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January 2, 2014, 5:05 AM

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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Skype's Twitter, Facebook, and blog hacked by Syrian Electronics Army demanding an end to spying — We're not even through the first day of 2014 and cyber attacks are back again. Earlier today, some person(s) breached Skype's security and hacked its Twitter account, Facebook page, and blog.

More: Skype, VatorNews, Inquirer, TechEye, Softpedia News, The Verge, Digits, The Desk, WinBeta, VentureBreak, Business Insider, World News, PC Magazine, CNET, Mashable, Techie News, Naked Security, ZDNet, USA Today, SlashGear, Financial Times and LiveSide.net

Tweets: @skype, @skype, @official_sea16, @green_footballs, @matthewkeyslive, @tomwarren, @matthewkeyslive, @tomwarren and @jbrodkin

@skype:

You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today. No user info was compromised. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

More: Guardian, Computerworld, The Register and TechCrunch

Re/code:

Happy Re/new Year! — We are thrilled to announce that we are forming our own new and independent media company, Revere Digital, with a pair of respected investors and partners — the NBCUniversal News Group and Terry Semel's Windsor Media. Revere will be operating news sites and apps, as well as a series of conferences.

More: Bloomberg, Re/code, NBC Universal and The Next Web

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Alleged Snapchat hackers explain how and why they leaked data on 4.6 million accounts — The individual or team claiming responsibility for SnapchatDB has responded to The Verge's requests for comment the morning after the database went online, containing a leaked collection …

More: The Switch, ZDNet, iPhone Savior, TechSpot, Troy Hunt's Blog, Digits, TechnoBuffalo, BBC, Naked Security, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine and Valleywag. Tweets: @evanspiegel

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Confirmed: Hackers exploit Snapchat's security hole, leak 4.6m usernames and phone numbers online

More: TechCrunch, BGR, Forbes, Computerworld, CNN, O'Reilly Radar, ABC News, Digital Trends, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, RT, NEWS.com.au, Q13 FOX News, PetaPixel, LiveSide.net, Engadget, Daily Dot, Technology Personalized, ResearchBuzz, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Boing Boing, Gigaom and Gizmodo. Tweets: @brianshall

Tom Warren / The Verge:

LG's webOS TV revealed in leaked image — LG has been rumored to be planning a webOS resurrection for a TV, and now a leaked image appears to offer the first look at the upcoming television. Evleaks has posted a photo of the rumored LG webOS TV, and the image includes a brief look at the webOS Cards interface.

More: Engadget, The Next Web and AndroidHeadlines.com

Tweets: @evleaks and @tomwarren

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

The top four tech legal cases to watch in 2014 — While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014. The new year will mark new beginnings for all of us, but it will also mark the continuation (and perhaps conclusion) of a number of high-profile tech legal cases.

Tweets: @dpgatlaw

Greg Bensinger / Digits:

Amazon starts charging sales tax in Indiana, Nevada, and Tennessee — New Year Rings in Sales Tax for Amazon Shoppers in Three States — Attention Amazon.com shoppers in Indiana, Nevada and Tennessee: Starting Wednesday, you'll have to pay sales tax on your purchases.

More: The Verge, WebProNews, Examiner, WTVC-TV, Tennessean.com, bizjournals and WBIR-TV

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy — Some more detail on the fate of Winamp and Shoutcast, the legacy digital music services that owner AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) originally planned to shut down but then halted pending a sale.

More: BetaNews, The Next Web, TechSpot, Gigaom, Techie News and gHacks Technology News

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30% (Updated) — With the release of Windows 8.1 to the world in October, Microsoft ended 2013 with two full months of availability for its latest operating system version. While Windows 8.1 is certainly growing quickly …

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News and BetaNews

Robert Scoble / Google+:

Google Glass won't succeed as a consumer product in 2014 due to high expectations, cost, more — Scoble says Google Glass is doomed — First, I love headlines that stretch the truth a bit. No one outside of Google got their Glass before March of last year.

More: Guardian, Forbes, AndroidHeadlines.com, BGR and Business Insider. Tweets: @gautamghosh

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