Dark net marketplace Silk Road back online
The internet black market that was shut down in October by the FBI has been found to be back online again.
The twitter feed for Dread Pirate Roberts reads: "#SilkRoad has lift-off".
According to AllThingsVice, the new homepage reads "This Hidden Site Has Risen Again", parodying the US Department of Justice notice, which read "the hidden site has been seized".
The site was blocked and its alleged director Ross Ulbricht arrested, along with others under suspicion of drugs trafficking among other charges.
$28m worth of Bitcoins were seized in a raid of several accounts linked Silk Road, thought to be the biggest ever seizure of Bitcoins.
Google employees lash out at NSA over reports of cable tapping
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden have revealed that the NSA intercepts millions of pieces of Google and Yahoo user information each day by tapping into links betweek servers.
The Washington Post reported that the agency secretly exploits data links in Google and Yahoo’s global networks though a project called MUSCULAR, allegedly operated with help from the GCHQ, who have previously been accused of pulling data from fibre optic cables.
Google told the Post that it had not known about the collection and was "troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers."
Phablets account for 22% of smartphones shipped in Q3 2013
A new report from research firm Canalys reveals that larger handsets made up 22% of all smartphone shipments in Q3 2013, breaking previous records.
Over the past three months, smartphone-makers collectively shipped 56 million phablets. 66% of that those shipments were represented by 5-inch devices. Meanwhile, 31% of all shipped phablets measured between five and six inches, while just three percent featured screens 6-inches or bigger.
