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September 26, 2014, 9:10 AM

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

A behind-the-scenes look at Apple's iPhone testing facilities — Inside the building where Apple tortures the iPhone 6 — A few blocks away from Apple's bustling campus in Cupertino is a rather nondescript building. Inside is absolutely the last place on earth you'd want to be if you were an iPhone.

More: CNBC, Re/code, BGR, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets, DISPLAYBLOG, Tech2, MacDailyNews, Electronista, ITProPortal, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Mashable, The Tech Report, The Next Web, iMore, 9to5Mac and App Advice

Tweets: @dansinker, @bhatnaturally, @pkedrosky and @sharonprofis

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple: Bending in iPhone 6 Plus From Normal Use ‘Extremely Rare’, Only 9 Customers Have Complained — Apple has commented on the ongoing complaints about the iPhone 6 Plus bending in user pockets, telling CNBC that the new iPhones include steel/titanium inserts to reinforce stress locations …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple releases iOS 8.0.2 with fixes to cellular, touch ID issues; says only 40K iPhone 6/6+ devices affected by 8.0.1 bugs — Apple Releases iOS 8.0.2 With Fix for Cellular Issues, Broken Touch ID — Apple has just released iOS 8..2, its second update to iOS 8 designed to fix major issues introduced …

Bloomberg:

Manager in charge of iOS testing was in charge of testing Maps during 2012 debacle; a look inside the team's procedures — Apple's IPhone Software Snafu Has Links to Flawed Maps — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s release of a software update that cut off people's ability to make calls from their iPhones …

More: App Advice, MacRumors, Business Insider, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @gruber, @monkbent, @sriramk, @kennethn, @xeus, @pmarca, @mattrosoff, @lessien, @ethank, @dshankar, @mgrooves, @nateboateng and @johnpaczkowski

The Huffington Post:

FBI discussed marketing of device encryption settings with Google and Apple; director says he's “very concerned” — FBI Director James Comey ‘Very Concerned’ About New Apple, Google Privacy Features — WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that he was …

CNBC:

BlackBerry reports smaller than expected loss of $207M in Q2, revenue fell 42% to $916M below expectations — BlackBerry posts narrower quarterly loss; shares rise — BlackBerry reported a smaller quarterly loss on Friday in an early sign that its drawn-out turnaround efforts might be working.

More: ZDNet, Engadget, VentureBeat, Marketwired, TechCrunch, Re/code, 9to5Google, CNET, BGR, Electronista, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Geeky Gadgets, MobileSyrup.com and Reuters. Tweets: @cnbc

Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry CEO: 200,000 Passports ordered since launch — The device is already sold out on its own website and Amazon. — The BlackBerry Passport is off to a decent start. — The unusually shaped smartphone garnered 200,000 orders since its launch on Wednesday, according to CEO John Chen.

More: Computerworld, BGR, Fortune and MobileSyrup.com

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple: OS X safe from Bash exploit unless users configured advanced Unix services, fix coming — Apple comments on ‘Shellshock’ exploit, working quickly to provide OS X software update — 0Apple is aware of the recently discovered bash exploit, nicknamed Shellshock …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, New York Times, Gigaom, Lifehacker, Ubergizmo, MacNN, Mashable, TUAW, Geeky Gadgets, The Verge, MacRumors, Cult of Mac and Mac Tips

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Dear News Corp & Google: An Open Letter On Their Open Letters To Each Other Over Competition — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sent an open letter to the European Union outlining competition concerns it has about Google. This week, Google has fired back with its own open letter addressed to Murdoch.

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @mattcutts

Rachel Whetstone / Google Europe Blog:

News Corp says Google makes a platform for piracy, stifles competition, more; Google responds

More: Forbes, Complete Music Update, Beyond Search, ZDNet, CNET, BetaNews, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Register and Guardian. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

New Mac Mini Finally Coming in October Alongside New iPads? — At just under two years since its last update, the Mac mini seems to have become the forgotten part of Apple's Mac lineup, with a number of fans of the small desktop waiting for any word of a potential update.

