How can you confirm something that has happened when by law you legally can’t? The answer is a warrant canary, a phrase or paragraph that is purposely omitted, and that’s exactly what popular forum Reddit, Inc. did Thursday when it published its annual transparency report. Each year Reddit publishes its transparency report and details regular ...

Altcoin provider Syscoin has released its final 2.0 beta version in a final step toward the release of its main net release in April. Syscoin bills itself as a “revolutionary cryptocurrency” that allows low-cost financial transactions, like Bitcoin, while additionally providing an all-in-one decentralized infrastructure enabling trading goods, digital certificates, aliases, encrypted messaging, the first ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a new strain of ransomware called MSIL/Samas. A confidential advisory was released Friday to security companies (obtained via Reuters) and describes MSIL/Samas are being a far more nefarious form of ransomware in that it tries to ...

AOL, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong has grand plans to turn parent company Verizon, Inc. into an ad powerhouse, and acquiring Yahoo, Inc. may be a part of that plan, according to a new report Wednesday. According to The Wall Street Journal, by 2020 Armstrong wants AOL to grow from its current 700 million users ...

International Business Machines Corp. has acquired Salesforce consulting firm Bluewolf Consulting LLC. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed but the price is reported by Re/Code to be $200 million. Founded in 2000 and providing services to Salesforce since 2002, Bluewolf claims that their technology-driven method combines their team’s years of experience with cloud ...

Microsoft, Corp. and Canonical Ltd have announced a new partnership that will see the Ubuntu Linux command-line tool Bash come to Windows 10. The new support comes not via running a virtual machine or emulator (which has been possible previously), but through native Ubuntu Linux binaries being baked directly into Windows 10 using the technology ...

Blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings, LLC has signed a new deal with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. to trial the company’s Blockchain technology at the firm. Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a post-trade clearing manager, will trial Digital Asset’s Blockchain derived platform to manage financial repos (repurchasing agreements), a form of short-term borrowing for ...

Music streaming provider Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from TPG Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. According to reports, the deal comes with some strict guarantees, including TPG and Drogoneer being able to convert the debt to equity at a 20 percent discount of whatever price set when the company presents its ...

Google, Inc. is now officially a proper telco with the company announcing Tuesday that is was launching a home phone service. Called Fiber Home, the new service gives anyone with a Basic, Gig, and Gig TV Google Fiber connection access to a landline connection for $10 a month, with the fee including unlimited local and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known by its acronym MIT, has announced the creation of the Bitcoin Development Fund to cover salaries, travel and work costs of Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields, the three leading developers of the Bitcoin Core project. In a positive sign of widespread support for the ...