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Dread Pirate Roberts wants his Bitcoin booty back
Alleged Silk Road website mastermind Ross Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts, has just launched an ambitious attempt to have more than 173,000 Bitcoins seized by the FBI returned to him, despite continuing to protest his innocence in the charges leveled against him. The argument given by Ulbricht is an interesting one – he admits his ...
RSA hits back, categorically denies NSA ‘bribe’ allegations
The security people at RSA aren’t a very happy bunch at the moment – just days after being accused of taking a $10 million ‘bribe’ from the NSA in order to facilitate it’s spying, the company has hit back with a strongly-worded denial of the allegations. Claims that RSA had taken a bribe emerged last ...
Overstock jumps into bed with Bitcoin
Bitcoin is about to get a whole lot more useful than it already is, following last week’s announcement that Overstock.com is to begin accepting the currency soon. In interviews given to both the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times, Overstock’s CEO Patrick Byrne revealed that the company will begin accepting payments via Bitcoin some ...
Google hit with $1.2M fine in Spain for breaking data laws
Google has just been slapped with a $1.2 million fine by Spain’s privacy watchdog, after it was judged to have broken data protection laws in that country by merging its privacy policy for its assortment of online services, whilst not explaining clearly how it would use people’s personal data. The case dates back to March ...
Ignore what’s happening in China, Bitcoin’s not going away
Bitcoin values plunged yet again on Wednesday after BTC China, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, confirmed that it can no longer accept cash deposits in Chinese Yuan Renminbi, according to the AP news agency. BTC China’s announcement comes following rumors that first emerged this week – that the People’s Bank of China had banned third-party ...
3 Internet of Things trends to watch for in 2014
Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things (IoT), which is set to become far more tangible in 2014. While most of us have moved beyond speculating about the value of an Internet-connected fridge, we’re yet to see the truly disruptive impact that IoT technologies will have on the enterprise, but that’s ...
RATs in your Apple Mac can help people spy on you with iSight
If you happen to own an older Apple Mac, you’d best cover up that webcam of yours if you don’t want to get creeped out by this latest story. That’s because, a hacker could possibly be watching you right now, spying on you through your MacBook’s webcam. And now, we’re not just being super paranoid ...
Facebook’s about to unleash extremely annoying auto-play video ads
You may have noticed some changes to Facebook’s mobile app in the last few days, with video auto-play now enabled by default, allowing friend’s videos to begin playing on their own as you come across them. Pretty cool right? It’s almost as if your News Feed springs to life all by itself, a pleasant distraction ...
Rumors of China’s crackdown on Bitcoin gather momentum
Rumors of China’s impending crackdown on Bitcoin continue to hog the headlines, with a number of media outlets reporting that Chinese regulators would no longer allow payment processors to serve bitcoin exchanges. News of the ban first surfaced on Monday night, when Coindesk reported that People’s Bank of China officials told third-party payment processors that ...
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 ...