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White House approves sanctions against North Korea for Sony hack

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U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized new economic sanctions against North Korea, in part for the country’s alleged hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in November, the White House said.

Even though some security researchers have questioned whether North Korea was behind the Sony hack, the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday announced sanctions against 10 North Koreans and three organizations in the country.

The FBI blamed the government of North Korea for the attack in mid-December. The government of North Korea has denied involvement in the attack, although it praised hackers for attempting to prevent the release of “The Interview,” a movie about a plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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Former White House spokesman ‘live tweeting’ his recollections of 9/11

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He’s chosen an odd format for the task, but former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer’s ongoing string of tweets today about his recollections of being at the side of President Bush on 9/11 makes for compelling reading nonetheless.

Most of the anecdotes he is sharing — from memory and six pages of extemporaneous notes he took that day – will be familiar to anyone steeped in the details of that horrible day. The tweets are timed to coincide with events as they unfolded, so if you’d like to read them in chronological order you’ll have to scroll down to the first one.

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House passes cellphone unlocking bill that now only needs Obama’s signature

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The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a bill that will once again give consumers the right to unlock their cellphones, meaning the legislation is only a presidential signature away from becoming law.

Sina Khanifar, whose petitioning of the White House got the ball rolling on this almost two years, says via an email:

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Screen shot of White House petition

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49ers’ ubiquitous stadium Wi-Fi network delivers to full house in NFL debut

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Levi’s Stadium crowd on August 17, 2014.
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The San Francisco 49ers’ massive Wi-Fi network delivered to its first NFL crowd last night when the home team took on the Denver Broncos in a preseason game at the just-opened Levi’s Stadium.

Mobile Sports Report Editor Paul Kapustka tested the network in person during the game and detailed his findings extensively.

“In its first ‘real’ test with an almost-full house on Sunday the Levi’s Wi-Fi and cellular networks seemed to work well throughout the game, delivering solid speed test results from almost every part of the new 68,500-seat facility,” Kapustka wrote. In an outside concourse, Kapustka got speeds of 57.92Mbps down and 41Mbps up. He still got more than 20Mbps in both directions inside near the concession stands, while Mbps dropped to the teens in the seats, still plenty fast enough to qualify as broadband.

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