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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 …
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North Korean Internet Access Restored After Hours-Long Outage — North Korea's access to the Internet has been hit with outages and is offline today, according to a network-monitoring company, days after the U.S. government accused the country of hacking into Sony Corp.'s files.| Max Fisher / Vox: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases critical NTP Security Update for OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, & Mountain Lion — Apple today released an OS X NTP Security Update for Mac users running 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. The update is recommended for all users and fixes a …
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Exploits Circulating for Remote Code Execution Flaws in NTP Protocol — Researchers at Google have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol and experts warn that there are exploits publicly available for some of the bugs. — The vulnerabilities are present … | New York Times: |
JPMorgan data breach entry point identified, one server didn't have two-factor authentication — Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identified — The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted if the bank … | 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.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Comcast-TWC merger delayed, FCC says 7,000 docs wrongly held back — Comcast's plans to swallow its largest rival Time Warner Cable has suffered another setback as the FCC announced Monday it would once again halt its “shot clock,” which is the 180-day time period during which the agency seeks …
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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.
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| 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.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
After Google suit, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — It appears that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of Google.
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| 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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Apple reopens Russian online store after boosting iPhone 6 price by 35% — Apple raised the price of its entry-level iPhone 6 by 35% when it reopened its Russian online story today. — Last week, the Cupertino, Calif. company shuttered its Russian e-market after the ruble took a dive …
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