An aide of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said that a report on Bitcoin's potential regulation will be released in late spring. Supporters and regulators of the virtual currency had said that the identity revelation of the Bitcoin founder has no contribution to the regulation efforts of authorities on the Bitcoin industry, Politico has said.
South Carolina native Ebony Wilkerson, who is pregnant, has been formally charged with attempted murder and child abuse after driving into a surf and leaving her kids in a locked van, the Los Angeles Times said.
Judge Reggie Walton of the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said that there is no reason for the need to extend the storage time of classified telephone surveillance data of the National Security Agency as fears of getting litigated by civilian plaintiffs have driven the government to make the request and not for security reasons.