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July 10, 2015, 2:00 AM

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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.

Jacob Frantz / Facebook:

Facebook launches controls to let you choose friends and pages you see at the top of your News Feed; feature available on iOS now, desktop and Android later — Updated Controls for News Feed — News Feed is a personalized stream of stories that you build from the people and Pages you've connected to on Facebook.

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

You Can Now Just Tell Facebook What You Want to See in News Feed

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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.

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

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:

OPM says sensitive information of 21.5M individuals was taken in another hack last year, separate from breach that compromised data of 4.2M federal employees — Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals — WASHINGTON — The Office of Personnel Management revealed …

More: U.S. Office …, ABC News, Washington Post, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, ZDNet, National Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Wired, Engadget and TIME

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 …

More: GitLab, tech.co, VatorNews and SiliconANGLE

Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK:

IBM unveils world's first functional 7nm test chip, targets 50% power/performance improvement from 10nm chips — Beyond silicon: IBM unveils world's first 7nm chip — With a silicon-germanium channel, and EUV lithography, IBM crosses the 10nm barrier. — IBM, working with GlobalFoundries …

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 …

More: AppleInsider, ZDNet, PCWorld, BetaNews, Bloomberg Business and MacRumors

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 …

More: Softpedia News, BetaNews, WinBeta and WMPoweruser

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, Seeking Alpha and SiliconANGLE

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

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.”

More: Music Ally, New York Times, Billboard, PC Magazine, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, SocialTimes, Ubergizmo, Telegraph, Guardian, hypebot, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, TechSpot, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac and iLounge. See also Mediagazer

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