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Man Arrested After Climbing New York City's Brooklyn Bridge

Police are investigating a new security breach on New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge – with a 24-year-old scaling the bridge and taking photos with his iPhone, authorities said.

The situation happened at about 12:15 p.m. Sunday. Video shows the man – identified as Yaroslav Kolchin – walking past security and scaling the bridge.

Aviation, harbor and emergency service units rushed to the scene, with the man taken into custody.

Kolchin faces charges of reckless endangerment, obstruction of governmental administration, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct - hazardous condition, police told ABC News.

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PHOTO: The NYPD take down white flags that appeared over the Brooklyn Bridge on July 22, 2014.

Sunday’s incident comes just over a month after two American flags were stolen from the top of the bridge, replaced with a pair of bleached-out flags – reportedly the work of two German artists.

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Man in hospital after Galway car crash

A man is in a serious condition in hospital following a collision in Galway yesterday evening.

The single-vehicle collision occurred at around 7.15pm on the Barna Road when the driver lost control and crashed into a wall.

He has been taken to University Hospital Galway.

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The Man Who Really Built Bitcoin

Who cares about Satoshi Nakamoto? Someone else has made Bitcoin what it is and has the most power over its destiny.

• By Tom Simonite on August 15, 2014

WHY IT MATTERS

The 13 million bitcoins in existence are worth more than $7 billion.

In March, a bewildered retired man faced journalists yelling questions about virtual currency outside his suburban home in Temple City, California. Dorian Nakamoto, 64, had been identified by Newsweek as the person who masterminded Bitcoin—a story that, like previous attempts to unmask its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, was soon discredited. Meanwhile, the person arguably most responsible for enabling the currency to swell in value to $7.7 billion, and with the most influence on its future, was hiding in plain sight on the other side of the country, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

That person is Gavin Andresen, a mild-mannered 48-year-old picked by the real Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he or she is, as his successor in late 2010. Andresen became “core maintainer”—chief developer—of the open source code that defines the rules of Bitcoin and provides the software needed to make use of it. The combination of Nakamoto’s blessing and Andresen’s years of diligent, full-time work on the Bitcoin code has given him significant clout in Bitcoin circles and stature beyond. The CIA and Washington regulators have looked to him to explain the currency. And it was Andresen who conceived of thenonprofit Bitcoin Foundation—established in 2013—which is the closest thing to a central authority in the world of Bitcoin.

Some Bitcoin enthusiasts offer bombastic predictions that Americans will shake off the shackles of the Federal Reserve and poor nations will rise to prosperity with the low-cost transactions made possible by the stateless virtual currency. Other Bitcoin boosters have the air of salesmen chasing a mark, reeling off reasons you should buy into the currency that make you feel you’re not getting the whole story. In contrast, Andresen seems to be in search of quiet personal satisfaction, cheerfully calling himself a “geek interested in nuts and bolts things.” He can make a pretty good pitch for Bitcoin, but he quickly slides into technical nuances that would be a turnoff for most. “We say this is going to be the year of the multisignature wallet,” he says when summing up what 2014 holds for Bitcoin.

Still, Andresen has had and maintains more influence than anyone else on the code that determines how Bitcoin operates—and ultimately whether it can survive. Although there is no central bank for the currency, its design needs significant changes if it is to become widely used. How Andresen wields his power over Bitcoin will shape not only its fate but also the prospects for other virtual currencies.

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Bitcoin’s origins may be shrouded in mystery, but plenty is known about Andresen and his past. Formerly known as Gavin Bell, he has been a software engineer ever since he graduated in computer science from Princeton in 1988 and took a job with the Silicon Valley computing company Silicon Graphics. He worked there for seven years, and then at a series of startups building products from 3-D drawing software to online games for blind and sighted people to play together. Then he encountered Bitcoin in 2010.

