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Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign

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By Roberta Rampton and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online. “I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” Obama said in a televised Oval Office speech

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U.S. veteran rescued on Veterans’ Day after 4 days in Oregon woods

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A U.S. Army veteran who drank from puddles to survive while lost for four days in the Oregon woods was found on Veteran's Day thanks to a hunter who heard his cries for help, and a rescuer who read about his plight online, authorities said.

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Secret Service officer arrested in child sexting sting

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A U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint

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Missouri man, charged with threat to shoot black students, denied bail

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A 19-year-old white Missouri man charged with making terrorist threats on social media to shoot black students at the University of Missouri campus was denied bond on Thursday, and court documents said he expressed a “deep interest” in a recent Oregon school massacre. Hunter M.

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Student journalist files complaint against Missouri academic who called for ‘muscle’

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Student Mark Schierbecker complained twice to campus police about Click, said Major Brian Weimer, a spokesman for the University of Missouri police department. “I thought about it up until last night when I actually made the call and told the officer that I wanted to go ahead and press charges,” Schierbecker, 21, said in an interview with Reuters. Police and prosecutors would investigate the claim and decide whether to formally charge Click, Schierbecker said.

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Bloomingdale’s ‘spiked eggnog’ ad sparks outrage on social media

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A holiday advertisement by Bloomingdale's that encourages drink spiking was trending heavily on social media on Thursday with some critics saying the image promotes date rape. The ad, which was released in Bloomingdale's 2015 holiday catalog and was meant to advertise Rebecca Minkoff merchandise, features a woman looking away and laughing as a young man looks at her suggestively. The text reads: “Spike your best friend's eggnog when they're not looking.” The luxury department store owned by Macy's Inc apologized for the 'inappropriate' eggnog advertisement on Tuesday

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Lyft, Uber poach key Twitter engineers, managers amid turmoil

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By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Ride services Lyft and Uber have poached dozens of key Twitter Inc employees over the past year, including top engineering managers, to help personalize their apps.

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Latvian man charged by U.S. over Gozi computer virus pleads guilty

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By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Latvian man pleaded guilty on Friday to engaging in a scheme to transmit a computer virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses. Deniss Calovskis, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiring to commit computer intrusion, admitting that he had been hired to write some of the computer code that made the so-called Gozi virus so effective. The plea followed Calovskis' extradition in February from Latvia, where he was arrested in November 2012 and held for 10 months in jail.

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FBI understaffed to tackle cyber threats, says watchdog

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The FBI is struggling to attract computer scientists to its cybersecurity program mainly due to low pay, a report by the U.S. Department of Justice showed, highlighting weaknesses in a flagship initiative to tackle growing cyber threats. As of January 2015, The Federal Bureau of Investigation had only hired 52 of the 134 computer scientists it was authorized to employ under the Justice Department's Next Generation Cyber Initiative launched in 2012, the report showed

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Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe lion draws threats, protests

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By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Police in Minnesota are investigating reports of a threat against a dentist who killed Zimbabwe’s most famous lion just outside a national wildlife preserve, sparking a global firestorm of hate messages on social media. Demonstrators were gathering on Wednesday afternoon outside the suburban Minneapolis office of Walter Palmer, 55, an avid big game hunter, who said in a statement he regrets killing the huge cat known as Cecil on July 1. As of Tuesday, Palmer had temporarily closed his office, River Bluff Dental, in Bloomington, Minnesota, amid wishes for his death and widespread criticism of his hunting on social media and under business reviews on Google and Yelp.

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