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The FBI signals they may have found an alternative way to hack, but we suspect it’s all an act. We briefly cover the numbers from the recent Apple event, discuss a hidden feature in Android N, the urgent news for Kindle owners & more!

Plus our Kickstarter of the week!

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• FBI asks to delay Apple trial so it can try hacking the iPhone again | The Verge
• Apple unveils the new 4-inch ‘iPhone SE
• Numbers from Apple event

• Forget split screen—Android N code hints at a “Freeform Windows” mode
• 68% of Digital Content Providers Geo-Block in the EU
• Got An Older Kindle? Update Your Device By March 22 Or It Won’t Connect To The Internet
• MythBusters Results – List of Myths and Summaries

Kickstarter of the Week:

• oombrella – unforgettable umbrella by wezzoo — Kickstarter

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Poor developer practices expose user data tokens, YouTube plans a news services, Heinz makes a hardcore mistake & Samsung readies an emergency device update.

Plus Amazon announces a major deal to bring Marvel comics to the Kindle store, we discuss this big news and how it might impact the traditional comic book store.

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• YouTube tiptoes toward the journalism business with eyewitness “Newswire”

• Heinz ketchup bottle QR code leads to hardcore porn site

• ‘Billions’ of records at risk from mobile app data flaw

• Information Regarding the Keyboard Security Issue and Our Device Policy Update

• Amazon deal brings 12,000 Marvel comics to the Kindle store

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We have a bunch of great feedback that keeps getting interrupted by Chris and Mike jumping into deep discussion about vendor lock in, Apple’s new hardware, balancing work and life & much more!

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• Some feedback to PTDave

• Mike was wondering what kind of work Linux is better at… oh! oh! I know! I know!

• Switching to a Mac: Update

• Confused curiosity

Dev Hoopla:

Soon to be dad

iMac with Retina 5K display

Does Size matter? Is the Nexus 6 too big?

• Do we really want phones this big?
• Are developers being led around by the nose with the trend hook?
• Android L

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Amazon announces new Kindle hardware with some compelling features. Apple calls out Google and proclaims they are the ones who take your privacy seriously, but can we trust them?

Plus a look at some of the innovative features of FireOS, the new world wide hacking powers the DOJ wants to grant to the FBI & much more.

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Amazon announces massive Kindle refresh including new ‘Kindle Voyage’ and $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet | 9to5Google

Following a big day of Apple news, Kindle has unleashed a massive refresh of its Kindle lines, including three refreshed Kindles and—interestingly—one completely new Kindle model. The lineup includes the company’s new flagship e-reader dubbed Kindle Voyage, a new entry-level Kindle that now packs a touch screen, an updated Kindle Fire HDX, and a new Kindle Fire HD, which is starting at just $99.

The Kindle Voyage, which now sits at the top of the lineup, sports a brand new 6-inch e-ink display and what the company is calling “Pagepress,” which replaces the previous hardware buttons and allows you to change pages by simply squeezing on the bezel around the screen. In terms of dimensions, the device comes in at an impressive 7.6 mm thin and weighs in at right around 6.4 ounces. The device starts at $199, and that’s the version that ships with ads and lacks 3G.

Additionally, Amazon also announced the new bottom-of-the-line Kindle, which now comes standard with a touch screen as well as a processor that’s supposedly around 20 percent faster than the previous entry level model. This device will be the most affordable of the bunch, coming in at $79 and up ($99 if you want to ditch the “special offers”).

• Kindle Voyage hands-on – YouTube

Amazon releases Fire OS 4: Adds Firefly to tablets, integrates cloud | ZDNet

• Fire OS 4 lands with deeper cloud integration, an updated user interface, and profiles for multiple accounts — including individualized preferences for email, social, and settings.

• Based on Android 4.4 KitKat, Amazon built Fire OS 4 on top us. (Just in time for L to ship soon)

• Better battery life with Smart Suspend: Amazon touted Smart Suspend as the new way to save battery life. It sets up a device-specific profile over time to proactively turn off wireless functionality, delivering up to 25 percent more battery life, Amazon says.

