Another Bitcoin storage fraud, this time in China

The CEO of a Chinese Bitcoin exchange, International Data Access Exchange (IDAX), has vanished with the keys, leaving all its balances inaccessible -- to anyone but himself, presumably.
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32,768-Hour Hard Disk Drive Failure Strikes HPE

People creating a new system sometimes underestimate how long it’ll be around. That was the core of the “Y2K Problem,” which is when people were concerned that computer programs around the world would fail because the designers had never considered the idea of a year after 1999. Boy, that...
Cops Now Using Warrants to Gain Access to Genetic Databases

As you may recall, last year police officers were able to track down a murderer through relatives in a genetic database. Now, it’s gone one step further: Police have...
Laptop Border Searches Now Require Probable Cause

It’s safe to bring your cell phones and laptops into the United States again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has for some time been pushing for a case to expand the provisions of the Riley case, which stated that law enforcement officials needed a warrant to search...