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Tweet Mt. Gox, the once popular Bitcoin exchange, has announced it has filed for bankruptcy protection, and officially revealed it lost a total of $ 473 million of the online-only currency to fraud. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet The NSA’s espionage partners in Australia offered the U.S. intelligence agency surveillance information on an American law firm that was representing the Indonesian government in a trade case against the U.S., according to leaked documents from Edward Snowden’s stash. Judging by its early-2013 timeline, the case was most likely one involving clove cigarettes or shrimp. It’s not entirely clear that the NSA took the proceeds of the Australians’ spying…

Tweet The German hacker group Chaos Computing Club claims to have used fake fingerprints to access the Touch ID sensor that’s included in Apple’s just launched iPhone 5s. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet The long-running fight over who is responsible for removing copyrighted content on video sites took a new twist as a New York federal judge refused to throw out a case against Vimeo,  a popular site that lets users share clips. In a ruling this week, US District Judge Ronnie Abrams held that so-called “safe harbor” laws — which can help internet sites avoid liability for the actions of their…

Tweet The NSA may have found a way to monitor some credit card transactions, according to a Snowden-derived report from Germany’s Der Spiegel. The agency said in leaked documents that it found a way to access Visa transactions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but the financial services company denies the tapping of its networks. The report highlights an NSA financial database called Tracfin, into which SWIFT international transfer…