North Korea denies Sony hack, proposes joint inquiry with US, warns of “grave consequences” if Washington refuses
North Korea seeks join probe with US on Sony hack — North Korea has offered to hold a joint inquiry with the United States into a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures …
Sources confirm Sony hackers hail mainly from North Korea, and include Japan-based group of ethnic North Koreans
FBI: North Korea to Blame for Sony Hack — The FBI today said it has determined that the North Korean government is responsible for the devastating recent hack attack against Sony Pictures Entertainm...
Obama calls Sony canceling The Interview a “mistake”, says North Korea acted alone; White House contemplating “proportional response”
President Obama on Sony's Decision Todd Olson / @toddols : First open cyberwar between nuclear nations @Recode http://recode.net/... http://twitter.com/..." See also Mediagazer
Sony Entertainment CEO blames theaters for cancellation of The Interview, still wants to release the film
Sony exec fires back at President Obama — Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, denying that the studio had “caved” by scrapping next week's opening of “The Interview,” …
Chrome Security Team Considers Marking All HTTP Pages As ‘Non-Secure’
Back in August, we noted that Google had started adjusting its search algorithm to give a slight boost to sites that are encrypted. That is, all else equal, sites that use HTTPS will get a slight ran...
Apple Pay claimed 1% of November's digital payment dollars, new report says
A new report from ITG has revealed that Apple Pay was responsible for 1% of the total digital payment dollars spent in November. The study also found that 60% of new Apple Pay customers used the serv...
Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem gets two years in prison for Silk Road money laundering
Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering — Charlie Shrem, the former Bitcoin Foundation Inc. executive who pleaded guilty to charges tied to the illicit online bazaar …
Hackers Used Sophisticated SMB Worm Tool to Attack Sony
Sony Hackers Used Server Message Block (SMB) Worm Tool — Just hours after the FBI and President Obama called out North Korea as being responsible for the destructive cyber attack against Sony Pictur...
India's e-commerce giant Flipkart raises $700M, bringing its total investor money in 2014 to over $2B
India's E-Commerce Giant Flipkart Replenishes Its War Chest With New $700M Round — Flipkart raised $1 billion at the end of July, and less than six months later the Indian e-commerce giant …
Facebook Messenger now uses “FacePiles” to show read receipts, indicates more send states for messages
Facebook Messenger Shows Its New Speed With FacePile Read Receipts — Milliseconds make a difference when it comes to chat. The less lag, the more it feels like being in the same room.
Stickered from Facebook's Creative Labs lets you add stickers to photos you send on Messenger; available for Android, coming to iOS
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Social TV service TVtag, previously known as GetGlue, to shut down end of 2014
GetGlue successor TVtag is shutting down — Janko Roettgers — Social TV service TVtag, which was previously known as GetGlue, is shutting down at the end of the year. TVtag announced the shut …
BlackBerry building BlackBerry Enterprise Service into Boeing Black device, an Android phone which will self-destruct when tampered with
BlackBerry works with Boeing on phone that self-destructs — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is working with Boeing Co on Boeing's high-security Android-based smartphone …
Cisco elevates patent battle against Arista with ITC complaint
Summary:Cisco's lawsuit concerns 12 features covered by 14 patents - all of which are embedded within current products. — The brewing legal war between Cisco and Arista gained momentum amid a battle...
Google bringing always-on voice commands to Chromebooks
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FCC proposes expanding definition of pay-TV providers to include internet TV services
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Cross platform development by Apple, Google, and Microsoft analyzed and visualized
Visualizing cross-platform development — Much has been made recently of Microsoft's shift from a Windows-centric worldview to a cross-platform approach to the development of applications and service...
US tries to strike deal with EU for immunity over online security breaches
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Staples provides details on September breach: 115 stores' POS systems, 1.16M payment cards compromised
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New version of ZeuS malware has targeted over 150 banks and 20 payment systems worldwide
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Runkeeper adds phone-free GPS and headphone heart rate monitor support
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Reddit to distribute equity to active users by lottery with ‘reddit notes’ in 2015
but it could become a model for other community-based startups. @mikeisaac : reddit introduces an equity plan. ...for its entire user base. http://www.redditblog.com/... Bryce Weiner / @bryceweiner : ...
Study: portion of social media users aged 13-17 on Facebook slips to 88%, down from 94% last year
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Facebook announces first two-day F8 developer conference for March 25-26 in San Francisco
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Amazon updates Fire OS; Firefly now translates text and identifies famous artwork
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Evernote's intelligent writing assistant, Context, is now available on Android and Windows
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Microsoft pays VirnetX $23 million to settle expanded patent case
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Ubuntu Phone launch delayed until early 2015
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Yahoo announces plans to kill off some regional news sites, sunsets Yahoo Classic Games, alerts, and profile sites
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