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• Brian Bailey

  

  This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type

  TechCrunch - Greg Kumparak

  “Whose phone charger is that sticking out of the wall? Oh. It must be Ben’s. Ben always leaves his charger at work. Classic Ben!” Alas, it’s not Ben’s charger. Hell, it’s not a charger at all. It’s actually a little spy device disguised as a phone charger, capable of sniffing out every key you type …

• Brian Bailey

  

  Glass to exit Google X, report to Nest's Tony Fadell

  Fortune - Adam Lashinsky

  Nest co-founder and CEO Tony Fadell is adding to his responsibilities Google Glass, which Thursday is exiting the experimental Google X unit that …

• Brian Bailey

  

  Hackers Tell Sony Not To Release "The Interview"

  BuzzFeed - Matthew Zeitlin

  "We are sending you our warning again," the hackers said. A new message posted on the codesharing service GitHub, along with a new cache of documents, warned Sony against releasing "the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the War!" While the film is not identified in the …

• Brian Bailey

  

  

  Sony employees got threatening emails after hack, FBI confirms

  CNET - Seth Rosenblatt

  Hackers claiming to be the same group behind the Sony Pictures breach are now sending disturbing emails to employees and their families.

• Brian Bailey

  

  My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK

  Gawker - Kiese Laymon

  The fourth time a Poughkeepsie police officer told me that my Vassar College Faculty ID could make everything OK was three years ago. I was driving …

• Brian Bailey

  

  DNA smeared on a rocket survives re-entry and tells of life's origins

  Engadget - Timothy J. Seppala

  Well, would you look at that: scientists have discovered that DNA can make it through the hellish ordeal of atmospheric re-entry after all. German and Swiss researchers dotted a rocket's grooves and screw heads with fragments of genetic blueprints to see how they'd fare in situations that could've …