Bitcoins were essentially worthless at the time and extremely finicky to get ahold of and use. But Andresen saw technical elegance in Nakamoto’s design, and a currency outside the control of any government appealed to what he calls his “mostly libertarian” politics. Rather than being created by a central bank, bitcoins are “mined” by people running software that races to solve a mathematical puzzle and win a prize of newly minted bitcoins. The mining process is designed to gradually pay out less and less over time, until 21 million bitcoins exist, and it also serves to verify transactions made in the currency (see “What Bitcoin Is and Why It Matters”).

Eager to see people start using Bitcoin, Andresen launched a website in 2010 called the Bitcoin Faucet that handed out five free bitcoins to every visitor. (A bitcoin was worth only cents at the time but each one trades for $600 today; Andresen reduced the size of the handout as bitcoins rose in value, then shut the site down in 2012.) He also began sending code tweaks and improvements to Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s founder liked his work, and soon made his protégé’s e-mail address the only one on the project’s homepage. Andresen formally stepped forward in a December 2010 post on the Bitcoin forum. “With Satoshi’s blessing, and with great reluctance, I’m going to start doing more active project management for Bitcoin,” he wrote. He has worked full-time on it ever since. The Bitcoin Foundation paid him $209,648 in 2013—a salary he received in bitcoins.

His smooth ascent has led to frequent accusations that Andresen is Nakamoto and shed the pseudonym once the currency gained traction. He always flatly denies it. “I am not Satoshi Nakamoto; I have never met him; I have had many e-mail conversations with him,” he said after giving a talk in April. “Nobody knows who he is, I think.” If that was a lie, Andresen is a remarkable con man. Throughout hundreds of forum posts, e-mail messages, and lines of code, his style has been distinct from that of Nakamoto.

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Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh reveals she's 'gay and proud'

Rose of Tralee winner Maria Walsh has announced she is gay.

The 27-year-old announced she was "gay and proud" and that questions about her sexuality never came up during the Rose of Tralee festival.

She said: "To me, being gay is normal. I told my parents and they were supportive, as I knew they would be."

The Boston native moved to Shrule in County Mayo when she was seven-years-old and was crowned Rose of Tralee on Tuesday night.

"I'm confident in who I am as a person," she said.

"I'm not ashamed of my sexuality by any means," she said.

"The Rose of Tralee is about celebrating women's intelligence, careers, their volunteer work. The question of sexuality never came up. To me, being gay is normal; it's natural."

Stunning Maria joked after lifting the title that she was single and that any potential romantic suitors will need to first pass “the mother and father test” before being given a second look.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Maria moved to Co Mayo with her family 20 years ago but following her graduation in Journalism and Visual Media at Griffith College, moved to New York and later to Philadelphia.

Maria drew tears from family members during her interview at the Dome in Tralee on Tuesday night when she remembered her cousin Teresa Molloy (aged 19), one of four women killed in a crash on the N17 near Milltown, Co Galway in November 2009.

“It’s moments like this, like being in the Rose of Tralee, that make you really seize the day and appreciate life and take everything as it comes,” said Maria.

“She has given me a lot of good luck to date, so I know she’s looking down on me and my family.”

She has since received a host of media attention, but not just because of her new title. A video of her brother's reaction to the win went viral earlier this week as, did footage of the new Rose taking the ice bucket challenge.

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Kevin Love à Cleveland, c'est officiel

Annoncé depuis le début du mois, le transfert de Kevin Love à Cleveland a été officialisé ce samedi soir. L'ancien intérieur des Wolves évoluera donc aux côtés de LeBron James et Kyrie Irving la saison prochaine.

