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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:
T-Mobile claims it now has more subscribers than Sprint, cuts roaming charges in Mexico and Canada
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