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November 8, 2015, 1:25 PM

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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Group that hacked CIA director's email allegedly breach law enforcement portal containing arrest records and other sensitive data  —  CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach  —  This time the group, which goes by the name Crackas With Attitude, says it gained access …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Snapchat says it now has 6B daily video views, up from 4B in September, and 2B in May  —  Snapchat triples video traffic as it closes the gap with Facebook  —  Snapchat is closing the gap with Facebook in the social networks' battle for scale in video.  The number of videos viewed …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Apple defeats US class action lawsuit filed by company's retail workers over lost wages due to bag searches  —  Apple defeats U.S. class action lawsuit over bag searches  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) defeated a U.S. class action lawsuit brought by Apple retail workers over bag search practices …
Dustin Kurtz / New Republic:
A visit to Amazon Books reveals Amazon's new retail bookstore is no better than traditional bookstores  —  My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore  —  A former indie bookseller visits the retailer's brick and mortar store  —  Amazon's new brick and mortar bookstore is wildly banal.
Chris Chavez / Phandroid:
Verizon confirms the BlackBerry Priv is coming soon to their network  —  Although the BlackBerry Priv became officially available for purchase today on AT&T, it doesn't mean they'll be the sole carrier to offer the device.  Timed exclusives are common with big-name handsets and it looks like the Priv on AT&T is no different.
Stephen Pulvirent / Bloomberg Business:
Chronos, a small disc that adheres to the back of any watch, tracks fitness and provides notifications via vibrations and LEDs, for sale in Spring 2016 for $129  —  Turn Any Watch Into a Smartwatch With the Chronos Disc  —  A little metal disc that fits on the watch you're already wearing.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google acquires Fly Labs, maker of video editing iOS apps, to join its Photos team  —  Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Photos Team  —  Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team.  The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months.
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
NSA says it discloses 91% of vulnerabilities it finds, but sources say it often uses those vulnerabilities first  —  NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws  —  The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities …
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Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
How hackers stole 8.1M user records by breaching two gambling payment processors, Moneybookers and Neteller, in 2009 and 2010  —  How Hackers Breached Two Gambling Payment Providers To Harvest ‘Millions’ Of Records  —  In 2009 and 2010 two separate attacks hit widely-used online gambling payments processors Moneybookers and Neteller.
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