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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.

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Chrysler fixes remote control vulnerability with software update that must be installed manually — Patch Your Chrysler Now Against a Wireless Hacking Attack — 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 …

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’

More: Bloomberg Business, The Verge, GeekWire, ZDNet, Engadget, iMore and iPhone in Canada Blog

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: @dangillmor, @richardpenner, @mjasay, @joshuatopolsky, @dsilverman, @nxthompson, @benthompson, @s_m_i, @lock and @waltmossberg. See also Mediagazer

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

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

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: @stevenlevy and @mdudas

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Several iTunes-related services went down as Apple and MTV announced VMA nominees on Beats 1 [Update: services restored] — Several iTunes-related services go down as Apple and MTV announce VMA nominees on Beats 1 — Last night Apple announced that its Beats 1 web radio station …

More: TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNBC, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, The Register, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Reuters, iMore, Engadget and TIME

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, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Trader Daily, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Fortune, Android Authority and The Register

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 and PE Hub Blog

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 and Computerworld

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

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 …

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 …

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: CSO and Boing Boing

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Square Launches Dashboard App For iOS So Businesses Can Track Sales In Real-Time — Over the past few years, Square has evolved from being “that payment company with the recognizable dongle”, to an indispensable part of the technology stack for quite a few businesses.

More: VentureBeat, PCWorld, BuzzFeed, ZDNet, MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore and WebProNews

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

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Jet launches, comparing its prices against Amazon's on 90% of product pages, the remaining 10% will be updated with the feature over the coming months — Jet.com Will Launch With Amazon Prices Front and Center — Jet, the new shopping site that launches on Tuesday, promises shoppers “the lowest prices on everything.”

More: CNNMoney, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, BGR, TIME, Fast Company, CNBC, GeekWire, Tom's Guide, Digiday, TechCrunch, USA Today, Marketing Land, CNET, The Next Web and Fortune

Tweets: @delrey, @delrey and @delrey

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Apprenda Raises $24M Series D Funding Round For Its Enterprise PaaS — Apprenda, an enterprise platform as a service (PaaS) player that originally launched back in 2007, today announced that it has raised a $24 million Series D round led by Safeguard Scientifics.

More: bizjournals, The Buzz, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Fortune and PE Hub Blog

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