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Hackers post 9.7GB data purportedly from Ashley Madison breach to dark web, including e-mails, profiles, and credit card transactions — Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data — Hackers who stole sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Multiple sources report finding their personal info in Ashley Madison data dump despite former CTO's claims that some of the leaked data is not genuine — Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked? — Many news sites and blogs are reporting that the data stolen last month from 37 million users …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Internal Ashley Madison documents found in a 10GB file with information about 30M+ users, confirms the data is real — Ashley Madison hack is not only real, it's worse than we thought — Intimate data for more then 30 million accounts, keys to Windows domain published.
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Hydraze & Friends blog, Errata Security, The Digital Reader, TrustedSec, BGR, TechSpot, Techdirt, Inquirer, Fusion, PYMNTS.com, SecurityWeek, Wired.co.uk, The Register and Mashable. Tweets: @jasonthomas
| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Vaio will begin selling Z Canvas PCs in Microsoft Stores in US from October, prices start at $2,199 — Remember Vaio Computers? They're Making a Comeback — Vaio, Sony's former unprofitable PC business, is attempting a comeback. Vaio Corp. plans to start selling laptops …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple CarPlay review: great text messaging integration, responsive Siri, and voice DJ control, but lags behind Google Now and Maps — Apple CarPlay Review: Siri's Finally on the Right Road — Apple's in-dash system for the iPhone sure beats anything that comes with your car but it needs more gas to take on Google.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to simplify retail stores by demoting iPods to shelves, dropping iPad Smart Signs — Apple is preparing to make significant changes to its stores to simplify the experience by relocating iPod stock to accessory shelves and removing iPad-based Smart Signs, according to several Apple Retail managers briefed today on the plans.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Parallels 11 brings Microsoft's Cortana to Macs before Siri — The latest version of Parallels, the popular Windows virtualization tool for Mac OS X, almost feels like it's trolling Apple. One of Parallels 11's key features, alongside full Windows 10 support, is its ability to put Microsoft's Cortana right on your OS X desktop.
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The 50 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1 — Hardware took the spotlight at today's Y Combinator Demo Day, reflecting a major shift of the accelerator beyond the cliche mobile app startup. Out of the 50 companies from the Summer 2015 batch that demoed on the record today, 20 featured hardware.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
PayPal acquires mobile commerce platform Modest, run by Obama's former campaign CTO — PayPal has made its first acquisition since it became a standalone public company. It announced today the purchase of the mobile commerce platform Modest, to bring in expertise in contextual commerce.| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google partners with TP-LINK on OnHub, an easy to use $199 Wi-Fi router that makes sure your devices are connecting efficiently — Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router — It's actually pretty easy to deal with your wireless router.
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| Graham Cluley / The State of Security: |
Microsoft issues emergency patch for vulnerability allowing attackers to hijack Windows machines via IE — IE Under Attack! Microsoft Releases Emergency Out-of-Band Patch — If Microsoft calls a vulnerability “critical,” warns that it affects all versions of Windows … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
OnePlus 2 review: solid build quality and performance make the smartphone, starting at $329 for the 16GB model, the best deal on the market — OnePlus 2 review — “Flagship killer.” That loaded term has been bandied about by virtually every smartphone maker since the iPhone took the scene by storm eight years ago.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Silent Circle's privacy-focused Blackphone 2 available for preorder, will arrive in September — Silent Circle's Blackphone 2 Landing In September — Silent Circle showed off the second generation of its pro-privacy Android-hardened smartphone, the Blackphone, back in March …
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Tata Opportunities Fund to Invest up to $100 Million in Uber — Uber Technologies Inc. has raised up to $100 million from Indian private-equity firm Tata Opportunities Fund, a person familiar with the matter said.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn is launching a new app called ‘Lookup’ to help you quickly find and text coworkers — See Also — After failing to buy $50 billion Salesforce, Microsoft has suddenly become its hottest competitor — In April, LinkedIn got some interesting data about the way people used its service.
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| Amanda Connolly / The Next Web: |
United States of Emoji: SwiftKey tells you the most popular emoji where you are — SwiftKey's keyboard for iOS got an update today that will show you the emojis you use the most. Yes, it has been keeping track of how many you send. — In July, people using the iPhone beta version got …
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USA Today, TechCrunch, Tech Times, BuzzFeed, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
GrabTaxi Lands $350M From China's Top Uber Rival Didi Kuaidi And Others — GrabTaxi, the taxi-hailing app that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is getting some big name support from China after it announced a $350 million Series E round from a range of investors that — most interestingly …
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Ephemeral, off-the-record messaging app Confide expands to desktop for Windows and Mac, available now for free; paid business version coming later this year — Confide brings ephemeral messaging to desktop, with Mac and Windows clients — When off-the-record messenger Confide launched …
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