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December 14, 2014, 5:15 AM

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Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Exclusive: Iran hackers may target U.S. energy, defense firms, FBI warns  —  (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned U.S. businesses to be on the alert for a sophisticated Iranian hacking operation whose targets include defense contractors, energy firms and educational institutions …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
IsoHunt unofficially resurrects The Pirate Bay  —  Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at oldpiratebay.org.  At first glance, The Old Pirate Bay seems to be just a commemorative site for The Pirate Bay, which went down this week after police raided its data center in Sweden.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Surface tablets on NFL sidelines used solely to replace printouts of plays from stadium cameras  —  How Surface tablets are changing the way NFL coaches work  —  Inside Microsoft's $400 million digital gridiron  —  NFL sidelines are almost always entertaining to watch, but this year …
David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:
Parrot Bebop drone review: $500 drone with exceptional stability, solid video stabilization, built-in acrobatics, simple phone app  —  Parrot's New Bebop Drone Flies Like an Angel — Once You Learn Its Secrets  —  I've become a crazyhead about flying drones this year.
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
AlwayOn's Tony Perkins to open a Menlo Park social club for “founders, CEOs, investors, and artists” called The Cuckoo's Nest in early 2015  —  Will Silicon Valley go cuckoo for this new social club?  —  Silicon Valley's elite have a number of upscale places where they can mingle …
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic Online:
The Story Behind AOL's Iconic Yellow Running Man  —  This is the first in an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons.  —  It was spring of 1997.  “Mmmbop” was the pop song of the moment and unlimited access to AOL cost $19.95 a month.  Dial-up Internet had finally tipped mainstream.
More: Business Insider.  Tweets: @adriennelaf
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook no longer showing results from Bing when searching on its site  —  Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Bing search engine on its social networking site.
Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:
Verizon says Voice Cypher, its new encrypted voice call app, will include backdoors for law enforcement  —  Verizon's New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA  —  Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for secure communication, and it's doing …

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