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• Hackers say Hollywood gets Blackhat right

  16-01-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How the Blackhat film gets the internet right
  
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• Ohio police chief with outsize Facebook following resigns

  16-01-2015 23:32
  
  A small-town Ohio police chief who drew an outsize following with his blunt, frequently humorous Facebook commentary has resigned days after being suspended. Brimfield Township trustees accepted David ...
  
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• US news sites hacked on Twitter

  16-01-2015 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Twitter accounts of the New York Post and United Press International (UPI) have been hacked with fake tweets on economic and military news.
  
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• France attacks reinvigorate privacy versus security debate

  16-01-2015 22:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama argued Friday that a resurgent fear of terrorism across Europe and the United States should not lead countries to overreact and shed privacy protections, even as British Prime Minister David Cameron pressed for more government access to encrypted communications used by U.S. companies.
  
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• Twitter accounts of New York Post and news agency UPI hacked

  16-01-2015 21:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Some Twitter accounts of the New York Post and UPI, as well as the news agency's website, were briefly hacked Friday.
  
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• YouTube: PewDiePie, DC Toys Collector and Katy Perry topped 2014 chart

  16-01-2015 21:36
  
  Swedish gamer ruled the YouTube roost with 4.1bn views, as games, children’s channels and music proved most popular for online video viewersGames, music and children’s channels ruled the roost on YouTube in 2014, with its most popular channel PewDiePie’s videos watched more than 4.1bn times last year.The UK-based gamer – aka Felix Kjellberg – ended the year with more than 33.5 million people subscribing to his YouTube channel, which focuses on “Let’s Play” footage of him playing
  
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• Review: mini review: JBL Synchros S400BT

  16-01-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stripped down of all its niceties, the JBL Synchros S400BT are a great set of headphones. The sound is full and it hits all the marks no matter what kind of music you toss at it. Comfort was never an issue and the battery life seemed to last longer than it should have. I could go on, and I will later in this review.Once you add in the fine details, along with features like touch control and NFC tap-to-connect functionality, the S400BT seems like the wireless headphones you’ve been waiting for
  
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• Review: Digital Storm Triton

  16-01-2015 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IntroductionThin gaming laptops are in. We've already seen a few spectacularly slim and powerful mobile rigs including the Origin EVO15-S and MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K. Not to mention the Gigabyte P35W v2 from yesteryear, which managed to stuff an optical drive into a laptop chassis measuring a mere 0.83 inches thick. At CES 2015 we only saw the thin laptop revolution continue with the Alienware 15 and 17, both of which now feature a 1.4 inch thick frame.But before we get ahead of ourselves, Digital
  
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• Obama, Cameron agree to cyber war games, joint 'cyber cell'

  16-01-2015 18:47
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to conduct cybersecurity war games and establish a joint "cyber cell" to prepare for and share intelligence on malicious hacking, the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
  
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• Sprint says Obama net neutrality plan wouldn't curb investments

  16-01-2015 18:45
  
  Sprint Corp will keep investing in its networks even if U.S. regulators adopt stricter "net neutrality" rules as long as they are applied with a "light touch," the company said in a letter to the FCC released on Friday. Sprint's position appears to contrast with other cable and phone companies who have staunchly rejected the possibility that the FCC regulate Internet service providers (ISPs) more strictly under a section of communications law known as Title II, which wou
  
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• Phablets and truckers: Tech round-up

  16-01-2015 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the best of the week's technology news
  
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• VIDEO: Google Glass - what next? In 45 secs

  16-01-2015 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What next for tech giant Google?
  
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• 'Ship Your Enemies Glitter' founder sells company after begging users to 'stop'

  16-01-2015 17:27
  
  Mathew Carpenter’s creation is up for auction as he pleads with potential customers to ‘stop buying this horrible product’The founder of Ship Your Enemies Glitter, an Australian website that lets anyone in the world ship their enemies bags of glitter – the most irritating party product yet invented – has put his company up for sale, after begging potential customers to stop using his website.Mathew Carpenter’s creation is up for auction on startup marketplace Flippa, with a starting
  
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• Lavabit founder condemns David Cameron's 'insane' plan to ban encryption

  16-01-2015 17:18
  
  Ladar Levison, who ran Edward Snowden’s email account, said moves to allow government access to encrypted data would weaken safety online for everyoneSecret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data Continue reading...
  
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• What's involved in cyber war games?

  16-01-2015 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What's involved in testing critical systems?
  
