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• 'The Interview' Makes it Big on YouTube, BecomesOne of the Web's Top Videos

  28-12-2014 23:33
  Threats of violence may have scared off major theatre chains from showing The Interview, but thanks to its digital release, many viewers are still getting a chance to see the latest from Seth Rogen and James Franco. The Verge reports that, as of Friday, the film was the most popular thing on YouTube. 
  As of this writing, The Interview tops YouTube’s list of the Top Films Videos, although YouTube doesn’t show how many views it’s received—presumably at the behest of Sony Pictures. T
  
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• 'The Interview' Makes it Big on YouTube, Becomes One of the Web's Top Videos

  28-12-2014 23:33
  Threats of violence may have scared off major theatre chains from showing The Interview, but thanks to its digital release, many viewers are still getting a chance to see the latest from Seth Rogen and James Franco. The Verge reports that, as of Friday, the film was the most popular thing on YouTube. 
  As of this writing, The Interview tops YouTube’s list of the Top Films Videos, although YouTube doesn’t show how many views it’s received—presumably at the behest of Sony Pictures. T
  
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• North Korea Blames U.S. for Internet Blackouts, Calls Obama 'Monkey'

  28-12-2014 16:41
  
  North Korea on Saturday blamed the U.S. for its nine-and-a-half-hour Internet outage earlier in the week, and called President Barack Obama a "monkey" as part of a racist, vitriolic statement issued by the country's highest government body, the National Defense Commission (NDC).
  The statement by the NDC, which was carried by North Korea's state-run news agency, was the country's first official response to the severing of its Internet connection from the rest of the world on Monday.
  "The U.S.
  
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• Sony: PlayStation Network is back online now, really

  28-12-2014 16:15
  
  After giving gamers false hope on Saturday, Sony now says its PlayStation Network has been fully restored after a Christmas Day attack that knocked it offline for about three days.At around 1 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Sunday, Sony declared its online gaming platform fixed and, as it had done the day before, blamed the problems on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.“PlayStation Network and some other gaming services were attacked over the holidays with artificially high levels of
  
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• New CEO wants Compuware to be greyhound, not bulldog - Detroit Free Press

  28-12-2014 06:39
  
  Detroit Free Press
  New CEO wants Compuware to be greyhound, not bulldog
  Detroit Free Press
  "One IT executive recently told me that the mainframe software vendors are like a bunch of fat, old bulldogs lying on the porch arguing over who was fastest 20 years ago with no one willing or even able to get off the porch and show what they can do ...
  
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