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December 9, 2015, 5:35 PM
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CBS CEO Les Moonves says Apple puts live TV plans on hold; source says media firms want more money for their programming  —  Apple Said to Suspend Effort to Develop Live TV Service  —  Focus instead will be on App Store as platform for others  —  Media companies resist channel package at $30 to $40 a month
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Negotiations between Apple and TV programmers stalled over Apple TV because of disagreements on the mix of channels to be included in bundles  —  Why Apple Walked Away From TV (For Now)  —  Yes, Apple has walked away from the negotiating table with the TV guys, which means you won't be getting …
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
The “Satoshi” PGP keys reported to be linked to Craig Wright were likely backdated, pointing to a hoax  —  Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax  —  On Tuesday, both Wired and Gizmodo dropped a big bombshell: According to “leaked” (Wired) or “hacked” …
Guardian:
Reported Bitcoin “founder” Craig Wright's home raided by Australian Federal Police in relation to Australian Tax Office investigation  —  Reported ‘Bitcoin founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police  —  Exclusive: Police search home belonging to Australian entrepreneur …
Gizmodo:
Leaked documents, corroborating interviews point to two likely Bitcoin creators: Australian Craig Wright and deceased US computer forensics expert Dave Kleiman
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo scraps Alibaba spinoff plan, will spin off core assets including stake in Yahoo Japan; Max Levchin resigns from board  —  Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it had dropped a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
Google publishes results for its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, says tests show it performs 100M times faster than conventional computing for some problems  —  Google's quantum computer can blitz a normal PC - but it's not ready for production just yet  —  Google's latest tests show there's light …
Brian Solomon / Forbes:
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap raising $827M Series C at a post-money valuation of $3.7B  —  Secretive Augmented Reality Startup Magic Leap Raising $827 Million  —  Magic Leap wants to change your reality.  And apparently they need a lot of money to do it.
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot:
Senator Dianne Feinstein to seek legislation to “pierce” through encryption with warrant, working with Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Burr, others  —  Top Democratic senator will seek legislation to ‘pierce’ through encryption  —  A leading Democratic senator …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Play Music adds family plan allowing six family members to stream simultaneously for $15 per month, extends to YouTube Red  —  Google Play Music launches $14.99 family plan for up to six people  —  Google's finally rolling out the six-person, $14.99 family plan for Google Play Music that it first teased over two months ago.
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
HTC delays Vive VR launch until April, plans to make 7K dev kits available in early 2016  —  HTC officially delays Vive virtual reality system launch to April 2016  —  Says “an additional 7,000” dev kits will ship to creators at the “start” of 2016.  —  Earlier this year …
Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center:
One-fifth of Americans report going online ‘almost constantly’  —  As smartphones and other mobile devices have become more widespread, some 21% of Americans now report that they go online “almost constantly,” according to a Pew Research Center survey.  —  Overall, 73% of Americans go online on a daily basis.
Betsy Cameron / Facebook:
Facebook's most talked-about global topics in 2015 include US Presidential Election, Paris attacks, refugee crisis, nepal earthquake, Greek debt crisis  —  2015 Year in Review  —  As 2015 comes to a close, we remember what was on our minds this year and the difference we made by coming together.

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Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Microsoft patches 71 flaws, two for Office and Windows kernel vulnerabilities currently under attack, warns of leaked Xbox Live certificate
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify to test allowing some musicians to temporarily withhold music from ad-supported version of the service
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