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October 2, 2014, 5:50 PM

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Faryaab S. / SamMobile:

Early build of Android L with TouchWiz previewed on the Samsung Galaxy S5 — Exclusive Preview: Android L on Samsung Galaxy S5 — At Google I/O 2014, Google announced the next iteration of its Android operating system - Android L. As the operating system itself was still in early stages …

More: Gigaom, Gizmodo, PC World, BGR, Engadget, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, Geek.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, Phones Review, Android and Me and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @markgurman

Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:

Apple expands employee benefits, increasing parental leave and educational reimbursements — Apple unveils new perks to attract talent — Apple employees are getting a few new perks today (and no, it's not free iPhone 6s). — On Thursday morning the companys head of HR, Denise Young Smith …

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider, App Advice, MacNN, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @samfbiddle

Sébastien Page / iDownloadBlog.com:

Apple launches tool to check Activation Lock status; lets you see if an iPhone/iPad is stolen — Apple releases tool to check the Activation Lock status of iOS devices — Apple recently released a tool that lets anyone check the Activation Lock status of iOS devices.

Todd Krabach / Facebook Developers:

Facebook officially launches its mobile Like Button for native iOS and Android apps — Mobile Like Button now Available to Everyone — On average, the Like and Share Buttons are viewed across almost 10 million websites daily. At f8 this year, we let developers preview the Like Button on iOS mobile devices.

More: Marketing Land, AllFacebook, 9to5Google, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and Android Central. Tweets: @kashhill

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Celebrities Threaten Google With $100 Million Lawsuit for “Facilitating” Hacked Nude Photos — In a letter that rips Google for acting “like the NFL” and turning a blind eye, a lawyer representing celebrities warns of consequences — Marty Singer, representing over a dozen celebrities whose iCloud accounts …

More: Page Six, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Search Engine Land, SiliconBeat, Techdirt, Guardian, Business Insider, SlashGear and Plagiarism Today. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

France's Iliad Said to Plan Bid for Bigger T-Mobile Stake — Iliad SA (ILD) is planning to bid for a bigger stake in Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. unit than it sought in July, as the French telecom carrier approaches a self-imposed deadline to reach a deal, people familiar with the matter said.

More: Reuters, CNET, iMore, TheStreet.com, Wireless Week, Reuters and SlashGear

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Security researchers publicly release code to Github for “practically unpatchable” exploit BadUSB — The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose — It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room …

More: Gizmodo, Electronista and SC Magazine. Tweets: @marypcbuk

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

Evernote announces a new web client, artificial intelligence, better presentations — SAN FRANCISCO — The connected note taking app company Evernote today announced that it has completely redesigned its web client for simplicity and creativity. — Previously, the web client had been thought …

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, CITEworld, ZDNet, TechCrunch, CNET, Fortune, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Verge and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

LG website referenced software development kit for an unannounced webOS SmartWatch — LG is working on a webOS SmartWatch — “LG SmartWatch gets more powerful with the new Web-centric platform” — The world's favorite abortive mobile operating system, webOS, refuses to go away quietly.

More: Electronista, The Next Web, Inquirer, Wearable World News, MobileSyrup.com, DailyTech, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, Re/code, Gizmodo, Phandroid, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, PC World, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Engadget, CNET, Android Police and Android Central. Tweets: @backlon

Nick Statt / CNET:

Microsoft may have named it Windows 10 to maintain compatibility with app software from '90s — Is this why Microsoft named it Windows 10? — Seemingly everyone on the Net has a theory as to why Microsoft skipped the name “Windows 9” and jumped to 10. Here's one explanation that actually makes sense.

More: BGR, Business Insider, TechSpot, Gizmodo, eWeek, Engadget, CIO.com, InfoQ, WinBeta, Inquirer, Gizmodo UK, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and Neowin

Tweets: @stevesi and @anildash

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less — Google's Scott Jenson, an interaction and UX designer who left the company only to return to the Chrome team last November, has revealed a project underway at the company called The Physical Web to provide …

More: GitHub, Engadget, Gigaom, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Seeking Alpha

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Announces Stricter Guidelines For Research And Experiments On Its Users — After a study on whether emotional manipulation in the News Feed could make people sad turned into a PR disaster, Facebook has now set up a formal review process for pre-approving research on its users …

More: Facebook, New York Times, Guardian, PC World, ReadWrite, Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney.com, Fortune, ABC News, Bloomberg, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Verge and Washington Post. Tweets: @joshconstine

