The BBC will provide six live HD streams amid a digital-heavy strategy for its 2014 Winter Olympics coverage. The games, which take place in Sochi, Russia, and begin next month, will be covered by the BBC with a multi-platform approach which will automatically tailor to suit the needs of whichever devices are used to keep up with the latest news and results.

Two million Yahoo users could have received malware from virus-infected ads on the search engine giant's homepage that turn the computer into Bitcoin mining tools, according to security researchers. Security research firm Light Cyber said the malware has been designed to create a big network of Bitcoin mining machines, draining the resources of PC users without their knowledge.

Journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has said that women are being "shut down and silenced" by the sort of menacing Twitter messages which were directed at her. Asked how she felt that it was a journalist who discovered the identity of one of the people behind the offensive messages, she said: "I found it incredibly frustrating, it did feel at the time I was having to do all the investigative work myself."

Subscribers to HeraldScotland, which sits behind a metered paywall, have overtaken the number of Herald and Sunday Herald print subscribers, the Herald & Times Group has revealed. The Glasgow-based group, which is part of the Newsquest stable, now has 5,600 subscribers to its digital version of the regional Herald newspaper, a figure topping the combined subscriber total of 5,500 for the print edition and sister paper the Sunday Herald.

The French data protection authority CNIL has fined Google EUR150,000 ($204,000) over its unified privacy policy, which regulators believe violates European privacy law. The EU data protection authorities are coordinating their anti-Google efforts - Spain became the first to levy a fine last month, relieving the company of $1.2 million. The regulator also ordered Google to put a notice on google.fr over 2 days - within 8 days from today - about the decision.

If there's a mantra for the team behind Vice News, it might be: Go where the story takes you. The soon-to-launch news channel from Vice is designed for the type of journalist who wants to strap a camera to her back and jump head first into a conflict zone. That's already taken Vice reporters to places like Sudan, Syria, and the Central African Republic, to report on violence inside the country's borders. When Vice News goes live later this winter, look for a lot more of that.

The BBC has hailed 2013 as the year of the tablet after its popularity as a Christmas present saw viewing of TV programmes on the iPlayer via such devices pass laptop and desktop computers for the first time. Dan Taylor, head of the BBC iPlayer, said that tablet usage overtook viewing on computers as the most popular way to access the iPlayer from Boxing Day through to 30 December.

The UK's third biggest regional newspaper publisher Local World claims it has nearly doubled its website traffic since it was launched a year ago. Local World was formed out of the merger of the Northcliffe and Iliffe regional newspaper groups and comprises 115 titles with a combined print circulation of more than 5m copies a week. It has revealed that total monthly unique web users across the group has increased by 94.3 per cent to 14,273,396 in December 2013 compared with 7,345,334 in December 2012.

The British carrier EE, which got a headstart on its rivals in offering high-speed 4G/LTE mobile broadband, said on Tuesday that it now has over 2 million 4G subscribers. What's more, it took 10 months to score a million, and only 4 months to score the second million - and EE claimed it has the fastest 4G sign-up rate outside South Korea. The company, a joint venture of Deutsche Telekom and Orange, also said its LTE services would cover 70 percent of the UK population by the end of this month.

The final Empty 13 event took place at the end of last year, where The Drum took the opportunity to ask some of the senior marketing and communications speakers at the day for their views on what 2014 was likely to hold for the advertising industry. See what the Mondelez digital and social head, The Guardian's CMO, Telefonica Digital's comms director and Facebook creative chief EMEA had to say.