New hackers are ruining our holiday fun, but also screwing with North Korea (so it's not all bad, I guess). Sony is just annoyed so they have started using and the NSA is staffed by people you wouldn't want working at a grocery store. It's been a weird year.

• North Korea gets its full 1.5Mbps ISP taken down
• Sony is unsure of how Twitter works
• Sony releases The Interview after all
• . . . and it takes off on torrent sites
• Mississippi Attorney General backs off Google investigation
• PlayStation on your TV. Like, actually ON the TV
• Xbox Live and PlayStation Network hacked
• Kim Dotcom calls off the hackers… allegedly
• Hackers take on the Tor network
• Apple forced to use OS X automatic update for the first time ever
• FCC admits it's hard to get an accurate view of Net Neutrality when half a billion votes are missing
• So the NSA hires the same people McDonald's does. Nice.

Zuke’s 2014 Favorite: Guardian’s of the Galaxy

Schmidty’s 2014 Favorite: Microsoft buys Mojang

Zohner’s 2014 Favorite: Comic book entertainment

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For this Christmastime, we decide to stay up way too late and try to record a show in a mildly altered state. What came out was not . . . normal. North Korea is feeling ronery, Collin is killed by wildlife, and sometimes you SHOULDN'T buy a box of poop. It was a random week.

• The hackers have won (Obama, Romney, and everyone else rails against Sony)
• Want to know how we know SOPA is bad? The MPAA is trying to revive it.
• You TOO can have your own Pirate Bay!
• Spanish news publishers want Google News back
• Amazon introduces Prime Now. Claims to deliver items within the hour.
• Wakie app introduces an alarm you can't (and shouldn't) hit
• Uber will take you to safety, but only if you can pay . . . a LOT
• Instagram purges millions of fake accounts. Immediately loses 18.9 million followers.
• And Blackberry is back in the drink
• Microsoft makes Halo's cloud framework open source
• Minecraft is finally getting a story mode!
• Patch to fix Assasin's Creed Unity is nearly as large as the game itself
• Sometimes there's truth in advertising

Zuke’s Favorite: Everyone needs a robot friend

Schmidty’s Favorite: Official Trailer - The Holidays Are Coming

Zohner’s Favorite: Derby the dog

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I dunno, maybe it's the hat.

This week we learn about all of Sony's secrets, Iowa leading the way to a techy-er future, and Google showing Spain who is boss.

• The damage done: Sony Pictures hack reveals more embarrassing details
• Sony Hackers Apparently Demand Studio Pull ‘The Interview’
• Sony’s hacked e-mails expose spats, director calling Angelina Jolie a ‘brat’
• Marvel Wanted Spider-Man In CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
• Iowa to launch smartphone driver's license
• Strict New Copyright Law Forces End Of Google News In Spain
• Google begins notifying users of $19 million settlement with FTC over in-app purchases
• Microsoft's MSN suite of apps are now available on Android
• Minecraft: Pocket Edition for Windows Phone
• Google Reportedly Confirms Stoppage of Nexus 5 Production, “Once They Are Gone, They’re Gone” (Updated)
• Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay, Site Offline
• Chromecast is now Ultrasonic
• Facebook to add a dislike button?
• Google removes Amazon from the Play Store

Zuke’s Favorite: The Empire is Coming to Town

Schmidty’s Favorite: DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2014

Collin’s Favorite: SimCity 2000 is free!

Zohner’s Favorite: Neighborhood Christmas awesomeness

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• Chromebook outsells the iPad in US schools
• Girl Scout cookies make their way to the web
• A New Modular Phone Manufacturer Joins the Competition: PuzzlePhone
• Apple Patent that reorients phone during freefall
• Apple deleted music out of your device's iTunes
• Google tries to rethink the captcha
• Samsung cuts three executives after Galaxy S5 failure
• Raise a glass: Tech that died in 2014
• YouTube now uses 64-bit integers since Gangnam Style broke the 32bit barrier
• The next Assassin's Creed title to occur in 19th century London

Zuke’s Favorite: Japanese LTE helps you cook shrimp faster!

