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Jack Kim / Reuters:
North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama a ‘monkey’  —  (Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a “monkey” as it blamed Washington Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced amid a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
North Korean Internet experienced a 5+ hour outage after its only wireless carrier went down  —  Internet Crashes in North Korea as 3G Networks Fail  —  Three days after an apparent denial-of-service attack halted its Internet connections, North Korea suffered another Internet outage …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Interview sees over 1.5M estimated torrent downloads in first two days of availability, comparable to popular blockbusters
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
Meet Lizard Squad, the group whose DDoS attack crippled Xbox Live and PlayStation Network  —  Meet Lizard Squad, the hackers who ruined Christmas for gamers worldwide  —  Vinnie Omari was still a bit drunk when he initiated what could be the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack in history.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tor network flooded with new relays by Lizard Squad, group allegedly behind Xbox Live and PSN attacks  —  Hackers allegedly behind Xbox and PlayStation network shutdown set sights on Tor  —  The group that allegedly took down Microsoft and Sony's gaming networks now says it's set its sights on a new target.
Mike Fahey / Kotaku:
PlayStation Network still experiencing outages days after DDoS attack reportedly ceased
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
The Open Bay helps launch 372 ‘copies’ of The Pirate Bay in a week, becomes GitHub's most popular project  —  isoHunt, the group now best known for launching The Old Pirate Bay, has shared an update a week after debuting The Open Bay.  The Pirate Bay, the most popular file sharing website on the planet …
More: TorrentFreak and Hacked.  Thanks:@epro
Matt Day / The Seattle Times:
IRS demands Ballmer, other Microsoft leaders testify in corporate tax audit  —  The Internal Revenue Service has sued former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and a slate of other former and current executives, seeking to compel them to testify in a long-running investigation into how the company's …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Comcast-TWC merger looks less likely amid growing opposition, concern over state of US broadband  —  As Comcast merger enters final phase, deal may be on thin ice  —  Credit: André P. Meyer-Vitali/Flickr CC  —  Credit: André P. Meyer-Vitali/Flickr CC
Paul Graham:
Immigration reform is crucial to keeping the US a tech superpower, as 95% of great programmers reside outside the US  —  Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In  —  American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon says 10M people tried Prime, 60% of customers shopped from a mobile device this holiday season  —  Amazon says 10 million new customers tried Prime over the holidays  —  Here's what everyone bought during the holiday shopping rush  —  Pushing the cost of Amazon Prime up to $99 annually …
Michelle Moghtader / Reuters:
Iran to expand Internet “smart filtering” to censor content without banning entire websites  —  Iran expands ‘smart’ Internet censorship  —  (Reuters) - Iran is to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content on websites without banning …

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Global Media to co-owner Hearst Communications in a deal believed to be all in cash and worth north of $1B

Minho Kim / New York Times:
Sarah B. Rogers, Trump's nominee to lead USAGM, says she would reinstate some agency employees; if confirmed, she would still serve in the State Department

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Swiss film producer Simon Afram sues Netflix for $105M, saying Netflix lost an unencrypted copy of a film starring Nicolas Cage that he spent $45M to produce

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David Lerman / Bloomberg:
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade
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