Users of the now defunct Darknet marketplace Evolution may be in a spot of bother with news Monday that Reddit has been subpoenaed for details of users who participated on a Subreddit related to the service. Evolution was a popular successor site to notorious drug and illegal goods market Silk Road, but mysteriously disappeared in the ...

Added to the list of “things you can’t make up,” two Federal agents have been arrested on charges that they stole Bitcoin from Silk Road. The agents, named by The New York Times as Carl Mark Force IV, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA,) and Shaun W. Bridges, who worked for the Secret ...

Google Inc.’s Gmail for Android has received a long-desired upgrade with the app now offering a unified inbox, along with a range of additional features. According to the Official Gmail blog, the new unified inbox will allow users to view all their mail at once, regardless of which account it’s from, using the new “All Inboxes” ...

Services such as Apple Inc.’s Siri have for some revolutionized the way they interact with technology, replacing the need to type with voice controls, and users can even hold an basic conversation with the artificial intelligence service. Apparently the feature is particularly popular with children, with the phone in some cases even becoming a toy ...

Git repository hosting service GitHub Inc., has been under a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) since Thursday with China named as the culprit. GitHub said in a blog post that the DDoS attack was the largest in their history and explained that it involves a wide combination of attack vectors. The vectors include methods ...

Enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies Inc. is said to have raised up to $160 million Series E on a $2.76 billion valuation. The round hasn’t been officially confirmed by the company, however The Wall Street Journal reported that new investors have committed $135 million to the round, with Slack having the option to raise another $25 ...

Google Inc. announced a handy new feature for its Cloud Platform Thursday that will make life a lot easier for first timers or those looking to save time: the Cloud Launcher. The launcher offers easy installation of over 120 open source packages that have been configured by Bitnami, for Google, for deployment. To use, users ...

Facebook Inc. embraced the app as a platform trend at the F8 Conference Wednesday with a new announcement that aims to make Facebook a one stop destination for just about everything. According to the official announcement, the Messenger Platform will enable developers to build apps that integrate with Messenger, so users can find “new, fun ways ...

Bitcoin and altcoin exchange Cryptoine is claiming to have been hacked and has ceased trading, adding to the ongoing list of cyptocurrency exchanges that have disappeared this year with similar claims According to a statement on the Cryptoine website, the firm claims that a “hacker found some race condition bug in our trading engine. Manipulation of orders ...

Machine Intelligence startup Ayasdi, Inc. has raised $55 million Series C in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that included existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, FLOODGATE, Citi Ventures, and new investors, Centerview Capital Technology and Draper Nexus. Ayasdi offers Machine Intelligence software that is said to solve “the most complex and ...