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Rumor: China really hates Bitcoin
The rollercoaster ride that is the Bitcoin market took a deep dive yesterday following yet another bombshell out of China – this time round, the People’s Bank of China has been rumored to consider banned third-party payment companies from doing business with Bitcoin exchanges. Bitcoin prices fell by around 30% on hearing the news, which ...
No more metadata for you: US judge orders NSA to stop spying on people’s calls
In what looks to be a major setback for the NSA’s mass surveillance of telephone metadata, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon has ordered the spy agency to stop collecting U.S. citizen’s mobile phone records, and to destroy the files it already holds. Judge Leon’s ruling comes in the wake of a case brought against the ...
The NSA goes on the attack with 60 Minutes’ propaganda show
Two of the NSA’s leading officials made an appearance on the 60 Minutes show last night, but what promised to be an eye-opening ‘behind the scenes’ look at the nation’s spy HQ turned out to be a huge disappointment, serving up spoonfuls of agency propaganda with no dissenting voices. In an effort to try and ...
Watch what you typ… Facebook keeps track of everything you DON’T say
Pretty much every Facebook user has begun typing a status update or response to a post at some point, only to delete it before they click on “post”. Usually we do this because half way through typing, we realize that whatever we’re saying is a stupid thing to say, or that it could be offensive, ...
Bullish on Bitcoin: theCUBE discusses Bitcoin’s prospects for the future
Taking a break from all the chaotic goings-on at HP Discover in Barcelona this week, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante of Wikibon sat down with SiliconANGLE’s founding editor Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins yesterday to discuss one of the most disruptive trends in tech – Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that’s threatening to take the world of ...
Google ‘might’ ditch Intel & build its own ARM-based chips (one day)
As the world’s biggest internet company, Google has designed and built its own custom-made servers for several years now, but that hardware is still made using components from other companies. However, that could be set to change one day, as a speculative report from Bloomberg reveals that the web giant is now looking at building ...
Microsoft plots to undercut Android by dropping Windows Phone license fees
Microsoft is reportedly considering a dramatic shift in its mobile strategy, copying Google and giving away its Windows Phone and Windows RT software to device makers for free. The plan has yet to be confirmed, but if Redmond follows through it could result in a flood of new Windows Phone devices from brands like Samsung, ...
Sophos warns of rising ransomware threat in 2014
Cybercriminals are attempting to create a so-called “ransomware creation kit” in order to mass produce new variants of malware designed to extort money from PC users, reports security firm Sophos. The warning comes from Sophos’ annual Security Threat Report, which revealed that ransomware has become far more widespread over the last 12 months. The company ...
High-end Ubuntu Touch OS phones set to ‘touchdown’ next year
The last 12 months have been a pretty wild ride for the Ubuntu Touch operating system for smartphones. Canonical first announced the OS back in January, and following the release of a developer preview back in February, the company embarked on an ambitious, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to get its high-end Ubuntu Edge smartphone ‘crowdfunded’ ...
Did the world’s major financial powers just endorse Bitcoin?
With the astonishing rise of Bitcoin in the last few weeks, the world’s major financial powers have been scrambling to give their official stance on the digital currency that’s recently turned four years old. Bitcoin first came to the attention of mainstream media earlier this year, when the volatile cryptocurrency’s first “bubble” saw its value ...