U.K. police allegedly arrest Lizard Squad hacker
William Turton / The Daily Dot : … Lizard Squad took credit for the Dec. 25 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. DDoS attacks overwhelm a netwo...
FBI says report that Sony hack was perpetrated by a disgruntled Sony employee and piracy group hackers is “inaccurate” and based on “narrow view”
Tal Kopan / Politico :
Interviews with Sony employees show that the company was slow to realize the gravity and impact of hacking
Sony Hacking Attack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm — LOS ANGELES — It was three days before Thanksgiving, the beginning of a quiet week for Sony Pictures.
FBI bulletin says hackers who attacked Sony have threatened an unnamed news organization
Jana Winter / The Intercept :
Snapchat raises $485.6M at $10B+ valuation from 23 investors
Snapchat Raises $485.6 Million to Close Out Big Fundraising Year — Snapchat Inc., among a pack of elite technology startups that has attained a valuation of $10 billion or more, capped the year with...
HP sells Palm trademarks, likely to Alcatel One Touch; brand could be resurrected with new Android smartphones
HP sells Palm trademarks; brand could be resurrected with new smartphones — It looks like Palm will rise from the dead as a Chinese smartphone brand.
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust files to sell 20.1M shares on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol COIN
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF Files for Shares on Nasdaq; More to Be Revealed in January — Earlier today, the Winklevoss Bitcoin Fund, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) founded by Cameron …
Google Fiber could use utility poles and other utility-owned infrastructure under Title II, spurring broadband, company says in letter to FCC
Google Strikes an Upbeat Note With FCC on Title II — In a rare public comment by Google on net neutrality, the Internet giant this week …
Twitter's ‘While You Were Away’ Recap Feature Is Rolling Out To Many Users
Back in November, Twitter announced plans to implement a number of new initiatives to boost user engagement, and one of those features — a ‘While you were away’ recap of tweets you may have missed — a...
Average web page size increased 15% in 2014 to almost 2MB; HTTP requests per page hardly changed at 95
Average Page Weight Increases 15% in 2014 — The HTTP Archive Report collates information from almost half a million of the web's most popular websites.
Snapchat's curated “Our Story” posts from worldwide New Year's Eve celebrations displayed on screens in Times Square
Snapchat Plans a Global View of New Year's Festivities — This New Year's Eve, there is a new 24-hour countdown. — Snapchat — the app with ephemeral messages …
Samsung Electronics says new smart TVs in 2015 to run Tizen platform
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday that all its new smart television products launched in 2015 will be powered by the Tizen operating system, marking a fresh effort by the company...
Apple hit with class action over storage eaten up by iOS 8
Julia Love / SiliconBeat :
Samsung squeezed past Apple in consumer satisfaction for smartphones
In Any Industry Jason Mick / DailyTech : Survey: Samsung, BlackBerry Soar in Satisfaction, Apple Continues to Plummet Usman / iPhone in Canada Blog : Samsung Surpasses Apple in Consumer Satisfaction f...
Microsoft phasing out original Kinect for Windows in 2015
Shreyas Gandhe / Neowin :
New York City considers letting drivers pay for parking tickets with Bitcoin, Apple Pay, and PayPal
Jennifer Booton / MarketWatch :
Taiwan clears Xiaomi, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, others of breaching data privacy laws
Taiwan clears Xiaomi, other smartphone brands of breaching data privacy — (Reuters) - Taiwanese regulators cleared on Tuesday China's Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] and other smartphone brands …
Abandoned Japanese social network Mixi resurges with Monster Strike, its first mobile game
‘Monster Strike’ Gives Former Social Media Giant Mixi a Second Act — TOKYO — It was a familiar trajectory for a social network like Facebook that did not happen to be Facebook …
FTC orders Snapchat to implement a privacy program but issues no fine for deceiving users about ephemeral nature of messages and scraping contact lists
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom :
Virtual reality doesn't need a killer app; tinkerers will experiment to unleash its potential
Ryan Rigney / Wired :
Now With 12 Million Users, Timehop Adds Twitter Vet Jason Goldman To Its Board
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch :
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