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New York Times:

Ex-employees: Home Depot slow to react to security concerns, despite warnings as early as 2008 — Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable — The risks were clear to computer experts inside Home Depot: The home improvement chain, they warned for years, might be easy prey for hackers.

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Engadget, HotHardware.com News and Electronista

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Austin Mann:

Photographer extensively tests new iPhone cameras in Iceland, praises low light improvements — iPhone 6 Plus Camera Review: Iceland — v — This year I had the opportunity to be at Apple's Keynote where they announced the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and the Watch.

More: The Verge, Laughing Squid, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, BGR, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, Gigaom, Forbes and iFixit. Tweets: @nchan

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Using The iPhone 6 And 6 Plus On A Real Disneyland Trip — Last week I decided to test the most secretive, hotly anticipated smartphones on earth in a place where there was no danger of them being recognized or damaged or both: Disneyland. — Both my wife and I are Disneyphiles of sorts, and visit a dozen times a year or more.

Tweets: @earcos, @joannastern, @chrispirillo, @drbarnard, @monkbent and @panzer

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Behind the precarious rise of Zenefits, which makes software to simplify HR and employee benefits — Zenefits' Leader Is Rattling an Industry, So Why Is He Stressed Out? — Parker Conrad's start-up, Zenefits, is thought to be one of the fastest-growing companies in recent Silicon Valley history …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @janetnovack, @fmanjoo and @davidu

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon has held a secret retreat for authors called “Campfire” for four years, but this weekend some Hachette supporters weren't invited — A Writerly Chill at Bezos' Fire — When Jeff Bezos tells writers to keep quiet, they obey. — Every fall, Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon …

More: The Verge and GeekWire. Tweets: @jimaley, @neil_irwin, @amachinist and @ivanthek. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Oculus Reveals Its New “Crescent Bay” Developer Kit With 360-Degree Head Tracking And Headphones — Oculus gave the world the first look at its new developer kit Crescent Bay today at Oculus' Connect conference, which you can watch live here. Crescent Bay has a faster frame rate …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

The “Oculus Platform” Marketplace For Virtual Reality App Launches This Fall

More: Engadget, The Next Web and PC World

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine

Hayden Dingman / PC World:

Oculus open-sources original Rift developer kit's firmware, schematics, and mechanics

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Bloomberg:

Stripe's integration with Apple Pay marks another big win for the 5-year-old startup — Stripe Lands Apple in Quest for $720 Billion in Payments — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s list of partners for its new Apple Pay service reads like a Who's Who of the payments world, including Visa Inc. and First Data Corp.

Tweets: @emilychangtv

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

How Betaworks revived Digg, growing it from 1.5M to 8M monthly visitors over the last 2 years — Inside the company that rebuilt Digg — Before there was Reddit, there was Digg. Digg used to be one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups. Founded in late 2004, it became a sensation …

More: TechPresident. See also Mediagazer

Joshua Brustein / Businessweek:

Getty launches Stream, an iOS app targeted at consumers for browsing and sharing images — Getty Wants to Turn Free Photos Into Profit, and It Needs Your Help — The story of the photography business over the past 20 years has been marked by two shifts: The number of photographs …

More: Getty Images Press Room, The Next Web, The Verge, Branding Magazine, The Drum and GeekWire

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Legal challenges could threaten the business models of the on-demand startups relying on independent contractors — Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem? — An examination of tech's favorite labor model. — Shares … Earlier this year, I hired a house cleaner.

More: TechCrunch, Hunter Walk, Business Insider and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @wadhwa, @stevesilberman, @kevinroose, @joshmedia, @dkthomp, @mims, @jessmisener, @pkafka and @fazz

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Developer uses App Runtime for Chrome to run Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers — Hack runs Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers — The official Android Twitter app running on Mac OS. — If you remember, about a week ago, Google gave Chrome OS the ability …

More: Gigaom, HotHardware.com News, OMG!, Gigaom, SlashGear, Liliputing, AndroidHeadlines.com, Inquirer, The Mukt, Redmond Pie, Phandroid and Techie Buzz

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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, Electronista, Tech Times, The Register, Polygon, VentureBeat, BetaNews, SlashGear, Engadget, hngn.com, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta and Re/code

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