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Le transfert était dans les cartons depuis deux semaines. Il a officiellement été dévoilé ce samedi et envoie, comme prévu, Kevin Love à Cleveland. Il s'agit en fait d'un échange à trois équipes incluant outre les Wolves et les Cavaliers, les 76ers qui récupèrent les arrières J.J Barea et Alexey Shved, ainsi qu'un tour de Draft 2015. La franchise du Minnesota récupère elle Andrew Wiggins, le premier choix de la Draft 2014, mais aussi Anthony Bennett, premier choix de la Draft... 2013, et l'intérieur Thaddeus Young. Après six saisons avec Kevin Love mais sans playoffs, les Wolves se tournent donc pour de bon vers l'avenir.

Les Cavaliers forment eux l'une des armadas les plus impressionnantes de la ligue puisqu'aux côtés de Kyrie Irving, la pépite américano-australienne de 22 ans, évolueront désormais deux machines statistiques, LeBron James, dont le retour avait été annoncé le 11 juillet dernier, et Kevin Love, donc. L'intérieur fuyant, capable d'alterner jeu intérieur et extérieur (190 tirs à trois points réussis la saison passée), scoreur efficace et rebondeur hors-normes, s'offre à bientôt 26 ans un tout nouveau challenge dans l'Ohio : il s'agira d'être plus impliqué défensivement sous les ordres du nouveau technicien des Cavs, David Blatt, et de jouer dès la saison prochaine les phases finales, chose qu'il n'a jamais réussi à faire dans le Minnesota. Selon toute vraissemblance, il devrait rapidement s'engager sur le long terme dans sa nouvelle franchise.

Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia have completed NBA trade call, source tells Yahoo. Kevin Love has joined LeBron James with the Cavs.

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Where you can get blazing-fast Internet speeds

A growing number of Americans have home Internet speeds that make your broadband connection look like dial-up.

Ultra-fast Internet is quickly spreading across the United States. By fast, we mean gigabit-per-second speeds, roughly 100 times faster than the average home Internet connection.

There are now 27 U.S. cities that offer gigabit Internet speeds to consumers -- up from just two cities as recently as a year ago.

AT&T (T, Tech30), Google (GOOGL, Tech30) and CenturyLink (CTL) have been the main drivers of ultra-fast Internet for home customers.

Google was a pioneer in the field, bringing its Google Fiber service to Kansas City, Kan., in 2012 after holding a widely publicized contest two years earlier to pick the launch city. Fiber has since spread to Kansas City, Mo., Provo, Utah, and will soon launch in Austin, Texas. Google has announced plans to bring Fiber to nine other cities across the country in the coming years.

AT&T's U-Verse service has been most bullish in its gigabit Internet plans, launching or getting set to deploy in 14 cities over the past year -- including major metropolitan areas, such as Dallas, Charlotte, Houston, Miami and Nashville. It is currently operating in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, and it is exploring gigabit Internet deployments in more than a dozen other markets in the future.

Broadband provider CenturyLink is launching in 10 markets, including Denver, Las Vegas, Orlando, Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Related: New Internet speed record blows past Google Fiber

The companies say that super-fast Internet speeds will help companies create the next big innovations that we can't even conceive with our current speeds. For instance, no one would have believed that YouTube or Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) could have existed in the days of 56k modems.

Although gigabit Internet hold great promise, the use cases for it today aren't vast. Most content companies simply aren't capable of serving up websites, photos or videos as fast as gigabit Internet users can download them.

For example, Google Fiber customers only receive Netflix videos slightly faster thanCablevision (CVC) subscribers -- who have nothing close to gigabit speeds available to them.

As gigabit Internet spreads across the country, however, content companies would likely be forced to make use of those capabilities.

But it's not certain that every city in the United States will get gigabit services. Super-fast Internet requires fiberoptic connections to be brought into a customer's home, which can be a very expensive endeavor. As it stands, the gigabit Internet roll-outs today aren't happening in every neighborhood of the 27 cities.

The good news is that broadband companies are increasingly testing ways to send super-fast Internet over their existing copper-based infrastructure. They hope one day to deliver gigabit Internet to customers' homes over landlines. But the technology is still experimental.

So if you're not one of the lucky few to have gigabit Internet already, don't hold your breath -- but don't lose hope either. 

