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Judge rejects Yahoo data breach settlement
A judge has rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.
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Accomplice who helped Yahoo email hackers gets five years in prison
An accomplice accused of helping Russian agents break into Yahoo email accounts has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a US$250,000 fine.
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Top cloud vendors spend big as race for scale heats up
Global hyper-scale cloud vendors collectively forked out at least US$27 billion in capital expenditure over the three months ending March.
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Yahoo could be sued by data breach victims in the US
Yahoo ordered by a Federal Judge to face much of a lawsuit claiming that the personal information of all three billion users was compromised.
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Man charged in Yahoo hacking case to face court with guilty plea
A man accused of helping Russian agents allegedly break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 Yahoo breach is expected to plead guilty.
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What is HeartBleed? The biggest security threat the internet has ever seen
The Heartbleed bug has made headlines all around the world after it was discovered that potentially two thirds of the internet was vulnerable. The erroneous code has exposed encryption keys to would-be hackers, meaning most of our sensitive data is easily stolen. We look at what this means for the future.
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When tech titans join forces: The verdict on 6 big mergers
Some things go together like peanut butter and jelly. Others are more like peanut butter and motor oil. The joining of tech titans is no different. Here we discuss whether six high-profile mergers have made a tasty combination or a gross one.
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Top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants
Politics collided with the world of technology this year as stories about U.S. government spying stirred angst both among the country's citizens and foreign governments, and the flawed HeathCare.gov site got American health-care reform off to a rocky start. Meanwhile, the post-PC era put aging tech giants under pressure to reinvent themselves. Here in no particular order are IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 tech stories of the year.
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From Netscape to Napster: Whatever happened to yesterday's giants?
The sudden, quiet killing of the legendary Winamp media player sent a shiver across the Web last week. Just like that, a software giant of yore was gone. But once the initial shock wore off, another thought settled in: "Wait, Winamp was still around?"
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Why HP's successful turnaround Is closer than it looks
Hewlett-Packard's turnaround effort under CEO Meg Whitman, like an object in the rearview mirror, is closer than it appears. Credit the impending success on strategic partnerships, good hires and a broad view of the future of tech.