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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Operation Onymous busted several contraband markets, arrested 17, captured $1M in bitcoin, seized 414 “.onion” domains used by Tor  —  Authorities Begin Scorched-Earth Purge of the Internet Underground  —  When “Operation Onymous” first came to light yesterday …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
FBI, DHS and Europol also seize drug markets Hydra and Cloud 9, with likely more to come in Operation Onymous
Eeva Haaramo / ZDNet:
Netradar app study of 4,500 smartphones says Galaxy Note 3/Galaxy S5 have highest download/upload speeds respectively  —  Who makes the fastest-downloading smartphones in the world?  Hint: it's not Apple  —  Summary: The latest study into which smartphones are the speediest has turned up some surprising winners and losers.
More: BGR
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Microsoft teases first non-Nokia Lumia smartphone unveiling for November 11  —  Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its first device under the Microsoft Lumia brand.  According to a very short post on the Microsoft Mobile site, the news will drop on November 11, 2014.
Barb Darrow / Gigaom:
Highspot, led by Microsoft vets, nets $9.6M to hone sales pitches  —  Highspot, which says it can guide marketers into what content to send to what customers and when, now has $9.6 million in new funding.  —  Highspot, which aims to help sales and marketing people do their thing better and more efficiently …
Jonathan Zdziarski / Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain:
WireLurker not as great a threat as the potential for weaponizing its underlying technique  —  What You Need to Know About WireLurker  —  Mobile Security company Palo Alto Networks has released a new white paper titled WireLurker: A New Era in iOS and OS X Malware.
Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it's blocking 467 WireLurker-infected apps from launching on Mac computers
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Motorola Droid Turbo review: battery lasts for days, amazing 21MP rear camera, oversaturated display  —  Droid Turbo Review: Motorola's Amped-Up Moto X Excels Where It Counts  —  Motorola barely let the 2014 Moto X sink in before announcing essentially a beefed-up version of the same.
More: The Verge and ZDNet
Facebook:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg: on Messenger, building new things, organic reach, and why he wears the same shirt every day  —  Q&A with Mark  —  Today Mark Zuckerberg took part in his first public Q&A. Watch the full video here.
Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:
Home Depot reports hackers accessed 53M email addresses via stolen vendor username/password  —  Home Depot Hackers Exposed 53 Million Email Addresses  —  Hackers Used Password Stolen From Vendor to Gain Access to Retailer's Systems  —  The hackers behind the massive credit card breach …
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter to Open Office in Hong Kong  —  SINGAPORE— Twitter Inc. plans to open an office in Hong Kong early next year to serve greater China and tap advertising revenues from Chinese companies that are quickly expanding, an executive said.  —  Shailesh Rao, Twitter's vice president for Asia Pacific …
Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:
Lytro announces $20K developer kit for its camera technology; initial partners include NASA and Department of Defense  —  Lytro launches its first developer kit, partners with NASA, Department of Defense, and others  —  Lytro won't be keeping its fancy light-field camera technology to itself much longer.
Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter collaborating with advocacy group Women, Action & the Media to help report abuse and harassment  —  New Online Tool Lets Twitter Users Report Harassment  —  Twitter is collaborating with a women's advocacy group that will review and escalate reports of harassment on the social media service.
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Spyware exports will need a licence under new EU rules  —  ‘Intrusion software’ joins nuclear reactors and rocket fuel on the EU's list of technologies that may have military applications  —  Companies which make spyware will have to apply for permission to export the software once new EU regulations come into effect in late December.
More: I4U News and SC Magazine.  Tweets: @flamsmark and @malwaremustdie

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
The Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources

Wall Street Journal:
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40%+ over the past 12 months

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