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December 29, 2014, 11:05 AM

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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple  —  UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’  —  Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able to access
Spiegel Online:
Snowden documents reveal the NSA routinely intercepted SSL/TLS traffic, decrypted VPN connections, struggled with PGP, Truecrypt, Tor, CSpace, OTR, ZRTP in 2012  —  Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security  —  US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack …
Re/code:
New King of Tech Startups: Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Raises $1.1 Billion at $45 Billion Valuation  —  Xiaomi has said it has closed a massive $1.1 billion round of funding that values the fast-growing Chinese phone maker at a jaw-dropping $45 billion, pre-money.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Sony says ‘The Interview’ was rented or purchased more than 2M times, generated over $15M in online sales; Apple starts offering the movie on iTunes  —  ‘The Interview’ Generated Over $15 Million In Online Sales  —  Sony announced Sunday night that “The Interview” …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early  —  The Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, officially closed today, five days ahead of when Yahoo had said the end would come.  —  If you try to reach the Yahoo Directory at its long-standing address of http …
Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:
China's Great Firewall attacks Google once again, blocks any form of access to Gmail  —  Gmail users in China are now finding that Google's email service is totally inaccessible in the country.  While Gmail's website has been blocked in China since June, along with every other Google service …
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:
PlayStation Network back online after three-day outage due to DDoS attack; Sony says some users may still experience intermittent issues  —  PSN is still down for some as Sony gets service back online  —  Sony says that its online service is back up and running, but many people are still having issues playing games.
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
Mark Gilbert / Bloomberg View:
Bitcoin was the worst-performing currency of 2014, dropping more than 56% to under $330  —  And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin  —  It's been a bad year for the Russian ruble and a terrible 12 months for the Ukrainian hryvnia.  But it's been a catastrophic 2014 for Bitcoin, the virtual currency.
Matthew Braga / Fast Company:
Archivist Daniel Rehn of wwwtxt, a cache of Internet content from 1980-94, finds similarities in conversations from then and now  —  WWWTXT: The Oldest Internet Archive  —  Los Angeles archivist Daniel Rehn has found a cache of “web text” that dates back to 1980.  What's amazing is how much hasn't changed.
More: Gizmodo
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 …
Jack Kim / Reuters:

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