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Hospital network's failure led to massive hack

A major hospital network's failure to update its computer softwareallowed hackers to steal 4.5 million patient records earlier this year, a security expert says.

The hackers took advantage of Heartbleed, the infamous defect in the way computers communicate securely with websites.

Community Health Systems' massive data breach could have been avoided.

There were widespread media reports and repeated warnings from cybersecurity professionals earlier in the year. But security researchers at TrustedSec say the hospital network did not update its systems to patch the bug soon enough.

TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy said a person involved in the investigation of the hack has confirmed that Heartbleed was the culprit.

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Juniper Network (JNPR) -- the hospital group's secure network provider, according to TrustedSec -- quickly patched its software for the Heartbleed bug. But it was up to the hospitals to patch their own systems.

"It's not surprising that Heartbleed was present in [the hospital network's] infrastructure," said Sam King, who oversees Veracode security products. "The question is: Why didn't they know about it or do something about it?"

Community Health Systems (CYH) declined to address the report to CNNMoney.

Related story: Why hospitals can't protect patient data

 

A used thermostat could hack your house

When you see a lock icon in your address bar, that's supposed to indicate that the conversation taking place between your computer and the Web server is secure. But the Heartbleed bug allowed attackers to bypass that encryption and spy on Internet traffic in real time.

That's what happened here, TrustedSec claims.

Medical personnel working from home logged into Community Health Systems' computers using a secure Virtual Private Network. But hackers attacked computer servers managing that network. The hackers gathered the medical professionals' usernames and passwords, later using them to log in and steal patient names, Social Security numbers and more from network-affiliated doctors' offices.

CNNMoney quiz: What hackers know about you

It's the first example of a major Heartbleed attack -- and it's unlikely to be the last.Heartbleed continues to affect gadgets everywhere: computer servers, network switches, even office phones. This makes Heartbleed a long-lasting problem.

Major companies are typically slow to update their systems -- even in critical situations -- because they lose track of their hardware.

"The problem with corporations is that they don't know where all their stuff is," said cybersecurity expert Robert Graham. "On any network, there's a lot of old devices, and as long as they're working, no one's touched them for years."

Still, the report that Heartbleed was at fault is aggravating, because it's an easy bug to catch. Free software like Masscan reviews entire networks for instances of the Heartbleed bug. And network monitoring services would spot if a hospital-affiliated doctor who usually works from home in Alabama suddenly connects from China -- where Community Health Systems said the hack emanated.

CNNMoney's cybersecurity Flipboard magazine: How safe are you?

"An organization like that should be watching what's leaving their network," saidFlowTraq CEO Vincent Berk. "What doctor or nurse or administrative department needs access to 4.5 million records in a short period of time?

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Is Twitter a tech company or a news service?

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo finds himself facing the same questions that news executives do: Where do you draw the line?

Twitter was founded on the idea of democratizing information and has famously been used to organize protests against dictatorships and break news in real time.

But this week, Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) was the main platform used by terrorist group ISIS to broadcast the gruesome beheading of journalist James Foley.

And for Costolo, that was the line in the sand. He condemned the actions in a tweet and vowed to suspend any accounts spreading those images.

It's a departure for Twitter -- the company rarely comments on specific cases of accounts.

But its Silicon Valley ethos is forced to evolve as its users do.

That's also meant purging Twitter accounts used by ISIS members over the last ten days, according to analyst Max Abrahm, who said the company is becoming more aggressive in choosing what its members see and whether a particular message can spread.

ISIS has become notoriously social media savvy. They attach popular hashtags to their tweets, so users searching those hashtags often stumble on ISIS tweets containing recruitment messages (for instance #WorldCup on tweets completely unrelated to the sporting event).

At one point, the group created an app that gave them the ability to tweet their message through the accounts of users who sign up. Isis recruitment videos are well produced and shot with HD cameras for the sole purpose of spreading their message and gaining a following on social networks, particularly Twitter.

