A hacker has released details of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees following a successful social engineering attack against the Department of Justice (DoJ). The files so far released include a DHS Staff Directory that has the name, title, email address, and phone number for some 9,355 employees ranging ...

Ryan Kennedy, the head of former Dogecoin exchange Moolah, has been arrested in the United Kingdom on rape charges. According to local reports, Kennedy stands accused of raping five women over the course of eight years and faces a total of 14 charges, 11 of rape, two of assault by penetration and one of causing ...

Super Bowl Sunday might be about a game of football, but for many the football plays second fiddle to the advertising during the game, and this year was no exception. A number of leading tech companies (and some smaller ones) took the opportunity to advertise what they had on offer and at no small cost: ...

The chattering classes were aghast this weekend over a report Friday from Buzzfeed that Twitter was set to launch an algorithmic timeline as soon as this week. What this would mean is that instead of the current system wherein Twitter presents tweets in chronological order, Twitter would select which tweets a user can see in ...

Fresh off news in January that it’s getting serious about virtual reality (VR), Google, Inc. is said to be preparing to launch a new headset for smartphones, at least according to one report over the weekend. The Financial Times claims that the new headset will be a successor to Cardboard, and will feature better sensors, lenses ...

In a story worthy of an episode of History Channel’s Ancient Aliens kooks, conspiracy theorists, and other people who are likely vegan are apparently claiming that an ancient Greek funeral stele (grave marker) is proof of time travel because it includes a laptop. The marker, named “Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant” ...

Simplex (SimplexCC Ltd.), an Israeli startup that enables Bitcoin purchases with credit cards has raised $7 million Series A in a round that included Bitmain, Cumberland Mining, and a number of unnamed individual investors. Founded in 2014, Simplex offers a service that enables Bitcoin exchanges to accept credit cards at no chargeback risk. The company’s ...

Driving analytics software development kit (SDK) maker Zendrive, Inc. has raised $13.5 million Series A in a round led by Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Capital that included Nyca Partners, Thomvest Ventures, First Round Capital, BMW i Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, and Tad Montross. Founded in 2013, Zendrive takes an interesting approach to tracking driver safety by only ...

Shares in business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn Corp. plummeted Thursday after the company revised down forward projections in its financials for the fourth quarter and full year 2015. LinkedIn predicted that revenue of $820 million in the first quarter, and $3.6 billion to $3.65 billion for 2016, missing analysts’ estimates of $867.1 million and $3.9 billion ...

The European Commission (EC) has put forward a proposal that would strip away the ability to trade Bitcoin anonymously due to supposed links to terrorism. In an Action Plan to strengthen the fight against the financing of terrorism (PDF), the EC argues that criminals are quick to seek out new ways of moving money that offer ...