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twitter service issue — At 20:49 UTC, our DNS provider experienced an issue in which it appears DNS records for various organizations were modified, including one of Twitter's domains used for image serving, twimg.com. Viewing of images and photos was sporadically impacted.
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT Through Registrar Melbourne IT — The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the domain name servers of two of Twitter's sites, and a third appears to have been redirected to servers hosted by the SEA.
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Tweets: @official_sea16, @official_sea16, @nyteileen, @mattjay, @panzer, @chaughney, @nytimes, @steved3, @samfbiddle, @pourmecoffee, @laurahazardowen and @prwerdel
See also Mediagazer| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Syrian Electronic Army attack suspected on New York Times; group also claims Twitter hack — The Web site for the New York Times was inaccessible for some users Tuesday, apparently as the result of a malicious attack. Tuesday's outage comes less than two weeks after the site suffered an outage that lasted approximately two hours.
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| Christine Haughney / New York Times: |
Times Web Site Affected by External Hacking Attack — The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.
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The Next Web, Domain Name Wire, Business Insider, GigaOM, The Register, ReadWrite, Mashable, Gizmodo, The Verge and NEWS.com.au. Tweets: @antderosa. See also Mediagazer
| Colin Stretch / Facebook: |
Global Government Requests Report — Transparency and trust are core values at Facebook. We strive to embody them in all aspects of our services, including our approach to responding to government data requests. We want to make sure that the people who use our service understand the nature …
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Tweets: @nikhilnarayanan, @paulszoldra, @nickbilton, @coracurrier and @jeffjohnroberts
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV updated with Vevo, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Weather Channel, Smithsonian apps — Today, Apple has issued an over-the-air update to the Apple TV that brings several new content apps. Notably, in line with expectations, an app for the Vevo Music Video service has arrived.
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VEVO.com, MacRumors, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechHive, Digits, PadGadget, The Next Web, IntoMobile, BGR, I4U News, VentureBeat, everythingiCafe, Engadget and TechSpot
Tweets: @chartier, @pkafka, @reneritchie, @pkafka and @parislemon
See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8.1 is officially finished, but everyone has to wait until October 18th — Microsoft is confirming today, after recent reports, that the company has completed Windows 8.1 and is releasing it to manufacturing (RTM). The finalization of the Windows 8 update means that hardware partners … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone ‘Reuse and Recycle’ trade-in program detailed, begins rolling out August 30th — Yesterday, we reported that Apple is gearing up to launch its iPhone trade-in program in September. The program will allow an iPhone user to exchange an older iPhone model for a new iPhone at a discounted price.
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Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, ABC News, TUAW, Forbes, MacNN, LAPTOP Magazine, It's a Gadget, CNN, Benzinga, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica and App Advice. Thanks:@luminaryws
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter Hires Commerce Chief to Add Shopping Via Tweets — Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website. — Hubbard, 38, started at San Francisco-based Twitter this week …
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Marketing Land, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet, internetretailer.com and AllThingsD
Tweets: @nathanchubbard, @nytimesbits, @mikeisaac, @sg, @rsarver, @besvinick, @fromedome and @mikeisaac
See also Mediagazer| Michael Kassner / TechRepublic: |
Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means — There were doubts about being able to reverse engineer heavily-obfuscated applications written in Python. Two researchers have removed all doubt by reverse engineering the immensely popular Dropbox client.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Fires Back After Box Steps On Its Turf, Boosts SkyDrive Pro Storage To 25 GB — This is the real storage wars. Today Microsoft announced that it has increased the storage capacity of its SkyDrive Pro cloud document storage and syncing service to 25 gigabytes, from the formerly proffered 7 gigabytes.| Fortune: |
AllThingsD nears split with Dow Jones — The future of influential tech website All Things Digital is close to being decided. Reuters reported in February that AllThingsD co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg had begun discussions with owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. …
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Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @bridgetwi, @danprimack, @rafat, @nytimesbits, @hblodget, @felixsalmon and @felixsalmon
See also Mediagazer| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Weighs Messenger Spinoff — Move Signals Firm Is Trying to Position BBM as a Valuable Asset Ahead of Potential Sale — BlackBerry Ltd. is considering spinning off its messaging service into a subsidiary that would operate with more independence, according to people familiar with the matter.
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PandoDaily, The Register, Ars Technica, Telegraph, eWeek, CNNMoney.com, Network World, BuzzFeed and VentureBeat. Tweets: @parislemon
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Google calls book scanning “transformative” in latest push for fair use ruling — Google and the Authors Guild's eight-year legal fight over digital books is coming to a head once again, as both sides prepare to make their final case next month about whether Google's scanning … | Brian Fung / The Switch: |
Inside the Bitcoin advocates' closed-door meeting with federal regulators — The U.S. government took the latest step toward regulating virtual currencies on Monday as representatives from the Bitcoin Foundation met behind closed doors with federal officials in Washington.| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
The CODE Keyboard — What would you do, if you could do anything? — I don't mean in a fantasy superhero way, but in terms of resources. If someone told you that you now had the resources to attempt to make one thing happen in the world, one real thing, what would that be?
Tweets: @isaach, @shanselman and @siracusa
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
U.S. judge wants external monitor for Apple in e-books case — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge weighing remedies to assure that Apple Inc does not fix prices again in the e-books market said on Tuesday that she plans to require it to hire an external monitor, something the company considers unnecessary.
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CNET, Los Angeles Times, AppleInsider and MacNN
| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
Groupon Eyes Warehouse Network For Goods — Groupon is planning a network of North American warehouses for its physical goods business, pushing the company known for coupons into more direct competition with Amazon.com. — In an interview Tuesday, CEO Eric Lefkofsky said the Chicago company …
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VentureBeat and The Verge
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Feds Back Away From Forced Decryption ... For Now — Federal prosecutors have formally dropped demands that a child-porn suspect give up his encryption keys in a closely watched case, but experts warn the issue of forced decryption is very much alive and is likely to encompass a larger swath …
Tweets: @mikescarcella
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Vine gets better with age: How screens, speed and networks are changing the future of online video — Earlier this morning when sitting in the San Diego Airport while waiting for my flight, I did what most people do these days in those situations — I peered into my phone and cycled through my various social media applications.Sponsor Posts
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