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Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.| New York Times: |
Signal received federal subpoena with gag order earlier this year, demanding IP addresses, browsing histories, cookies, and more, but could hand over little — SAN FRANCISCO — It has been six months since the Justice Department backed off on demands that Apple help the F.B.I. break the security of a locked iPhone.
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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information — The U.S. government confirmed a potentially wide-ranging breach of classified information Wednesday, disclosing that a federal contractor was secretly arrested in August …
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Johnson & Johnson warns of vulnerability in 114K insulin pumps across USA and Canada that could cause overdose if exploited — Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 Kindle books and magazines — Amazon has unveiled the latest perk for Prime members in the U.S.: access to “over a thousand” Kindle books, comics, magazines, and more. — With Prime Reading …
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Google confirms delayed Lenovo Phab2 Pro phone with Google Tango AR tech will be available in November for $499 in the US — Clay Bavor, head of VR and AR at Google, has confirmed the release date of the first phone with Google's depth-sensing 3D camera system. — 2016 is set to be a very big year for Google phones.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Scratch testing suggests iPhone camera lens exterior may not be as hard as pure sapphire — Apple has been using sapphire on its iPhone camera lenses for a few years now since the launch of the iPhone 5S, but it might not be as scratch resistant as you'd expect.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
PlayStation VR review: a decently priced and comfortable headset with some good launch titles, but held back by its motion controllers — This was supposed to be the year virtual reality broke out. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the first two high-end consumer devices on the market …
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Tweets: @film_girl, @tim, @starfire2258, @latoyapeterson, @davidwalshblog and @mims
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Facebook Messenger has finished rolling out “Secret Conversations” to all 900M+ users for opt-in end-to-end encryption, available in its latest update — Last spring WhatsApp pushed out code adding a new layer of security to a billion users' apps, creating the largest end-to-end encrypted messaging network in history.
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Tweets: @gossithedog and @dkawnik
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
BuzzFeed attacked by hacker group OurMine after publishing story identifying a member; group alters articles, claimes to have seized database, threatens release — A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Government directive to Yahoo likely asked for warrantless scanning of all domestic comms; EFF lawyer says 4th Amendment implications are staggering — There's no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday's bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous …
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: over next 2-5 years, AT&T will expand into original programming via acquisitions; CEO Stephenson has target list of 40+ companies, some worth $2B-$50B — @MoritzDispatch , More stories by Scott Moritz — Largest U.S. pay-TV provider wants to cut programming costs
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixel and Pixel XL hands-on: smoother performance and faster camera than other Android phones, but lack of stereo speakers is not great for VR — Hands-on with the Google Phone — Here they are, at long last, the Google Phones. Technically, they're called Pixel and Pixel XL.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interviews with Google execs about the “Made by Google” event, which introduced Pixel, Home, DayDream View, and what making hardware means for Google's future — The inside story of Google's bold bet on hardware — In a nationally televised commercial that premiered last month …
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