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Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails — Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself. Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action …
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North Korea's internet appears to be under mass cyber attack — Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack …
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Apple releases critical NTP Security Update for OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, & Mountain Lion — Apple today released an OS X NTP Security Update for Mac users running 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. The update is recommended for all users and fixes a …
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Google completes first fully-functional prototype self-driving car of the design it unveiled in May — Google announces its self-driving car is now fully functional — Google today announced it has completed the first build of its self-driving vehicle prototype.| Bianca Bosker / Backchannel: |
How Pinterest's early onboarding process made a few unknown users its most popular pinners — How People You've Never Heard of Got To Be the Most Powerful Users on Pinterest — The most popular people on Pinterest aren't famous celebrities or pop-culture icons. In fact, they don't even want you to know them.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its social presence with new iTunes Tumblr blog — In an interesting move, Apple has today launched a Tumblr blog for iTunes. The ‘blog’ runs a highly customized theme that more closely reflects Apple's own website than a typical Tumblr page.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
After Google suit, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — It appears that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of Google.
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Comcast-TWC merger delayed, FCC says 7,000 docs wrongly held back — Comcast's plans to swallow its largest rival Time Warner Cable has suffered another setback as the FCC announced Monday it would once again halt its “shot clock,” which is the 180-day time period during which the agency seeks … | Joey-Elijah Sneddon / OMG!: |
Touchscreen HP Chromebook 14 G3 Goes on Sale in US for $440 — Santa's Chromebook workshop may have run out of cogs and wires for the high sought after Toshiba Chromebook 2, but it hasn't been idle: a new touchscreen version of the third-generation HP Chromebook 14 is now available to buy in the US.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Song Lyrics To Top Of Search Results, Points Searchers To Google Play — Google is now displaying music lyrics at the top of its search results pages when you search for “song name” plus “lyrics” on Google - a move that may reduce the number of visits to music lyrics sites … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line's COO Becomes Its New CEO As The Messaging Company Targets Global Growth — Fresh from launching its payment service and buying MixRadio from Microsoft, Japan-based messaging app Line has announced a change at the top with current COO Takeshi Idezawa taking over from Akira Morikawa as CEO.| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Tweet Analytics Now Available in Twitter for iPhone — I noticed some users tweeting about mobile tweet analytics over the past couple of weeks, and today Twitter has officialized the rollout: … It's nice that I can look at analytics directly from the Twitter app for iPhone …
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