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October 19, 2015, 2:10 PM

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Facebook:
Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts  —  Notifications for targeted attacks  —  The security of people's accounts is paramount at Facebook, which is why we constantly monitor for potentially malicious activity and offer many options to proactively secure your account.
Dean Baquet / Medium:
NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet responds to Jay Carney's post, says that the former Amazon employee he said left over allegations of fraud disputes the claim  —  Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post  —  In response to your posting on Medium this morning, I want to reiterate …
Jay Carney / Medium:
New York Times story on Amazon left out critical information, including that one named source resigned after internal investigation revealed fraud  —  What The New York Times Didn't Tell You  —  “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: true flagships with little-to-no compromise, all other Android devices are second class citizens  —  Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: The true flagships of the Android ecosystem  —  With little-to-no compromise, these are now the smartphones to beat.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers find 256 iOS apps using a third-party advertising SDK to collect users' personal info; Apple says it will ban them  —  Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users' personal info  —  Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple Launches Quality Program for MacBook Pro Anti-Reflective Coating Issues  —  Apple has issued an internal notice about a new Quality Program that addresses anti-reflective coating issues on MacBook and MacBook Pro models with Retina displays, as confirmed by multiple sources.
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Yahoo's Marketing Partnership SVP Lisa Licht Also Departs  —  According to sources, besides development chief Jackie Reses, Yahoo also lost its SVP of marketing partnerships and platforms Lisa Licht last week.  —  Licht, who came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant in 2012 from Hasbro …
Bloomberg Business:
Chad Bray / New York Times:
Microsemi Offers to Buy PMC-Sierra in $2.4 Billion Deal  —  The California chip maker Microsemi Corporation said on Monday that it had offered to acquire its fellow chip maker PMC-Sierra in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $2.4 billion.  —  The offer, in the form of a letter …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Flipboard opens up its interest graph to let brands target ads by topics  —  Flipboard is further integrating technology from its acquisition of Zite and it's aimed at advertisers.  Today the publishing platform company has opened up its data to enable marketers to better target their ads based …
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