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• Review: Amazon Fire HD 6

  16-01-2015 16:59
  
  IntroductionTablets are in an odd place right now. Sales are slumping for both Android and iOS devices and with phones growing in size every few months the need for a separate, similarly sized device that lacks all the smartphone features is definitely waning.But that isn't stopping Amazon, in fact the online shopping behemoth has recently refreshed almost the entire Fire tablet line, giving spec bumps to both the HD 7 and HDX 8.9 and unveiling possibly the most interesting of all, the Amazon Fi
  
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• 'Islamist cyber attacks' hit France

  16-01-2015 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Media sites suffer outage a day after the French government warns of cyber attacks, although it is unclear whether the two are linked.
  
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• Funding boom shows power of tech startups, raises concerns

  16-01-2015 16:10
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Venture capitalists poured a whopping $48.3 billion into U.S. startup companies last year, investing at levels that haven't been seen since the heady days before the dot-com bubble burst in 2001.
  
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• The Simpsons meet Minecraft in new content pack for Xbox consoles

  16-01-2015 16:03
  
  Family joined by 19 other Springfield characters in latest brand extension, but Microsoft tells non-Xbox players told to ‘stay tuned’ for nowThe Simpsons are set for a new starring role in Minecraft, but for now, only in the versions of the game available on its new parent company Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles.Microsoft and Twentieth Century Fox have teamed up for official The Simpsons content packs for Minecraft’s Xbox editions, which will launch in late February as downloa
  
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• Google is quietly changing its business model

  16-01-2015 16:00
  
  Google has launched a new service called Google Domains as a Beta in the US, only days after rumours of a persistent interest in the massive US car insurance market surfaced.Google already allows users to buy their domains from the search provider, albeit via a more convoluted route (you need to go through Google Apps).Domains is a more straightforward route and even includes access to four third-party webpage developers (WIX, Squarespace, Weebly and Shopify) to help customers build their websit
  
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• Download of the day: iTunes

  16-01-2015 16:00
  
  Organise your media collection and discover new artists, films and TV programmes with iTunes.Why you need itThere's no denying that Apple's iTunes software is a powerful piece of music software. It can help you get your media library organised, whether that consists of music, films or TV shows, and with a gorgeous album art layout and simple colour scheme, it looks good too.You can create your own playlists and burn them to CD, or let iTunes take over with its Genius feature, which automatically
  
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• Updated: HTC One M9 release date, news and rumors

  16-01-2015 15:48
  
  HTC One M9 release date, news and rumorsWhile we don't know anything for sure about the HTC One M9 (other than the fact that it's coming), a number of leaks and rumors suggest it could be heavily based on the the MIA HTC One M8 Prime.That phone was supposedly going to have a QHD display, a Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM, a waterproof body and more megapixels in the camera, all of which would make sense for the HTC One M9 and with the exception of a waterproof body they're in line with some
  
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• Review: Lytro Illum

  16-01-2015 15:43
  
  Introduction and featuresLike Lytro's original Light Field Camera, the Illum is able to produce 'living images' which allow the user to shift the point of focus after the shot has been taken. It sounds incredible, but out of focus parts of the image really do become sharp before your eyes.The finer details of the technology are obviously subject to much secrecy, but it involves a microlens array in front of the Illum's sensor which scatters the light in different directions depending upon the an
  
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• Tycoon proposes Texan 'Hyperloop'

  16-01-2015 15:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A test track for a futuristic transport system known as the Hyperloop could be built in Texas, according to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
  
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• Updated: One M9 time? HTC flagship event confirmed for MWC 2015

  16-01-2015 15:20
  
  HTC is set to launch its next flagship smartphone at MWC 2015 on March 1 after invites were sent out for a special event.The invite teases "utopia in progress, join us to see what's next", and that's got us wondering, could it be the HTC Utopia instead of the HTC One M9?HTC turned its back on MWC last year, choosing instead to launch the excellent One M8 at a separate event after the Barcelona show, but for 2015 it's returning to the Catalan capital.MWC 2015 could be an extremely busy
  
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• Hedge fund founder Chanos says shorting Intel shares: CNBC

  16-01-2015 15:06
  
  Jim Chanos, founder of hedge fund firm Kynikos Associates, said on Friday he is betting against the shares of chipmaker Intel Corp. "We're short Intel," Chanos told cable television network CNBC. Chanos said he has been shorting, or betting against the company's shares, for the past six months.
  
