As the saga of the Silk Road has unfolded over the last four years, everyone has had an opinion about the unprecedented, billion-dollar online narcotics bazaar, from press to politicians to prosecutors. Even the pseudonymous mastermind of the site, the Dread Pirate Roberts, gave an interview and posted many thousands of words to the Silk […]
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The specific hackers behind the Sony breach and data leaks may never be identified or arrested. But authorities say they have caught a hacker behind another high-profile breach: the intrusion into computers owned by Madonna, which resulted in leaks of her songs before their scheduled release. The Israeli suspect, 39-year-old Adi Lederman, was arrested in […]
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Robert Shiller, regarded as one of the most influential economists in the world, has said society is “in a panic” about artificial intelligence.
High-profile Bitcoin backers are seeking to establish a Bitcoin exchange in the US that would be overseen by mainstream financial regulators.
The social network encourages celebrities and other high-profile users to share photos directly to Twitter.
Adobe has released an emergency patch for a flaw in its Flash software that was being widely exploited by thieves.
The web-based taxi firm Uber restarts operations in Delhi, six weeks after it was banned over charges that one of its drivers raped a passenger.
A journalist with connections to the hacking collective Anonymous is sentenced to five years in jail after posting online links to stolen data.
Barrett Brown, who became a cause célèbre after he was charged with crimes related to the 2011 Stratfor hack, will not go free as his supporters hoped. He was sentenced today in Texas to five years and three months in prison.
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On Thursday, the jury heard about the most human of all the human errors alleged Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht may have made: confessing his creation to an in-real-life friend.
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