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Hackers access hundreds of thousands of user photos via third party Snapchat client — Hackers Access At Least 100,000 Snapchat Photos And Prepare To Leak Them, Including Underage Nude Pictures — A giant database of intercepted Snapchat photos and videos has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years.
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Snapchat blames users of ‘illegal third-party apps’ for nude photo hack — Last night a slew of nude pictures started showing up on 4chan. Not terribly unusual, except these were images purportedly snagged from hundreds of thousands of Snapchat users. — The event has been dubbed …
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Thanks:@harrisonweber| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple Reportedly Preparing to Remove Bose Audio Products From Retail Stores — Apple is preparing to remove all Bose audio products, both demo and sellable, from its retail environment, according to a reliable source who spoke to MacRumors. The inventory change will begin early next week …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Women Pay Gaffe: “I Answered That Question Completely Wrong.” — After making an unfortunate gender-related gaffe onstage at a women's tech event today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a memo to employees apologizing for comparing pay issues for women to “karma.”
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Thanks:@helenaspopkin| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to release its largest smartphone this month, a 5.9" Nexus code-named Shamu — Google Hopes Whale of a Phone Will Make Splash in Phablet Market — Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, intensifying competition in the fast-growing market …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Jony Ive: companies that copy Apple's style are stealing — It's not flattery — it's theft, Apple's head of design says — When Jony Ive sees designs from other companies that closely mimic Apple's, he isn't flattered. Apple's head of design told the audience at the Vanity Fair …
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Tweets: @vanityfair, @kessler, @om and @vanityfair
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Lenovo product engineer Ashton Kutcher on the creation of the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro — Q&A: Ashton Kutcher, Lenovo ‘Product Engineer,’ Doesn't Fear the iPad … Ashton Kutcher plays the role of Lenovo product engineer well. Really well, almost like Michael Kelso well.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will stream its October 16 event, featuring new iPads and Macs — Apple has confirmed on its website that the October event will be streamed. The URL is ‘apple.com/live’, so it seems that Apple is using the same video/blog platform that it first used for the iPhone 6/Apple Watch event in September.
| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon in Talks to Join Digital Locker for Movies — E-Commerce Giant Might Come on Board With Studios' Cloud-Access System — Amazon.com Inc. is in talks with at least three studios to join the Ultraviolet digital-movie “locker” consortium, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.
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| Damon Lavrinc / Jalopnik: |
Tesla Model S Auto Pilot Does Lane Changes For You — The “something else” at tonight's Tesla even is Auto Pilot, a new system that combines a forward facing camera and 12 sensors that see 16 feet in every direction and provide a 360-degree view the surroundings.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon says original series Transparent breaks Prime Instant records, orders second season — Amazon says ‘Transparent’ is a hit, and season two is on the way — Amazon is finally having its Netflix moment — Since it first made a move into original programming, Amazon has tried …
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President Obama Reaffirms Net Neutrality Support but Stays Out of Real Fight — Net neutrality supporters were cheering this morning, after President Obama reaffirmed his dislike of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's fast lane/slow lane net neutrality proposal. — But he carefully didn't weigh … | Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
New version of Android Selfmite SMS worm spreads to 16 countries, sends 150K+ messages in 10 days — Android SMS worm Selfmite is back, more aggressive than ever — A new version of an Android worm called Selfmite has the potential to ramp up huge SMS charges for victims in its attempt to spread to as many devices as possible.
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AdaptiveMobile, The Register and Help Net Security
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's DynamoDB Gets Hugely Expanded Free Tier And Native JSON Support — Amazon today announced a large update to its DynamoDB NoSQL database service that introduces a massively expanded free tier and the ability to store entire JSON-formatted documents as single database items.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
More Big Venture-Backed Companies Shun IPOs, For Now — Number of Such Firms Valued at $1 Billion-Plus Hits a Record as Many Are Able to Get Funding Privately — The market for initial public offerings is booming, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. made the largest-ever stock-market debut last month amid much fanfare.
Tweets: @tam_isaiah, @scottmaustin, @skupor, @mariebeaudette, @scottmaustin, @ychernova, @pmarca and @tonybaer
| Patrick Hoge / San Francisco Business Times: |
Uber and Lyft both get an “F” from the Better Business Bureau; so does Yellow Cab — Uber Technologies has received an “F” — the lowest possible grade — from the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California Better Business Bureau as a result of a pattern of complaints … | Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
Zoho's new product CRM Plus integrates eight products, costs $50 per user each month — Zoho aims for improved information sharing with integrated suite — Zoho is integrating its suite of products in hopes of delivering a service for sales people that matches and in some cases beats market leader Salesforce.com.
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