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• Testing Google's new Translate app in Times Square, 'the tourist capital of New York' – video

  16-01-2015 14:41
  
  The new Translate app launched this week, promising instant translation by using phones' cameras to interpret different languages into English. According to Google, this will take us closer 'to a world where language is no longer a barrier.'
  
  The Translate app can decipher French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Russian, and with more languages apparently in the pipeline. Google said the new app should offer better conversation between languages, and is said to allow seamless chat between pe
  
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• Alibaba's latest mobile messaging effort: social networking for businesses

  16-01-2015 14:24
  
  By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce company, is piloting a mobile messaging app aimed at marrying social networking with business, an Alibaba spokeswoman said on Friday, as the company expands its enterprise services. It is not Alibaba's first stab at a mobile messaging app and others have become hot property in the tech sector. The company's arch-rival, Tencent Holdings Ltd, operates WeChat, known as Weixin in
  
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• YouTube's biggest star PewDiePie ups his game with 4.1bn annual views

  16-01-2015 14:23
  
  Gamer ruled the roost on YouTube ahead of DC Toys Collector and Katy Perry, as year-end stats reveal popularity of games, music and children’s channelsGames, music and children’s channels ruled the roost on YouTube in 2014, with its most popular channel PewDiePie’s videos watched more than 4.1bn times last year.The UK-based gamer – aka Felix Kjellberg – ended the year with more than 33.5 million people subscribing to his YouTube channel, which focuses on “Let’s Play” footage of h
  
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• Man held over 'Lizard Squad' cyberattacks on PSN and Xbox Live

  16-01-2015 14:23
  
  Police arrest 18-year-old on suspicion of computer hacking, threats to kill and ‘swatting’ - a prank that sees armed police called to an address
  Police have arrested an 18-year-old man over involvement in the cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming services over Christmas, for which the Lizard Squad hacking group claimed responsibility.The man was arrested on Friday in Boundary Street, Southport, on suspicion of computer hacking, threats to kill and �
  
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• Man held over 'Lizard Squad' cyber-attacks on PSN and Xbox Live

  16-01-2015 14:23
  
  Police arrest 18-year-old on suspicion of computer hacking, threats to kill and ‘swatting’ - a prank that sees armed police called to an address
  Police have arrested an 18-year-old man over involvement in the cyber-attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming services over Christmas, for which the Lizard Squad hacking group claimed responsibility.The man was arrested on Friday in Boundary Street, Southport, on suspicion of computer hacking, threats to kill and �
  
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• Google Glass 2.0: Eight things to address if next-generation headset is to succeed

  16-01-2015 14:04
  
  Related Articles Google Glass Explorer edition ends as former Apple executive takes charge Tesco is first major retailer to launch Google Glass app Google Glass 2.0: Eight things to address if next-generation headset is to succeed
  
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• Elon Musk donates $10m to keep artificial intelligence good for humanity

  16-01-2015 14:03
  
  Billionaire entrepreneur and space travel-fan says his money should be used to address concerns over safetyElon Musk has put his money where his mouth is, donating $10m to an AI research institute earmarked for a global research programme aimed at keeping AI beneficial to humanity.The money will be used to support the goals laid out by the more than 100 AI researchers in early January, when they signed an open letter put out by the Future of Life Institute (FLI) calling on scientists to avoid AI
  
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• Competition: WIN! The ultimate smartphone accessory bundle

  16-01-2015 14:00
  
  TechRadar has teamed up with MobileFun to offer a bumper prize pack of no fewer than 21 great Olixar smartphone accessories - ensuring you're prepared for everything life throws at you.From a set of bluetooth headphones, wireless speakers and a Qi charging dock to handy phone chargers, car kits and even a selfie stick - we've got everything you need to get the most from your smartphone.This amazing prize bundle consists of;Olixar X2 Pro Bluetooth Stereo Headphones £29.99Olixar Selfie Smart Pole
  
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• Elon Musk commits to building a Hyperloop transport system test track

  16-01-2015 13:55
  
  SpaceX, Teslsa and PayPal founder pledges to revolutionise public transport with a high-speed tube train that would travel close to the speed of sound Continue reading...
  
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• iOS versus Android. Apple App Store versus Google Play: Here comes the next battle in the app wars

  16-01-2015 13:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple and iOS had a head start with apps, but now Android has caught up and even overtaken it: how this will play out is far from certain.
  
