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HBO is headed to Sling TV for $15/month, just in time for the ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere

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by on April 1, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Sling TV has announced that it will offer HBO as part of its streaming service this month. It is currently unspecified when HBO will go live, but the company said it will be available in time before the April 12 ‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 premiere. With HBO on Sling, viewers can access one live channel and the same video-on-demand offerings as other HBO outlets, such as HBO Go and the upcoming HBO Now on Apple TV. HBO will be available for $15 a month – that’s an extra fee on top of Sling’s $20 a month core package, which currently includes…

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Facebook launches Riff, an app for making videos with your friends

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by on April 1, 2015 at 5:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It may be April Fools day, but that’s not stopping Facebook from an unveiling actual, real product. The company today launched a collaborative video app called Riff. It’s a pretty simple app. You create a video and set some tags for it, and then your friends can see the video and add their own clips to it. This then has a bit of a snowball effect to it; once a friend adds a clip, it’ll be shown to his or her friends, and they can add clips to the Riff as well. A short video can therefore become a long…

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WordPress sites are at risk of Pirate Bay clone slinging malware

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by on April 1, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Some WordPress sites are at risk of being targeted by a fake Pirate Bay copycat site that is launching attacks, according to Malwarebytes researchers. The campaign uses compromised WordPress sites as a means to redirect customers to a page with an exploit kit. All of the compromised sites appear to be injected with the same iframe that is sending users to thepiratebay.in.ua incorrectly. This is not the official Pirate Bay site, it is a clone that is allowed to exist as a result of TheOpenBay initiative. The copycat site is actively pushing the Nuclear exploit kit and appears to be…

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Watch the TNW team celebrate half a million Facebook Page Likes

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by on April 1, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, Voice

We hit a milestone today at TNW; 500,000 Facebook Page Likes, and that’s no April Fools’ Day joke. Thanks to everyone who got us there. And if you don’t already Like us on Facebook, well… you know what to do. Here’s a video we put together to celebrate… and it shows us celebrating! O.M.G! 500,000 Page Likes… DONEThanks for all your support on Facebook!With love, The Next Web team Posted by The Next Web on Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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TweetDeck for Mac’s update now integrates Teams, group DMs, Dataminr support and more

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by on April 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Today, TweetDeck officially scrapped TweetDeck-specific accounts to allow log-ins only via Twitter credentials. Along with this change, it also updated its TweetDeck for Mac client to include several updates available on the Web version. These updates include the new TweetDeck Teams feature for management across organizations, in-line animated GIF and video displays, group direct messages, Dataminr support and the ability to upload up to four photos per tweet. Naturally, the update also brings bug fixes to finally catch TweetDeck’s native app up to speed with its Web client. The app is free and the update is rolling out today. ➤  TweetDeck for…

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