The U.S. military’s ability to defend its own computer networks is “not where it should be,” Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, said on Wednesday. Carter said the U.S.
Read moreU.S. states for years have asked Congress for federal legislation easing the way for them to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, but now that a bill has been drafted, state lawmakers are resisting. The National Conference of State Legislatures on Tuesday released a letter it sent to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday that depicted a proposed online sales tax bill as an unconstitutional attack on states’ rights.
Read moreBy Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats on the Senate and House commerce committees on Wednesday signaled no interest in rushing to adopt “net neutrality” legislation before the Federal Communications Commission sets new Internet traffic rules next month.
Read moreBy Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused operator of the online black marketplace Silk Road had a digital journal on his laptop detailing the development of the website and predicting it would become a “phenomenon,” jurors heard on Wednesday. Prosecutors showed jurors in Manhattan federal court journal entry excerpts dated in 2010 and 2011 found on a laptop seized when the FBI arrested Ross Ulbricht, who authorities say operated the website where drugs and other illicit goods could be bought with bitcoins. “Silk Road is going to become a phenomenon and at least one person will tell me about it, unknowing that I was its creator,” a 2010 journal entry on Ulbricht's laptop said.
Read more(Reuters) – Television network NBC will post all Super Bowl commercials that air on TV to a Tumblr page moments after they air on TV, providing another way for brands to reach viewers with ads that cost up to $4.5 million for 30 seconds.
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