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Bitcoin is a pain to spend. It is energy-guzzling, perilously slow and, with the prospect of dazzling returns (at least until recently), perhaps best to HODL ‘til you retire. But Bitcoin[1] can count at...
Read more: Russians Found One Use for Bitcoin: Hacking the 2016 US Election
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Video: Targeted advertising: Google gives users the option to switch ads off
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Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media) and The Onion web sites are for sale, reports Sam Machkovech at Ars TechnicaRead more: Even new media struggles: Univision seeks sale of Onion and Gizmodo sites
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In some ways, special counsel Robert Mueller’s[1] indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for their hacking and attack on the 2016 presidential election is Mueller’s least surprising move yet—but it might also be his single...
Read more: Robert Mueller's Indictment Today of 12 Russian Hackers Could Be His Biggest Move Yet
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Read more: IT vendors slash prices in LatAm as users seek savings
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(Image: file photo) The Justice Department has indicted the hackers thought to be responsible for the 2016 cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee.
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Twelve indictments were filed by the office ofRead more: Justice Dept. indicts 12 Russian spies over 2016 DNC hack
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An example of how a SmartFrame image could look. For a working example of the image, visit the demo page[1] Image credit: SmartFrame SmartFrame Technologies Ltd, a London-based start-up, wants to replace...
Read more: SmartFrame aims to replace jpegs to help companies protect and monetize images
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News briefs for July 13, 2018.
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Google's Chrome browser is launching site isolation, "the most ambitious mitigation for Spectre attacks", Ars Technica reports[1]. Site isolation "segregates code and data from each Internet- Written by: J D
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In 2010, a suspected cocaine smuggler named John Krokos bought encrypted BlackBerry devices from an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent. That sort of federal subterfuge is par for the course. But in this case, the DEA held...
Read more: How the US Government Planted 'Spy Phones' on Suspects
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Apache Kafka[1], the open source distributed messaging system, has steadily carved a foothold as the de facto real-time standard for brokering messages in scale out environments. Confluent[2], the company whose founders...