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December 19, 2015, 5:10 PM
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors  —  Encryption backdoors have been a hot topic in the last few years—and the controversial issue got even hotter after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, when it dominated media headlines.
The Intercept:
An internal US government catalogue details dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and intelligence agencies  —  A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone … THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens …
Allegra Frank / Polygon:
League of Legends developer Riot Games is now owned entirely by Tencent  —  Riot Games now owned entirely by Tencent  —  The League of Legends studio's remaining shares have been bought up Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, has sold its remaining equity to Chinese online company Tencent Holdings.
John Goglia / Forbes:
FAA Finally Admits Names And Home Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available  —  The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants' names and home addresses will be public.  In an email message, the FAA stated"Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address.
David Harris / Cargo Facts:
Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 767 widebody freighters  —  [EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say  —  Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac  —  Note-taking app company Evernote today delivered some sad news for users of the image annotation app Skitch.  The iOS, Android, and Windows versions of Skitch will be going away on January 22.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Microsoft acquires Metanautix, an analytics startup that helps big companies navigate their data  —  Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data.  Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed
Chris Velazco / Engadget:
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act enacted into law by President Obama after being passed as part of omnibus bill  —  Budget bill heads to President Obama's desk with CISA intact  —  Earlier today, the US House of Representatives passed a 2,000-page omnibus budget bill that contains …
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Exclusive: Target in initial development of own mobile wallet - sources  —  Target Corp is in the early stages of developing its own mobile wallet, three people familiar with the matter said, joining Wal-Mart Stores Inc in posing a threat to recent entrants like Apple Pay.

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Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
A UK jury convicts two Iranians of assisting Iranian intelligence in a plan to “eliminate” journalists at London-based Persian broadcaster Iran International

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Bill Simmons and Spotify canceled a ChatGPT partnership after audience backlash; Ringer hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins had voiced unease on air

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Source: NBC News will stop airing one hour of primetime programming on the NBC News Now streaming service, eliminating the Stay Tuned show and a handful of jobs

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Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Facebook and security researcher clash over disclosure best practices and compensation over Instagram bug and researcher's further systems probing
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Windows Phone 8.1 users won't get Windows 10 Mobile update until 2016
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