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Apple: OS X safe from Bash exploit unless users configured advanced Unix services, fix coming — Apple: Most OS X users safe from ‘Shellshock’ exploit, patch coming quickly for advanced Unix users — Apple is aware of the recently discovered bash exploit nicknamed Shellshock …
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| 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.| CNBC: |
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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.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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Wall Street Journal, Pocket-lint, Mercury News, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, Macworld, Bloomberg, Business Insider, WebProNews, WebProNews, eWeek, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, Tech Times, Re/code, TechSpot and CNNMoney.com. Tweets: @cnbctech
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.| Rachel Whetstone / Google Europe Blog: |
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| 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.| 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 …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Slack acquires two-person bootstrapped startup Spaces, for collaborative document editing, has 60K paid users — Slack Buys a Collaboration Tool in First Acquisition — Workplace collaboration startup Slack has made its first acquisition as it prepares to compete more directly with software giants like Google and Microsoft .| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung has more employees than Google, Apple, and Microsoft combined — Samsung loves “big.” Its phones are big, its advertising budget is big, and as you'll see below, its employee headcount is really big, too. Samsung has more employees than Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined.| 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.
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| 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 … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Thom Yorke releases album via BitTorrent Bundle with free single and video, $6 album — BitTorrent adds paygate option to its direct-to-fan publishing platform Bundle, will take a 10% cut after fees — BitTorrent today announced it is adding a new paygate feature to BitTorrent Bundle … | 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 … | 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 …
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @samfbiddle, @papapishu, @eringriffith and @twoscooters
| Brad Chacos / PC World: |
Sorry, folks: Samsung's curvaceous Galaxy Note Edge is a ‘limited edition concept’ — Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 phablet is barreling towards release, but amid all the talk about the phone's preorders and super-nifty Gear VR headset accessory, one question has remained unanswered … | 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.| 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 …
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Surface Blog, ZDNet, Digital Trends, ITProPortal and Windows Phone Central
| 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 …
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| 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.
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