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Apple Starts Streaming “The Interview,” Too (Update) — It took Apple a few days, but it's joining the club: Starting today, iTunes users in the U.S. and Canada can rent and purchase “The Interview,” Sony's controversial comedy. — The movie became available at Apple's store at 1 pm ET today.
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See also Mediagazer| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Sony says ‘The Interview’ was rented or purchased more than 2M times, generated over $15M in online sales — ‘The Interview’ Generated Over $15 Million In Online Sales — Sony announced Sunday night that “The Interview” was downloaded or rented online more than 2 million times, generating over $15 million in sales.
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @stevekovach, @pkafka, @pkafka, @reckless, @drew and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Spiegel Online: |
Snowden documents reveal the NSA routinely intercepted SSL/TLS traffic, decrypted VPN connections, struggled with PGP, Truecrypt, Tor, Cspace, OTR, ZRTP in 2012 — Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security — US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack …
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Engadget, Slashdot, The Verge, Errata Security and Schneier on Security
Tweets: @yashalevine, @glynmoody, @dangillmor, @glynmoody, @mikko, @gwern, @ggreenwald and @csoghoian
| Mark Gilbert / Bloomberg View: |
Bitcoin was the worst-performing currency of 2014, dropping more than 56% to under $330 — And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin — It's been a bad year for the Russian ruble and a terrible 12 months for the Ukrainian hryvnia. But it's been a catastrophic 2014 for Bitcoin, the virtual currency.
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Re/code, PC Magazine, adafruit industries blog, NEWSBTC, sputniknews.com, Times of India, Vox and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @steve_hanke, @zackwhittaker and @chrismaddern
| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Twitter for Android and mobile web failing to log users in; Tweetdeck shows all tweets as a year old — Having a problem logging into Twitter? You're not alone — People who want to flip through Twitter this evening are going to be met with a whole lot of frustration …
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Engadget, The Verge, Android Police, Gigaom, NEWS.com.au, ZDNet, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE and Mashable
Tweets: @_ninji, @mathewi and @caseynewton
| 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.
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Gawker, Business Insider, PlayStation LifeStyle, Engadget, The Inquisitr News, Kotaku, PC Magazine, Polygon, Gizmodo, PandoDaily, Forbes, The Register, PlayStation Knowledge Center and bizjournals. Tweets: @jaberman
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PlayStation Network back online after three-day outage due to DDoS attack; Sony says some users may still experience intermittent issues — PSN is still down for some as Sony gets service back online — Sony says that its online service is back up and running, but many people are still having issues playing games.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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Associated Press, ZDNet, VentureBeat, NEWS.com.au, Gizmodo, Business Insider, PC Magazine, Washington Post, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, The Register, ReadWrite, Gigaom and Business Insider
Tweets: @lizardmafia, @lizardmafia, @torproject, @kaepora, @kaepora, @lizardmafia and @fredericjacobs
| 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: |
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PC World, The Verge, ITworld.com, ABC News, CircleID, Ars Technica, USA Today, The Wrap, CNBC, NEWS.com.au, TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable and CNET. Tweets: @dynresearch
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
As competition among VCs increases, some founders sell shares in early funding rounds — Investors Are ‘Fighting Like Drunken Sailors’ Over Hot Startups And Letting Founders Get Rich Too Early — Venture Capitalists used to invest in startups so founders could build businesses.| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Warrant for raid on Kim Dotcom legal, New Zealand Supreme Court rules — New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday (PDF) that warrants granted by the Court of Aukland in 2012 to search Kim Dotcom were legal. Warrants to search Dotcom compatriots Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann, and Bram van der Kolk were also upheld.
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TorrentFreak, New Zealand Herald, Stuff.co.nz and The Register
| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Windows Phone apps downloaded most on low-cost, low-memory phones — Mobile app developers considering Windows Phone support for their apps, take note: Based on data released by Microsoft on Tuesday, you may want to target low-end devices. Why? Because most of the apps downloaded … | Fred B. Campbell Jr / New York Times: |
W3C to recommend that companies with “first-party relationships” be allowed to track users, weakening “Do Not Track” efforts — The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’ — HAYMARKET, Va. — FOUR years ago, the Federal Trade Commission announced, with fanfare …
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