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August 17, 2013, 2:05 PM

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Steve Wozniak / Gizmodo:

Jobs, Reviewed by Steve Wozniak — In the discussion section of our Jobs review, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak weighed in with his own impressions of the movie—and how he and others were portrayed. What follows is Woz's unedited take on Jobs: — I saw Jobs tonight. I thought the acting throughout was good.

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Tweets: @nickbilton and @davewiner

Vijith Assar / Slashdot:

Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, New Movie — The early years: Daniel Kottle (l) and Steve Jobs (r). — Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez had front-row seats to the birth of the personal computing industry, as well as the most valuable technology company in the world.

More: 9to5Mac, iClarified, Business Insider, AppleInsider, TUAW, SiliconBeat and Softpedia News. Tweets: @sdkstl

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

‘JOBS’ Biography Starring Ashton Kutcher Hits Theaters to Mixed Reviews — Joshua Michael Stern's Steve Jobs biography JOBS launched in theaters today, and despite a vigorous marketing campaign that saw actor Ashton Kutcher attending a number of promotional events and interviews …

More: Rotten Tomatoes, The Atlantic Online, I4U News, TUAW, New York Times, App Advice and Macworld

Tweets: @reneritchie and @slashfilm

David Talbot / MIT Technology Review:

Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process — Research unmasks a weakness of Apple's App Store: new apps apparently are run for only a few seconds before approval. — WHY IT MATTERS — More than 600 million devices with Apple's iOS have been sold.

More: GigaOM, Gizmodo, T3 News, Softpedia News, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, CNET, The Next Web, BGR and The Mac Security Blog

Tweets: @packetknife and @david_a_talbot

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Webcam spying goes mainstream as Miss Teen USA describes hack — Wolf detailing her experience. — CNN/WPIX — Webcam hacking has officially gone mainstream with yesterday's revelation that the new Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, was the victim of a “sextortion” plot in which someone …

More: Security Watch and ABC News

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Begins Showing Mac Pro Teaser in Movie Theaters with ‘Fall 2013’ Announcement — Apple has begun showing the teaser video for the upcoming Mac Pro in movie theaters across the nation. First shown at WWDC during the initial debut of the Mac Pro, the video shows the sleek black curves of the product from multiple angles.

More: The Next Web and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @tgaul, @swb1192 and @johnhmeyer123

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Inside the bitter YouTube battle between Microsoft and Google — Why do these companies love to hate each other? — The gloves are off: Microsoft and Google find themselves battling in more product areas than ever while fighting a very public war of words.

More: Firedoglake, Quartz, Computerworld, eWeek and WebProNews

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Virus targets the social network in new fraud twist — (Reuters) - In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number. — As social media has become increasingly influential in shaping reputations, hackers have used …

More: Forbes and The Verge. Tweets: @josephmenn

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation — The CEO of Waywire — the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker — is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst …

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

ICANN officially kills Google's plan for dotless Search top level domain name — Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. — ICANN's New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names …

More: ICANN, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, ZDNet, Web Host Industry Review, DomainIncite, Marketing Land, TheDomains.com and CircleID

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Carl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote — Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can't seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. — A judge in that court turned away Icahn's petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled for Sept. 12.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, DealBook, Electronista, eWeek, Associated Press, Reuters, ZDNet, ValueWalk, MoneyBeat and GigaOM. Tweets: @allthingsd

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Taxi E-Hail Startup Flywheel Launches In Los Angeles To Take On Uber, Lyft, And SideCar — Mobile taxi-hailing app Flywheel is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it's looking to enter new markets to provide …

More: Los Angeles Times

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