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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.
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.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Ashley Madison's $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions  —  The hacked cheating site sold peace of mind to tens of thousands of users.  —  Ashley Madison, the hacked affairs site, made nearly $2 million dollars off of its so-called “Full Delete” function in 2014, according to private company documentation leaked yesterday.
More: The Verge and Guardian.  Tweets: @bernstein
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
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 …
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.
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.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Alex Rampell, co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay which was acquired by Visa this year, joins Andreessen Horowitz as general partner  —  With an Eye on Fintech, Andreessen Horowitz Adds a New General Partner  —  The leaders of Andreessen Horowitz believe that experience is the best teacher.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
WhatsApp launches a desktop web app for iPhone users, can work in conjunction with mobile to mirror real-time conversations  —  WhatsApp's web client now works for iPhone users too  —  WhatsApp's web client is finally arriving for iOS users, eight months after it first arrived for Android.
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 …
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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From Mediagazer

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

Christofer Hamilton / The Wrap:
Licensed shows account for ~40% of Netflix's global series titles but generate 50%+ of series-driven sign-ups, meaningfully outpacing their share of the catalog

More News

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi announces MIUI 7, partners with Opera to add Max compression technology to Android ROM
Wall Street Journal:
Tata Opportunities Fund to Invest up to $100 Million in Uber

Earlier Picks

Graham Cluley / The State of Security:
Microsoft issues emergency patch for vulnerability allowing attackers to hijack Windows machines via IE
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple to simplify retail stores by demoting iPods to shelves, dropping iPad Smart Signs
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