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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU’s Sakharov rights prize

October 29, 2015 creative angela-moon, including-its, international, margot-robbie, offset-weaker, robin-emmott, sweden, the-kingdom

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the European Union's prize for human rights and freedom of thought on Thursday. Badawi received the first of his 50 lashes in January, prompting strong criticism in Western countries of the kingdom's human rights record, including its restrictive laws on political and religious expression and the status of Saudi women. This month in London, he was given the International Writer of Courage award and was co-recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize

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Former U.S. spy agency contractor Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut

September 30, 2015 publisher against-improper, edward-snowden, from-the-cold, fugitive, improper, international, leaked-details, moscow, protection, russia, simple-handle, snowden, the-fugitive, twitter-snowden, whistleblowers

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Edward Snowden has come in from the cold – on Twitter. Snowden, the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S.

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U.S. Darkode hacker pleads guilty to aiding online break-ins

August 17, 2015 admin binghamton, chief-executive, government-body, international, internet, law-enforcement, master, people-charged, pittsburgh, spam, the-management, the-master, united, ventura, world-reopened

A hacker charged with helping to break into least 77,000 computers through the online hacking forum Darkode pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S.

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Video gamers compete for millions of dollars in Seattle championship

August 8, 2015 admin curtis-skinner, dixons-carphone, full-time-job, grand-finals, international, mobile, over-the-past, past, said-the-attack, several-years, sold-out-crowd

By Curtis Skinner SEATTLE (Reuters) – Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters have exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past five days as they battle at the Dota 2 International tournament in Seattle. Now in its fifth year and playing to a sold-out crowd in the 17,000-seat Key Arena, the International has grown every year in size, popularity and possible winnings for players. Video games have long been a moneymaker for the tech sector, forecast to generate some $111 billion in revenue this year by consultants Gartner Inc

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EU privacy reform: who pays when the rules are broken?

June 15, 2015 publisher attention, cloud-computing, data-as-well, europe, eventually-drew, international, playa-vista, rules-expected, sap, twitter

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – New European Union data protection rules expected to be agreed on Monday will allow citizens to sue companies that own data as well as those that process it on their behalf, for example cloud computing providers. The new system is opposed by companies such as Germany’s SAP SE, International Business Machines Corp, Cisco Systems Inc and Amazon.com Inc who say it will kill off Europe’s cloud computing industry, as well as introduce uncertainty in business to business relations.

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Tech costs beat regulation, cyber as worries for financial services execs

June 15, 2015 publisher attention, berlin, cloud-computing, europe, hedge-funds, international, new-technology, playa-vista, rules-expected, sap, second-only, seen-as-slow, steal-market, willis

IT costs came second only to macroeconomic concerns such as the impact of quantitative easing, according to the survey by global risk adviser Willis of senior executives at 150 banks, insurers, reinsurers, asset managers, hedge funds and financial technology companies worldwide. “There is a rise of new entrants that are using new technology,” said Mary O'Connor, global head of Willis' financial institutions group. “Banks know they need to respond to that.” Banks and insurers have been seen as slow in responding to new technology, leaving the door open for newcomers to steal market share.

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Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas

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By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday.

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Penn State fraternity shut down for three years after nude photos

May 27, 2015 admin axact, federal-bureau, international, its-imprimatur, matches-set, pakistani, software-firm, university, vice-president, were-uncovered

(Reuters) – Penn State University on Tuesday said it was withdrawing recognition from a fraternity for three years after members were accused of posting pictures they took of mostly undressed women onto private Facebook pages. “The organizational misbehaviors is far more than the University can tolerate from a student organization that seeks its imprimatur,” vice president for Student Affairs Damon Sims said

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Founder of Facebook’s Oculus hit with lawsuit

May 22, 2015 creative account-showing, electronics, facebook, friday-adult, hawaii-based, international, million-members, newly-elected, san

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR Inc, acquired by Facebook Inc for $2 billion, has been accused of taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

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Texas gunman had happy childhood in Pakistan but struggled in U.S.

May 5, 2015 creative buys-the-fiber, embrace, french, international, italian, orange, pakistan, paris, prophet, said-on-tuesday, united-states

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Nadir Soofi, a gunman shot dead after opening fire at a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, was a popular schoolboy in Pakistan but struggled to adjust to the United States after moving there as a teen, friends said on Tuesday. Soofi’s story appeared to trace a familiar arc for some Western Islamists – disappointment, alienation, and a search for belonging that ended with the embrace of militancy. Friends in Pakistan, who studied with Soofi at the elite International School of Islamabad, were stunned to discover that police had identified him as was one of the attackers.

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