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The alleged Russian hacker behind the leak of thousands of Democratic National Committee documents in July has been exposed, thanks to some crafty counter-espionage by the Central Intelligence Agency.

“Our cyber warfare specialists have reverse-engineered a data cache and recovered an image from the hacker’s webcam moments before the attack,” said CIA director John Brennan in a statement on Tuesday. “The suspect appears to be a Doge.”

But the identity of the Shiba Inu is being hotly debated in the intelligence community.

“Facial recognition scans are still inconclusive,” says Herman Caufman, a technology consultant who has a number of defense department contracts. “It’s a little insensitive to say it, but a lot of Shibas look the same – at least to a computer.”

The algorithms have surfaced two possible identities of known Russian cyber criminals: Malinov Nikolayevich and Kirigin Fyodor (Fedya) Filippovich. But intelligence experts warn these matches are only about 60% conclusive.

“There’s a strong chance he isn’t even in our databases,” says Caufman. “While this is a huge lead in the investigation, there’s probably a lot more of good old fashioned spying to be done.”

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A group of researchers in California have confirmed that rainbows do not lead to pots of gold as previously suspected. The UCLA-based team followed 15 rainbows over a seven week period in Yosemite National Park. The ends of six rainbows led to dog butts, four ended in old tree stumps, and the ends of the remaining rainbows could not be found.

“We were very surprised by our findings,” said lead researcher Nora Whitehall-Jones. “We’d heard plenty of lore about tree stumps, and we expected to lose the trail of a bunch of rainbows, but the dog butts came out of nowhere.”

The group can’t confirm if this is a universal phenomenon or something specific to the Yosemite Valley region. They’re planning a pair of follow up studies next year in Shenadoah National Park in Virginia and Killarney National Park in Ireland. A second group from the University of North Carolina also plans to investigate urban rainbows in and around the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Entrepreneur Randy Shipley received five “no” votes for his invention, the “E-Z-Store Dog,” on a recent episode of the reality television show Shark Tank. 

“I was feeling good going into the presentation,” said Shipley, who began selling the E-Z-Store Dog hanger attachment out of his van in Richmond, VA last year. “The sharks had funded the two businesses before me and they seemed to be feeling generous.”

He got the most interest from Mark Cuban, who he could see the usefulness for people with small closets. But ultimately, Cuban and the other sharks passed because they felt the margins were just too small for Shipley to be successful at scale.

“It was a good experience,” said Shipley, who said his website has seen a 10x uptick in traffic since the appearance. “I’m going to keep on going. I have my life savings already sunk in this. No stopping now!”

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Nico the chihuahua has been extracted from a complex network of blanket caves after a four hour search, according to a statement by the Ford County Sheriff’s Department.

“Our citizens and our emergency responders can rest easy tonight, knowing that Nico is safe,” said Captain Arnold Gomez, the officer leading the rescue operation. “It seems the pup dug himself a cozy den to keep warm and just went a little too deep.”

The search was organized when concerned friends and family noticed Nico did not come running at the sound of the can opener.

“He’s never one to miss a meal,” says Rachel Fitzgerald, who filed the original missing pup report. “That’s when we knew something was wrong.”

Sources close to the situation say Nico is resting comfortably on the couch, avoiding contact with all blankets and pillows for the time being.

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