More: ITProPortal, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

Intel Takes $1.5B, 20% Stake in China's Tsinghua, To Market Intel Chips with Spreadtrum — Confirming speculation yesterday morning by Chinese media and social networking outfit Tencent, chip giant Intel (INTC) said early Friday morning it will invest $1.5 billion for a 20% stake …

More: Engadget, ABC News, Fortune, Reuters, Electronista, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, New York Times, Reuters and Seeking Alpha

Gail Sullivan / Washington Post:

Social network Ello, which unlike Facebook does not enforce real names, sees rapid growth amid interest from LGBT community — Social network Ello gets boost after Facebook boots drag queens — “You are not a product,” its manifesto declares. It decries social networks that track and record …

More: Valleywag, Re/code, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, Telegraph, ReadWrite, memeburn, PC World, Not Your Ex/Rotic, Tech Times, The Independent, Business Insider, MTV, InvestorPlace, Tech Times, PC Magazine, Network World, Medium, SFist and TechCrunch

Tweets: @twoscooters, @samfbiddle, @eringriffith, @joshconstine and @papapishu

Andy Baio / ello.co:

With its $435K seed funding, Ello is unlikely to sustain its “ad-free” model, and will need to turn a profit

More: The Next Web and Betabeat. Tweets: @waxpancake, @kimcooper, @benjaminjackson, @bryce, @scottbeale, @mmasnick, @joshconstine, @exiledsurfer and @sinequanon

San Francisco Chronicle:

LA and SF district attorneys threaten Uber and Lyft with new legal action, say they're operating illegally — S.F., L.A. threaten Uber, Lyft, Sidecar with legal action — A black SUV bearing the distinctive “U” logo of the Uber ride-sharing service takes the transit lane on Geary Street …

More: Engadget, SFWeekly, Reuters, KQED News Fix, Wall Street Journal, CBS San Francisco, TIME and San Francisco Examiner …

Tweets: @susie_c and @bryce

Thanks:@ilamont

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button — Facebook first began testing a “Buy” button within News Feed in July, and payments startup Stripe has been tasked with powering the technology, Re/code has learned. — The “Buy” button, which allows Facebook users to purchase goods …

More: Engadget. Tweets: @tristanwalker, @justglew and @slexaxton

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram Lets You #Selfielapse By Adding Front-Facing Camera Option To Hyperlapse — Instagram's first update to its timelapse app Hyperlapse will let you create mini-travelogues of your face hurtling through the world. Hyperlapse now lets you capture timelapses with the front-facing camera …

More: The Verge, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, NEWS.com.au and Ubergizmo

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Goodreads updates its iOS app with new home feed, streamlined navigation and improved shelving — Amazon's Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover — Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since Amazon bought the company last March.

More: Engadget, GeekWire, The Province and Goodreads. See also Mediagazer

Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services (AWS):

Amazon confirms EC2 reboot due to Xen hypervisor issues, says less than 10% of instances will be affected — EC2 Maintenance Update — Today I've received a few questions about a maintenance update we're performing late this week through early next week, so I thought it would be useful to provide an update.

More: Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Gigaom, Data Center Knowledge and Network World

Sal Cangeloso / Geek.com:

Seek Thermal: A $199 thermal cam add-on for iOS and Android — This summer FLIR released the first consumer-friendly thermal camera. The $300 “terminator vision” camera was built into a an iPhone case which streamlined the design and protected the camera, but also meant that the case was outdated as soon as the iPhone 6 was released.

More: The Next Web, ITworld.com, Electronista, BroadwayWorld.com, Re/code, CNET and Gizmodo

Andy Weir / Neowin:

Surface Pro 3 cleared for take-off, with FAA/EASA Electronic Flight Bag approval — Microsoft's popular and highly-regarded Surface Pro 3 could well be soaring to new heights soon, as the company has announced that the tablet has qualified for authorization to be used as an Electronic Flight Bag …

More: Surface Blog, ZDNet, Windows Phone Central, ITProPortal, BetaNews, WinBeta and Ubergizmo

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

DHL Paketkopter drone will deliver medications to small North Sea island beginning this week — DHL will do delivery-by-drone, but only for one tiny European island — While Netflix laughs, Amazon petitions and Google runs tests in New Zealand, DHL is about to actually launch drone delivery for its customers — sort of.

More: New York Times, The Register, Reuters, Fortune, Ars Technica, InvestorPlace and IEEE Spectrum

Tweets: @levie and @themattgould

The Moscow Times:

Russia Asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to Comply With Law on Data Storage — Russia's media watchdog has sent notifications to Google, Facebook and Twitter, demanding they register as “organizers of information distribution” under a law that experts say paves the way for banning the few remaining platforms of free speech in the country.

More: Gigaom, Bloomberg, ITAR-TASS and rapsinews.com. Tweets: @andersostlund

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