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Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:

Office 2016 for Mac exits preview and is now available for Office 365 subscribers, to be released as a one-time purchase this September — Office 2016 for Mac is here! — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:

OPM says sensitive information of 21.5M individuals was taken in another hack last year, separate from previously reported breach — Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals — WASHINGTON — The Office of Personnel Management revealed on Thursday that …

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Gartner and IDC say global PC shipments fell 9.5% and 11.8% respectively YoY in Q2 2015, marking the sharpest decline in nearly two years — PC Sales Continue to Fall — Worldwide PC sales saw their sharpest decline in nearly two years in the second quarter of 2015 …

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Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M — GitLab, the startup behind the eponymous open-source Git repository management software for storing and collaborating on source code, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 million seed round. — In many ways, GitLab is similar …

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Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

More Hacking Team details emerge from breach: Mexico and Italy top client list, product demo for Bangladeshi death squad, attempts to break UK market, more — Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More — Late Sunday, hackers dumped online …

More: International Business Times, The Reykjavik Grapevine, Engadget, Forbes, Firedoglake, Ars Technica UK, The Register, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Voices and Darknet. Tweets: @ioerror

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches AWS Device Farm, Lets Developers Test Android And Fire OS Apps On Real Devices — Starting next week, Android and Fire OS developers will be able to use a new cloud-based service from Amazon to test their apps on physical smartphones and tablets.

More: Amazon.com, VentureBeat, The Register, SiliconANGLE, ProgrammableWeb.com, 9to5Google and FierceMobileIT News. Tweets: @caseynewton

TechCrunch:

iOS 9 And OS X El Capitan Are Now Available To All As Public Betas — As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS.

Rhea Borja / Conversations:

Microsoft Lumia 735 now available in Verizon stores in US for $29.99 on two-year contract, and in the Microsoft store for $199 with no contract — The Microsoft Lumia 735 is available in the U.S. in Verizon Wireless retail stores and online — Starting today, Verizon Wireless will sell …

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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:

Source: Samsung brings launch of next Galaxy Note forward to mid-August to avoid clashing with iPhone launch in September — Samsung Seeks Slice of Apple's Pie With Early Smartphone Launch — Samsung brings forward its Galaxy Note release to August to gain some ground against rival Apple

More: Reuters, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Authority, The Verge, SamMobile, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, ITProPortal, Android Beat, SlashGear and Pocketnow

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Splunk acquires cybersecurity startup Caspida for $190M — Publicly traded log analytics company Splunk announced today that it has acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for a total of $190 million. — “Splunk customers now have out-of-the-box user behavioral analytics to help detect …

More: Splunk, ZDNet, TechCrunch, NASDAQ.com, ARN, SiliconANGLE and Seeking Alpha

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Introduces “Amazon Fling,” A Developer Toolkit For Sending Media From Mobile Apps To Fire TV — Amid a slew of developer-focused announcements from Amazon today focused on things like using AWS for app testing, and the arrival of a new API Gateway service, for example, the company also introduced the new “Amazon Fling” service.

More: GeekWire, The Next Web, The Tech Portal and Liliputing

Micah Singleton / The Verge:

Facebook says it's not building a streaming music service — Facebook is denying a report from Music Ally stating that it has plans to launch a streaming music service in the next few months. A Facebook spokesperson told The Verge, “we have no plans to go into music streaming.”

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