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FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading …
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| William D. Cohan / Fortune: |
Floundering tech stocks raise questions about the IPO process, cause problems for IPO-bound unicorns — Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem — VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck getting out.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Mattermark: |
2015 Tech IPOs Underwhelm to the Tune of 30% From Their First Day Close — tl;dr 2015 tech IPOs aren't performing well. Their decline could limit 2016 IPOs, and dampen valuations for growing private tech companies. — The 2015 technology IPO market was lackluster.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple readies iPhone 5se for March/April with 4-inch screen, curved edges, Live Photos, 8MP rear camera, A8 and M8 chips, barometer, NFC chip, more — Apple readies ‘iPhone 5se’, not ‘6c’, for March/April with curved edges & Live Photos — That purported 4-inch “iPhone 6c” floating around the web yesterday?
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World — The stern woman behind the press desk at the United Nations is certain I've made a mistake about the person I'm here to see. “Mr. Mark Zuckerberg?” she says. “Who's he?” ¶ He's an Internet executive, I tell her.| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How Larry Page's interests in robots, nuclear fusion, and more are shaping Google's shift to Alphabet — How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business — Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Skype helps users avoid harassment by hiding IP addresses — Microsoft is finally making IP addresses hidden by default on Skype. Reports surfaced around four years ago noting that a flaw in Skype allowed malicious users to obtain IP addresses through the service.
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| Nitish Kulkarni / TechCrunch: |
Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Online payday loan provider LendUp raises $150M Series B, launches its own credit card and a companion app that can be used to halt or monitor purchases — LendUp Scores $150M For A Credit Card That Won't Screw You Over — Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help people avoid debt … | Patrick Austin / Consumer Reports: |
Fitbit Charge HR and Surge heart rate sensors retested in light of new class-action lawsuit, pass tests handily — Taking the Pulse of Fitbit's Contested Heart Rate Monitors — As Fitbit faces a lawsuit over the accuracy of its fitness trackers, Consumer Reports retests the devices in our labSponsor Posts
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