The open web is being locked down by the very companies that try to slice it up and sell it to you byte by byte. We discuss the major moves big telcos are taking to intrench the incumbents online.

Microsoft drops some more open source code & Tokyo’s rolling out the “drone squad”. Plus a very risqué Kickstarter of the week!

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• Wired and Gizmodo both claim to have possibly found the creator of Bitcoin | Ars Technica
• Verizon to Start Testing Sponsored Data in Coming Days | Re/code
• AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists – Slashdot
• Tokyo’s drone squad will deploy 10-foot drones armed with nets to police the sky | Ars Technica
• Microsoft releases Windows Live Writer as open source • The Register
• Kickstarter hires journalist to investigate Europe’s biggest crowdfunding failure

Kickstarter of the week: Penis candles for the world by Amanda Murphy —Kickstarter

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We look at the hard numbers of the biggest sector in the tech industry, have a skeptical discussion around YouTube coming to the aide content creators & debate Google+’s new UI design.

Then we fail to make even the most obvious Kickstarter sound compelling & wrap it all up with a little technical disaster vamping.

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• Apple takes 94% of smartphone industry profits: Canaccord Genuity – Business Insider
• YouTube Fair Use Protection programme launched
• Dive into the new Google+ As +Eddie Kessler shared this afternoon (goo.gl/2Qj…
• LG cancels smartwatch after just six days on the market | Ars Technica
• World’s First Solar Powered Airplane Science Kit for Kids! by ToyLabs — Kickstarter
• Computer Show – YouTube

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LastPass gets bought, FireFox loves Flash long time, just not your plugins, good iPhone vs bad iPhone & why the rest of the world laughs at the state of the US’ mobile payments.

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• LogMeIn acquires LastPass for $125m
• Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now – The Washington Post
• Mozilla Firefox will drop support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016, but will keep Flash around | VentureBeat | Dev | by Emil Protalinski
• Samsung and TSMC iPhone 6s Chips Show Smaller Real-World Battery Impacts Compared to Benchmarks – Mac Rumors
• Apple Claims TSMC vs Samsung A9 Chip Variants Result in Only 2-3% Difference in ‘Real World’ Battery Life – Mac Rumors
• The story in English | MobilePay

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The state of the tech press is downright embarrassing, today we call out some examples of “click bait journalism” that plagues the tech news.

Amazon has a snailmail solution to your “big” data, LoopPay gets hacked, Lyft and Uber have a public spat & more!

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• Amazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx | TechCrunch
• Dell refreshes XPS 13 and XPS 15, and debuts XPS 12 tablet hybrid | Ars Technica
• Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, Whose Tech Is Central to Samsung Pay – The New York Times
• IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach – Slashdot
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Verizon’s super cookie just got nastier, Facebook has plans for free Internet from space & Google launches AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages Project for a faster, open mobile web.

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• FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use
• Verizon’s Zombie Cookie Gets New Life
• Official Google Blog: Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web
• Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, Backed By Google, Promises Faster Pages
• Carriers are Making More From Mobile Ads than Publishers Are — Medium
• Facebook to beam free internet to Africa with satellites
• Elon Musk’s satellite Internet project takes another step forward

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Microsoft announces new hardware, most impressively the Surface Book, Microsoft’s first ever laptop. We cut through the long list of announcements & spend some time discussing the Surface Book.

Plus Roku 4’s best new features, Android M hits the web & more!

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• New Microsoft Band to debut Oct. 30 at $249 with curved screen and Cortana integration – GeekWire
• Microsoft Surface Pro 4 announced with new Surface Pen, starts at $899 | The Verge
• Microsoft introduces Surface Book, a convertible for Surface fans | Ars Technica
• Panos Panay (@panos_panay) | Twitter
• Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition: Coming Q1 2016 for $3,000 | Ars Technica
• Roku 4 supports 4K video and a new way to ‘follow’ favorite shows | The Verge
• Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica

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New charging technology should fill your phone’s battery up 30% faster, Flickr wants you to explore photos with VR, Microsoft auto-downloads Windows 10 and we’re a bit outraged & why we think John McAfee is running for president.

