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September 20, 2014, 12:05 PM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

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Jonathan Zdziarski / Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain:

With iOS 8, forensics tools can still obtain your camera reel, third-party app data, iTunes media, and more — Your iOS 8 Data is Not Beyond Law Enforcement's Reach... Yet. — In a recent announcement, Apple stated that they no longer unlock iOS (8) devices for law enforcement.

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Expanded encryption in iOS and Android will provoke new legal battles over the privacy of passcodes — Apple And Google Will Force A Legal Battle Over The Privacy Of Your Passcode — Apple wants the world to know that it's really, really serious about privacy.

More: Washington Post, Digital Trends, FierceMobileIT News, GSMArena Blog and Naked Security. Tweets: @mattblaze

Larry Kim / WordStream:

Creating a Google+ profile is no longer mandatory when signing up for Gmail — Mandatory Google+ Gmail Integration Quietly Shelved — Google has gone to valiant lengths to convince us that rumors of Google+'s demise have been greatly exaggerated, but Google is no longer forcing new Gmail users …

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Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Blog:

Tweet-a-Program: tweet a Wolfram Language program to @WolframTaP, and a bot returns the result — Introducing Tweet-a-Program — In the Wolfram Language a little code can go a long way. And to use that fact to let everyone have some fun, today we're introducing Tweet-a-Program.

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft delays Xbox One launch in China from September 23 to sometime later this year — Microsoft delays Xbox One launch in China — Gamers in China hoping to get their hands on the Xbox One will have to wait a little longer than expected. Microsoft announced late Friday that …

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Evolution, a Silk Road successor tolerating trade in stolen credit cards, triples its listings in five months — The Dark Web Gets Darker With Rise of the ‘Evolution’ Drug Market — In the digital drug trade as in the physical one, taking out one kingpin only makes room for another ready to satisfy the market's endless demand.

Tweets: @propublica

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

Hearst Starts Silicon Valley Development Unit, Acquires BranchOut Assets — Hearst Corp. on Friday announced the launch of a new digital development unit in Silicon Valley to build new apps and services across the publisher's diversified media properties. — Leading the new group …

More: Capital New York, Talking New Media, WWD and Hearst Corporation. See also Mediagazer

Hayden Dingman / PC World:

Oculus open-sources original Rift developer kit's firmware, schematics, and mechanics — Kicking off the Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles this weekend, Oculus's Nirav Patel announced that the original Oculus Rift developer kit (DK1) is now fully open-source, with the exception …

More: GitHub and VR Focus

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records — The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (or AO) has a plan to restore online access to documents that were controversially removed in August from PACER, the online system for accessing public court records, a spokesperson said.

More: Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gigaom and Ars Technica

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