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December 9, 2015, 11:20 PM
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple's 2015 apps of the year include Periscope for iPhone, Robot Factory for iPad, HBO Now for Apple TV, Dark Sky for Apple Watch, and Affinity Photo for Mac  —  Apple Publishes Best of 2015 App Store Lists for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV  —  Early this morning …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot:
Senator Dianne Feinstein to seek legislation to “pierce” through encryption with warrant, working with Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Burr, others  —  Top Democratic senator will seek legislation to ‘pierce’ through encryption  —  A leading Democratic senator …
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
Google publishes results for its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, says tests show it performs 100M times faster than conventional computing for some problems  —  Google's quantum computer can blitz a normal PC - but it's not ready for production just yet  —  Google's latest tests show there's light …
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
The “Satoshi” PGP keys reported to be linked to Craig Wright were likely backdated, pointing to a hoax  —  Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax  —  On Tuesday, both Wired and Gizmodo dropped a big bombshell: According to “leaked” (Wired) or “hacked” …
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board  —  Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Only three of YouTube's top 10 videos of 2015 were made by ordinary YouTubers  —  The year has changed, and the exact videos have changed, but one aspect of YouTube's annual top-10 remains pretty predictable: The real powerhouses on the site that claims to have democratized Internet video …
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Blog:
Microsoft open sources blogging tool Live Writer  —  Announcing Open Live Writer - An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer  —  Today is the day.  An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer.
Brian Solomon / Forbes:
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap raising $827M Series C at a post-money valuation of $3.7B  —  Secretive Augmented Reality Startup Magic Leap Raising $827 Million  —  Magic Leap wants to change your reality.  And apparently they need a lot of money to do it.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Play Music adds family plan allowing six family members to stream simultaneously for $15 per month, extends to YouTube Red  —  Google Play Music launches $14.99 family plan for up to six people  —  Google's finally rolling out the six-person, $14.99 family plan for Google Play Music that it first teased over two months ago.

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

The Guardian:
The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Atlassian prices its IPO at $21 per share, above its proposed range of $19-$20 per share, valuing the company at $4.4B
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Google to start sending search traffic to AMP pages as early as February, announces new partners including LINE, Viber, and Tango

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Ben Brown / Official Google Blog:
Google offers three interchangeable shells to customize TP-LINK OnHub routers, for $29-$39
Betsy Cameron / Facebook:
Facebook's most talked-about global topics in 2015 include US Presidential Election, Paris attacks, refugee crisis, nepal earthquake, Greek debt crisis
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Microsoft patches 71 flaws, two for Office and Windows kernel vulnerabilities currently under attack, warns of leaked Xbox Live certificate
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify to test allowing some musicians to temporarily withhold music from ad-supported version of the service
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