8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues
and successful April Glaser / Slate : The Wayfair Walkout Is a Different Kind of Tech Worker Protest Christine Fisher / Engadget : Google employees petition to ban the company from SF Pride Alyssa New...
Sources: Donald Trump did not invite Jack Dorsey to his tech summit in NYC tomorrow despite his love for Twitter
but that doesn't mean he's walking away with a deal Aarti Shahani / NPR : Tech Leaders To Meet With President-Elect Trump Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Tim Cook & other tech leaders meet Trump today, report...
117M LinkedIn user emails and passwords from 2012 hack offered for sale on dark web marketplace; LinkedIn is contacting affected users
LinkedIn.com was hacked in June 2012 and a copy … Brian Krebs / Sydney Morning Herald : LinkedIn breach affected more than 100 million users, site confirms MacNN : LinkedIn breach of 2012 found to be ...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...
Twitch accounts were compromised, passwords are being reset for everyone
streaming site warns of possible hack (update) Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Twitch resets user passwords following breach Bertel King, Jr / Android Police : All Twitch Passwords And Stream Keys Reset F...
Edward Snowden just did a Reddit AMA. Here's what we learned
(AP Photo/the Guardian … Tim Sohn / SocialTimes : Social Media Newsfeed: Europe Dislikes Facebook Privacy Policy | New Ad Targeting Kayla Epstein / Guardian : Highlights from the Snowden, Poitras, and...
Sony to give PlayStation Network members 10% off one transaction in PlayStation Store to make up for outage; qualifying PSN Plus subscribers get five days extra
Happy New Year! Since access … Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Sony's apology for the PSN outage is a 10 percent discount and extended subscriptions Mark Wilson / BetaNews : Sony offers compensation fo...