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Microsoft now notifies users if it believes their accounts were targeted by a state-sponsored hacker — Additional steps to help keep your personal information secure — We're committed to helping our users keep their personal information secure and private.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Former Microsoft employees say company failed to alert Hotmail users in 2011 that their accounts were hacked by Chinese authorities — Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops — Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
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Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack, services disrupted for several hours — Web attack knocks BBC websites offline — All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack. — The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors …
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See also Mediagazer| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans — AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
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| Oculus: |
Oculus Touch controller delayed to second half of 2016, Oculus Rift remains on schedule to ship in Q1 2016 — Update on Oculus Touch Ship Date — On the path to perfecting Touch, we've decided that we need more time before release, and we'll now be shipping Touch in the second half of 2016.
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Valve Apologizes For Steam's Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users — Valve has finally apologized for last week's Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the information of around 34,000 users.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42 — Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42.
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Tweets: @dchest, @endpoint, @davidu, @pmarca, @digiphile, @smgalante, @declanm, @digiphile and @werner
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces it completed its one billionth trip on Christmas Eve in London — Uber just completed its billionth trip — By most measures, Uber has had a pretty good year: numerous political victories, new product launches, and scary amounts of cash raised. And the hits keep coming.
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| BBC: |
BlackBerry to keep operating in Pakistan after authorities drop demands to access users' messages — Blackberry to keep operating in Pakistan — Blackberry is no longer going to shut down its operations in Pakistan as it has resolved a row concerning its users' messages.
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| Om Malik / New Yorker: |
In Silicon Valley Now, It's Almost Always Winner Takes All — In September, 2014, after investing in a ride-sharing company called Sidecar, Richard Branson declared that it was “early days and, like a lot of other commodity businesses, there is room for innovators on great customer experiences.”
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: development for updated Twitter Mac app was outsourced; one source says to Black Pixel — Twitter's updated Mac app wasn't made by Twitter — Twitter's oft-neglected app for Mac got a much-needed update today, adding support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets, and other features that mobile users have had for ages.
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MacNN and Business Insider. Tweets: @james_welsh, @schwa, @dlpasco, @dlpasco, @joshelman, @reckless and @markgurman
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @milend, @twitter, @reckless, @benedictevans, @iamkory, @moeffju, @andypiper, @fredericjacobs, @jsnell, @steve228uk, @jsnell and @jsnell
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp goes down for some on New Year's Eve — WhatsApp isn't working today for some users. We first spotted the problems at 9:58 a.m. Pacific — we couldn't send messages for a good few minutes. They went through eventually, but the outage seems to be impacting certain regions more than others … Sponsor Posts
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