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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
I work at Sony Pictures. This is what it was like after we got hacked. — An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea's alleged cyber attack on the company.
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BGR, Business Insider, Wired.co.uk and Guardian
Tweets: @drjessicabarker, @anonyops and @malwarejake
| Reuters: |
China condemns cyberattacks, but says no proof North Korea hacked Sony — (Reuters) - China said on Monday it opposed all forms of cyberattacks but there was no proof that North Korea was responsible for the hacking of Sony Pictures, as the United States has said.
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Los Angeles Times, Fortune, USA Today, Gigaom, Deadline, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Neowin. Tweets: @jeffreycarr
| Max Fisher / Vox: |
North Korea's internet appears to be under mass cyber attack — Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, The Next Web, North Korea Tech, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, PC Magazine, The Verge, USA Today, Washington Post, ABC News, ValueWalk, Business Insider, Mashable, Gawker, UPROXX, The Atlantic Online, Computerworld and Lawfare
Tweets: @steven_strauss, @samuelaadams, @justicar, @smartypants60 and @jeffersonobama
See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google completes first fully-functional prototype self-driving car of the design it unveiled in May — Google announces its self-driving car is now fully functional — Google today announced it has completed the first build of its self-driving vehicle prototype.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Song Lyrics To Top Of Search Results, Points Searchers To Google Play — Google is now displaying music lyrics at the top of its search results pages when you search for “song name” plus “lyrics” on Google - a move that may reduce the number of visits to music lyrics sites … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its social presence with new iTunes Tumblr blog — In an interesting move, Apple has today launched a Tumblr blog for iTunes. The ‘blog’ runs a highly customized theme that more closely reflects Apple's own website than a typical Tumblr page.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Oracle buys Datalogix, beefs up digital marketing cloud — Summary:Oracle's acquisition of Datalogix complements the purchase of BlueKai and rounds out its data cloud. — Oracle on Monday said it acquired Datalogix, which provides digital marketing data as a service.
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Oracle, Tech Trader Daily, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Computerworld, internetretailer.com, Wired, AdExchanger, Mashable, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Xconomy and silicontap.com
Tweets: @ajs and @joshconstine
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Twitter closes up 3.6% after analyst on CNBC's Halftime Report says “there's a good chance” Dick Costolo will be out as CEO within a year — ANALYST: 'There's A Good Chance' Dick Costolo Is No Longer At Twitter In A Year — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's seat is warming up.
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CNBC, Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, BuzzFeed, StreetInsider.com, USA Today and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @libbybrittain, @sdkstl, @ericjackson and @mikeisaac
| Steven Sinofsky / Re/code: |
Steven Sinofsky predicts tablet resurgence, big enterprise challenges in 2015; sees 4K, beacons, payments, and more as technologies to watch — Forecast: Workplace Trends, Choices and Technologies for 2015 — What's in store for 2015 when it comes to technology advances in the workplace?
Tweets: @boxhq
| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Tempo smart calendar app for iOS updated with new widget, notifications, 9 languages, launches in 26 new countries in Asia — Tempo for iOS updated with new widget, notifications and languages — Smart calendar app Tempo got a major update today that takes full advantage of the new functionality available in iOS8.
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VentureBeat
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new stats, examples of government requests in latest Transparency Report — Google released the latest version of its Transparency Report today, revealing data about government requests the company received between June and December of 2013. According to the report … | Reuters: |
South Korean nuclear plant hacked, government says no risk to reactors, but experts concerned — South Korea nuclear plant operator says hacked, raising alarm — (Reuters) - Computer systems at South Korea's nuclear plant operator have been hacked, the company said on Monday …
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Guardian, english.yonhapnews.co.kr, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View, CNET, Mashable, Gizmodo, The State of Security, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Inquirer and Neowin. Tweets: @reverseics
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