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Hackers accessed at least 100K Snapchat photos, Snapchat says through third-party app that violated TOS — 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 …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road—On a Technicality — Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI's investigation.
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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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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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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 … | Jonathan Blake / BBC: |
Co-founder of Silent Circle, maker of privacy-centric Blackphone, says tablet is coming soon — Privacy-focused Blackphone maker plans tablet ‘soon’ — Encrypted calls are only possible between Blackphone users or other devices running the Silent Phone app| Wall Street Journal: |
How marketing firms scan logos and emotions on services like Instagram for research and targeting customers — Smile! Marketing Firms Are Mining Your Selfies — Photo-Sharing Sites Are Being Scanned to Find Brands, Target Ads — Most users of popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram …
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HP to revoke a digital certificate mistakenly used to sign malicious software in May 2010 — Signed Malware = Expensive “Oops” for HP — Computer and software industry maker HP is in the process of notifying customers about a seemingly harmless security incident in 2010 that nevertheless … | Doug Cameron / Wall Street Journal: |
iRobot introduces new operating system enabling more autonomous robots for military use — IRobot Introduces System to Help Machines Think for Themselves — Technology Dovetails With Pentagon Push for Robots to Steer Themselves in Tricky Environments — IRobot Corp. , best known …
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CIO Today, bizjournals, The Boston Globe, Bidness Etc, Mashable, BetaBoston, ZDNet, CNET and Wired
| 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 …
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Ubuntu Insights, BetaNews, SlashGear, Engadget, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Inquirer and The Next Web. Tweets: @qthrul
| 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.
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