Techmeme: Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 12 officially launches out of beta, with faster performance, Screen Time, smarter notifications, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, improved privacy in Safari, more — Apple today officially released iOS 12, the latest operating system designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iOS 12 is available …

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Federico Viticci / MacStories:

iOS 12 review: mostly incremental improvements to iOS 11 rather than breaking new ground, except for Siri Shortcuts, which is a productivity playground — We left last year's iOS 11 update with a palpable tension between two platforms. — On one hand, following a year of minor changes …

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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Testing shows app launch times on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2 improve between 7% and 27% after installing iOS 12 — Apple delivers on its promises and pushes back against “forced obsolescence.” — When we tested iOS 11 on the iPhone 5S, it was clear that it was slower …

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering …

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.

Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle:

Interview with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, on his philanthropic priorities in SF, and why he invests in schools to help solve the “digital refugee” crisis

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Steven Levy / Wired:

Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus — Apple's old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs' office.

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @seldo, @waltmossberg, and @pschiller

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link — Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.

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Tweets: @pwnsdx and @certeu

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:

Cloudflare debuts IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the P2P-driven InterPlanetary File System that does not require installing special software — Internet security provider Cloudflare is introducing a new product to help users more easily access the InterPlanetary File System …

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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:

Amazon adds a new section to its website called Amazon Storefronts, a retail hub exclusive to SMBs from US, featuring 1M+ products from ~20K companies — Amazon would really like to convince you that it isn't putting small businesses out of work — Amazon is introducing a new section …

More: CNET, GeekWire, and Vox

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Facebook expands its bug bounty program to include third-party apps and services that involve improper exposure of Facebook user access tokens — FACEBOOK WAS A relatively early proponent of so-called bug bounties, paying out more than $6 million to security researchers who have spotted vulnerabilities …

More: Facebook, TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, and Threatpost

Jason Del Rey / Recode:

Stripe unveils Stripe Terminal, a new service for in-person payments with Warby Parker and Glossier as launch partners, will charge 2.7% plus 5¢ per transaction — The San Francisco-based company is introducing a new service for in-person payments. — For years, Stripe has been synonymous …

Tweets: @delrey

David Meyer / Fortune:

Italian court sentences a man who sold hospitality businesses fake reviews on TripAdvisor to nine months in jail — Fake reviews are a blight on the Internet, but in many jurisdictions they are also illegal. For example, in the European Union, they've been outlawed for more than a decade.

More: TripAdvisor, CBS News, Telegraph, Naked Security, Slashdot, and tnooz

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