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AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans — AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42 — Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42.
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Valve Apologizes For Steam's Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users — Valve has finally apologized for last week's Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the information of around 34,000 users.
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| Scott Charney / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft now notifies users if it believes their accounts were targeted by a state-sponsored hacker — Additional steps to help keep your personal information secure — We're committed to helping our users keep their personal information secure and private.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Former Microsoft employees say company failed to alert Hotmail users in 2011 that their accounts were hacked by Chinese authorities — Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack - former employees — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Redesigned Twitter for Mac app now available with dark mode, GIF support, Group Direct Messages, Quote Tweet functionality, and more, but lacks polls support — Redesigned Twitter for Mac app with dark mode, GIF support, & more is now available — Earlier this year, Twitter promised …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: development for updated Twitter Mac app was outsourced; one source says to Black Pixel — Twitter's updated Mac app wasn't made by Twitter — Twitter's oft-neglected app for Mac got a much-needed update today, adding support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets, and other features that mobile users have had for ages.
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces it completed its one billionth trip on Christmas Eve in London — Uber just completed its billionth trip — By most measures, Uber has had a pretty good year: numerous political victories, new product launches, and scary amounts of cash raised. And the hits keep coming.
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| Om Malik / New Yorker: |
In Silicon Valley Now, It's Almost Always Winner Takes All — In September, 2014, after investing in a ride-sharing company called Sidecar, Richard Branson declared that it was “early days and, like a lot of other commodity businesses, there is room for innovators on great customer experiences.”
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| The Local: |
Apple agrees to pay €318M in taxes to close the investigation into €1B of undeclared profits by its Italian subsidiary, tax office confirms — Apple to pay €318m in tax owed to Italy — US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy's inland revenue …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline — Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users, has been patched — Google slams AVG for exposing Chrome user data with “security” plugin — AVG AntiVirus “force-installed” Chrome plugin that left browsing data vulnerable.Sponsor Posts
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