials.
| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook building a $120 million, 394-unit housing community near its offices — The Social Network Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices — Facebook Inc.'s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is so full of cushy perks that some employees may never want to go home.
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CNET, Palo Alto Online, ModBee.com, San Francisco Chronicle and Gizmodo
Tweets: @rsingel and @drudge_report
| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Target is Launching a T-Mobile Prepaid Service Called “Brightspot” on October 6 — This weekend, Target will introduce a new prepaid wireless service called Brightspot. The prepaid service will use T-Mobile's nationwide 4G network (LTE as well), provides customers with 3 different affordable plans …
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A Bullseye View, The Verge, AllThingsD, Engadget, The Next Web, SlashGear, PhoneNews.com, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and GigaOM
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Dell unveils first four Venue tablets, including a Microsoft Surface competitor — HP isn't the only beleaguered PC manufacturer unleashing a tablet blitz. Today, Dell is revealing a full product lineup of new tablets under the recently resurrected Venue brand.
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Dell, BGR, BBC, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, Ars Technica, eWeek, CITEworld, Electronista, Network World, TechCrunch, Unwired View, PC World, Engadget, The Register, Gotta Be Mobile and VentureBeat. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
This is the Fitbit Force, a smarter fitness tracking watch — Fitbit is set to release a new fitness tracking band called the Force. The new device will be positioned above the company's current fitness band, the Flex, and will feature a built-in altimeter that measures your present altitude.
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TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Laughing Squid, SlashGear, App Advice, GigaOM, CNET, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocket-lint and Electronista
| Ian Ayres / Freakonomics: |
Study disputes Microsoft's “Bing It On” claim that 2:1 prefer Bing to Google — Challenging the Bing-It-On Challenge — Did you find this blog post through Bing? Probably not — 67% of worldwide searches go through Google, 18% through Bing.
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The Verge, Softpedia News, Slate, Matt Cutts, Search Blog, Search Engine Land, BGR, GigaOM and Network World
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