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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 … | 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
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| 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 … | 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” …
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Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem — At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It's what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world. But it could also be preventing Twitter from growing.| Tom Gara / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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: @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.| 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.
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| Byron Acohido / USA Today: |
Fingerprint scanning arriving on Android devices in six months, claims FIDO Alliance president — Android fingerprint sensors 6 months away — SEATTLE — Michael Barrett cringes every time he has to enter a password on his smartphone. — But six months from now Barrett says he will be able … Sponsor Posts
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