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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, Digital Trends, Daily Dot, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Ars Technica, Internet and e-mail policy … and Quartz

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, RT, Bitcoin Block Explorer and Wired

Jonathan Stacke / The Genesis Block:

Analysis of Silk Road's Historical Impact on Bitcoin

More: TechSpot, Currency, social media and Gawker

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

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

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, Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @ryanlawler

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem

Tweets: @monkbent. Thanks:@pickavet

Tom Gara / Wall Street Journal:

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

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

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

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: TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat and Gizmodo

Tweets: @shaunwalker7, @markamesexiled and @juhavantzelfde

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, @nickkristof, @mattlynley and @dannysullivan

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Facebook's open source data center designs spur companies to build cheaper server hardware — Facebook's New Data Center in Sweden Puts the Heat on Hardware Makers — Every year, computing giants including Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Cisco Systems (CSCO) sell north of $100 billion in hardware.

More: deal architect. Tweets: @qthrul, @stevengharris and @pkafka

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

Andreas Udo de Haes / PC World:

Microsoft is quietly recycling Outlook email accounts — Like Yahoo, Microsoft is recycling email accounts, and apparently doing so without mentioning it in service agreements for Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com. — Yahoo recently started recycling unused accounts and was harshly criticized for this policy.

More: The Next Web, T3 News, Maximum PC, Mashable and WinBeta

Reed Albergotti / Digits:

Facebook to expand TV data report initiative to networks in eight countries — Facebook Ads TV Partners Overseas — The rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. over social conversations around television shows is moving overseas. — Facebook Monday will disclose plans to provide data …

More: MoneyBeat

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