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North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama a ‘monkey’ — (Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a “monkey” as it blamed Washington Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced amid a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Interview sees over 1.5M estimated torrent downloads in first two days of availability, comparable to popular blockbusters — 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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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
North Korean Internet experienced a 5+ hour outage after its only wireless carrier went down — Internet Crashes in North Korea as 3G Networks Fail — Three days after an apparent denial-of-service attack halted its Internet connections, North Korea suffered another Internet outage …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tor network flooded with new relays by Lizard Squad, group allegedly behind Xbox Live and PSN attacks — Hackers allegedly behind Xbox and PlayStation network shutdown set sights on Tor — The group that allegedly took down Microsoft and Sony's gaming networks now says it's set its sights on a new target.
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| Mike Fahey / Kotaku: |
PlayStation Network still experiencing outages days after DDoS attack reportedly ceased — PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage — Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting …
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| 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 … | Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
IRS demands Ballmer, other Microsoft leaders testify in corporate tax audit — The Internal Revenue Service has sued former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and a slate of other former and current executives, seeking to compel them to testify in a long-running investigation into how the company's …
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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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Thanks:@ryanm| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon says 10M people tried Prime, 60% of customers shopped from a mobile device this holiday season — 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 …
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Amazon.com, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, TechCrunch, CNET, tech.co, internetretailer.com, Electronista, SlashGear, Mashable, GeekWire and Business Insider. Tweets: @mdudas
| 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
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google resist Russian regulator's orders to remove information on rally supporting opposition leader Navalny — U.S. Tech Firms Face Showdown With Russian Censors — Facebook, Twitter, Google Wrestle With Kremlin Orders to Erase Content| Eric Meyer / Thoughts From Eric: |
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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