Schmidty’s Favorite: Bug Zapper in slow motion

Zohner’s Favorite: Assassin's Creed Unity in real life Behind the scenes

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• The first teaser for Episode VII arrives
• Samsung sells 40% fewer S5 units than expected
• Nexus 6 from AT&T not so great
• FAA institutes new rules for drones
• Get a Rolex for cheaper than you'd think with a smartwatch
• Google loses browser partnerships
• Blackberry will actually pay you to take their phone
• Sony gets hacked, doxed, and down
• US concerned over proposed EU breakup of Google
• Telltale's Game of Thrones game is coming next week

Zuke’s Favorite: Lego Rap Battle

Schmidty’s Favorite: Batman takes on Darth Vader

Zohner’s Favorite: Another Princess Rap Battle

Squishy’s Favorite: Honest Trailers: Love Actually

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Hang a bell, you mean we forgot to tell Collin about the sausage?

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• Nokia is back in the hardware game
• Uber just loves bad PR it seems
• TRUSTe may not be so trusty
• Google has 1st Amendment rights in search results
• Fitbit to be used in a personal injury case
• Softcard’s new mascot REALLY enjoys it when you tap him
• Can't use a tool in court? Throw the evidence out!
• Law to regulate NSA fails
• Android Lollipop may brick your device
• Comcast is willing to give you an awful deal!
• Late night PC infomercials are misleading?!

Zuke’s Favorite: The Jazz have a supervillain for a coach!

Zohner’s Favorite: Best candle ever!

Collin’s Favorite: Assassin’s Creed Unity - Not so good release

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• China hacks the USPS for . . . stamps?
• Cops pay ransomware they download
• Your LG phone is . . . LOOKING at me.
• Samsung partnering with Blackberry to bolster Knox security
• US Weather Service hacked and taken offline
• Some Yahoo investors are stupid (again)
• Google Ads fail, give everyone an ad vacation
• How much money do politicians get from cable companies?
• How about FCC chairmen?
• 19-year-old vulnerability discovered in Windows
• Spotify: We were paying Taylor Swift $6M a year
• October comic sales were good
• Evil Dead gets some Chuck Finley
• Idris Elba is tired of being in Marvel films

Zuke’s Favorite: All The Busters

Schmidty’s Favorite: See Wikipedias updates in real-time and listen to it too

Zohner’s Favorite: Star Wars Commander

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 I will cosplay as this someday.

• Google's flu map is now accurate
• Dropbox partners with Microsoft for integration with Office
• Amazon Prime users now get unlimited photo storage
• Apple actually helps Google grow
• Google offers USB Security Key access in Chrome
• Leaked pics a sex crime?
• Feds seize Silk Road 2
• Aereo gives up, shuts down operations
• Twitch tells you to stop raiding nude
• Final Pirate Bay founder caught and flogged
• The Force is waking up… or something

Zuke’s Favorite: WinTV is awesome

Schmidty’s Favorite: Play classic arcade games on Internet Archive

Zohner’s Favorite: JoCo Live is epic

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• Antares Rocket explosion and Updates
• Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in California
• AT&T Locks iPad Air 2 Sim-card
• Samsung Announces Galaxy A3 and A5 phones
• T-mobile has the largest quarterly growth in history
• Microsoft Health launches
• Google wants to stave off death with Nanotechnology
• The Walking Dead fan theory debunked
• All sorts of Marvel movie news
• CurrentC hacked before it even really launches
• FTC sues AT&T for misleading customers
• Yeah Tim, we already knew.
• No recording devices for movies
• Google takes pictures of woman, get's sued. Not in France.
• Spain charges Google a tax for linking news sites.
• Use Drupal? Assumed you're hacked.

Zuke’s Favorite: OK Go, Drones, and Unicycles!

Schmidty’s Favorite: Do you want to build a snowman?

Collin’s Favorite: Salt Lake Comic Con returns 88 days??

Zohner’s Favorite: So gloriously inappropriate

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• Google Inbox (it's blue!)
• iPhone sales are up, iPad is down
• China is hacking ________ again
• Marvel PR can do no wrong at this point.
• Felicia Day worries about getting doxxed by gamergate. Immediately gets doxxed.
• CERN asks, "What is this?!"
• Amazon may not actually make all that much money
• Yahoo's new homepage brings it to the new century
• Yahoo's investments in mobile to pay off
• Office 365 and Surface 3 is doing just fine
• Is DC’s New 52 almost done?
• Record free fall

Zuke’s Favorite: Windows comes to my Android

Schmidty’s Favorite: OMG-BBQ-WTF-FTW WebGL Water

Collin’s Favorite: Utahns celebrate holidays for terminally ill boy

Zohner’s Favorite: This is not safe! (but totally safe for work)

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