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September 25, 2015, 8:40 AM

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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business:
Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android  —  New FTC inquiry comes years after it closed search-engine case  —  Lingering skepticism meets probe over access to phone platform  —  Google Inc. is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether …
Hayden Dingman / PCWorld:
Samsung and Oculus announce $99 consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November  —  Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99  —  And even better, the new Gear VR works with all of Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones released in 2015.
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Minecraft Windows 10 edition will launch on Oculus Rift in 2016  —  VR Minecraft announced for 2016 at Oculus Connect conference  —  More Oculus Touch details confirmed; “200,000” developers have registered. … The second day of this year's Oculus Connect conference …
Jessica Conditt / Engadget:
Oculus partners with Alienware, Dell, and Asus to offer “Oculus Ready” PCs for less than $1K at launch  —  ‘Oculus Ready’ PC program offers VR-ready rigs for less than $1,000  —  Oculus Ready is a new program that offers officially licensed, Oculus-branded PCs from Alienware, Dell and Asus.
iFixit:
iPhone 6s teardown reveals smaller 1715 mAh battery, x-ray of Taptic Engine, 3D Touch display  —  iPhone 6s Teardown  —  Teardown  —  Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.  —  In Progress  —  This guide is a work in progress.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist  —  Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges  —  Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Ina Fried / Re/code:
BlackBerry Confirms Android Plans, Posts Weaker-Than-Expected Earnings  —  BlackBerry on Friday confirmed its plans to launch an Android-based handset even as the company reported financial results below what analysts were expecting.  —  The company said its latest quarterly loss …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
iOS 9's space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update  —  iCloud bug affects users who are restoring backups to new devices.  —  Back in June, we wrote a bit about App Thinning, a collection of iOS 9 features that are supposed to make iOS 9 apps take up less space on iDevices.
Martin Anderson / The Stack:
Researchers: cookies can be used to bypass HTTPS, reveal private session information in all modern browsers  —  Cookies can render secure websites vulnerable in all modern browsers  —  Share1  —  Pin1  —  TOTAL SHARES 3  —  CERT have issued a new directive notifying that cookies …
Office Blogs:
Microsoft launches Invite for iPhone, an app for scheduling meetings, in the US and Canada; coming soon to Android and Windows Phone  —  Invite—the easiest way to organize meetings on the go  —  We all know that organizing group meetings can be tricky—especially when you're on the move.

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