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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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Tweets: @lizardmafia, @lizardmafia, @kaepora, @kaepora, @lizardmafia and @fredericjacobs
| 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, Xbox One Support, BGR, TechCrunch, TorrentFreak, WinBeta, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Forbes, Washington Post, CNET, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Kotaku, gameinformer.com, SiliconBeat and CNN
Tweets: @lizardmafia, @askplaystation, @lizardmafia, @bdsams, @briankrebs, @boogie2988, @avalanchetwitch, @totalbiscuit and @kimdotcom
| 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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Gizmodo, PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Verge, PandoDaily, Hit & Run, The Hill, TheBlaze.com, Boing Boing, Reuters, GamePolitics blogs, The Register, The Intercept, Gigaom, CNET, Mashable and ThinkProgress
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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CNNMoney.com, The Verge, The Official Google Blog, Variety, Reuters, Mashable, Polygon, CNET, Neowin, Ubergizmo, BGR, Bloomberg, Deadline, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, New York Times, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Los Angeles Times, Open Culture, Broadband TV News, New York Times, Gizmodo, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Electronista, Upstart Business Journal, Deadline, ThinkProgress, BGR, Pop Culture Blog, Phandroid, Techdirt, The Mac Observer, Tech Trader Daily, The Hill, Inside Movies, SiliconBeat, CNNMoney.com, TechnoBuffalo, Chicago Tribune, Hardcore Gamer, MacNN and Cult of Mac. See also Mediagazer
| 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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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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Business Insider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @cdixon, @chrisamccoy, @alex, @cdixon, @mdudas, @patrickc, @smc90, @levie and @smc90. 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, SlashGear, Electronista, BetaNews, Business Insider, CNET, Reuters, tech.co, TechCrunch, GeekWire, internetretailer.com and Mashable. Tweets: @mdudas
| 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
| 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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| 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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| 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, Engadget, Android Central, Social Barrel, The Next Web, Tech Times, 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 … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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