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Amazon adds 10,500 Post Office parcel pick-up points across the UK — It's probably no surprise that this move comes just ahead of Christmas, but Amazon has today announced an extension of its local ‘PickUp’ locations to thousands of Post Office branches dotted around the UK.
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Regin malware found on Belgacom, plus networks of European Commission, Council, Parliament, and others linked to GCHQ, NSA operations — U.S. and British Intel Agencies Attacked European Union With Malware — Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated …
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Regin Cyberespionage Platform Also Spies on GSM Networks — Researchers have uncovered a complex espionage platform reminiscent of Duqu that has been used since at least 2008 not only to spy on and extract email and documents from government agencies, research institutions and banks … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Uber removed blog post from data science team that examined link between prostitution and rides — Earlier today, Gina Neff, an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest, noticed something missing from Uber's Data Blog.| Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter: |
Universal Picks Up Steve Jobs Movie — Danny Boyle is set to direct the feature, written by Aaron Sorkin — Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround, Universal Pictures has stepped up and adopted the project.| Leon Spencer / ZDNet: |
Global online population hits 3 billion: ITU — Summary: There are now more than 3 billion people online globally, with two-thirds of all people with internet access now living in the developing world, according to new research by the United Nations agency charged with improving the world's access to IT infrastructure.
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Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company — A Top Twitter Executive Just Had A Massive Direct Message Fail — It looks like Twitter's finance chief Anthony Noto thought he was messaging another Twitter executive about buying a company.
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EU digital chief Andrus Ansip urges Europe not to weaken net neutrality rules — Digital tsar urges Europe not to weaken net neutrality rules — (Reuters) - The European Union's new digital tsar voiced alarm on Monday at the efforts of some EU governments to water down equal Internet access … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
T-Mobile forced to stop hiding slow speeds from throttled customers — When T-Mobile US customers exceed their monthly data caps, they aren't cut off from the Internet entirely. Instead, T-Mobile throttles their connections to 128Kbps or 64Kbps, depending on which plan they have, for the rest of the month.
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Sony Pictures hacked, entire computer system reportedly unusable — Reports that Sony Pictures has been hacked have been trickling in this morning, after a thread appeared on Reddit claiming all computers at the company were offline due to a hack. — According to the Reddit thread …
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Former WSJ publisher L. Gordon Crovitz is either misinformed or is deliberately misleading in recent pro-surveillance essay — Ridiculously Misinformed Opinion Piece In WSJ Asks Apple And Google To Make Everyone Less Safe — Former Wall Street Journal publisher L. Gordon Crovitz still gets to publish opinion pieces in the WSJ.
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iFixit: Nexus 6 is easy to fix if you can get it open — If you ever find yourself with a broken Nexus 6, iFixit has your back. The site has just completed its teardown of the Google/Motorola Nexus “phablet,” and it turns out that most of the internal components are pretty easy to get to.
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