• Advanced Streaming and Prediction: Dubbed “ASAP,” devices running Fire OS 4 can now predict which movies and TV content you may want to watch next, while caching them in the background.

• Free cloud-based photo storage: Amazon said Fire OS 4 users now have free and “unlimited” photo storage — including full-resolution snaps — in Amazon’s cloud. Photos are uploaded wirelessly.

Apple Confirms HealthKit Bug, Promises Fix by End of September – Mac Rumors

While details on the issue are still unknown, Apple has confirmed to Tim Bradshaw of Financial Times that it has discovered a “bug” in HealthKit that will require a software update to fix. Unfortunately, Apple is not necessarily promising an immediate turnaround on the fix, saying only that the company is aiming to “have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month”.

Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants – The Washington Post

The key is the encryption that Apple mobile devices automatically put in place when a user selects a passcode, making it difficult for anyone who lacks that passcode to access the information within, including photos, e-mails and recordings. Apple once kept possession of encryption keys that unlocked devices for legally binding police requests, but will no longer do so for iOS 8, it said in a new guide for law enforcement.

“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple said on its Web site. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

Digia spins off Qt as subsidiary · LinuxGizmos.com

Digia has spun off a subsidiary called “The Qt Company” to unify Qt’s commercial and open source efforts, and debuted a low-cost plan for mobile developers.

Now Qt is its own company, or at least a wholly owned subsidiary under Digia. Finland-based Digia has largely been involved with the commercial versions of Qt since it acquired the platform from Nokia in 2012, but it has also sponsored the community Qt Project as a relatively separate project. Now, both efforts are being unified “under one roof” at The Qt Company and the new QT.io website, says Digia. Meanwhile, Digia will focus on its larger enterprise software business.

According to Qt, the number of Qt developers has grown “exponentially” to about 800,000, spurred on by the 2013 Qt 5.2 release, which added Qt for Android and iOS ports. Within six weeks, Qt 5.2 was downloaded 500,000 times, and it reached one million downloads only four months after the release. Another one million downloads have occurred since the July release of Qt 5.3, says the company.

DOJ Proposal Would Let FBI Hack Into Computers Overseas With Little Oversight | Techdirt

JustSecurity, alerts us to a rather frightening proposal from the Justice Department that would enable law enforcement to hack into the computers of people who are trying to be anonymous online. At issue is that current rules basically would extend the powers granted for terrorism investigations to everyday criminal investigations, concerning specifically the DOJ/FBI’s ability to hack into computers. In the past, judges could issue warrants for such computer hacking if the target was known to be located in the same district. But the proposed change would wipe out that limitation, and basically give the DOJ/FBI the power to get approval for hacking into a much broader range of computers. Without the geographical limitation, there’s concern about just how broadly this new power would be (ab)used.

Under the DOJ’s proposal, unilateral state action will be the rule, not the exception, in the event an anonymous target “prove[s] to be outside the United States.” The reason is simple: without knowing the target location before the fact, there is no way to provide notice (or obtain consent from) a host country until after its sovereignty has been encroached.

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We meta-cover the iPhone 6 reviews & discuss the pros and cons of large format mobiles. Then the updates coming to almost all Android phones, Microsoft’s bad news, Docker’s great news & hacking your Amazon account via an ebook exploit!

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iPhone 6 Plus review | The Verge

I can’t see myself ever using my iPad mini again after having the 6 Plus, and it’s getting harder and harder to justify pulling out my iPad Air. With the right software changes, I could basically use an iPhone 6 Plus all day long, for everything from sending messages to editing documents to watching videos. A do-everything phone like the 6 Plus would eventually allow Apple to push the iPad even further towards becoming the true laptop replacement it was always meant to be.

We’re going to need bigger hands.

