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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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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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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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| 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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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.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism — Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter — Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …
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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 …
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| Christina Rogers / Wall Street Journal: |
GM Prods Dealers to Sell Cars Online — Software Lets Shoppers Bypass the Showroom — General Motors Co. plans to expand a new online shopping tool that allows customers to bypass showrooms when buying new cars. — The software, which keeps GM's 4,300 dealers central to the sale of its vehicles … | 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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