Amazon returns to profit as holiday sales soar
The holiday season proved to be a good one for Amazon, which reported a jump in sales for the last quarter and a return to profit.
Stories by Joab Jackson
FBI consultant: Silk Road founder carried millions worth of bitcoins on laptop
The man accused of masterminding the Silk Road underground online marketplace had between $16 million and $18 million worth of bitcoins on the laptop he was using when he was arrested in October 2013, federal prosecutors testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday.
Silk Road dealer found a hungry market for mail order drugs
A former drug dealer has testified in court that he sold as much as US$70,000 worth of heroin each month through the Silk Road online market, which he saw as a safe, easy place to do business.
Silk Road paid thousands in shake-downs from malicious hackers
When operating outside of the law, you can't exactly rely on the police to protect your illegal enterprise from other criminals.
Microsoft's stream processing engine boosts Bing, Azure services
A streaming analytics engine developed by Microsoft Research is giving advertisers on the company's Bing Web search service more timely analysis on how their ad campaigns are faring, according to the company.
Enterprises can now use Dell's Kace appliance to manage Chromebooks
A new version of Dell's Kace K1000 Systems Management Appliance adds support for a wider array of devices, including Chromebooks, so enterprises and other organizations can better control these Chrome OS computers.
Simple Google search outed alleged Silk Road founder
It was a simple Web search that led to the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, accused mastermind of the Silk Road underground online marketplace, a U.S. Internal Revenue Service special agent testified Monday in a Manhattan federal courtroom
Microsoft to acquire R language powerhouse Revolution Analytics
In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language.
Friend of Silk Road creator details early days of the site
A college friend of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road online exchange, testified on Thursday that he helped Ulbricht troubleshoot the site in its early days, providing more ammunition for federal prosecutors to make the case Ulbricht was the mastermind behind the notorious illegal goods marketplace.
Prosecutors tighten case against alleged Silk Road mastermind
Federal prosecutors used chat logs and private journals Wednesday to strengthen their case that Ross Ulbricht is Dread Pirate Roberts, the anonymous mastermind who ran the Silk Road online market.
Silk Road trial needs more evidence for Mt. Gox connection
Any backdoor connection that the Silk Road online market might have had with Mark Karpeles, the founder of the failed Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange, will have to be disregarded unless defense attorneys present stronger evidence, the judge in the U.S. federal trial against Russ Ulbricht said Tuesday.
Facebook open-sources new AI smarts
Facebook has released as open source some software modules that can speed image recognition, language modeling and other machine learning tasks, in a move to advance computer artificial intelligence for itself and others,
Big Data Digest: How many Hadoops do we need?
Say hello to Flink, the newest distributed data analysis engine on the scene.
Prosecution: Silk Road founder nabbed In flagrante delicto
Catching criminals in the online realm often involves the old-fashioned footwork of tracking them down in real life. But the expended shoe leather still only goes so far in cyberspace, U.S. federal prosecutors may be learning.
U.S. government lurked on Silk Road for over a year
In order to build a case against the notorious Silk Road underground marketplace, a team of U.S. law enforcement agencies spent well over a year casing the site: buying drugs, exchanging Bitcoins, visiting forums and even posing as a vendor, although they did stop short of selling any illicit goods.