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September 19, 2014, 1:15 PM

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iFixit:

iPhone 6 Plus teardown: 1GB RAM confirmed, has nearly double the battery capacity of the 5s — iPhone 6 Plus Teardown — Over the years, we've seen the iPhone evolve—and grow. It began as just the iPhone. Soon it learned how to 3G, it gained an S (it would lose and gain this every other year) …

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iPhone 6 Teardown — Double the iPhone, double the teardown! With the iPhone 6 Plus laid out for inspection, we turn our attention to the smaller iPhone 6—though at 4.7", it's still a giant among iPhones. What was so big that Apple couldn't fit it into the familiar form factor?

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Leslie Picker / Bloomberg:

Alibaba begins trading on NYSE for $92.70 per share, up over 36% from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Group Said to Raise $21.8 Billion in Record U.S. IPO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), the e-commerce company started in 1999 with $60,000 cobbled together by Jack Ma …

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Alibaba hits $228.5B market cap, passing Facebook, and trailing only Apple, Google, and Microsoft among public US tech companies — Alibaba Passes Facebook in Market Value on First Trade — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surpassed Facebook Inc. (FB) by market capitalization on its first trade …

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Android L, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first time — Newest Androids will join iPhones in offering default encryption, blocking police — The next generation of Google's Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 8 on iPhone 4S: cramped screen and 50% more time to do the same tasks compared to iOS 7 — iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S: Performance isn't the (only) problem — The iPhone 4S. I remember when this was the one that made my old phone feel slow. — iPhones have about a year to be top-of-the-line.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iJailbreak, Computerworld and Tech Times

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple's iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Go On Sale To Long Lines Of Fans — Apple started selling its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus today, with sales in-store kicking off at Apple Store retail locations beginning at 8 AM local time. The lines this year are longer than they have been in recent memory …

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iCloud for Windows update means PCs can use iCloud Drive before Macs can — iCloud Drive is now available on Windows, but not OS X. — Apple officially released iCloud Drive yesterday as part of the iOS 8 update, but it came with a caveat: turning it on disables the “old” way of iCloud syncing …

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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Some say Larry Ellison's new role is merely a title change, a point that Oracle's statement partially confirms — Larry Ellison steps down as CEO of Oracle but remains in charge — Larry Ellison, a Silicon Valley pioneer known as one of its most flamboyant and aggressive leaders …

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Bloomberg:

Larry Ellison steps down as Oracle CEO, appointed CTO, chairman; Mark Hurd and Safra Catz now co-CEOs

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Oracle:

Oracle reports Q1 earnings of $2.2B, or 48 cents a share, on revenue of $8.6B

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Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

Google, Dropbox, and others launch open source security organization Simply Secure — New Initiative Simply Secure Aims to Make Security Tools Easier to Use — The dramatic revelations of large-scale government surveillance and deep penetration of the Internet by intelligence services …

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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Netflix support is officially making its way to Linux, finally — Linux users, you've been very, very, very, very, very, very patient. And now, your patience is being rewarded with Netflix support on your OS of choice. For the longest time Netflix relied on Microsoft's would-be flash competitor Silverlight.

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Catherine Mayer / TIME:

Bono says U2 and Apple working on new digital music format — Exclusive: U2 and Apple Have Another Surprise for You — The four members of the legendary Irish band tell TIME about another new album in the works—and its secret Apple project that might just save the music industry

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Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Nvidia unveils new flagship GeForce GTX 980 and 970 desktop GPUs based on Maxwell architecture — NVIDIA's latest GPU crams 4K images on 1080p displays — Back in February, NVIDIA trotted out the very first desktop GPUs to feature its new Maxwell architecture: the GeForce GTX 750 and 750i.

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft cuts 747 employees in Washington state, 2,100 worldwide; closing Silicon Valley research lab — Microsoft to close Microsoft Research lab in Silicon Valley — Summary: Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley, with about 50 employees, is one of the casualties of Microsoft's latest round of 2,100 job cuts.

More: New York Magazine, StrictlyVC, ReadWrite, WinBeta, Tech Times, Re/code and VatorNews

Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:

iOS 8 roll-out was the first time Apple used its own content-delivery network at such a large scale — Apple Relied on Its Own Network for Part of the iOS 8 Upgrade — The roll-out of Apple 's new mobile-operating system Wednesday was the first time the company used its proprietary data …

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Dave Lee / BBC:

eBay flaw exposing visitors to malicious websites has affected site since at least February — eBay security flaw has existed for months — Listings clicked on eBay automatically directed users to malicious websites — A flaw that has exposed eBay customers to malicious websites …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

YouTube will spend millions to fund and promote new shows from popular creators — YouTube Takes Out Checkbook Again, Pays Its Stars to Make Videos — The world's biggest video site is paying people to make videos. Again. — YouTube is planning to invest millions in some of its biggest stars …

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John Ribeiro / Network World:

New US Senate bill aims to limit access to emails stored abroad — Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday aims to place limits on access by U.S. law enforcement agencies to emails and other communications stored abroad. — The proposed legislation comes against the backdrop …

More: Microsoft on the Issues, Center for Democracy …, Washington Post and The Hill. Tweets: @bradsmi

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

France's new anti-Uber law gives Taxis an unfair advantage — Yesterday evening, the France's National Assembly voted definitively in favor of the pro-taxi “Thévenoud law,” which imposed a certain number of restrictions and regulations on both Taxis and VTC (licensed professional drivers …

More: PandoDaily and Engadget. Tweets: @daveg

Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution — Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search experience that include touch-friendly search result pages that have been designed to adapt to a user's screen size and resolution.

More: Search Blog, The Fire Hose, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and Neowin

Signe Brewster / Gigaom:

Finally: Meta begins shipping its augmented reality glasses to developers — The developer kit edition of Meta's glasses has come a long way since last December. But it's clear that augmented reality is still in its infancy. — It's a common story: Post your product on Kickstarter …

More: TechCrunch and Business Insider

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Home Depot: 56M Cards Impacted, Malware Contained — Home Depot said today that cyber criminals armed with custom-built malware stole an estimated 56 million debit and credit card numbers from its customers between April and September 2014. That disclosure officially makes the incident the largest retail card breach on record.

More: SecurityWeek, New York Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Reuters, Ars Technica, VatorNews, gHacks Technology News, VentureBeat, CNET, Forbes, Electronista, DailyTech, The Register, internetretailer.com and Associated Press. Tweets: @law360privacycp

Alex Hern / Guardian:

iOS 8's 2GB download caused UK internet traffic to surge by 60%, despite slow uptake — iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake — Apple's latest iOS 8 software drove internet to almost double its normal levels, yet fewer people have updated than iOS 7 a year earlier

More: US News, BuzzFeed, 9to5Mac, BGR and ReadWrite

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iOS 8 Adoption Off To A Slower Start Than iOS 7, Say Multiple Usage Trackers

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