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Silk Road 2.0 seized by FBI, DHS, Europol; alleged operator Blake Benthall arrested in SF, charged with narcotics trafficking, money laundering, hacking — Feds Seize Silk Road 2 in Major Dark Web Drug Bust — A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Operation Onymous busted several contraband markets, arrested 17, captured $1M in bitcoin, seized 414 “.onion” domains used by Tor — Authorities Begin Scorched-Earth Purge of the Internet Underground — When “Operation Onymous” first came to light yesterday …
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FBI, DHS and Europol also seize drug markets Hydra and Cloud 9, with likely more to come in Operation Onymous — Not Just Silk Road 2: Feds Seize Two Other Drug Markets and Counting — A full-blown dark web drug crackdown is in the works, and it's not stopping with the Silk Road.| Jonathan Zdziarski / Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain: |
WireLurker not as great a threat as the potential for weaponizing its underlying technique — What You Need to Know About WireLurker — Mobile Security company Palo Alto Networks has released a new white paper titled WireLurker: A New Era in iOS and OS X Malware.
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| Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal: |
Home Depot reports hackers accessed 53M email addresses via stolen vendor username/password — Home Depot Hackers Exposed 53 Million Email Addresses — Hackers Used Password Stolen From Vendor to Gain Access to Retailer's Systems — The hackers behind the massive credit card breach …
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Spyware exports will need a licence under new EU rules — ‘Intrusion software’ joins nuclear reactors and rocket fuel on the EU's list of technologies that may have military applications — Companies which make spyware will have to apply for permission to export the software once new EU regulations come into effect in late December.| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
Lytro Branches Out from Photography, Offers Unprecedented Access to Their Tech for $20K — The folks at Lytro have always believed that light field technology is the future, and not just for photography and storytelling. They believe that anything with a lens and a sensor can benefit from the technology …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Motorola Droid Turbo review: battery lasts for days, amazing 21MP rear camera, oversaturated display — Droid Turbo Review: Motorola's Amped-Up Moto X Excels Where It Counts — Motorola barely let the 2014 Moto X sink in before announcing essentially a beefed-up version of the same.| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter to Open Office in Hong Kong — SINGAPORE— Twitter Inc. plans to open an office in Hong Kong early next year to serve greater China and tap advertising revenues from Chinese companies that are quickly expanding, an executive said. — Shailesh Rao, Twitter's vice president for Asia Pacific …
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg: on Messenger, building new things, organic reach, and why he wears the same shirt every day — Q&A with Mark — Today Mark Zuckerberg took part in his first public Q&A. Watch the full video here.
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga's Q3 loss $57.1M compared with $68K loss in same period last year as it struggles to generate new hit — Zynga's Loss Widens as Company Struggles to Generate a New Hit — Game Maker Lost $57.1 Million in 3rd Quarter, Compared With $68,000 Loss a Year Ago
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
British Spies Are Free to Target Lawyers and Journalists — British spies have been granted the authority to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged attorney-client communications, according to newly released documents. — On Thursday, a series of previously classified policies confirmed …
| Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet: |
Dell launches into cloud brokerage market with Cloud Marketplace — Summary: Since Dell decided to pull out of the public cloud market two years ago, it has refocused on selling services from partners, continuing that strategy with the launch of Dell Cloud Marketplace. — Aimee Chanthadavong
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| Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
LG G Watch R Now Available on Google Play for $299.99 — Google has made the G Watch R from LG available through Google Play this morning, priced at $299.99. LG's next Android Wear-powered smartwatch features a full circle display, as well as a Snapdragon 400 processor.
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| Simon Phipps / InfoWorld: |
Joyent, Canonical open-source container technologies Manta, SmartDataCenter to take on Docker — Joyent open-sources its core technology — Cloud pioneer Joyent throws down the gauntlet to the bloated world of OpenStack with fresh open source releases — Not all the action is happening at the OpenStack Summit in Paris.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Echo Is A $199 Connected Speaker Packing An Always-On Siri-Style Assistant — Amazon has a new product that doesn't really have any current equivalent form any other tech company - a connected speaker called Echo that's always-on, listening for commands that its virtual assistant …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Aereo imposes large layoffs, but streaming TV service is not shutting down — There's more trouble for Aereo, which laid off the majority of its staff this week. The internet TV service will continue operations for now. — Aereo's bad year just got worse.
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Boulder and six other Colorado towns secure right to build their own broadband through local referendums allowed by escape clause in state law — 7 Colorado communities just secured the right to build their own broadband — Boulder County election official Erin Meyers receives sealed ballots … Sponsor Posts
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