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July 21, 2015, 12:25 PM

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Hackers remotely gain partial control of a Jeep Cherokee on the highway using vulnerability found in thousands of Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks — Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It — I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

More: FCA, The Daily Dot, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Next Web, Ars Technica, The Verge, Guardian, Network World, TheBlaze.com, Techaeris, Tech Times, Consumerist and Graham Cluley

Tweets: @0xcharlie, @0xcharlie, @jonathan_blow, @briankrebs, @kashhill, @csoghoian, @a_greenberg and @csoghoian

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Chrysler fixes remote control vulnerability with software update that must be installed manually — Patch Your Chrysler Vehicle Now Against a Wireless Hacking Technique — Earlier this month, a pair of security researchers used a wireless attack to disable a Jeep Cherokee as I drove it on a Missouri highway.

More: Network World. Tweets: @0xcharlie

Giuseppe Macri / InsideSources:

Group of big Silicon Valley firms, including Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, and eBay, filed amicus brief siding with Samsung in Apple patent case — Silicon Valley's Biggest Companies Take Samsung's Side in Apple Patent Fight — A group of Silicon Valley's biggest companies including Facebook …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

The open web can't flourish if vendors don't work towards closing the rendering performance gap between desktop and mobile web browsers — The mobile web sucks — I hate browsing the web on my phone. — I do it all the time, of course — we all do. Just looking at the stats for The Verge …

More: Guardian. Tweets: @richardpenner, @dangillmor, @mjasay, @joshuatopolsky, @dsilverman, @nxthompson, @benthompson, @s_m_i, @lock and @waltmossberg

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious — If Twitter.com is looking a little different right now, it's not just you. — The company has removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com Monday, Twitter confirmed Monday.

More: Wired, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Telegraph, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, GitHub, TIME, Guardian, Tech Times, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, bgr.in, Scripting Sysadmin, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, BetaNews and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan

AnandTech:

Apple Watch review: best wearable ever, but hard to recommend this first generation version — The Apple Watch Review — Prior to the launch of the Apple Watch, there had been rumors that Apple would make a watch for quite some time. In a broader sense, the wearables industry has become …

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, The Overspill, WatchAware and iPhone in Canada Blog

Bloomberg Business:

Toshiba Executives Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Scandal … Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka and two other executives quit to take responsibility for a $1.2 billion accounting scandal that caused the company to restate earnings for more than six years.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, CNNMoney, BBC, Guardian, TechEye, Computerworld, Windows Central, Engadget, Bloomberg View, Gizmodo, Business Insider, ZDNet, The Next Web, TIME, Pocket-lint, Seeking Alpha and Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal:

Qualcomm to Conduct Strategic Review, May Consider Breakup — Chip maker may also look at returning more cash to shareholders after activist investor presses for change — Qualcomm Inc. is expected to conduct a sweeping strategic review that will look at the possibility of a breakup …

More: eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Fortune, Android Authority and Seeking Alpha

Reuters:

Qualcomm reportedly prepares to announce layoffs of thousands of employees, over 10% of its 30K-strong workforce, during earnings report on Wednesday

More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, Engadget, Neowin, VentureBeat, Seeking Alpha, ZDNet, PE Hub Blog and socalTECH.com

Mark Bergen / Re/code:

Profile of Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, who has the absolute trust of Larry Page — ‘The Soul of Google’: What the Return of Omid Kordestani Says About the Mountain View Monolith — It is no exaggeration to say that Omid Kordestani may be the most likable person in Silicon Valley.

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @mdudas and @stevenlevy

Wall Street Journal:

Apple hires former Fiat Chrysler SVP Doug Betts who led global quality — Apple Hires Auto Industry Manufacturing Veteran — Hiring of Doug Betts may be signal that efforts to develop electric car may be gaining ground — Apple Inc. has hired one of the auto industry's veteran manufacturing executives …

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Analysts expect iPhone sales to propel Apple's Q3 results with 49-50M shipped, company to post earnings of $1.80/share on $49.26B revenue — Strong iPhone Sales Expected to Propel Apple's Results, Anticipation Surrounds the Watch — As Apple prepares to release its June quarter results …

Christopher Heine / Adweek:

GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up — Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be — Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.

More: GoPro, the Econsultancy blog, Tech Times, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Pocket-lint. See also Mediagazer

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Ashley Madison had a serious data management problem and the data breach is entirely its fault — Ashley Madison's data breach is everyone's problem — Late last night, the 37 million users of the adultery-themed dating site Ashley Madison got some very bad news.

More: Troy Hunt's Blog, Online Journalism Blog, TIME, Fusion, Computerworld and Ubergizmo

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Hacking Team goes to war against former employees, suspects some helped hackers — As surveillance startup's sales grew, so did internal strife at Hacking Team. — Italian prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of six former employees of the embattled company Hacking Team …

More: Boing Boing

David Pierce / Wired:

Inside Spotify's Hunt for the Perfect Playlist — What kind of music do you listen to? Your answer is probably something like, “Oh, a little bit of everything.” Or maybe, “Anything but country and metal.” (And polka. Everybody hates polka.) The honest truth is, you probably don't know.

More: Spotify Press, everwas, Music Ally and RAIN News

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube stars post only one-fifth of their videos on Facebook, which lacks an established ad revenue sharing model — YouTube Stars Keep Facebook at Arm's Length For Now — Nearly a year ago, Facebook started reaching out to YouTube stars and multichannel networks, encouraging …

More: Tubefilter. Tweets: @wsjcmo and @rajhathi

William Boston / Wall Street Journal:

Source: Audi, BMW, and Daimler have agreed to buy Nokia's HERE mapping service for more than $2.71B — German Car Makers Audi, BMW and Daimler to Buy Nokia Here — Nokia has been negotiating exclusively with the auto firms; final signing could happen ‘in the next few days’

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Prismatic pivots from offering consumer-facing news aggregation to B2B services for publishers, developers, and hedge funds — Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals — The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier …

Tweets: @rafat. See also Mediagazer

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Medallia raises $150M round led by Sequoia Capital, at a valuation of more than $1B — Medallia's Valuation Tops $1 Billion in Latest Round … Medallia Inc., which helps large companies understand what their customers really think of them, has broken into the ranks of venture-backed companies valued …

More: bizjournals, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, CMSWire.com, Forbes, TechCrunch and Fortune

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