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The Justice Department wants to keep Kim Dotcom’s millions of dollars worth of seized assets, citing the Megaupload founder’s fugitive status. The department filed a brief on Friday, which cited his fugitive status as well as a lack of evidence…

New submitter stikves writes: It looks like media and technology companies are forming a group to “fight piracy.” The Verge reports: “A group of 30 entertainment companies, including power players like Netflix, HBO, and NBCUniversal, have joined forces today in…

gollum123 shares a report by Sean Illing via Vox: “Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies , told me in a recent interview. “People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else,…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Global Seed Vault, built in the Arctic as an impregnable deep freeze for the world’s most precious food seeds, is to undergo a multi-million dollar upgrade after water from melting…

mcpublic writes: iRobot veteran and Roomba co-inventor, Joe Jones is a modest man with a big mission: to create robots that make agriculture more efficient, less tedious, and yes, maybe even one day feed the world. After a decade at…

A campaign attributed to the FIN7 attackers targets restaurants with phishing emails and infected RTF Word documents that carry out fileless malware attacks.