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• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 packs 600Mbps LTE and smarter charging
• Flickr wants you to explore photos in VR
• Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine ‘just in case’- The Inquirer
• Don’t be fooled by Sony’s 4K smartphone; it’s 100% hype
• Ex-Fugitive Anti-Virus Creator John McAfee Running for President – NBC News
• Official Presidential Campaign Announcement – John McAfee 2016 – YouTube
• Uncut: John McAfee on why he’s running for president – YouTube

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A new touchscreen display goes ons ale for the Raspberry Pi that nearly makes it a complete computer, researchers hack the sensors of self driving cars & we speculate rampantly about the iPad Pro, but definitely not the iPhone 6s!

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• Raspberry Pi’s official 7″ touchscreen display goes on sale today for $60 | VentureBeat | Dev | by Paul Sawers
• Researcher Hacks Self-driving Car Sensors – IEEE Spectrum
• Time to patch your firmware! Backdoor discovered into Seagate NAS drives

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The stories of Apple’s Netflix competitor leave us impressed, the real outrageous fraud of Ashley Madison has been revealed, Google brings Android Wear to iPhones & the malware problem that impacts jailbroken devices.

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• Apple Exploring Original Programming Move, Could Compete with Netflix | Variety
• Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses, expect Bluetooth game controllers + enhanced wireless | 9to5Mac
• Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots
• Android Wear Smartwatches Will Now Work With iPhone Too
• Yes, the Moto 360 does work with the iPhone | The Verge
• Malware infecting jailbroken iPhones stole 225,000 Apple account logins | Ars Technica
• Particle (formerly Spark) | Build your connected product
• Patreon August Update

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AT&T gets caught injecting ads into wifi, YouTube Gaming launches & the way the GCHQ obliterated the Guardian’s laptops may have revealed more than it intended.

Plus the real dirty secret behind Ashley Madison & more!

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• AT&T Says Injecting Ads Into Airport Wi-Fi Was a Now-Ended Test | Re/code
• Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site
• Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch’s Archenemy | TechCrunch
• This VR chair revolves 360 degrees vertically (Tomorrow Daily 232) – Yahoo News
• The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
• Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana | WIRED

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Linux turns 24 years old, KDE ships a new Plasma, BlackBerry’s running Android & the great Google Now exodus.

Plus some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting & more!

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• Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 – Slashdot
• KDE – KDE Ships Plasma 5.4.0, Feature Release for August
• BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition captured on video running Android | CrackBerry.com
• Staff Exodus, Pressure From Microsoft, Apple Hit Google Now | Re/code
• Google Lobbied Against Real Net Neutrality In India, Just Like It Did In The States | Techdirt

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Updates on the Ashley Madison story after another massive data dump, JKF Airport starts tracking your cell phone to measure wait times & we debate the various uses for this technology. Firefox has big changes coming to addons & Google’s plan to reduce Android bloat!

Plus Pearbuds… Our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Hackers Dump More Ashley Madison Data | Motherboard
• Ashley Madison: Sally’s Song (The Infidelity Ad) – YouTube
• Wow, Spotify’s New Privacy Policy is Atrocious [Updated]
• Your new phone will have less Google bloatware, and that’s awesome | Android Central
• JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones – Blip Systems : Blip Systems
• GitHub’s top coding languages show open source is everywhere | Ars Technica
• The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Add-ons Blog

• Pearbuds – The World’s Smallest Stereo Cordless Earbuds by Pearbuds — Kickstarter

• Moto Hint – Motorola

• Amazon.com: LG Electronics Tone Pro Bluetooth Stereo Headset – Black HBS-750: Cell Phones & Accessories

• Amazon.com: LG Electronics TONE INFINIM Bluetooth Stereo Headset – Retail Packaging – Silver: Cell Phones & Accessories

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Freshly back from LinuxCon we update you on the stories of the day, the big players pushing Flash out the door & how forgetful scientists accidentally quadruple lithium-ion battery lifespan.

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• Ashley Madison’s $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions – BuzzFeed News
• Amazon puts another nail in Flash’s coffin – Digiday
• IAB Says HTML5 Is New Standard, Adobe Agrees | Digital – Advertising Age
• Forgetful scientists accidentally quadruple lithium-ion battery lifespan | Chips | Geek.com

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Meet Alphabet, the new conglomerate absorbing Google. Then we spend sometime celebrating Android’s adoption of Vulkan.

