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The worst & best from CES in our estimation, the Valve backed HTC Vive VR gets ready for pre-order & T-Mobile’s CEO binges on the EFF.

Plus Netflix’s global expansion is astonishing, account sharing is cool & the secret of the codes.

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• Watch U.S. Marshals Raid Chinese Hoverboard Booth at CES – YouTube
• Intel’s next NUC will be a quad-core mini PC with Iris Pro and Thunderbolt 3 | Ars Technica
• HTC Vive pre-orders to start on February 29 – Telegraph
• John Legere asks EFF, “Who the f**k are you, and who pays you?” | Ars Technica
• EFF Confirms: T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For “Offending” EFF And Its Supporters | TechCrunch
• AT&T brings back unlimited data plans for its DirecTV and U-verse subscribers | The Verge
• Netflix’s Global Expansion Is Suddenly Near Completion — The Motley Fool
• Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK | TechCrunch
• Netflix’s Plan for Global Domination – YouTube
• Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK
• Netflix Search Code Directory

Kickstarter of the Week:

• PACE lid. Be prepared for whatever life throws your way. by Chris Way

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Facebook pushes back that it’s been hacked, the PS4 has been jailbroken & Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night.

Plus the FCC wants to talk to T-Mobile and AT&T about their sponsored data plans & our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Developer Claims ‘PS4 Officially Jailbroken’ – Slashdot
• The Netflix Tech Blog: Per-Title Encode Optimization
• Regulators want to talk to AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile about sponsored data – The Washington Post
• Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night | The Verge
• Instagram HACKED! Researcher Hacked Into Instagram Server and Admin Panel
• Man arrested in toymaker hack that exposed data for millions of kids | Ars Technica
• Windows’ authentication ‘flaw’ exposed in detail • The Register

Kickstarter of the Week:

• Fleye – Your Personal Flying Robot by Fleye — Kickstarter

Fleye is a whole new kind of drone. Safe, fun and autonomous. Invent the future of flying robots thanks to its open API and SDK.

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Vulnerabilities in iOS & Android devices announced today, both are in the wild with no fix yet. We’ll share the details. Comcast wants to buy T-Mobile, Microsoft shakes it up, Kodi gets banned & more!

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• Researchers Find Major Keychain Vulnerability in iOS and OS X – Slashdot
• Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack – Slashdot
• Comcast said to be leading suitor in T-Mobile buyout – CNET
• Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership And Internal Structure As Its Fiscal Year Comes To A Close | TechCrunch
• Let’s Encrypt Launch Schedule
• Amazon Bans Kodi/XBMC App Over Piracy Concerns | TorrentFreak

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Live streaming site Justin.tv shuts down, and we reflect on the early days of our broadcasting on the service.

Plus the crypto-malware spreading to NAS boxes, Sprint pulls out of the T-Mobile deal and why Tech Talk Today might soon have a party mode.

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Goodbye from Justin.tv

Justin.tv was created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in March 2007.

Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014, all resources are now focused on Twitch.tv.

• Twitch Shuts Down Justin.tv, Google Acquisition to Blame?

The news today will almost certainly further fuel the rumors that Google is acquiring, or has already acquired, Twitch. Purchases are often followed by consolidation, as well as cutting off any excess limbs.

SynoLocker demands 0.6 Bitcoin to decrypt Synology NAS devices – CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives

The new attack on Synology kit comes within a year of Synology NAS devices being struck by fraudulent Bitcoin mining operators, with several owners on Sunday reporting that they had found a message from the “SynoLocker Automated Decryption Service” — when accessing the main page of the Web-server for their NAS device — stating that “all important files on this NAS have been encrypted using strong cryptography”.

As one victim on Synology’s English user forum commented, the SynoLocker “service” asks for 0.6 Bitcoins to unlock the encrypted files

• News – Synology – Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Report: Sprint abandons bid for T-Mobile because US would block merger | Ars Technica

Sprint owner SoftBank has been talking about buying T-Mobile US for months, but is reportedly abandoning the plan because US regulators would likely object.

AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011 but gave up in the face of opposition from the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission. While AT&T had to pay a $4-billion breakup fee, which helped T-Mobile build out its LTE network, Sprint apparently wouldn’t suffer that fate because no deal was ever finalized.

Exclusive: Sprint to Name Brightstar’s Marcelo Claure as CEO | Re/code

Sprint plans to name Marcelo Claure, one of its board members and head of wireless distributor Brightstar, as its new CEO, Re/code has learned from a number of sources.

Japan’s Softbank, which owns a controlling stake in Sprint, also acquired a majority stake in Brightstar last year.

Apple is Making Progress | Jonathan Zdziarski’s Domain

• Shortly after my talk at HOPE/X, citing my paper, “Identifying Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices”, along with a proof of concept, Apple released Beta 5, and a number of the “high value forensic services” I’d outlined in my paper have now been disabled wirelessly, including the packet sniffer service that got many upset

• Apple’s fixes are clearly still a work in progress, and not all of my security concerns have been addressed yet

• Given that a number of my threat models involved government spying, it feels good to know that Apple has taken my research seriously enough to address these concerns. Keep in mind, the threat model we’re dealing with also includes foreign governments, many of which have long histories of spying on our country’s diplomats.

• Apple would be wise to add additional protections to ensure that sensitive data is protected in cases involving data at rest and physical security. This, too, is achievable with a small amount of effort, and will ensure that Apple is the only entity capable of extracting sensitive, encrypted data from the device. To do this, Apple’s file_relay service, which they claim is for “diagnostics purposes” would need to be closed off, or at least fixed so that it doesn’t bypass the user’s backup password and the encryption it is tied to. Additionally, the house_arrest service would need to be patched so that it doesn’t allow sandbox access while the device is locked, or some other creative approach.