• First iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Reviews: ‘Thin and Sexy’, ‘Bigger and Better’, Impressive Battery Life Up to 2 Days

• Daring Fireball: The iPhones 6

t I have no desire to use an iPhone 6 Plus as my personal phone. I ordered an iPhone 6 for my own use. And if the iPhone 6 Plus were the only new iPhone this year, I probably would have stuck with the iPhone 5S.

Google Play Services Updated for Testing Google Fit Apps

oogle has begun rolling out Google Play services 6.1 with a set of new APIs for developers. The new features include an Enhanced Ecommerce extension for analytics, improvements to Drive support, and testing capabilities for the upcoming Google Fit platform.

Enhanced Ecommerce provides “richer insights into pre-purchase shopping behavior and into product performance.”

Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources | ZDNet

Microsoft cut 13,000 employees total in the first wave back in July. That wave included some, but not all, of the former Nokia employees, my contacts say. It also included employees in the Operating Systems Group and just about every other group across the company. Microsoft also is planning to reduce its dependency on “contingent” (non full-time) employees by 20 percent as part of its realignment.

I am not sure how many will be cut in this week’s round, which I’ve heard will be announced internally this Thursday, September 18. But I do hear that the second round of cuts will span across almost every group at the company. I’ve also heard there still will be more cuts happening as part of the original 18,000 total at further dates in the future.

Docker Raises $40M, Plans New Enterprise Tool for 2015

Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Docker container technology, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding. The new round of funding comes on the heels of the Docker 1.0 release and the emergence of a commercial ecosystem around the container virtualization technology.

The Series C round of funding is the second funding event for Docker in 2014. In January, Docker announced a $15 million funding round.

The latest funding round brings Dockers’ total funding since its founding to $66 million, CEO Ben Golub said, adding that Docker has only now just begun spending the Series A funding money and is starting to tap into the Series B funds. “We closed the Series C pre-emptively, so we would have a full powder keg to go after the market opportunity,” G

Amazon Kindle vulnerability lets hackers take over your account – The Inquirer

AMAZON’S KINDLE has been found to be vulnerable to a type of malware that is triggered by downloading an ebook with a booby-trap.

Security researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler has demonstrated a proof of concept attack the uses cross-site scripting (XSS) to infect a computer opening a sideloaded title containing code.

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Amazon has gone to war on multiple fronts, and is asking for you to enlist. But we’ll cut through the crap and discuss what’s really at play. Plus Xiaomi gets caught red handed spying on their users, the Bitcoin hijack that’s super impressive & more!

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Xiaomi phones send user data to remote servers: F-Secure

At first, F-Secure did not configure an Mi Cloud (Xiaomi’s equivalent of Apple’s iCloud that stores user data) account and simply inserted a sim card, connected the phone to Wi-Fi, turned on GPS, added a contact and made and received a call and exchanged messages. The company found that the phone number of contacts added to the phone book and from SMS messages received were also forwarded. The phone follows a similar pattern even when one configures an Mi Cloud account.

“Next we connected to and logged into Mi Cloud, the iCloud-like service from Xiaomi. Then we repeated the same test steps as before. This time, the IMSI details were sent to api.account.xiaomi.com, as well as the IMEI and phone number,” writes F-Secure in its blog.

Xiaomi Makes its iMessage-Like Service Optional

Xiaomi is making the cloud messaging service that is automatically activated on its devices optional for user

• As a Google+ update from Hugo Barra, the former Google executive who is Xiaomi’s Global VP, explained:

These concerns refer to the MIUI Cloud Messaging service described above. As we believe it is our top priority to protect user data and privacy, we have decided to make MIUI Cloud Messaging an opt-in service and no longer automatically activate users. We have scheduled an OTA system update for today (Aug 10th) to implement this change.

After the upgrade, new users or users who factory reset their devices can enable the service by visiting “Settings > Mi Cloud > Cloud Messaging” from their home screen or “Settings > Cloud Messaging” inside the Messaging app — these are also the places where users can turn off Cloud Messaging.

