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October 10, 2014, 5:55 PM

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James Cook / Business Insider:

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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Tweets: @snapchat, @snapchat, @qthrul, @oldrowofficial, @stevekovach, @kashhill, @grimmelm and @matthew_d_green

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 …

More: Ars Technica, New York Times, NEWS.com.au, The Register, CNET, VatorNews, BGR, Forbes, CBS San Francisco, Gawker, Network World, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, socalTECH.com, Electronista, Business Insider and Guardian

Tweets: @nisummers and @jbruin

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 …

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:

Apple's Beats Settles Headphone Patent Dispute With Bose — Bose Corp. and Apple Inc.'s Beats Electronics settled a patent dispute over noise-canceling headphones. — Bose and Beats in joint filings told a U.S. court in Delaware they've settled their claims, and asked …

More: Businessweek, ParisLemon, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, App Advice, Electronista and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @parislemon

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Google has evaluated 498K URLs for removal from search results under European laws since May, has removed 41.8% — Google Provides Details on ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests in E.U. — LONDON — Facebook, and Google's own services, are among the websites to be most affected by Europe's …

More: Google, Search Engine Land, CNET, Associated Press, National Journal, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, Gigaom, Silicon Republic, WebProNews, Business Insider and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal:

Tokyo court orders Google to delete search results about Japanese man, citing privacy violations — Google Suffers New Privacy Setback in Japan — TOKYO— Google Inc. has suffered another setback on privacy issues, this time in Japan, following a European court ruling that gave Internet users …

More: Tech Times and PC Magazine

Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:

Apple supplier GT Advanced to close sapphire plants, resulting in the loss of 890 jobs — GT Advanced to shut down Ariz. plant, cut ties with Apple — About 890 jobs may be lost from shutting down its sapphire operations, buy GT says its agreement with Apple included “oppressive and burdensome” terms and obligations.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors, Re/code and TUAW. Thanks:@jeskillings

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in China: three carriers took 1M pre-orders in first six hours of availability — iPhone 6 in China: 3 carriers took 1 million pre-orders in 6 hours — Apple's new iPhones are hot commodities in China. Millions of customers, scalpers and resellers registered …

More: Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and BGR

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 …

More: Amazon.com, Digital Trends, CNET, Tubefilter and GeekWire

Jared Newman / PC World:

Netflix comes to Linux via Ubuntu and Chrome — Ubuntu Linux users no longer need to employ arcane workarounds to watch Netflix on their computers. — Instead, they can just head to Netflix's website through Google's Chrome browser to start streaming. Netflix is supported in Chrome 37 …

More: Ubuntu Insights, Lifehacker and Inquirer

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon is talking with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and Universal about joining Ultraviolet digital movie sharing consortium — 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 …

More: Hollywood Reporter, Electronista, Digital TV Europe and The Verge

Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable's sale to Comcast approved by shareholders of both companies, leaving approval by regulators as last big hurdle — Time Warner Cable Shareholders Approve Sale to Comcast — Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) investors voted in favor of the company's $45.2 billion sale to Comcast Corp. …

More: bizjournals, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Motley Fool, The Hill, WebProNews, Philly.com and Associated Press

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

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 …

More: Ars Technica, DSLreports, Engadget, The Register, The White House, TechCrunch, Raw Story, National Journal, Advanced Television, Free Press and The Hill

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