"Terrorists use the media to help spread terror," analyst Max Abrahm said. "And there's been this link between terrorism and the media going back to the anarchists of the late nineteenth century. But ISIS is particularly savvy, especially [with] social media -- namely Twitter."

Related: LiveLeak bans future ISIS beheading videos

Now the question for the ever-evolving company is what is Twitter's responsibility? Is it to the users, the freedom of information, or a moral obligation? The lines between Twitter as a tech company and Twitter as a media company are increasingly blurred, which makes the question more relevant. Many would say Twitter made the right decision by purging the service of graphic imagery. Others would ask whether this stance against ISIS extends to other groups, trolls, or graphic imagery.

In an age where freedom of information is celebrated and social networks have exploded, there's a balancing act between disseminating information and an overarching respect for humanity. Twitter has taken a front seat in this debate.

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'Secret' app didn't actually keep you anonymous

Secret is supposed to be the anonymous social network. But as of last week, Secret allowed your friends to trace posts back to you.

Hackers at Rhino Security Labs figured out a way to dupe Secret's system.

To join Secret's community, the app imports your contacts. It then labels which posts are from your friends.

To prevent you from tracking a particular person, Secret requires that seven of your contacts post to the network before it labels their posts.

But here's the hack: Fill your phone's contact list with fake people and only one real contact -- your target. If you control posts coming from these dummy Secret accounts, it's easy to spot when your real "friend" is posting.

"Poison the data on the outside, bring it in as trusted data, and voilà! You make the system work for you," said Bryan Seely, a Rhino researcher in Seattle.

Why does it matter? Consider these recent posts.

Related story: Hospitals can't protect patient data

From someone in Tel Aviv, Israel: "I am an Arab. I live near Jerusalem. I am against war, and I believe in democracy. Hamas is bad for all Muslims! Stop Hamas! If someone found out I said that, I would be executed!"

A person in Utah: "Having an invisible illness is killing me. Literally. And I'm only 24."

And someone in Poland: "I told everyone that cat made those scars."

CNNMoney's cybersecurity Flipboard magazine: How safe are you?

 

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The security researchers notified the San Francisco startup last week, and Secret said it issued a fix immediately. Now, if you import a bunch of fake friends and only one real one, the real one won't be tagged as a "friend," Seely said. It's security through obscurity.

Secret CEO David Byttow blamed an app software update, saying the hack was "arduous," not 100% accurate and only possible for a short time.

"We're incredibly grateful to these folks for coming to us. We patched a similar issue back in May," Byttow said, adding, that the problem was fixed within 'a matter of hours.'

But consider this a reminder about a mantra in the hacker community: Nothing you do in the digital realm is truly anonymous. Eventually, it will be traced back to you. 

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Apparently This Matters: Want to use Tom Hanks' typewriter?

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Actor Tom Hanks has helped develop a new app that acts like a typewriter
• Hanks is a fan of typewriters and has a personal collection
• The app is supposed to give users a vintage feel, but with modern technology

Editor's note: Each week in "Apparently This Matters," CNN'sJarrett Bellini applies his warped sensibilities to trending topics in social media and random items of interest on the Web.

(CNN) -- We all have weird, irrational concerns.

So, if you're just staring at your walls, drowning in fear that the great Tom Hanks may never release a digital typewriter app for your iPad, then this one is for you.

Because it finally exists. I'm just not exactly sure why.

But, the new Hanx Writer app definitely looks, acts, and sounds just like a real typewriter, all nestled within the technological convenience of your amazing, space-age digital tablet.

"Apparently This Matters" Is Jarrett Bellini's weekly (and somewhat random) look at social-media trends.

The one you bought to replace your laptop. Which you bought to replace your desktop. Which we all bought to replace our typewriters when we realized we were living in the '80s and didn't have to deal with this crap anymore.

