Thursday 4 February 2016

05/02/16 News Stories

Twitter 'leaving us in the dark' over state hacking claims, activists say

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/twitter-leaving-us-in-the-dark-over-state-hacking-claims-activists-say

Fifty senior activists notified of the ‘state-sponsored’ hacking attempt on Twitter include Anne Roth, an advisor to the German parliamentary investigation into US surveillance

When more than 50 political activists from across Europe and North America were told by Twitter in December 2015 that their accounts had been attacked by anonymous “state-sponsored actors”, they had very little to go on. In the two months since, campaigners from EFF and developers from anonymity tool the Tor Project have joined the activists in demanding more information from Twitter. In an open letter published in January, the group asked a detailed list of questions, including whether attackers gained administrative access to Twitter’s servers.

PewDiePie, Lilly Singh and Rooster Teeth star in first YouTube Red Originals

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/04/youtube-red-originals-pewdiepie-lilly-singh-rooster-teeth




YouTube has confirmed that one TV show and three feature-length films will be the first exclusive content released for its YouTube Red subscription video service. They will debut on 10 February in the US, the only country where YouTube Red has launched so far. Fans elsewhere in the world will have to buy the shows and films from YouTube, or buy and rent them from the Google Play store. YouTube is hoping that exclusive shows and films will persuade some of its 1bn monthly viewers to start paying $9.99 a month for YouTube Red, although its features also include removing advertising; downloading videos for offline viewing; and a bundled subscription to the Google Play Music streaming service.

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