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BlackShades users targeted in 16-country law enforcement action

Ninety-seven people were arrested worldwide for selling, buying or using the Trojan program

Crowdsourcing with OpenStreetMap to drive new version of Scout app

OSM founder Steve Coast says crowdsourcing with volunteers lowers costs and improves map data quality

Microsoft’s money pit: Surface has lost $1.2B

CEO Nadella will unveil new tablets Tuesday, but can he stop the bleeding?

An H-1B cap hike would mean a grim future for workers

In the immigration debate, its tech versus academics

Why the FCC’s net neutrality proposal is fundamentally dishonest

The FCC wants to allow 'commercially reasonable' traffic management, but surely it realizes the proposal would inevitably create haves and have nots.

Cisco’s Chambers tells Obama that surveillance impacts technology sales

Chambers was reacting to reports that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepts equipment shipped abroad to install surveillance tools

Rumors confirmed: AT&T plans to buy DirecTV

AT&T will pay about $50 billion for the satellite TV provider

Can Microsoft’s new efforts reverse Windows Phone’s struggles?

Windows Phone is stuck in the single digits. Can these new moves help?

Will the FCC be able to enforce an open internet?

NASA’s broken planet-hunter spacecraft given second life

NASA will pay for Kepler space telescope fix