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August 30, 2014, 12:25 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Apple wearable to be revealed September 9 won't ship until early 2015 — Code/red: Apple Wearable Won't Ship Until Next Year — // HAPPENING TODAY — The 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters. — Beloved cryptographer Hal Finney is being cryopreserved following his recent, tragic death from ALS.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

An inside look at Apple's media strategy, its earlier control-obsessed regime, and the transformation with the departure of Jobs disciple Katie Cotton — Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple's Mastery of the Media — “Beautifully, unapologetically plastic.”

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, BGR, MacRumors and iLounge

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Leo Kelion / BBC:

Flickr gaining 14M historic images extracted from 2M public domain books in Internet Archive — 2.6m historic pictures posted online — The project has resulted in even more pictures of cats being put on to the internet — An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historic copyright-free images.

More: Gigaom, Internet Archive Blogs, Ars Technica, Flickr Blog, Techdirt and ResearchBuzz. See also Mediagazer

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Intel unveils high-end Haswell-E chips, including its first 8-core desktop CPU, priced at $999 — Haswell-E arrives, bringing a $999 8-core desktop CPU with it — Most of Intel's announcements lately have focused on low-power chips, but every now and again it throws a bone to its high-end desktop users.

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Lyft says its drivers are losing up to 48% of their earnings from Uber's recruiting, due to shorter rides and cancellations — Lyft Says Uber's Recruitment Efforts Are Hurting Drivers — The saying “All is fair in love and war” apparently applies to recruiting employees now, too.

More: Vox, Wired, SlashGear, E-Commerce Times, The Verge, Gigaom and The Register

Tweets: @chriswelch and @itsfischy

Julien Lecomte / Yahoo Engineering:

Yahoo stopping all new development on YUI, citing waning developer interest in the open source JavaScript and CSS library — Important Announcement Regarding YUI — The Yahoo User Interface library (YUI) has been in use at Yahoo since 2005, and was first announced to the public on February 13, 2006.

More: CNET, linux.com and WebProNews. Thanks:@themadhacker

Teri Robinson / SC Magazine:

Dell study: CryptoWall ransomware infected 625K computers, earning creators over $1.1M in about 5 months — CryptoWall surpasses CryptoLocker in infection rates — With CryptoLocker seemingly out of commission, its less well-known twin CryptoWall has stepped out of the shadows and thrived …

More: Dell, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Businessweek and The Register

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

IDC lowers tablet year-on-year growth forecast from 12.1% to 6.5%, expects 233M sales in 2014 — Tablet shipments forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow — Summary: IDC's latest estimates show mature markets are leveling off, but emerging markets could still power some significant growth.

More: CNET, Business Wire, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, PC World and Tech Trader Daily

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission next Thursday — Exclusive: Bitcoin promoter to plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission — (Reuters) - Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged …

More: CoinDesk and NEWSBTC. Tweets: @charlieshrem

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter Redesigns Signup Process to Entice New Users — Twitter is trying to ease the pain for new users to create an account, hoping it will persuade them to sign up and stick around. — The company on Friday redesigned the layout of the signup process to address common complaints among …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @christianism and @christianism

Reuters:

Sony's next Xperia flagship phone will be sold on Sprint as Softbank targets US market — SoftBank's first Sony smartphone deal takes aim at U.S. market — (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp and its U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Corp will offer a Sony smartphone for the first time …

Bloomberg:

JPMorgan Hack Said to Span Months Via Multiple Flaws — Hackers burrowed into the databanks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and deftly dodged one of the world's largest arrays of sophisticated detection systems for months. — The attack, an outline of which was provided by two people familiar …

More: Ars Technica, TheStreet.com and VentureBeat

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