Plus Oracle’s security chief demands you stop looking for flaws, veggies in space & more!

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• Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure
• Meet Alphabet, The New Conglomerate Absorbing Google That’s Run By Larry Page & Sergey Brin
• Low-overhead rendering with Vulkan
• Nvidia To Show Off Vulkan On NVIDIA GPUs & An OpenGL Linux Graphics Debugger | GamingOnLinux

• Oracle security chief to customers: Stop checking our code for vulnerabilities | Ars Technica

• Veggies in Space: Astronauts Sample Freshly Grown Lettuce – YouTube

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Google & friends make a major commitment to monthly Android updates, we explore the details. Nabbing fingerprints from your mobile’s scanner, Apple Music gets 11 million users & more!

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• Apple Music Clocks More Than 11 Million Trial Customers | TechCrunch
• NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed | World news | The Guardian
• Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones | ZDNet
• Under Pressure, Google Promises To Update Android Security Regularly : All Tech Considered : NPR
• Official Android Blog: An Update to Nexus Devices
• Samsung To Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates For Android – Slashdot

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A fresh version of LibreOffice hits the web, another Flash attack in the wild, this one uses “malvertising”. What the heck is malvertising? We discuss.

Plus what the state of Android looks like in 2015, another OS X bug & more!

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• New Features | LibreOffice – Free Office Suite – Fun Project – Fantastic People
• Another Flash attack spotted, this time against Yahoo! users
• OS X Bug Exploited To Infect Macs Without Need For Password – Slashdot
• This is what Android fragmentation looks like in 2015
• This is what Android looks like in 2015 | The Verge

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Mac security is having a really bad week, two bugs without patches are getting a lot of attention. We’ll share the dirty details. Plus Chris reviews the high-tech Cinch Pop-Up Tent.

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• 0-day bug in fully patched OS X comes under active exploit to hijack Macs

• First Firmware Worm Able to Infect Macs Created by Researchers

Cinch Pop-Up tent Review

• Meet Cinch!– The ultimate pop-up tent with solar power & LED by Jake Jackson

• Cinch! Pop Up Tents, The Ultimate Pop Up Tent, UK

• Cinch 4 Person Pop-up Tent

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Windows 10’s first day numbers impress, Google has a new version of Glass, BitDefender gets hacked, Nvidia Tablets catch fire, tiny robots that walk on water… And our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Windows 10 – The First 24 Hours | Blogging Windows
• Google Quietly Distributes New Version of Glass Aimed at Workplaces – WSJ
• Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard | The Verge
• Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Hacker Claims Stolen Passwords Are Unencrypted – Forbes
• Tiny Robot Runs Across Water, Jumps 14 Times Its Own Height

Kickstarter of the Week:

• Snotbot: Pushing the Frontiers of Whale Research With Drones by Ocean Alliance — Kickstarter

NEED YOUR FEEDSBACKS:

• LINUX Unplugged 103 Multitrack Remaster – FEEDBACK REQUESTED

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Hammertoss malware using GitHub & Twitter for command & control gets exposed, the US sets out to build the world’s fastest Supercomputer, the second major Android flaw this week & the return of Top Gear …sort of.

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• Hammertoss: Russian hackers target the cloud, Twitter, GitHub in malware spread | ZDNet

• Trend Micro Discovers Vulnerability That Renders Android Devices Silent

• Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are reuniting to create an all-new car show, for Amazon Prime.

• Obama’s New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer | Motherboard

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Windows 10 is released to the public, but the devil is in the details. Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used, we share the details.

Plus how the mainstream is reacting to the new release, the sliding market share of the iPad & the teleportation breakthrough scientists are reporting.

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• Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today | Blogging Windows

• Windows 10 Is Revealed – YouTube

• Windows 10 review | The Verge

• Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed | Ars Technica

• Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

• iPad Market Share Falls Below 25% as Tablet Market Continues to Decline – Mac Rumors

• Beam Me Up? Teleporting Is Real, Even If Trekkie Transport Isn’t

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