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Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other — Continuing their battle against the “tweetdeckers,” Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known …
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Engadget, The Verge, BetaNews, and Mashable
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| Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider: |
Mt.Gox trustee sold $400M worth of Bitcoin since Sept.; half of bitcoins sold were transferred from bankrupt exchange on Feb.5, a day before BTC dropped to $6K — - Bankruptcy trustees have been selling the company's bitcoin since September to raise funds to pay creditors.
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Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Attack of the 50 Foot …, NewsBTC, NewsBTC, Deep Dot Web, BGR, and Cointelegraph.com News. Tweets: @tuurdemeester
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
FBI arrests CEO of Phantom Secure, which customized BlackBerrys for criminals by removing mic and camera, routing encrypted messages via overseas servers, more — Phantom Secure is one of the most infamous companies in the secure phone industry. Sources and court documents detail …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, and TechSpot
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky Lab details sophisticated Slingshot malware likely used for spying on targeted individuals and organizations, which remained hidden for six years — Nation-sponsored Slingshot is one of the most advanced attack platforms ever. — Researchers have discovered malware so stealthy …
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Securelist, The Register, The Hacker News, Kaspersky Lab official blog, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @securelist, @martinsfp, @daniel_bilar, and @patrickwardle
| Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: |
A deep dive into Facebook's big bet on expertise in AR; CTO Mike Schroepfer says the company needs it to remain relevant in 10 or 20 years — Mark Zuckerberg got his first taste of the Oculus Rift, the pioneering virtual reality headset, in January 2014. Standing in one of the few Facebook … | Stef W. Kight / Axios: |
Gallup poll: 58% of Americans see AI, robotics, and automation as bigger threats to jobs than immigration and offshoring over the next ten years — More than half of Americans (58%) believe that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to U.S. jobs over the next 10 years than immigration …
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TechCrunch, New York Times, Gallup, Newsmax, The Daily Caller, Gallup, and Gizmodo
| Paul Roberts / Politico: |
A look at the Mid-Columbia Basin, WA, where 15-30% of all bitcoins may be mined in 2018 due cheap power there, as utilities deal with a crazy power demand spike — Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
The term blockchain needs a universal definition as its general usage has become diluted and has led to many misconceptions about its capabilities — 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means' — Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have entered …
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TechnoLlama. Tweets: @aparanjape, @random_walker, @aruna__b, @jesselund, @emollick, @random_walker, @sarahjeong, @sarahjeong, @play_crypto, and @charlesarthur
| Columbia Journalism Review: |
Study: mainstream news outlets that embedded IRA tweets were generally using the tweets to reflect provocative, partisan public opinion on social issues — Image by Greyweed via Flickr. — The New York Times's Bari Weiss was in the news again yesterday, this time for citing a hoax Twitter account … | Rian Wanstreet / Motherboard: |
American farmers, threatened by big data, proprietary systems, and restrictive EULA agreements, hack their own machines to fight back — Big data, proprietary systems, and restrictive EULA agreements threaten farmers, but the right to repair movement shows they are fighting back.| April Glaser / Slate: |
Investigations reveal discussion groups, online communities, and user-made games on Steam that glorify school shooters and mass shootings — As the country continues to debate gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we've seen some of the usual misdirected discussion of whether video games bear some responsibility.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Amazon's Echo Spot, which uses a custom octagonal display and was designed to live on a desk or a bedside table — Of all the devices Amazon announced last fall, the one that got the most attention was the Echo Spot.
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