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The Roku 4 is the company's current high-end streaming box. Sarah Tew/CNET Hoping for a Roku 5 to succeed the Roku 4? You may be disappointed by this report.According to ZatzNotFuy.com's correlation of an FCC leak against a Canadian computer sales website published Saturday, the streaming company could be debuting up to five streaming devices this fall that would add HDR picture capabilities and give each of the streamers a name instead of a number.The entry-level Roku 1 would be instead replaced by the Roku Express and Roku Express Plus, both the Roku 2 and Roku 3 would be replaced by the Roku Premiere and Ro...

Enlarge ImageJustin Bieber's nearly 80 million Instagram followers get a rude awakening. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images Pop star Justin Bieber has deleted his Instagram account, following negative comments from fans and a high-profile series of terse exchanges with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez. Bieber, who had nearly 80 million followers on the popular photo-sharing service, was recently embroiled in an online row over his Instagram account. Bieber had posted photos with 17-year-old Sofia Richie. But when fans reacted badly (reportedly posting snake emojis to express their dislike of Richie, according to Globa...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET The latest victim in a long line of high-profile twitter attacks is the CEO of Pokemon Go developer Niantic, John Hanke. On July 31, a series of Tweets was posted to Hanke's 16,000 followers. They were hashtagged "OurMine" and claimed the hack was for Brazil, where Pokemon Go has yet to be released.One tweet also claimed that Hanke's password was "nopass," but the Quora links to the hacker's explanations have been removed. Interestingly, OurMine is a company that claims to assess social network account security, so the hack seems like a marketing stunt, directin...

Enlarge ImageSarah Silverman speaking during the Democratic National Convention. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Comedian/actress Sarah Silverman spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, offering her support for the soon-to-be-official nominee, Hillary Clinton. On Wednesday, a suspiciously anti-Hillary post popped up on her Twitter account. The tweet was quickly deleted and followed by an all-caps denunciation: "MY TWITTER ACCT GOT HACKED THIS IS NOT ME" "Hillary heard the passion of the people, the people behind Beie," said Silverman, who had been supporting Clint...

Add one more premium cable service to Roku's continually growing list of apps. The Starz app, which launched in April, is now available on the company's media streamers, joining Apple TV (the new one, not the old) and Chromecast (via Android and iOS devices). The app gives you access to all of the content available from Starz as well as its sister networks, Starz Encore and Movieplex for a monthly subscription fee of $8.99. If you subscribe to Starz through your cable provider, however, you may not be able to authenticate service on Roku. Comcast, for example, will not allow you to use the app to view Starz content. Other participating cable, satellite and telephone company partners will a...

Sundar Pichai James Martin/CNET Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to have been the latest target of hacker group Ourmine, the hacking group who claimed responsibility for hacking into Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts earlier this month. The group made several posts to Pichai's Twitter account from his Quora account to Pichai's 508,000 followers, and claimed to have hacked into both.However, unlike the Zuckerberg hack, where entry was gained into his accounts using a password obtained from the massive leak of LinkedIn data, access to Pichai's Quora account seems to have been via a vulnerability on Quora's ...

Roku Roku entered the Windows 10 era yesterday by releasing a new remote control app for laptops and tablets.The app, which is now available for free in the US from the Windows Store, gives users a new homepage design and the usual slate of features for the streaming set-top box. You'll be able to select chaels, search for content, play music and show photos and use Cortana to make your selections. The company said it's the first time that tablet users will be able to use the Roku app to get its full breadth of chaels and movies. On the company's blog, Roku Senior Product Manager Matthew Wee said the app wou...

Roku is making it easier for viewers to catch up on the news by adding it into its universal search feature.The search feature -- which is available on current Roku streaming boxes, the Streaming Stick and televisions that have the Roku platform built-in -- now allows for entering in a topic such as "Apple" or "NBA," and will retrieve a listing of videos pertaining to that topic from across many of streaming news chaels on the platform. These include news broadcasts from the four major US networks -- such as ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX -- as well as from digital outlets like Yahoo (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of CNET). The streaming company aounced the addition in a blog post on Friday.A...

Better safe than sorry, or so goes Twitter's latest thinking.The social network on Friday maintained it was not the victim of a hack or data breach, as previously reported. But Michael Coates, Twitter's head of information security, wrote in a blog post that the company has identified some accounts that need "extra protection." Those accounts have been locked, requiring users to reset their passwords in order to access them."If your information was impacted by any of the recent issues -- because of password disclosures from other companies or the leak on the 'dark web' -- then you have already received an email that your account password must be reset," he wrote. " Your account won't be acce...

May saw the data of hundreds of millions of LinkedIn and Myspace users leaked by hackers. Now, the same is happening to Twitter -- with the same people reportedly responsible.A Russian hacker, who goes by the name Tessa88, claimed on Tuesday to be in possession of a cache containing email addresses, passwords and useames of 379 million Twitter accounts, reports ZDNet. On Wednesday, LeakedSource claimed that the real number of accounts was just under 33 million. That's more than 10 percent of Twitter's monthly active users. Tessa88 is selling the database for 10 bitcoins, or roughly $5,810, AU$7,770 and £4,000, according to ZDNet. The publication also reported that the seller had links to the...

Enlarge ImageReports of Jack Black's death have been greatly exaggerated, courtesy of a hack attack. Tenacious D/Twitter Attention, Jack Black fans: The actor is "alive and well" despite a tweet claiming he had passed to the great beyond. Black was one of several celebrities caught in a hoax in which Twitter accounts of famous peeps were compromised. Other celebrities whose accounts were taken over included musician Keith Richards and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hacks against website and social media accounts aren't unusual, and hackers often go after celebrities for notoriety and in an attempt to embarr...

The message posted to a Pinterest page allegedly associated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. OurMine Did the massive data dump of LinkedIn accounts last month also include Mark Zuckerberg?Ourmine, a hacker group with 41,000 followers on Twitter, claimed Sunday to have compromised the Facebook CEO's Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter accounts. Zuckerberg's verified Twitter account appears normal at this writing, but Engadget posted images showing it defaced. In a Tweet, the group bragged about the alleged hacks and invited Zuckerberg to contact the group. A similar mes...