Amazon wants you to ask Hachette’s CEO for lower e-book prices

• An Important Kindle request

Amazon Gets Increasingly Nervous

John Scalzi on Amazon/Hachette

John Scalzi:

Amazon is not your friend. Neither is any other corporation. It and they do what they do for their own interest and are more than willing to try to make you try believe that what they do for their own benefit is in fact for yours. It’s not. In this particular case, this is not about readers or authors or anyone else but Amazon wanting eBooks capped at $9.99 for its own purposes. It should stop pretending that this is about anything other than that. Readers, authors, and everyone else should stop pretending it’s about anything other than that, too.

Disney Disc Preorders Disappear From Amazon

Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins

Researchers at Dell’s SecureWorks security division say they’ve uncovered a series of incidents in which a bitcoin thief redirected a portion of online traffic from no less than 19 Internet service providers, including data from the networks of Amazon and other hosting services like DigitalOcean and OVH, with the goal of stealing cryptocurrency from a group of bitcoin users.

Though each redirection lasted just 30 second or so, the thief was able to perform the attack 22 times, each time hijacking and gaining control of the processing power of a group of bitcoin miners, the users who expend processing power to add new coins to the currency’s network.

The attacker specifically targeted a collection of bitcoin mining “pools”

The redirection technique tricked the pools’ participants into continuing to devote their processors to bitcoin mining while allowing the hacker to keep the proceeds. At its peak, according to the researchers’ measurements, the hacker’s scam was pocketing a flow of bitcoins and other digital currencies including dogecoin and worldcoin worth close to $9,000 a day.

The Dell researchers believe the bitcoin thief used a technique called BGP hijacking, which exploits the so-called border gateway protocol, the routing instructions that direct traffic at the connection points between the Internet’s largest networks. The hacker took advantage of a staff user account at a Canadian internet service provider to periodically broadcast a spoofed command that redirected traffic from other ISPs, starting in February and continuing through May of of this year.

In fact, the BGP bitcoin-stealing exploits represent less of a new vulnerability in bitcoin than the persistent fragility of the internet itself, Dell’s researchers say. If one Canadian ISP can be used to redirect large flows of the Internet to steal a pile of cryptocurrency, other attackers could just as easily steal massive drifts of Internet data for espionage or pure disruption. The Dell researchers suggest that companies set up monitoring through a service like BGPmon, which can detect BGP hijacking attacks. B

Dutch government funds safe Dorpbox alternative Localbox

submitted by clementl

This links to a page where you can download the server. It’s written in PHP with Symfony.

The downside is that there are only clients for Windows, Android and iOS. They are planning to release the source of those in this fall.

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The Rails community was blasted by a distinguished, and disgruntled member. But does his criticism hold up? And is there a larger problem at play here? Plus our thoughts on Amazon’s rumored new console, and a great batch of your feedback!

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• \’community driven\’
• Show Question
• Thoughts on ease.js
• Docker usage in production?

Dev Hoopla:

Amazon is making a box for your living room, and this is what its game controller looks like

It\’s suggested that the unnamed box will run a fork of the Android OS, just like Amazon\’s Kindle Fire line of tablets. Those tablets act very much as a storefront for Amazon, offering a wide selection of games, movies, and books. It\’s likely that Amazon will attempt to leverage its large content offerings with the launch of a set-top box.

Rails Is A Ghetto

I\’ve more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil
stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though
I\’d take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay.
As soon as I was stable and didn\’t need Ruby on Rails to survive I told
myself I\’d revamp my blog and expose these fucks.

• Amazon.com: Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code

Zed Shaw has perfected the world\’s best system for learning Python. Follow it and you will succeed-just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.

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Mike and Chris discuss the recent Amazon Kindle Fire and Windows Phone 8 announcements and how they affect your development work.

We also discuss your feedback and Mike’s epic coffee fail, and some great new audience apps.

