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Names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, voting history for 191M US voters exposed by misconfigured database whose owner remains unidentified — Database configuration issues expose 191 million voter records — Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownership
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Office of Inadequate Security, Forbes, Wired, The Hill, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek, The Register, Techaeris, Bloomberg.com news, SlashGear, BetaNews, Digital Trends, US News, The Next Web, FedScoop, Houston Chronicle, Sputnik International, ZDNet, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, The Huffington Post, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE and LJ INFOdocket
Tweets: @tracyannkosa, @justinkan, @martijn_grooten, @aaronklein, @pogowasright and @davemcclure
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Pictures of Google Glass Enterprise Edition turn up at FCC, showing foldable design — This is Google Glass: Enterprise Edition in the flesh [Gallery] — Earlier this year, we told you across several exclusive reports that new Google Glass hardware was on the way, namely a device Google …
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Ars Technica, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Android Authority, Engadget, Re/code, Greenbot, Pocketnow, Tech Insider, Wearable Tech Insider, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Thurrott.com, IR.net, Redmond Pie, SiliconANGLE, BGR, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Inc.com, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Yahoo Tech, Fortune, Android and Me, TechSpot, Mashable, Droid Life, Android Police, Tech Times and Android Central. Tweets: @startupljackson. Thanks:@technacity
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook fights skepticism from net neutrality advocates over its Free Basics program in India — Facebook Confronts The Free Internet Neutrality Dilemma — What's more important? Restricted free Internet access for the poor? Or maintaining an open, neutral Internet without limitations?
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Times of India, Quartz, Techdirt, Wall Street Journal, Tech Insider, BuzzFeed, Boing Boing, Bloomberg Business, The Verge, The Wire, Bloomberg Business, Breitbart, The Huffington Post, CNNMoney, Fortune, ValueWalkValueWalk, SiliconBeat, Digital Trends, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, Guardian, TIME, CNET and VentureBeat
Tweets: @joshconstine, @rafat and @kevinroose
See also Mediagazer| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
China passes controversial counter-terrorism law that requires tech firms to help decrypt information, doesn't require installing backdoors as initially planned — China passes controversial counter-terrorism law — China's parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday …
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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @ridt, @baldingsworld, @nytimesworld and @ggreenwald
See also Mediagazer| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon Prime adds more than 3M new members in 1 week at peak of holiday shopping season — Amazon said tonight that it added more than 3 million new Amazon Prime members globally in just one week at the height of the holiday shopping season this year. It's the latest sign of growth …
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Amazon.com, SiliconANGLE, Good E-Reader, The Verge, Guardian, CNET, Gigaom, Business Insider, Digital Trends, TIME, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, TechSpot, Pocketnow, International Business Times, PYMNTS.com, Bank Innovation, SiliconBeat, Forbes, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Washington Post, Inc.com, RAIN News, Mashable, TechCrunch, internetretailer.com, bizjournals and Re/code. Tweets: @om. Thanks:@kevinlisota
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon now covers up to $650 in early termination fees when switching mobile operators, joining other carriers in doing so — Verizon will give you up to $650 to switch from another carrier — Is the biggest US wireless carrier starting to feel some pressure from its rivals? Perhaps.| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Samsung plans to let US users pay online with Samsung Pay, expand it to lower-priced smartphones soon — Samsung Pay plans to enable U.S. online shopping in 2016 — Samsung Electronics Co plans to expand its fledgling mobile payment service in the United States next year …
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TechCrunch, Android Authority, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Verge, SamMobile, Android Police, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Android Central and Pocketnow
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @mdudas
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
North Korea's homegrown Red Star OS computers watermark all documents and media files on inserted USB sticks, to track underground sharing — Inside North Korea's Totalitarian Operating System — The goal of a totalitarian regime is to control everything in a country: information, resources, and power.
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Reuters, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Re/code, The Mac Observer, BGR, Digital Trends, Geek.com, RT, Tech Times, TechEye, SlashGear, InfoWorld, Engadget and BetaNews
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Turkish sites under intensifying, weeks long DDoS attacks that disrupted some banking services over the holidays; Anonymous claims responsibility — Turkish banks & government sites under ‘intense’ attacks on Christmas holidays — Turkey is suffering from a wave of cyber-attacks on financial … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Despite a steady inflow of new well-known apps, it remains unclear whether the Universal Windows Platform can maintain momentum with developers — Windows 10 app momentum: A flash in the pan or something sustainable? — There has been a steady trickle of Universal Windows Platform apps arriving in the Windows Store, as of late.
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Digital Trends, Windows Central, Business Insider, The Register and WinBeta
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Every new Apple product or feature released in 2015 was essentially in beta — 2015: Apple's year in beta — The Gizmodo headline last week was blunt, in the way that the best Giz headlines are blunt: Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked. It's worth reading … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
New York City starts installing LinkNYC public gigabit Wi-Fi access points in phone booths — New York is finally installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi — Today, workers began installing the first LinkNYC access points in New York. First announced in November 2014 …
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Engadget, Phandroid, Tech Times and SlashGear
Tweets: @daniel_bouhs, @mikeyavo and @marklevinenyc
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