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1. Much Hack. Very Mystery. Bad hacks make it to the top of the list again. JPMorgan Chase and other banks reported cyberattacks, and an elusive group calling themselves Lizard Squad brought down gaming sites like and Xbox Live and Twitch, and even diverted a plane carrying Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley with a bomb hoax. The FBI is probing Russia for a connection to the bank hacks, but details remain unclear.

2. Amazon Gets Into Gaming With Twitch Videogame streaming site Twitch accepted Amazon’s acquisition offer of $970 million, after a previous offer from Google fell through. Naturally, Amazon plans to become a stronger competitor to YouTube, Netflix and Apple. Twitch has 55 million monthly visits and a million gamers contributing original content.

3. NSA’s Secret Search Engine 850 billion records, including phone calls, emails, cellphone locations and internet chats, are part of ICREACH, a search-engine-like interface the NSA built and shares with nearly two dozen governmental agencies.

4. TWC and Comcast… You Have Some Explaining to Do Wednesday morning’s Time Warner Cable outage affected millions around the country, stirring up an investigation from Cuomo, demands for better service from de Blasio and a petition to the FCC to kill the merger with Comcast from Netflix. All this after TWC’s $1.1M fine for lazy outage reports and Comcast’s customer service debacle.

5. You Won’t Believe Facebook’s Weird Trick Facebook said 80 percent of its users “preferred headlines that helped them decide if they wanted to read the full article before they had to click through,” and changed its algorithm for how click bait headlines will (and won’t) appear in your news feed.