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Sony announces The Interview will play in select theaters Christmas day, on-demand release also expected — Multiple Theaters Say They Will Screen ‘The Interview’ — Sony's The Interview is getting its day in theaters after all. — The Plaza Theater in Atlanta and The Alamo Drafthouse …
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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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See also Mediagazer| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Sony breach highlights need to move away from insecure legacy OS architecture to mobile apps and cloud services — Why Sony's Breach Matters — This past year has seen more wide-spread, massive-scale, and damaging computer system breaches than any time in history.
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North Korean Internet Access Restored After Hours-Long Outage — North Korea's access to the Internet has been hit with outages and is offline today, according to a network-monitoring company, days after the U.S. government accused the country of hacking into Sony Corp.'s files.
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JPMorgan data breach entry point identified: one server didn't use two-factor authentication — Neglected Server Provided Entry for JPMorgan Hackers — The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted …
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Apple pushes first ever automated security update for Macs to fix critical NTP vulnerabilities — Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has pushed out its first-ever automated security update to Macintosh computers to help defend …
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| Jodi Kantor / New York Times: |
How the gender gap in tech played out at the dawn of the web boom for Stanford's class of 1994 — A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled — Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University's pioneering class of 1994.
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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple-led Rockstar Consortium sells remaining patent portfolio to RPX for $900M, drops existing lawsuits against Samsung, LG, and HTC — Apple-Led Rockstar Consortium Sells Remaining Patent Portfolio for $900 Million — San Francisco patent company RPX today announced it is purchasing … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Apple reopens Russian online store after boosting iPhone 6 price by 35% — Apple raised the price of its entry-level iPhone 6 by 35% when it reopened its Russian online story today. — Last week, the Cupertino, Calif. company shuttered its Russian e-market after the ruble took a dive …
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| Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
FCC accidentally omitted 680,000 Open Internet comments from public record due to technical error, will post new, complete file in new year — More than half a million net neutrality comments went missing from the FCC's downloadable public record — The Federal Communications Commission …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal judge approves warrantless creation of fake Instagram accounts used by law enforcement to befriend and access photos of suspects — Judge: It's OK for cops to create fake Instagram accounts — “No...warrant is required for the consensual sharing of this type of information.”| Jenn Chen / Lyft Blog: |
Lyft updates app, lets you split payments with up to 5 friends — Divvy It Up with Split Payments — Rally the whole crew, because payment splitting is live in the Lyft app! Now you can split the cost of your rides, making going out easier than ever. — To start dividing and conquering …
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