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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.| 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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Meet Lizard Squad, the group whose DDoS attack crippled Xbox Live and PlayStation Network — Meet Lizard Squad, the hackers who ruined Christmas for gamers worldwide — Vinnie Omari was still a bit drunk when he initiated what could be the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack in history.| 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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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 … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
As competition among VCs increases, some founders sell shares in early funding rounds — Investors Are ‘Fighting Like Drunken Sailors’ Over Hot Startups And Letting Founders Get Rich Too Early — Venture Capitalists used to invest in startups so founders could build businesses.| Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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Comcast-TWC merger looks less likely amid growing opposition, concern over state of US broadband — As Comcast merger enters final phase, deal may be on thin ice — Credit: André P. Meyer-Vitali/Flickr CC — Credit: André P. Meyer-Vitali/Flickr CC| 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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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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| Michelle Moghtader / Reuters: |
Iran to expand Internet “smart filtering” to censor content without banning entire websites — Iran expands ‘smart’ Internet censorship — (Reuters) - Iran is to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning …
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