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Major exploit in Firefox found in the wild, Mozilla issues security update — Firefox exploit found in the wild — Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple.com redesign does away with ‘Store’ tab and ‘store.apple.com’ domain, integrates shopping buttons in every product page — Apple.com, One Of The World's Biggest Stores, Gets A Redesign — A redesign of Apple.com that went live today removed the standalone ‘Store’ tab … | CNBC: |
US officials: Russian “state actor” hacked Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system around July 25; no classified data seized — Russia hacks Pentagon computers: NBC, citing sources — NBC News is reporting Russia has hacked computers at the Pentagon, with CNBC's Sue Herera.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Everything new in iOS 9 beta 5: AT&T Wi-Fi Calling, keyboard changes, CarPlay tweaks, and more — With the release of today's iOS 9 beta, Apple has introduced several new features. The first on the list, and probably one of the most important, is support for Wi-Fi Calling on AT&T … | Mark Wilson / BetaNews: |
Zimperium releases free Stagefright detector Android app, shows if device is vulnerable — Zimperium releases Stagefright detection tool and vulnerability demo video — We've already looked at the Stagefright vulnerability, discovered by Zimperium, and shown what can be done to deal with it.
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| Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's browser extension Privacy Badger out of beta; 1.0 blocks super-cookies and browser fingerprinting — Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking — Browser Add-On Prevents Data Collection from Ads and Other Hidden Trackers — San Francisco …
| Michael Gold / Reuters: |
Taiwan's HTC says to cut jobs, smartphone models to revive sales — Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said it would cut jobs and discontinue models as part of its strategy to focus on high-end devices to better compete with the likes of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.| Bing Blogs: |
Bing to warn users if they follow links to pharmaceutical sites that have been flagged by the FDA as fake or illegal — Bing to warn customers about the threats of fake online pharmacies — Picture Fred, a 60-year-old man who has a few medical conditions.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Pornhub, world's largest porn site, introduces a $9.99/month premium tier with no ads, faster playback, higher quality streams, exclusive content — Pornhub Premium: Netflix for porn costs $9.99 per month — Pornhub, the largest pornography site on the Internet, is going premium.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Informatica goes private, counts Microsoft, Salesforce as strategic investors — Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft buy into partner Informatica as the data integration and management company goes private in a $5.3 billion deal. — Informatica closed its deal to go private Thursday …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pebble Time Steel now available for preorder for $249 with leather strap, $299 with steel band — Pebble's next smartwatch is here — Pebble's latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time, has been widely available for purchase for just a couple of weeks. But the company isn't slowing down …
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Office Blogs, Pebble, Tech Times, VentureBeat, Phandroid, Android Authority, Droid Life, Ausdroid, iMore and TechSpot
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources early preview of its Windows Bridge toolkit for porting iOS apps to Windows 10, with final version later in fall — Microsoft open sources its iOS toolkit for building Windows 10 apps — Microsoft is making an early version of its ‘Project Islandwood’ bridge …
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Windows Blog, GitHub, Windows Blog, Engadget, Ars Technica, Inquirer, InfoWorld, BetaNews, Computerworld, Windows Central, NEWS.com.au, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, ReadWrite, The Register, ProgrammableWeb.com, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, PCWorld, The Next Web, MacNN, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, PCMag Australia Feed, bit-tech.net, Pocketnow, Microsoft News and WMPoweruser
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