After 75 years of marriage, couple die one day apart at age 94

High school sweethearts Les and Helen Brown, who were born on the same
day on Dec. 31, 1918, died at age 94, within one day of each other.

"My mom often said she didn't want to see my father die, and he didn't
want to live without her," Daniel, the couple's youngest son, told the
Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Helen died on July 16, and Les died on July 17. The Southern
California couple celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in
September.

"It was a real love match, wasn't it?" their oldest son, Les Jr., told
the newspaper. "They were together every day for 75 years."

According to the sons, the pair met at Huntington Park High School and
eloped on Sept. 19, 1937, at the age of 18 against their parents'
wishes. They thought a match between a wealthy man and a working-class
woman would never work out.

The couple moved to Long Beach in 1963. He was a photographer for the
Navy. She sold real estate. They had seven grandchildren.

The two, who were friends with many of their neighbors, were known to
take road trips and worshipped at Kingdom Hall as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Eventually, Helen was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and Les suffered
from Parkinson's disease.

"Like the Bible says, 'They were as one,'" Bob Brobst told the
Press-Telegram, who was a friend of the couple's for a decade.
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Miami hostage standoff leaves 7 people dead

MIAMI -- Seven people were shot and killed at an apartment building in
a Miami suburb early Saturday, including the suspected gunman who was
holding two hostages when a SWAT team moved in, police said.

The hostages were rescued unharmed, Hialeah Police Sergeant Eddie
Rodriguez told NBC News.

The standoff began on Friday evening during an argument between the
gunman and the husband and wife who ran the apartment complex. Their
bodies were among the six found after the SWAT team moved in on
Saturday morning, police said.
The gunman lived in a fourth-floor apartment with his mother, the
Miami Herald quoted the landlords' daughter, Shamira Pisciotti, as
saying.

The couple, 78-year-old Italo Pisciotti and 68-year-old Samira
Pisciotti, went to the unit to discuss a problem with the gunman, who
opened fire and killed them both, their daughter told the newspaper.

Three other victims were found shot to death in that building and one
was walking into a building across the street when the gunman shot him
from a balcony, police said.

The shooter was barricaded inside a fifth-floor apartment with the two
hostages when police negotiators made contact with him during the
night. The SWAT team swarmed in after the talks broke down about 2
a.m., the Herald said.

The apartment complex in the blue-collar, mostly Hispanic community
housed about 90 families.

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Apple Developer site hack: doubts cast on Turkish hacker's claims

A Guardian investigation has cast doubt on claims by a UK-based
Turkish researcher that he hacked into Apple's Developer portal, which
has been offline for more than a week.

Ibrahim Balic, who describes himself as a security consultant, claimed
on Sunday that he had discovered a number of weaknesses in the site at
developer.apple.com which allowed him to grab email addresses of
registered developers.

Apple took its developer portal offline on Thursday 18 July. On Sunday
it emailed developers warning that the site had been hacked and that
some of their details might have been stolen. It has not given any
more details of how the hack was carried out.

In all, Balic said he had been able to grab the details of 100,000
people registered on the site, and that he included 73 of them in a
bug report to Apple. He claimed that he exploited a cross-site
scripting (XSS) bug in the site, and noted 13 issues in a bug report
to Apple between 16 and 20 July.

However XSS attacks generally require the attacker — which in this
case would be Balic — to "infect" a page, in this case Apple's, with a
malicious piece of Javascript or HTML which would then be used to
extract data from a visiting user. If Balic's claim is correct, he
seems to have used the XSS exploits against his own system.

Balic offered to provide proof of his hack by sharing some details of
the file with the Guardian, and provided the emails for 19 people; the
Guardian also extracted another 10 from an email Balic put on YouTube
in which he apparently showed how he hacked the site. (He has since
made the video private.)

But attempts by the Guardian two days ago to contact 29 of the group
whose details Balic claims to have acquired found that seven of the
emails bounced — because the email is no longer operational — and not
a single one of the others has responded to a request to say whether
they are registered with Apple. Nor could any of the emails or names
be discovered online — which would be unusual for any active
developer.

Many of the emails also belong to defunct services such as Freeserve,
Demon and SBC Global — which makes it unlikely that they would have
signed up as developers, as that only became possible in 2008.

