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September 23, 2013, 6:40 AM

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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Chaos Computer Club Bypasses Apple's Touch ID System (with copy of original fingerprint) — The Chaos Computer Club claims to be able to bypass Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor with a photo of the original user's fingerprint. The bypass is demonstrated in this short video:

More: Chaos Computer Club, The Verge, Reuters, BetaNews, GigaOM, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Inquirer, BuzzFeed, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, Softpedia News, iMore, TechCrunch, BGR India, Geeky-Gadgets, newlaunches.com, Gearburn, Forbes and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @gruber, @parislemon, @beaker, @csoghoian, @stroughtonsmith, @chriseng, @nerdtalker, @ryan, @gruber and @fabienpenso

Dan Primack / Fortune:

AngelList raises $24M at $150M valuation from Atlas Venture, Google Ventures, and over 100 others — Exclusive: AngelList raises $24 million at a heavenly valuation — AngelList builds its war chest, as the SEC prepares to lift its ban on general solicitation.

More: Haywire, ZDNet, Silicon Valley Watcher and PandoDaily

Tweets: @om and @jaredkim

TechCrunch:

Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation — On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that you're raising. This is not crowdfunding — you still have to raise from accredited ("rich") investors.

More: CNET, New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle

Tweets: @benparr and @troyhenikoff

Hunter Walk:

AngelList Syndicates: Three Examples of Their Powerful Future

Tweets: @stevecheney, @rohit_x_ and @semil

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV 6.0 update pulled after reports of bricking and networking issues — After Apple TV 6.0 was released on Friday with iTunes Radio and other enhancements, there were many reports of botched updates that required the user to restore their Apple TV. In some particular instances …

More: iMore, MacRumors, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Engadget, App Advice, TUAW and iClarified. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski. Thanks:@luminaryws

Benedict Evans:

Startups have an opportunity to unbundle the features of a dated and bloated LinkedIn — Unbundling: AOL, Facebook and LinkedIn — One of the recurring themes of the consumer internet is the cycle from aggregation to disaggregation - bundling to unbundling.

More: A VC. Tweets: @km and @cdixon

New York Times:

NYT Editorial Board: NSA's “back doors and special access routes are a terrible idea” — Close the N.S.A.'s Back Doors — In 2006, a federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, helped build an international encryption system to help countries and industries fend off computer hacking and theft.

More: Guardian. Tweets: @rushholt, @doougle, @ggreenwald and @mikko

Stephen Braun / Associated Press:

Close ties between White House, NSA spying review

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @ggreenwald, @joanneleon, @rj_gallagher and @csoghoian

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

In online TV first, Netflix wins Emmy for drama directing — David Fincher wins an Emmy for directing Netflix's “House of Cards,” and the Internet TV provider breaks ground — again — for online only programming. — Netflix won its first Emmy award — the kind doled out at the flashy …

More: Hollywood Reporter, The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Oracle announces in-memory database option, new server and backup cloud service — Larry Ellison: Oracle's New Products Make Data Fly Around ‘At Ungodly Speeds.’ — As expected, on Sunday night, Larry Ellison revealed several new products to make data flow faster across corporate data centers and the Internet.

More: ZDNet, AllThingsD, Digits and Bloomberg

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Flurry CEO Says IPO Is Inevitable As Its Mobile Ad Reach Overtakes Google's — Simon Khalaf, the CEO of mobile adtech company Flurry, tells Business Insider that an IPO is inevitable in the company's future because his business has grown so big. — There has been gossip about a possible Flurry IPO for months now.

New York Times:

FAA likely to relax rules on electronic devices effective sometime next year — F.A.A. Nears New Rules on Devices — The rules on when to turn off electronic devices on airplanes have long been a sour, and sometimes contentious, point for travelers. But faced with a surge of electronics …

More: Gizmodo and The Atlantic Wire. Tweets: @nickbilton and @farsed

Greg Bensinger / Digits:

PayPal Nears Deal for Braintree Payments — EBay's PayPal is near a deal to buy Braintree Payments Solutions, according to people familiar with the discussions, potentially thrusting the online payments pioneer into the center of the burgeoning mobile commerce market.

Blake Lawit / Official LinkedIn Blog:

Setting the Record Straight on False Accusations — As you may have read recently, a class action lawsuit was filed against LinkedIn last week. The lawsuit alleges that we “break into” the email accounts of our members who choose to upload their email address books to LinkedIn.

More: The Next Web, ITworld.com, T3 News, The Verge, AllThingsD and GigaOM. Tweets: @mikko

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