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December 23, 2014, 3:35 PM

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Hollywood Reporter:
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 …
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
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.
New York Times:
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.”

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