Today we cover several weeks of news, ranging from hacking and piracy to new video games!

Sources/notes:

• Sony Hack/North Korea Involvement
  • http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/sony-pictures-employees-now-working-in-an-office-from-ten-years-ago/
  • http://www.computerworld.com/article/2856259/north-korea-denies-involvement-in-righteous-sony-hack.html
  • http://www.computerworld.com/article/2861460/fbi-concludes-north-korea-was-responsible-for-sony-hack.html
  • http://www.pcworld.com/article/2861952/north-korea-wants-joint-probe-into-sony-hack-warns-of-consequences-if-not.html
  • http://www.pcworld.com/article/2861812/obama-promises-response-on-sony-hack-says-pulling-movie-was-mistake.html
• Always-on Voice Search Could be Coming to Your Chromebook
• Boeing and BlackBerry are Making a Self-Destructing Phone
• Apple is Failing to Protect Chinese Factory Workers
• Valve Drama and Minecraft Sellout
• Major Vulnerability Found in Home Routers
• The Pirate Bay is Shut Down... for good?
  • http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/09/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-and-knock-the-site-offline/
  • http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/16/pirate-bay-shutdown-explainer/
  • http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-crew-responds-to-the-raid-copies-and-the-future-141215/
  • http://torrentfreak.com/paulo-coelho-wants-to-give-the-interview-away-using-bittorrent-141218/