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August 17, 2013, 7:20 PM

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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.
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.
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.
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 …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft apologizes for three-day Outlook.com outage, says caching issue was to blame  —  Microsoft today confirmed it has finally resolved an issue with Outlook.com that has been affecting some users for up to three days.  The company apologized multiple times to those affected …
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 …
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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.
Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Big-data ad platform Rocket Fuel plans $100M IPO  —  The founders and executives of Rocket Fuel are about to get much richer.  —  Dec. 4 - 5, 2013  —  Redwood City, CA  —  Early Bird Tickets on Sale  —  Ad network and data-analysis company Rocket Fuel is planning a $100 million initial …
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 …

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