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• Xiaomi: It's China's Apple, though you've probably never heard of it

  16-01-2015 13:37
  
  Western brands scoff that Chinese mobile manufacturer Xiaomi just copies them, but Charles Arthur sees genuine innovation The easy way to think of Xiaomi is as a Chinese smartphone maker which mimics Apple’s designs. But that would be wrong. It’s a narrative that was enunciated by Apple’s head of design Jonathan Ive, who when asked about the company last October was blunt: he “didn’t see [the similarities in design] as flattery” and called the superficial similarity in appearance of
  
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• UK man arrested over Sony hack

  16-01-2015 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A UK man has been arrested in connection with the attacks on the PlayStation and Xbox platforms over Christmas.
  
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• Cyberbully: have you ever been bullied online?

  16-01-2015 13:32
  
  After Maisie Williams starred in an hour-long thriller about cyberbullying, we’d like to know if you’ve ever been bullied onlineCyberbully – review: part gothic horror, part An Inspector Calls for the digital age Continue reading...
  
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• Online attacks continue to climb driven by rise in DDoS

  16-01-2015 13:26 via zdnet.com
  
  Distibuted Denial of Service (DDoS) and routing attacks on online infrastructure increased last year according to a European agency for network security.
  
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• I enjoyed my week in Google Glass, but those around me weren't so keen

  16-01-2015 13:17
  
  Google’s smartglasses have ‘graduated’ from the company’s development lab placed under the control of the father of the iPodGoogle Glass can return – but it must clear four big hurdles firstLove it or loathe it, Google Glass has been one of the most interesting developments in wearable technology in the past four years. I finally got the chance to wear a set for a whole week late last year: but is it any good?
  Glass has been an expensive experiment for Google. It was produced under t
  
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• Microsoft to reveal future of PC gaming on January 21

  16-01-2015 13:15
  
  Battlestation commanders take note: Microsoft has pledged to reveal the future of PC gaming at its Windows 10 event on January 21.In a post on the Xbox blog, Xbox Wire editor-in-chief Will Tuttle noted that Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox unit, will be shedding light on Windows 10's consumer experience -- including "the role that gaming will play."Tuttle added that the company's goal is "to help PC gaming flourish", part of which will involve extending the Xbox experie
  
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• Bizarrely, Sony just released an update for the PSP

  16-01-2015 13:12
  
  Sony pushing out a firmware update isn't particularly newsworthy - but in this case it's for the long neglected PlayStation Portable, a device that's more than 10 years old. Just bear in mind that the last firmware patch appeared in August 2011.There's nothing too earth-shattering in firmware update 6.61 - it basically adds a few stability patches, so it's even more surprising that Sony pushed it out... and that they were actually working on it in the first place.The 31MB download is mandatory i
  
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• GCHQ, NSA cyber war games will test bank security

  16-01-2015 13:07 via zdnet.com
  
  Surveillance agencies set up joint 'cyber cells' to share information and boost defences.
  
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• A stable Lollipop build for the OnePlus One arrives next month

  16-01-2015 13:00
  
  Google's latest and greatest mobile OS is slowly making its way out to handsets around the world - the latest figures show it has yet to even claim a share of 0.1 percent - and OnePlus One owners are the next in line to receive an update.In a chat with Android Central, Cyanogen founder Steve Kondik has said that a stable Lollipop version of CyanogenMod 12 will be arriving next month. Experimental builds are already available for more adventurous users to download, but the final release is now in
  
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• UK and US to stage 'cyber war games'

  16-01-2015 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK and US are to stage cyber attack "war games" against Wall Street and the City of London in a new joint defence against hackers.
  
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• ​Java and JavaScript rule but use of Apple's Swift language skyrockets

  16-01-2015 12:56 via zdnet.com
  
  Just a few months after Apple released Swift for iOS, the language has become one of the most popular for developers.
  
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• Amazon EU Sarl paid too little tax, EU competition regulator says

  16-01-2015 12:50
  
  Competition investigators in Brussels argue that the way the Amazon trading company pays royalties amounts to illegal state aid Continue reading...
  
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• How to say: Xiaomi

  16-01-2015 12:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How do you pronounce China's Apple?
  
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• This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like

  16-01-2015 12:44
  
  Elon Musk’s released pictures of his Falcon 9 rocket’s failed landing - and used a wonderful euphemism for it Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as “RUD” – that’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”.In other words, it blew up.@ID_AA_Carmack Before impact, fins lose power and go hardover. Eng
  
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