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C.E.O. of Backpage.com, Known for Escort Ads, Is Charged with Pimping a Minor

Photo Carl Ferrer The chief executive of a website known for the sexually oriented escort advertisements it hosts was arrested on Thursday and charged with conspiracy and pimping a minor after the authorities raided the company’s Dallas headquarters, according to ...

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Tech Tip: Map Your Photos With a Desktop Computer

Q. Now that I have learned how to geotag photos on my iPhone, how can I assign locations to photos in my desktop photo library that don’t already contain location information? A. Even if you have photos on your computer ...

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Bits: Daily Report: Salesforce Has Had Its Eye on Twitter. But Why?

Photo Marc Benioff, the founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images October in San Francisco is a special time. The fog lifts. The temperature rises. The Blue Angels buzz overhead for Fleet Week as tens of thousands ...

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N.S.A. Suspect Is a Hoarder. But a Leaker? Investigators Aren’t Sure.

“He was one of the most patriotic people I knew,” Ms. Martin said in a telephone interview. More likely, she said, he got in the habit of taking material home to keep working at night. “He brought work home all ...

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Archaeological Victims of ISIS Rise Again, as Replicas in Rome

Photo Two defaced busts from the second and third century are displayed inside the Colosseum in Rome as part of an exhibition, “Rising From Destruction: Ebla, Nimrud, Palmyra.” The busts were recovered from Palmyra, Syria, after it was retaken from ...

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Bits: Daily Report: The Feds Can’t Resist Silicon Valley’s Data

Photo A laptop open to Yahoo’s email login page. Credit Cole Wilson for The New York Times A gentle reminder: The Justice Department backing off demands that Apple help it break the security of an iPhone six months ago does ...

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Twitter’s Fate: Marc Benioff of Salesforce Addresses Acquisition Talk

At first glance, the two companies could not be more different. Twitter is where celebrities, politicians and countless other individuals broadcast their thoughts in 140-character messages. Salesforce, on the other hand, makes online software for salesmen and marketers. Yet Twitter ...

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Yahoo Was Ordered to Search Email for Digital ‘Signature,’ Source Says

Yahoo was ordered last year to search incoming emails for the digital “signature” of a communications method used by a state-sponsored, foreign terrorist organization, according to a government official familiar with the matter. The Justice Department obtained the order from ...

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Samsung in Cross Hairs of American Hedge Fund

Photo A Samsung ad for the Galaxy Note 7 in Singapore. Credit Edgar Su/Reuters Last year, a big American hedge fund took aim at plans to restructure a part of Samsung, the South Korean giant that dominates many of its ...

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N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets

Photo The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. Credit Patrick Semansky/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. secretly arrested a National Security Agency contractor in recent weeks and is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer codes ...

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