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November 28, 2015, 10:25 AM
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Servers of Chinese tech toy maker VTech breached: data of 4.8M parents and 200K kids may have been accessed  —  One of the Largest Hacks Yet Exposes Data on Hundreds of Thousands of Kids  —  The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier …
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Raspberry Pi unveils the Pi Zero, a $5 computer with 512MB RAM and a 40% faster processor than Raspberry Pi 1, comes free with December's The MagPi magazine  —  Raspberry Pi's latest computer costs just $5  —  Raspberry Pi has just unveiled the Pi Zero, a programmable computer that costs only $5 — about as much as a cup of coffee.
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Sony confirms official PS4 Remote Play app for Windows and Mac  —  Well that was quick.  It's only been a couple of days since someone came up with an unofficial app to stream PlayStation 4 gaming to PC, but earlier today, Sony's awesome Shuhei Yoshida confirmed on Twitter that his company is …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Cortana For iOS Begins Rolling Out To Testers  —  Microsoft has now made good on its earlier promise that it would soon roll out a beta version of its Cortana personal assistant - a rival to Apple's Siri and Google Now - to users of iOS devices.  This week, a handful of testers who signed …
Rita El Khoury / Android Police:
Instagram is testing support for multiple accounts on Android  —  [This Is Actual News] Instagram Starts Rolling Out Multiple Account Support On Android  —  Here's something refreshingly different for you on this fine regular Friday morning: Instagram is working on multiple account support …
Eli Blumenthal / USA Today:
The best Black Friday tech deals, from TVs to laptops to hoverboards  —  Start downloading retail apps now.  Jefferson Graham reports that some of the best Black Friday deals will be online only.  —  CONNECT  —  NEW YORK— As the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season …
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Lenovo and Razer unite to build a new range of gaming PCs  —  The world's biggest PC vendor is getting serious about gaming, and it's recruited one of gamers' favorite peripherals brands to help it establish its legitimacy.  Lenovo and Razer today announce a major new partnership …
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:
Sony has sold more than 30.2M PlayStation 4 units since launch in November 2013, the fastest selling PlayStation ever  —  Sony's PlayStation 4 Scores More Than 30 Million Sales  —  Console has sold at a faster pace than any other PlayStations, says Sony  —  TOKYO— Sony Corp. said Wednesday …
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:
Huawei announces flagship Mate 8 with 6-inch display, 4000mAh battery, new Kirin 950 SoC, and more, available in China in Q1 2016, starting at $470  —  Huawei Launches The Mate 8, with Kirin 950  —  Today Huawei announces their new flagship, the Mate 8.  We've already had a look …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Mozilla's 2014 annual report: Revenue up 4.9% to $329M, 90% came from Google and Yahoo  —  Mozilla has released its annual financial report for 2014, revealing a revenue increase of less than 5 percent year-over-year, 90 percent of which came from Google and Yahoo.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Barry Diller expressed interest in buying CNN in H1 2025, before WBD said it would spin off cable networks; a WBD spokesman says CNN is not for sale

New York Times:
The $35M marketing campaign for Melania is roughly 10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: Bluey was the most-streamed title in the US in 2025, with 45.2B minutes on Disney+; Grey's Anatomy was No. 2 with 40.9B minutes on Hulu and Netflix

More News

Martyn Williams / PCWorld:
Hilton Worldwide identifies and eradicates malware that collected credit card data from point-of-sale systems from late 2014 to mid 2015
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Software pirate in Czech Republic must get 200K YouTube hits on anti-piracy film or face fine after agreement with plaintiffs
Chris Pan / Facebook Developers:
Facebook releases SDK for tvOS that lets developers add Facebook login, sharing, and analytics to their Apple TV apps

Earlier Picks

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Pandora, iHeartRadio can stream songs from Adele's top-selling album 25, unlike Spotify, Apple Music, others, thanks to law for “non-interactive” services
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
Study of 4000 embedded devices from over 70 vendors shows reused crypto keys leave millions of devices insecure, only 5 vendors known to have fixes on the way
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