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| Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post: |
Xbox Live is back, but PlayStation Network is still down after Christmas outage for which Lizard Squad claimed responsibility — PlayStation and Xbox's networks are still recovering from a Christmas Day outage — Revelers opening brand-new PlayStation 4 or Xbox One video game consoles …
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PlayStation Knowledge Center, TechCrunch, BGR, TorrentFreak, WinBeta, The Register, Business Insider, CNET, The Daily Dot, USA Today, Washington Post, CNN, Business Insider, Kotaku, gameinformer.com and SiliconBeat
Tweets: @lizardmafia, @askplaystation, @briankrebs, @lizardmafia, @bdsams, @boogie2988, @avalanchetwitch, @totalbiscuit and @kimdotcom
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tor network flooded with new relays by Lizard Squad, group allegedly behind Xbox Live and PSN attacks, potentially threatening users' anonymity — Hackers allegedly behind Xbox and PlayStation network shutdown set sights on Tor — The group that allegedly took down Microsoft …
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Gizmodo, ReadWrite, Gigaom and Business Insider
Tweets: @lizardmafia, @lizardmafia, @kaepora, @lizardmafia, @fredericjacobs and @kaepora
| David Lerman / Bloomberg: |
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade — U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans — The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law …
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Tweets: @timmathews, @thomas_drake1, @whatthebit, @vpkivimaki and @newtonmark
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Interview sees over 750K estimated torrent downloads in first 20 hours of availability; release of film exclusively in the US a possible driving factor — The Interview Is A Pirate Hit With 200k Downloads (Updated) — Facing a “terrorist” threat theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview last week.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
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Tweets: @google, @brianstelter, @benfritz, @rolfewinkler, @daveleebbc, @sdkstl, @panzer, @fmanjoo, @stevekovach, @mikeisaac, @stevekovach, @dcseifert and @ganzeer
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Facebook's Year in Review suggestions may in some cases be inadvertently tactless and hurtful — Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty — I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook.
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Om Malik, The Daily Dot, Washington Post, PC Magazine and TechCrunch
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
The Open Bay helps launch 372 ‘copies’ of The Pirate Bay in a week, becomes GitHub's most popular project — isoHunt, the group now best known for launching The Old Pirate Bay, has shared an update a week after debuting The Open Bay. The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet … Thanks:@epro
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon says 10 million new customers tried Prime over the holidays — Here's what everyone bought during the holiday shopping rush — Pushing the cost of Amazon Prime up to $99 annually hasn't done much to hurt the subscription service; Amazon today announced that 10 million new customers used …
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Amazon.com, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, tech.co, SlashGear, Electronista, Business Insider, GeekWire, internetretailer.com and Mashable
Tweets: @mdudas and @harrisonweber
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Withings Activité review: too expensive for mass market at $450, but will appeal to watch enthusiasts — Withings Activité Fitness Tracking Watch Review — Wearable tech has seemed on a fairly straightforward path throughout the course of its initial development … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Kodak-branded Android smartphone to launch in January at CES; tablet, camera, 4G handset will come later in year — Kodak is launching a line of Android smartphones in 2015 — Kodak has announced that it's licensing its name to a range of mobile devices that make it easier to print and share images.
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PR Newswire, The Next Web, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Re/code and Droid Life
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @verge
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IBM: mobile made up 34.8% of total Christmas Day online sales, an increase of 20.4% YoY; iOS accounted for 27%, nearly 4x Android — IBM: Christmas online sales up 8.3%, iOS numbers nearly quadruple Android's — Christmas is a religious and cultural celebration for billions of people …
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| Paul Graham: |
Immigration reform is crucial to keeping the US a tech superpower, as 95% of great programmers reside outside the US — Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In — American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US.
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VentureBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @chrisamccoy, @cdixon, @alex, @cdixon, @mdudas, @patrickc, @smc90 and @smc90. Thanks:@ryanm
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Huawei's low cost Honor smartphone unit sales up to 20M from 1M in one year after replicating Xiaomi's online strategy — Huawei's smartphone sales shoot up after copying Xiaomi's online strategy — (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] has taken sales of its low-price Honor brand … Sponsor Posts
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