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Sony announces The Interview will play in select theaters Christmas day, on-demand release also expected — Multiple Theaters Say They Will Screen ‘The Interview’ — Sony's The Interview is getting its day in theaters after all. — The Plaza Theater in Atlanta and The Alamo Drafthouse …
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See also Mediagazer| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Sony breach highlights need to move away from insecure legacy OS architecture to mobile apps and cloud services — Why Sony's Breach Matters — This past year has seen more wide-spread, massive-scale, and damaging computer system breaches than any time in history.
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See also Mediagazer| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Google and Microsoft join wireless trade group in opposing hotel industry's FCC petition to allow blocking personal WiFi hotspots — Google, Wireless Industry Not Down With Marriott's Wi-Fi Blocking Plan — Microsoft and Google don't agree on much, but they've presented a united front …
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Apple pushes first ever automated security update for Macs to fix critical NTP vulnerabilities — Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has pushed out its first-ever automated security update to Macintosh computers to help defend …
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| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service — Prosecutors in South Korea charged Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and the head of its domestic business partner MK Korea Co. with violating a transportation law. — San Francisco-based Uber …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal judge approves warrantless creation of fake Instagram accounts used by law enforcement to befriend and access photos of suspects — Judge: It's OK for cops to create fake Instagram accounts — “No...warrant is required for the consensual sharing of this type of information.”| New York Times: |
JPMorgan data breach entry point identified: one server didn't use two-factor authentication — Neglected Server Provided Entry for JPMorgan Hackers — The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted …
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Tweets: @getwired, @williamalden and @nikcub
| Jodi Kantor / New York Times: |
How the gender gap in tech played out at the dawn of the web boom for Stanford's class of 1994 — A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled — Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University's pioneering class of 1994.
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SiliconBeat and The Quora Blog. Tweets: @nytimes, @cindygallop, @mcandrew, @globalhighered, @jodikantor, @aoscott, @bcappelbaum and @nilofer
| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple-led Rockstar Consortium sells remaining patent portfolio to RPX for $900M, drops existing lawsuits against Samsung, LG, and HTC — Apple-Led Rockstar Consortium Sells Remaining Patent Portfolio for $900 Million — San Francisco patent company RPX today announced it is purchasing … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Interlude targets YouTube with more engaging “choose your own adventure” music videos — YouTube Challenger Lets Music Fans Call the Shots — Five years ago Yoni Bloch, an Israeli rock star, wanted to make a music video that would let viewers choose what happened as the story unfolded.
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| Electronista: |
Samsung starts mass producing 8Gb LPDDR4 memory modules, enabling mobile devices with 4GB RAM, UHD recording capabilities — Samsung starts mass production of 8Gb LPDDR4 RAM chips — New LPDDR4 modules will be used for 4GB RAM modules for smartphones next year
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
TripAdvisor Fined $610,000 in Italy for Failing to Prevent Fake Reviews — TripAdvisor, the travel review website, just got a bad comment from the Italian competition authorities. The American company, which allows travelers to rate hotels and restaurants around the world …
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