U.S. Said to Find North Korea Ordered Cyberattack on Sony
WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was “centrally involved” in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures's computers, a determination reached just a...
Amazon launches Prime Now for Prime subscribers in New York City: one hour delivery of select items costs $7.99, two hour delivery is free
Amazon brings one-hour delivery to New York City with Prime Now — Service rolls out in select areas of Manhattan today, with other cities coming in 2015
Sony Has ‘No Further Release Plans’ for ‘The Interview’
Sony Pictures Entertainment has walked out on “The Interview,” deciding against releasing the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy in any form — including VOD or DVD. — “Sony Pictures has no further relea...
The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy
A poster for the movie “The Interview” is taken down by a worker after being pulled from a display case at a Carmike Cinemas movie theater, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta. Georgia-based Carmike...
AMC and MoviePass partner for unlimited movie subscription plan, priced between $35 and $45 per month
From AMC and MoviePass, a Film a Day for a Monthly Fee — LOS ANGELES — Netflix brought subscription-based movie and television streaming to the millennial masses.
State-sponsored or not, Sony Pictures malware “bomb” used slapdash code
According to multiple reports, unnamed government officials have said that the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was linked to the North Korean government. The Wall Street Journal reports that investigat...
Windows Browser Ballot comes to an end as EC obligation expires
Microsoft will cease showing EU-based Windows users a selection screen offering a choice of different browsers to install, known as the browser ballot. — In December 2009, and after lengthy negotiat...
Boston Uber Driver Charged With Raping Woman Seeking Ride
A Boston man who works as an Uber Technologies Inc. driver was charged with taking a woman to a secluded area and raping her, as questions about the company's driver-screening process prompted it to b...
Sony Pictures' internal systems still haven't fully recovered, forcing some employees to work with decades-old tech
Sony Pictures Employees Now Working In An Office “From Ten Years Ago” — It's been different for everyone," she said. She was upbeat, optimistic …
Book adaptation: How Marissa Mayer fought to turn around Yahoo and lost her way
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs — Credit: Illustration by Matt Dorfman. Photographs by Getty Images. — Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga. …
Sony leaks reveal how Hollywood aims to achieve SOPA-style DNS blocking under existing laws
Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet — Most anti-piracy tools take one of two paths: they either target the server that's sharing the files …
The FBI used Flash code from abandoned Metasploit side project to identify Tor users in Operation Torpedo
The FBI Used the Web's Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users — For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world …
Jawbone delays UP3 fitness band release until after holidays, offers discounts to preorderers
Jawbone's Missing Christmas — If you wonder how long the market can support richly valued startups, and what sorts of corporate stress might test investor enthusiasm, look no further than Jawbone …
Open Garden Raises $10.8M Series A Round To Double Down On Its Off-Grid FireChat Messenger
Open Garden, the company behind the popular FireChat messaging app, today announced its $10.8 million Series A funding round led by August Capital. Other investors include Firebolt Ventures …
Intel to power two new 4G Lenovo smartphones in early 2015
The chipmaker is expected to expand its smartphone partnership with Lenovo, introducing phones for both China and the global market in the coming weeks. — Intel is taking another step forward in its...
Expect Labs Raises $13 Million for ‘Anticipatory’ Computing
The idea driving the San Francisco-based startup is to provide …
Messaging Firm Line Buys Microsoft's MixRadio To Take Its Focus On Music Global
Last month we reported that Microsoft was considering spinning out MixRadio, but it turns out the music service's future is with someone else: Japan-based messaging firm Line which just announced an u...
Apple's Holiday Product Red Campaign Raises $20 Million for AIDS Research
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Box CEO Aaron Levie talks about the IPO, competition, and the company's future strategy
Box CEO Aaron Levie: From Commodity to ‘Defining Strategy’ — Box CEO Aaron Levie is one of the biggest cheerleaders for a new generation of corporate technology that he says can transform businesses...
Palo Alto Networks finds factory-installed backdoor on Android devices from China's Coolpad
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Apple to instate country-specific app taxes in EU starting Jan. 1
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EyeEm Launches Open Edits, Letting You See How Pros Edit Their Photos
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Secret is relaunching as a faster anonymous social network with chat
Talk to any of Secret's 15 million users in just two taps — When Secret launched in February, it quickly became the most talked-about new social network in Silicon Valley. Like other '"anonymish" s...
Judge rules videotaped Steve Jobs deposition to remain out of public eye
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ICANN e-mail accounts, zone database breached in spearphishing attack
ICANN—the organization that looks … Kieren McCarthy / The Register : ICANN HACKED: Intruders poke around global DNS innards Paul Mutton / Netcraft : ICANN hit by successful spear phishing attack Bill ...
Eurostat study finds nearly one in every five Europeans aged 16-74 has never used the internet
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Amazon Echo teardown: TI DM3725 processor, single-core ARM Cortex A8 chip, 256MB of LPDDR1 RAM, 4GB storage, 2.5" woofer, 2.0" tweeter, 7-microphone array
Costolo's Family Trusts Sell Remaining Twitter Stock
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Plex Arrives On PS4 And PS3 In Europe And Asia, U.S. Launch Coming Later
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Google Drive adds support for importing OpenOffice (ODF) file formats
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Reddit bans SonyGOP subreddit and users for sharing leaked Sony documents, deletes posts after receiving DMCA takedown request
and a week to remove nude celebrity photos Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily : Reddit quickly bans users for sharing Sony Pictures' leaked documents. If only it had done the same for #celebgate Andrew Grif...
Oracle Profit, Sales Top Estimates Amid Shift to Cloud
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Facebook is testing an official way to sell goods in Groups
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Facebook's Rooms app gets ‘Explore’ button, making it easier to discover communities
Over the past month and a half … Adnan Farooqui / Ubergizmo : Facebook Rooms Gets ‘Explore’ Feature Martin Bryant / The Next Web : Facebook's Rooms app gets a curated ‘Explore’ feature
Rapid7 gets $30M to invest in new cybersecurity initiatives and expand global reach
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