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October 2, 2016, 5:35 PM

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Adam Howell:
Apple threatens to pull top-grossing iMessage sticker pack Phoneys, which overwrites your friends' messages  —  Wednesday night of this week, John Gruber wrote, “This is very clever, and I can see how it could be damn funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Phoneys gets pulled from the App Store.”
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime and other applications infringed on patents  —  A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
Dave Lee / BBC:
ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1  —  A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
E. Tammy Kim / New Yorker:
How CFAA hampers investigating discrimination online by potentially criminalizing actions such as scraping or submitting fake CVs, banned by website ToS  —  In November of 2007, Richard Villarreal applied for a job with the tobacco company R. J. Reynolds.  He was forty-nine years old at the time …

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