Officials say Snowden used web crawling software to download classified NSA documents
Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A. — WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials investigating how Edward J. Snowden gained access to roughly a huge trove of the country's most highly classified docu...
Apple currently plans to release iOS 7.1 in March
While recent reports are pegging a launch sooner than later, reliable sources say that Apple is currently planning to ship iOS 7.1, the first significant update to iOS 7, in March. The iOS 7.1 update...
Mt. Gox suspends bitcoin withdrawals (temporarily?), market falls amid concerns of impropriety
The other shoe may have dropped for embattled Mt. Gox, the world's third-largest bitcoin exchange by volume. Last night Mt. Gox published a message on its website alerting users that it will be tempo...
Creator of #1 free app Flappy Bird says he's pulling the game tomorrow
Flappy Bird's Creator Says He's Taking the Game Down — The creator of Flappy Bird, the difficult, barebones mobile game whose mere existence roiled video games discussion over the past two weeks …
Behind the NBC report that Olympic visitors can expect to be hacked: all attacks required user interaction, could happen anywhere
Details Behind the NBC Honeypots: Part 2 — Recently, I was asked by NBC to participate in an experiment to deploy honeypots in Moscow, Russia, to see how fast they would be compromised.
How Milo founder Jack Abraham and a small team designed eBay's new feed in two weeks
You Can Explain eBay's $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story — Back in the middle of the last decade, eBay, the massive auction site, was in trouble.
From fashion to fitness: the experts behind Apple's wearable future
Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources. — New Apple hires...
More security and granular control with the new API keys
API keys can now be customized in a number of ways. — Users can now have multiple API keys, the keys have a secret to sign requests and you can set granular permissions and whitelist IPs for each an...
Google posts large privacy violation notice on French homepage (UPDATE)
A French court on Friday refused Google's last-minute plea to suspend an order imposed by a privacy watchdog, meaning the search giant has to post a notice on its homepage for a period of 48 hours inf...
Meet Shingy, AOL's Self-Proclaimed ‘Digital Prophet’ Who Has The Internet Buzzing
The Internet went bananas earlier this evening, as people began spreading a picture from an interview that was on MSNBC featuring a man with quirky-looking hair. … The man is David Shing, and here's e...
Mozilla launches Accounts, an improved Sync feature, and a customizable UI to Firefox Aurora
Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser …
Court sides with T-Mobile, bans AT&T's Aio Wireless from using magenta color
A federal court has granted T-Mobile a preliminary injunction against AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless on grounds that the low-cost carrier's color scheme infringes on T-Mobile's iconic magenta.
Cisco to pay “patent troll” Innovatio only 3.2 cents per router in settlement
Wi-Fi “patent troll” will only get 3.2 cents per router from Cisco — Innovatio IP Ventures has become arguably the most infamous sender of patent demand letters in recent memory …
Yahoo is hoping Yelp can help improve its search engine's local results.
Partnership will incorporate Yelp's listings and reviews of local businesses into results on Yahoo's search engine
Judge rebukes Apple for invoking nationalist bias but denies Samsung a retrial
A U.S. judge has denied Samsung's request for a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, but she also chastised Apple's lawyers for making the Korean firm's “foreignness” an issue in closing remarks to...
Programmatic ad tech plaform PubMatic planning IPO, aiming for a valuation of over $1B
Ad Platform PubMatic Working on IPO — PubMatic Inc., which automates the buying and selling of digital advertising space, has tapped bankers for a potential initial public offering, people familiar ...
Yahoo to Partner With Yelp on Local Search
Partnership is Part of Effort to Differentiate Yahoo from Google and Microsoft Bing — Yahoo is hoping Yelp can help improve its search engine's local results. — A partnership between the Internet ...