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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.
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.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Internal Ashley Madison documents found in hackers' data dump, confirms at least some of the data is real
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.
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 …
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.
Jonathan Shapiro / Sydney Morning Herald:
Apple launches “benchmark-sized” Australian dollar corporate bond issue, orders pass $1.2B in under two hours  —  Apple launches iBonds in Australia  —  US technology giant Apple has formally launched a ‘benchmark’ sized Australian dollar corporate bond issue, its first ever sale in the currency.
More: 9to5Mac.  Tweets: @mattyglesias and @johnnyshap
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Sources: Google Express to shut down its two Bay Area delivery hubs, looks to outsource delivery to on-demand startups  —  Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs  —  Google Express, the search giant's same-day delivery service, is shutting down its two delivery hubs …
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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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

The News Minute:
Delhi High Court quashes the case against NewsClick on foreign funding, saying investigators failed to establish cheating, conspiracy, or any scheduled offense

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged

More News

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
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi announces MIUI 7, partners with Opera to add Max compression technology to Android ROM

Earlier Picks

Graham Cluley / The State of Security:
Microsoft issues emergency patch for vulnerability allowing attackers to hijack Windows machines via IE
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Parallels 11 brings Microsoft's Cortana to Macs before Siri
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