WOULD YOU FUND IT: LIGHTFREQ: The First Genius Light Bulb With HD Audio by LightFreq Inc — Kickstarter

LightFreq, the genius multi-functioning HD audio light bulb that offers an audio system, wake-up mode, phone alerts, intercom and more!

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Google says “think of the children” but does that justify fully analyzing the contents of everyones Gmail? A drone crashes carrying phones and drugs into a prison & “The Scourge Of Zero Rating”.

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Crashed drone carried contraband aimed at South Carolina prison | Reuters

A drone being flown in a novel attempt to smuggle phones, marijuana and tobacco into a South Carolina maximum security prison crashed outside its walls, authorities said on Wednesday.

Officials believe it was the first time an unmanned aircraft had been used in an effort to breach prison walls in the state, Givens said. Most cellphones are thrown over walls.

Authorities have arrested one man in the drone incident and are seeking another suspect. Brenton Lee Doyle, 28, appeared in court on Wednesday for a hearing. He faces charges of attempting to introduce contraband into a prison and possession of the drug flunitrazopam, a muscle relaxant known as “roofies.”

Doyle has said he has never seen a drone and that police said nothing about a drone at the time of his arrest, his attorney Wayne Floyd said.

Police Say A Google Tip About Child Abuse Led To Arrest – Business Insider

A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police.

The man was a registered sex offender, convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 1994, reports Tim Wetzel at KHOU Channel 11 News in Houston.

“He was keeping it inside of his email. I can’t see that information, I can’t see that photo, but Google can,” Detective David Nettles of the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce told Channel 11.

After Google reportedly tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the center alerted police, who used the information to get a warrant.

On one hand, most people would certainly applaud the use of technology to scan email in a case like this.

On the other, debate rages about how much privacy users can expect when using Google’s services like email. In a word: none.

A year ago, in a court brief, Google said as much. Then, in April, after a class-action case against Google for email scanning fell apart, Google updated its terms of service to warn people that it was automatically analyzing emails.

• Houston man charged with child porn possession after Google cyber-tip
• Google Helps Police Arrest Man for Child Pics

Google Said to Plan Separating Photo Service From Google+ – Bloomberg

The move would enable the photo service to stand more
independently and be accessible for consumers who aren’t part of
Google+, potentially spurring more growth, said the people, who
asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. The
service, called Google+ Photos, would still work with the social
network’s users and may be rebranded as part of the move, one of
the people said.

Mailpile: Mailpile Alpha II – The Dogfood Edition

We present Mailpile Alpha II – The Dogfood Edition!

Yummy! This savoury mass of source code has been tagged in Github
(release 0.2.0)
and we have updated our live demos.

The Scourge Of Zero Rating – AVC

Fred Wilson is a New York City-based venture capitalist since 1986, and a blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, with investments in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and others.

It seems like every week I read another article about a mobile carrier offering some incredible deal to eat the mobile data costs you rack up using certain apps.

The most recent was the news that Sprint will sell at data plan that “only connects to Facebook and Twitter”.

The pernicious thing about zero rating is that it is marketed as a consumer friendly offering by the mobile carrier — “we are not charging you for data when you are on Spotify”.

But what all of this zero rating activity is setting up is a mobile internet that looks a lot more like cable TV than our wide open Internet. Soon a startup will have to negotiate a zero rating plan before launching because mobile app customers will be trained to only use apps that are zero rated on their network.

I strongly encourage policy makers, policy wonks, internet activists, and anyone who cares about protecting an open internet for all to take a hard look at zero rating. Like all the best scourges, it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

• Fred Wilson (fredwilson) on Twitter
• Fred Wilson (financier) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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We go over Amazon’s new smart phone, and discuss if they’ve missed the mark.

Then the Feds screw up the Silkroad Bitcoin sale, and T-Mobile decided some bits are more privileged than others – and why they might just fool you into liking it.

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Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB

• A quad-core 2.2GHz SoC
• Adreno 330 GPU
• 2GB of RAM
• 802.11ac Wi-Fi
• Fire OS 3.5.0
• 13MP camera with optical image stabilization.
• A dedicated shutter button.

Fire Phone exclusively available July 25 on AT&T: $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB, $649 and $749 off-contract

Equipped with Firefly, its standout feature, the Fire Phone will be able to scan and identify more than 100 million items, enabling users to perform instantaneous price checks alongside a contextual database search of everything from music and street signs to the handwritten contents of notes and letters.

Firefly, when rolled into Amazon’s network of services anchored by Prime, is meant to be the linchpin of the Fire Phone. With a device that customers can take with them to every physical store and location and scan their surroundings, Amazon is adding a powerful new avenue to reroute users back to its platform and marketplace.

At closing, Amazon stock was up 2.69 percent, or 8.76 points, at $334.28 per share

List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals

A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed.

In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman, indicated that the emailer had intended to send all the recipients an attached informational document and to blind copy all those it intended to contact. The US Marshals service is the federal agency that has been charged with carrying out the auction of the bitcoins, originally seized by the FBI.

T-Mobile’s ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem | The Verge

T-Mobile has decided, arbitrarily, that some of the data traveling over its pipes should count against a cap, while other data should not. What’s to stop it from using data cap exemptions as a punitive measure against content providers that aren’t on good terms with T-Mobile (or its parent company Deutsche Telekom)?

Japan’s ruling party says won’t regulate bitcoin for now

Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency.

SnappyTV is joining the flock | Twitter Blogs

One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter. As we continue to invest in video, it’s important for us to provide tools that make it easy for TV broadcasters, businesses, and event producers to share high-quality videos. To that end, we’ve agreed to acquire SnappyTV.

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