James Temple / Re/code:

Fertility app maker Glow raises $17M Series B led by Formation 8 — Glow Raises $17 Million, Offers More Evidence That the App Helps Women Conceive — Glow, which develops apps designed to help women manage their reproductive health, has raised $17 million in a Series B round …

More: StrictlyVC, MedCity News, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. Tweets: @kashhill

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Pioneer finally brings CarPlay equipment to mass market, Spotify app update adds CarPlay support — The CarPlay situation has been murky. Since being announced in the spring, most manufacturers have been quiet on when CarPlay equipment will actually be available to purchase.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, Macworld, Engadget, MacRumors, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iMore, Cult of Mac, Gigaom, Neowin and TUAW

iClarified:

iPhone 6+ with 802.11ac shows substantial speed improvements over iPhone 5s's 802.11n — iPhone Wi-Fi Speed Test: 802.11ac iPhone 6 Plus vs. 802.11n iPhone 5s [Video] — We've posted a new video test comparing the Wi-Fi speeds of the 802.11ac iPhone 6 Plus versus the 802.11n iPhone 5s.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

Intel responds to pressure from anti-feminist campaign #GamerGate, pulling ads from Gamasutra — Intel buckles to anti-feminist campaign by pulling ads from gaming site — #GamerGate supporters try to silence calls for video game equality — Intel has pulled an advertising campaign …

More: Re/code, Computer Business Review, Ars Technica, Slate, Boing Boing, Flavorwire, The Mary Sue and GamesIndustry.biz. Tweets: @gamasutra. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Apple veteran Steve Dowling chosen as Apple's interim head of PR, succeeding Katie Cotton — Code/red: Apple Taps Interim PR Boss — // HAPPENING TODAY — Rocket Internet's IPO, and it's not going well. — The 55th anniversary of the premiere of “The Twilight Zone.”

More: Macworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, App Advice and MacNN. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski

Emily Steel / New York Times:

Netflix will finance four major feature films starring Adam Sandler to appear exclusively on Netflix — With Four New Adam Sandler Films, Netflix Takes Aim at Theaters — Netflix plans to announce on Thursday that it has struck a deal with the comedian Adam Sandler to produce and star …

More: Netflix, The Verge, TechCrunch, Variety, CNET, Re/code, Gigaom, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, PC World, NPR, Forbes, The Verge and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot:

While operating as an FBI informant, LulzSec's Sabu led attacks against targets in 30 countries including UK, Australia, Brazil — An FBI informant led hacks against 30 countries—now we know which ones — A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant targeted more than two dozen countries …

More: The Register and Inquirer

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter for Mac gets long-overdue update adding multi-photo viewing and DM photos — Twitter for Mac has received a rare update that adds months-old features, such as support for viewing and posting multiple photos in a single tweet and attaching pictures to a direct message, to the app.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, SlashGear and Cult of Mac

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Play Newsstand app on Android updated with Material Design, improved magazine UI on phones — Google's Play Newsstand App Makes Reading Print Magazines On Phones Easier — Google's Play Newsstand app lets you read news from free and paid sources ranging from blogs and newspapers to The New Yorker and everything in between.

More: Official Android Blog, Droid Life, Engadget, PC World, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Central, The Next Web and The Verge

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Cyanogen Inc seeking funding at a $1B valuation after spurning Google buyout offer, plans phone with Indian OEM Micromax — The Information: Cyanogen Inc. Turned Down Buyout From Google, Seeking Funding On $1 Billion Valuation — In the seemingly never-ending saga of companies believing that …

More: The Information, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Engadget, Droid Life, Pocketnow, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and AndroidHeadlines.com

Ellen Huet / Forbes:

After a hammer attack on a rider, some lawyers believe Uber could be held liable, despite its terms of service — Uber Rider Might Lose An Eye From Driver's Hammer Attack. Could Uber Be Held Liable? — Roberto Chicas, a 35-year-old San Francisco bartender, climbed into an UberX car around 2 …

More: Washington Post. Tweets: @kashhill, @ellenhuet, @xor and @ellenhuet

Tim Moynihan / Wired:

Windows 10: A step back for the interface but a leap forward in strategy — Ambitious Windows 10 Is an Attack Disguised as a Retreat — From the early looks of Windows 10, it's a long-overdue concession to the fact that Windows users prefer the way things used to be.

More: Computerworld, Blogging Windows, Digital Trends and Tech Times

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