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General Manager Brandon Delaney looks up at the marquee sign after the announcement that the Plaza Theatre would be showing the movie "The Interview" beginning Christmas Day in Atlanta, Georgia December 23, 2014.

The Interview opens in theatres today. But is it a happy ending?

Culture

After weeks of back and forth over what to do, Sony released The Interview today. And many people lined up to see it.

A man assembles police observation cameras near the Bayerischer Hof hotel before the start of the 50th Conference on Security Policy in Munich on January 31, 2014

The year of surveillance is finally over

Technology
A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory.

A huge intelligence screw-up turned the government and private companies into cyberwarfare partners

Books
The Cyber Warrior

Meet the hacking prodigy you definitely want on your side

Conflict
Protesters hold masks depicting former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden during a demonstration in Berlin on May 22, 2014. The sentence on the shirt reads, "What has happened to revolution?"

Laura Poitras’ new documentary tells the Edward Snowden story — with some free computer lessons thrown in

Arts
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