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• Mike does not mean free software when he says open source — he means open source…
• Michael wants to know if I think that Macs have become popular with developers because that is what their employers buy — ie would they spend the same money themselves?
• Kostas writes in re the open-source business models: “In my opinion the only people who can afford to experiment with this are people whose lives don\’t depend on the revenue from their software. That leaves just hobbyists and college students”
• Mike has been learning Python and wants to know what GUI toolkit to use
• David needs to buy a new PC and wants to know if I recommend a laptop or desktop.
• Brian suggests we cover the JVM languages that are not Java and wonders what I think of the idea that Scala will replace Java
• Regarding GO.
• Callisto
• Shane\’s Software on the side: Java ME Permissions Suck and another Jupiter Broadcasting App

This Weeks Dev Hoopla

• The Wall Street Journal says pairing is the way and the light

Fire Re-Kindled?

• What do I need to know?
• ICS Baby
• Is this really Android?
• How does this compare to the Galaxy Nexus 7?
• What does this mean for my shiny new Android app?

Eighth Time is a Charm

• Nokia’s Lumia 920 and Samsung Atrix — are they worth it?
• What does Windows Phone 8 mean for me coming from Windows 7 or .Net

Book of The Week

• Code Complete

Tool of the Week

• Producteev

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Michael and Chris cover the Android and Android related items from Google IO.

Plus: we update you on the Jupiter Broadcasting app’s progress, and share a handy developer tool!

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• James asks “why so many IDE’s have terminals built in and is important to know the command line?”
• Paul wants to know about bad habits in software development
• A listeners reccomends https://learncodethehardway.org/
• Java speed clarifications (it’s all relative folks)

Support the show, and check out Code School

• Code School Affiliate

Nexus Tablet!!!!

• A world of pain for the Kindle Fire?
• A good secondary dev target alongside the Kindle Fire and Nook?
• Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR CORES! … that’s good right?

Jelly Beans Are Tasty

• 4.1 != 5.0
• Free butter for all!
• Voice typing
• New API’s for accessibility
• Rich notifications

Google Play Improvements

• App encryption — just what the doctor ordered or too little too late?

Nexus Q: the All-Seeing Eye

• Really? More than another black box?
• We discuss whether you should code for the Q or leave it in the queue

”Will the Hacking Begin?” Google’s PDK

• Any effect on manufacturers?

Google+

• We finally get a write API… sorta
• Is History worth it?

Grab the Jupiter Signal

• https://bit.ly/jupitersignal

App Progress Update

• Currently 18 forks and 62 watchers!
• Already have had pull requests!
• We are hammering out standards.
• We want you!

Book recommendation

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Tool(s) of the Week

• Droid Draw

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Joint Failures Episode 1: John and Chris discuss their thoughts on Obama’s recent medical marijuana policy. Then we discuss the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Nobel Nook, is it time to switch to eBooks? We follow that up with a series of questions for the audience and then give you our reviews of Bruce Willis movie Surrogates, this season of Mad Men. Then we debate if we should be watching or skipping Stargate Universe and Fringe, plus a review of Dollhouse.

We cap off the show with a look at why it’s becoming particularly harder for geeks to find jobs, and explorer the idea of quitting your day job and going back to school.

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This week on The Linux Action Show!

We give the FSF a ribbing over their comments about the Amazon Kindle, one of the best companies in IT to work for, is a MAJOR Linux Player, and we tell you how Nvidia is going to turn your machine up to ELEVEN!

THEN –

In a style, only found on this Fathers day edition of The Linux Action Show, we tell you why the Mono issue is all just a big distraction!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

You can stream the video, or download the many fancy versions below:

This week’s links:

PopcornHour’s C200, Runs Linux

Red Hat among ‘100 Best Places to Work in IT’

VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1

Amazon Kindle powered by Linux, FSF not impressed

NVIDIA Privately Releases OpenCL Linux Driver

Fedora 12 Release Schedule and Goals

McIntyre: Mono Decision “Under Discussion”

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