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+Verizon’s widely mocked tech news site is now completely dead [Updated]
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+Twitter announces sweeping update to reporting, blocking tools
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+HP’s fanless 2.2-pound laptop includes Broadwell and a 2560×1440 screen
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+LA man first to be sentenced under California’s “revenge porn” law
+Noe Iniguez will serve a year in jail and attend domestic violence counseling.
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+Thin Mints via thin devices: Girl Scout cookie sales finally go digital
+Participating scouts to sell cookies either via apps or personalized websites.
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+Cricket to pay feds $2.1M after allegations it charged too much for wiretaps
+Case also settles accusations that AT&T subsidiary overbilled for pen registers.
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+Cyber Monday Dealmaster has a 24” 16:10 Dell monitor for cheap
+Save $67 on the 1920×1200 display and get a $100 gift card.
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+German spy agency can monitor its own citizens via technicality
+Former BND lawyer: if citizen works abroad for foreign firm, it's fair game.
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+Holiday reading for a certain sort: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
+Important lesson: don’t hire Jack Kerouac to code a factorial function.
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+Learning the science behind silencers on the range with SilencerCo
+ +Hollywood gets it consistently wrong—in the real world, they're merely less loud.
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+Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit
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