Speaking of which, did you know the decline of typewriters can directly be traced to the rise of the British pop music duo, Wham!.

Coincidence? Yes. Totally. Completely.

It's just that I sort of got sucked into an Internet information wormhole, and that was my major takeaway. Typewriters went out. Wham! came in.

Serious journalism.

Anyway, I really don't mean to be critical of anyone's interest in outdated typewriters. Or even modern, pretend digital typewriters. After all, both are great if you enjoy that warm, old-world feel of seemingly irreversible mistakes.

"Dave, you misspelled seven words."

"Whatever. It's not like it's the Torah."

"No, it's your resume."

As for me, it's just too much trouble. I'm simply not hipster enough to fully appreciate a device that somehow makes it more difficult to write 700 words about not wearing pants.

That kind of art requires only the very best modern technology. And a weird childhood.

But long-form writing really isn't the point of the Hanx Writer, for it serves a completely different purpose.

Digital nostalgia.

And it's a hit. As I'm writing this on Thursday night, the Hanx Writer sits proudly as the No. 1 free iPad app in the iTunes store.

Behold! The awesome power of Tom Hanks!

He managed to take something from your parents' garage, and put it right on your iPad.

But what I really find funny is the iTunes category: Productivity.

Sorry, Mr. Hanks. I do appreciate the inventiveness of your app and your passion for the medium, however let's not kid ourselves. It's anything but productive.

Unless, of course, your goal for the day is to make multiple spelling and punctuation mistakes. In which case, it" s f&9#ing greatgdzfg!.;

"Well, what in the world is this fancy-pants thing?"

To be fair, it does have a few necessary conveniences, like a setting which allows you to use "modern delete." It also provides for copy-paste.

So, it's sort of a combination of old and new. Users can enjoy the feeling of a typewriter while still processing words digitally. The idea is that what you make will feel to you, and look to your reader, like something more personal than an e-mail or a text message.

And Hanks argues that kind of personalization shines best through a typewriter. Even a digital one.

The Oscar-winning actor is actually a huge aficionado of typewriters. A year ago, he even wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about why he loves them so much.

Amazingly, Hanks says he uses a manual typewriter almost every day.

He wrote: "Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thank-you note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece."

Maybe so.

"Sarah, thanks for being my beautiful maid of honor on such a special day for me and Brad. I'm sorry you threw up in the hotel lobby."

The vintage-style typewriters of the Hanx Writer app are all digitally crafted from the personal collection of the guy who left Wilson the Volleyball to die scared and alone in the middle of the ocean like some sort of dirty animal. That was his best friend, man. He could've gone back. He could've saved Wilson. Hell, he'd be dead without Wilson. And then he's all, "Oh, bye Wilson. I'm sorry. But I'm on a raft and I'm too scared to go back for my best friend. Hope you have a nice life floating around like a whale turd in the pacific." What a jerk. Nice typewriters, though.

And maybe not.

Now, for what it's worth, this column was crafted (ha!) over the span of two days using two different computers. During that time, I paused to read more of Hanks' op-ed. And, despite my earlier cynicism, I admit that I now better understand the appeal.

Dammit, Tom Hanks. Why do you have to be so charming?

So, yeah, I'm sort of sold on the idea that an old typewriter might tap into your creativity in a different way. Which is why they put a lot of thought into making this app.

Pulling from Hanks' vast personal collection, the app's developer, Hitcents, created several totally original vintage-style typewriter choices. One of these comes standard with the app. The others are available for purchase. And each types with a completely different style.

With the help of Hanks, they literally studied the ink patterns of these old typewriters, and digitally recreated the typefaces within the app.

Thus, if you're not working on anything too serious as a final draft, and if you want to explore your creativity and communication in a different, perhaps even more personal, way, the Hanx Writer might just be the app for you.

Maybe so.

"Sarah, we just got a bill from the hotel."

And maybe not.

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