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Consumer Reports test results find iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed — We stress test Apple's new phones, plus comparable models from Samsung, LG, and HTC — Two days ago, the Internet erupted with photos of bent iPhone 6s, and a very-viral video of a guy creasing an iPhone 6 Plus with his bare hands.
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AAPL Orchard, USA Today, Re/code, Forbes, CNET, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Phones Review, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, AppleTell, TUAW, Business Insider, Engadget, Mashable, Communications …, blog.chron.com, BGR, Neowin, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Daring Fireball, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, App Advice, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, The Verge, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, MobileSyrup.com, The Daily Dot, The Digital Reader, TechnoBuffalo, Guardian and CNBC
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992 — Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant — Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J. Fox invented one of its most widely used tools.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Experts: Shellshock is just partially patched, underlying problem with Bash remains unsolved — Still more vulnerabilities in bash? Shellshock becomes whack-a-mole — It's now bash-a-mole. — Sakura - flickr.com — Remember when we said that a new patch had fixed the problems …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Ello plans to charge for features, like a one-time fee of $2 to manage two different accounts — An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin — The social networking site Ello is just five weeks old, but damn if it hasnt made an impression. In the past week …
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New York Times, Marketing Land, Wired and Mashable
| Julian Sanchez / Cato Institute: |
Why dire predictions of the perils of Apple removing its backdoor to user data on iOS are misguided — Old Technopanic in New iBottles — Gather around young'uns: Back in the antediluvean early 90s, when the digital world was young, a motley group of technologists and privacy advocates fought …
| William Alden / New York Times: |
Marc Andreessen says many startups with high cash burn rates will vaporize when market turns — Marc Andreessen Sounds Warning on Start-Ups Burning Cash — Fretting over a possible downturn in Silicon Valley is now a mainstream pursuit. — Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist …
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Andreessen Horowitz, Business Insider, Valleywag, The Register, ValueWalk, bizjournals, Inc.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes and PandoDaily
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
As Roku grows, it's moving towards pay-to-play for successful channels — Getting your app onto Roku's platform is free. But once you start to make real money, the company will ask you to sign a new deal — to the surprise of some publishers. — With 1,800 channels and growing …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet's Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close — For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it's always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled list of websites, organized into topics.
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Ars Technica, Fast Company, Yahoo, Engadget, The Verge, PC Magazine, Bloggers Blog, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Reuters, SlashGear, Mashable, CNET, Gizmodo, The Register, PC World, Marketing Pilgrim, TechSpot, WebProNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet and The Next Web
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See also Mediagazer| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Forget AOL — Activist Attack on Yahoo Is All About Forking Over Alibaba Cash — While the noisy late Friday afternoon attack on Yahoo by perennial shareholder attacker Starboard Value was designed to attract headlines, especially the suggestion that the Silicon Valley Internet giant merge with AOL … | Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine: |
How Airbnb, in just six years, grew to host 400k guests a night and set off a war in NYC — “The Dumbest Person in Your Building Is Passing Out Keys to Your Front Door!” — The war over Airbnb gets personal. — One morning a few months ago, New Yorkers opened their eyes to a city that … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Secret launches Ping, an app that sends content notifications, says no ties to Secret app — Startup Behind Anonymous App Secret Unveils Another New App: ‘Ping’ — The startup behind anonymous posting app Secret has unveiled another new app, Ping. — Secret's latest creation appeared …
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Medium, The Next Web, The Verge, PC Magazine, Engadget, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and VentureBeat. Tweets: @producthunt
| Brian Knowlton / New York Times: |
US State Department fights ISIS social media propaganda with accounts like @ThinkAgain_DOS — Digital War Takes Shape on Websites Over ISIS — WASHINGTON — Along with its surprising military success, the Islamic State group has demonstrated a skill and sophistication with social media previously unseen in extremist groups.
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