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December 22, 2014, 11:55 PM

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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails  —  Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself.  Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action …
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 …
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.
Bianca Bosker / Backchannel:
How Pinterest's early onboarding process made a few unknown users its most popular pinners  —  How People You've Never Heard of Got To Be the Most Powerful Users on Pinterest  —  The most popular people on Pinterest aren't famous celebrities or pop-culture icons.  In fact, they don't even want you to know them.
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 …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Tweet Analytics Now Available in Twitter for iPhone  —  I noticed some users tweeting about mobile tweet analytics over the past couple of weeks, and today Twitter has officialized the rollout: … It's nice that I can look at analytics directly from the Twitter app for iPhone …

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