UK cybercrime unit and FBI arrest 18-year-old man in UK for “swatting” offenses and DDoS attacks on Playstation Network and Xbox Live
Man arrested for ‘swatting’ and denial of service offences — SEROCU, has worked closely with the FBI on the operation which focused …
EU regulator says Amazon's deal with Luxembourg could amount to unfair subsidy, violate EU law
Amazon's Tax Deal With Luxembourg May Break Rules, E.U. Regulator Says — BRUSSELS — The European Union's antitrust office on Friday released a preliminary finding that a tax deal between Amazon …
Newly uncovered US cybersecurity report finds encryption vital to protect private data and is at odds with David Cameron's proposal
Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data — Newly uncovered Snowden document contrasts with British PM's vow to crack down on encrypted messaging after Paris attacks
Hacker's List matches professional hackers with those needing their service for $100 - $5,000
Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are for Hire Online — A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord's website.
Mt. Gox CEO Denies Silk Road Involvement: ‘I Am Not Dread Pirate Roberts’
Mark Karpeles, the CEO of Mt. Gox—which was once the world's most popular Bitcoin exchange—has denied any involvement in Silk Road and has told Motherboard that he's not Dread Pirate Roberts, the man ...
Apple's Swift rises from 58th in Q3 '14 to 22nd in Q1 '15 in Redmonk's language ranking list that uses Github and Stack Overflow data
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2015 — With two quarters having passed since our last snapshot, it's time to update our programming language rankings.
Parallels Access 2.5 released, adds file manager, computer-to-computer remote access
Starting today, Parallels is shipping version 2.5 of the Parallels Access remote access and control app. Parallels Access has been a favorite of TUAW bloggers, featuring precise remote control …
Google Knowledge Graph Now Showing Social Profiles For Brands
In November, Google began adding links to other social networks, outside of just Google+, within the knowledge graph box - but only for personalities such as famous actors, political figures and bands...
DHS suspected Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles may have been Silk Road's mastermind, Dread Pirate Roberts
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Q&A with Tom Wheeler on net neutrality, legal challenges, Obama's role, and being the butt of late-night TV jokes
Net Fix: FCC chief on solving the Open Internet puzzle (Q&A) — With a vote looming on new rules for Internet access, Tom Wheeler talks candidly with CNET News about legal challenges …
Founding partners of Teehan+Lax, the design firm behind Medium, join Facebook
Teehan+Lax shutting down as partners join Facebook — A new era begins for the Toronto design community as the founding partners of Teehan+Lax announced this morning they are shutting down the compan...
China to create $6.5 billion venture capital fund to support start-ups
(Reuters) - China will set up a government venture capital fund worth 40 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) to support start-ups in emerging industries, in its latest move to support the private sector and f...
Apple planning 5 new Chinese retail store openings by Feb, hiring for 15 new locations
Apple is committed to its promise of expanding its retail presence in China from 15 to 40 stores within two years. Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts told Chinese website Xinhua that the iPhone maker...
Facebook open sources deep learning tools; head of AI research pledges to “start building things in the open”
Facebook open sources tools for bigger, faster deep learning models — Facebook on Friday open sourced a handful of software libraries that it claims will help users build bigger …
Timeline news app launches to give the historical context behind the day's headlines
Timeline Launches News App To Give You The Context Behind The Day's Headlines — One big complaint about current news coverage is that there's not enough context — an article or TV report might tell ...
Mobile Industry Generated $3.3 Trillion Last Year, Created 11 Million Jobs
A new study finds that the mobile industry last year produced more than $3.3 trillion in revenue. — That breaks down to more than $400 for every man, woman and child on earth. So everyone must be f...
OneWeb secures funding from Virgin Group and Qualcomm to build and fly 648 Internet satellites
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South Carolina Orders Uber To Stop Operations
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KeySweeper, a USB charger that sniffs, decrypts, logs, and transmits keystrokes of some Microsoft wireless keyboards can be built for $10
KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device … Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : This USB wall charger secretly logs keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards nearby Dennis Fisher / Threatpost : Ho...
Moving the Steam folder on Linux is causing users' entire file systems to be deleted
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Maker Studios Looks Beyond YouTube As It Announces Exclusive Content Deal With Vimeo
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Google Glass to become an independent division reporting to Tony Fadell; Glass Explorer Program shutting down; production of device in current form to end
will anyone mourn its passing? MacDailyNews : Google Glass is no more, if it ever was Eurogamer.net : Google Glass is being removed from sale Daniel Bader / MobileSyrup.com : Google shutting down Glas...
T-Mobile launches new ‘Simply Prepaid’ plans, starting at $40/month with 1 GB of LTE
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Shutterstock acquires photo agency Rex Features for $33M & music service PremiumBeat for $32M
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Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe settle US poaching lawsuit for $415M
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United for Patent Reform launches, a “super-coalition” against patent trolls brings together some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley
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Source: FCC to vote February 26 on petitions from two cities asking to preempt state laws that limit municipal Internet service
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Intel reports net income of $3.7B, record revenues of $14.7B, EPS of $0.74 for Q4; Q1 sales estimated to be a modest $13.7B
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Neo Technology, a graph database company, raises $20M Series C led by Creandum
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Xiaomi announces $30 Mi Box Mini, a media streamer the size of a phone charger, with pre-orders open in China on Jan. 20, shipping late Jan.
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Dating site Zoosk cuts costs, lays off 15% of employees after putting IPO plans on hold
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Open Interconnect Consortium releases preview of IoTivity, an open-source framework for its Internet of Things standard
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