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VTech hacker says he downloaded 190GB of child and parent photos, and chat logs between parents and children from late 2014 until November 2015 — Hacker Obtained Childrens' Headshots and Chatlogs From Toymaker VTech — If storing the personal data of almost 5 million parents …
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VTech confirms data breach of 5M accounts includes names, email accounts, passwords, IP, address, download history, and kids names, gender and birthdates — Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update) — VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed …
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New York Times, BBC, CIO.com, Washington Post, eWeek, ExtremeTech, Guardian, Security Affairs, SC Magazine, Reuters, Threatpost, CNNMoney, Computerworld, Engadget, CSO, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Next Web, Consumerist, InvestorPlace, Naked Security, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, International Business Times, Inquirer, Wired.co.uk and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @troyhunt
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders form Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in clean energy — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies … Some of the world's wealthiest …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Confirms It Will Exit Pakistan After Rejecting Data Monitoring Demands — BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government's continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company's service.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Apple A9X die shot by Chipworks reveals 147 mm2 SoC with 2 CPU, 12 GPU cores, and no L3 cache, made by TSMC — More on Apple's A9X SoC: 147mm2@TSMC, 12 GPU Cores, No L3 Cache — Over the Thanksgiving break the intrepid crew over at Chipworks sent over their initial teardown information for Apple's A9X SoC.
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Motley Fool, Forbes, Engadget, The Tech Report, Ars Technica, TechSpot, MacRumors, MobileSyrup.com, ExtremeTech, 9to5Mac, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, The Overspill, Tech Times and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @stevesi
| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Apple Music coming to Sonos as a public beta on December 15, general availability in early 2016 — Here Comes Apple Music For Sonos — At long last Apple Music is headed to Sonos. Making good on a promise made back in June, Sonos said Monday that Apple's new streaming music service …
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Tweets: @jdalrymple and @caseynewton
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Office 365 enterprise users get Skype for Business meeting, conferencing, and calling features — Microsoft today released new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365. The new features include Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing, and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling.| Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine: |
Swatch partners with Visa to let cardholders in US, Brazil, and Switzerland “tap and pay” with upcoming NFC enabled Bellamy smartwatch — Swatch, Visa Make it Easy to Pay With Your Watch — The world's largest watch maker will soon give those in the U.S. the opportunity to pay for items with a tap of their wrist.
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Swatch Group, The Verge and CNET
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Court ruling reveals the scope of info FBI collects via NSLs for the first time, confirms it needs no warrant to get browsing, online shopping, location history — FBI's warrantless national security powers revealed for first time — The FBI can use national security letters (NSLs) …
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Ars Technica, ACLU, The Verge, Reuters, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Hit & Run
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches PowerApps for businesses to create mobile and web-based apps without writing code on iOS, Android, and Windows — Microsoft takes wraps off PowerApps mobile-app creation service — Microsoft is opening up a limited preview of its PowerApps service for creating …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe releases Premiere Clip for Android, its first video editor for Google's OS — Adobe releases its first video editor for Android — Adobe has been starting to pay more attention to Android, and that continues today with the launch of Premiere Clip, the first video editor it's brought to Google's platform.
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Android Police, The Next Web, Engadget, PhoneDog.com and PCWorld
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shows off new Prime Air drone with hybrid design, is part helicopter, part airplane, can cover over 15 miles, fly over 55 mph — Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design — Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project.
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