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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 hackers' data dump, confirms at least some of 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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Tweets: @siralexmurphy and @jasonthomas
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company — The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.
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PC Magazine, Salon, Geek Beat, Fox 59, Washington Post, Fusion, Business Insider and Above the Law
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| Sam Biddle / Gawker: |
Snapchat lost $128M and generated only $3M in revenue between January and November of 2014, according to leaked financials — Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year — In 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook, which is only not an insane …
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VatorNews, Washington Post, Re/code, DailyTech and Business Insider
Tweets: @benedictevans, @reckless, @fmanjoo, @jyarow and @ktbenner
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Intel Skylake CPU details revealed: These faster, more power-efficient chips can even drive three 4K monitors — Skylake-based laptops should offer a nice boost over today's Broadwell laptops, and here's why. — After weeks of teasing us, Intel finally lifted the kilt to show us details of its 6th generation CPU.| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Report: BlackBerry Venice Android slider to launch on all four major US carriers in November — Return of the keyboard: BlackBerry Venice with Android expected in November — With all four U.S carriers rumored to carry the sliding keyboard phone, it surely would have to run Android.
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VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Android Police, Droid Life, Pocket-lint, PCWorld, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, CNET, Softpedia News, BGR, FierceMobileIT News, Fone Arena, Android and Me, Neowin, TmoNews, Phones Review, Inquirer, Android Beat, TechnoBuffalo, GSMArena.com, Ubergizmo, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google, AndroidHeadlines.com and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @evleaks
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn is launching a new app called ‘Lookup’ to help you quickly find and text coworkers — 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.| 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.| Amin Vahdat / Google Research Blog: |
How Google's networking infrastructure has evolved over ten years and five generations to deliver more than 1 petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth — Pulling Back the Curtain on Google's Network Infrastructure — Pursuing Google's mission of organizing the world's information …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and Dice Insights
| Cam Bunton / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: Apple 12.9-inch iPad Pro to feature optional Force Touch compatible stylus, 2015 shipments in the 4-5.5M range — According to respected and generally reliable analyst Ming Chi-Kuo from KGI Securities, Apple's long-awaited 12.9-inch iPad Pro will feature Force Touch stylus support …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Connected doorbell maker Ring raises $28M Series B from American Family Insurance, True Ventures, Upfront, Shea Ventures, Richard Branson, and multiple angels — Meet Ring, the connected door bell company that just scored Richard Branson as an investor — Jamie Siminoff, CEO of Ring … | TechCrunch: |
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.
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Re/code, THE EQUITY KICKER and Jared Friedman
| 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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The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Register and Mashable
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Is Opening A YouTube Production Studio In Mumbai, India — There's good news for aspiring YouTube stars in India after Google announced its first YouTube Space for the country. Located in Mumbai, the production facility — the second of its kind in Asia — will be hosted …
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Official Google India Blog, SlashGear, Tech Times, USA Today and International Business Times. Thanks:@dadhiloba. See also Mediagazer
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Lightning strikes Google Compute Engine data center in Belgium; services disrupted and 0.000001% of data lost — Lightning in Belgium Disrupts Google Cloud Services — Not even the mighty Google data centers are immune from acts of god it turns out. — A series of successive lightning strikes … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases third Windows Server 2016 preview, adding support for Windows Containers, which are part of the Docker open source project — Microsoft to deliver third Windows Server 2016 preview with Windows Container support — Microsoft is making available Windows Server 2016 Preview 3 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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