Graham Cluley, an independent security consultant, commented: "Many of
the names and email addresses either don't look like they would belong
to Apple developers, or appear to have left no footprints anywhere
else on the net." Of the set of 10 emails which appeared in the video,
he said: "It's almost as though these are long-discarded ghost email
addresses from years ago or have been used by Balic in his video for
reasons best known to himself."

Balic told iMore that the user information that he showed in a video
came not from an exploit against a developer portal, but from Apple's
iAd Workbench, for targeting advertising campaigns to users. He said
that a malformed web request to those servers containing just a first
name or last name meant he could get more data — including a full
name, username and email address for those users.

He then said that he wrote a script that generated "random" users to
get more account information wherever there was a match of some sort,
and used that to acquire the user details.

Balic did not respond to a request by the Guardian to explain why the
emails he had apparently collected were defunct or apparently
inoperational.

Apple refused to comment on the method used to hack into its site. It
would not comment on whether it has called in law enforcement over the
hack, or whether it has identified any suspects.

Even if the hack was not carried out by Balic, Apple has still been
the target of a significant attack. However, standard iTunes Store and
App Store accounts belonging to non-developers have not been affected.

The increasing delay in bringing its developer portal back online may
also create problems for Apple in its preparation for the launch of
iOS 7, the updated version of its iPhone and iPad software. It
released the third beta for the software on 8 July, and has generally
aimed for a fortnightly cycle of releases. That would imply that the
fourth beta should have been released last Monday 22 July – although a
year ago there was a three-week delay, from 16 July to 6 August,
between the releases of the third and fourth betas for iOS 6, the
current iPhone software.

The company meanwhile has set up a new "system status" page, which on
Friday morning showed that only two of its 15 developer systems — for
updating apps, and reporting bugs — are online.
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T-Mobile Announces “Unprecedented Deal” This Summer With Zero Dollars Down For All Devices

Hello back-to-school special offer from T-Mobile as the company announces an "unparalleled promotion" this summer as it drops the down payment price on its entire lineup of devices in stores nationwide to zero down.

This promotion allows both new and existing well-qualified customers to get the latest 4G LTE smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots and feature phones at the upfront price of $0 down with monthly device payments. Still, there's a bit of a catch as T-Mobile has bumped up the price of the monthly payments to offset the lack of a down payment. So, it's a promotion and the idea of no down payment might entice the masses, but the warning is the increased monthly payment. For example, the iPhone 5 now sells for $145.99 down with 24 monthly payments of $21. With T-Mobile's promotion beginning tomorrow, the iPhone 5 will be zero down and $27 per month for 24 months. That's $144 thanks to the extra $6 per month which all but makes up for down payment T-Mobile isn't asking for with this promotion. It's funky math, but a promotion nonetheless. There's still some savings on devices like the HTC One, but by and large the savings aren't as "unprecedented" as T-Mobile would have us believe.

This limited time promotion begins tomorrow, July 27th and can be paired with company's newest offering: JUMP! (not required) for any customers wishing go to that route. T-Mobile's JUMP! upgrade program allows customers to upgrade their next device up to twice a year as soon as six months from enrollment.

    "The number of reasons not to switch to T-Mobile this summer is ZERO," said John Legere, president and chief executive officer, T-Mobile US. "This is a fantastic offer and we're making it easier than ever for customers to get the latest amazing devices. Adding Zero Down in addition to JUMP!, and Simple Choice with no contract is all about making wireless work for consumers and shaking up this industry."

The full press release follows below as well as a quick run-down on some of the smartphones and tablets being offered with this special promotion.

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Press Release:

    T-Mobile Promotes Unprecedented Deal This Summer – Zero Dollars Down for All Devices

    America's Un-carrier offers the ultimate promotion with the lowest upfront price on devices

    BELLEVUE, Wash. — July 26, 2013 — In time for back-to-school, T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) will drive an unparalleled promotion this summer, dropping the upfront price on its entire lineup of devices in stores nationwide to zero dollars down. With this promotion, new and existing well-qualified consumers and small business customers will get affordable and hassle-free access to the latest 4G LTE smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots and feature phones at the upfront price of $0 down with monthly device payments[1].

    This limited-time promotion is available starting tomorrow, July 27, 2013. In addition to the promotion, customers also cantake advantage of T-Mobile's groundbreaking upgrade program, JUMP!™, which enables them to sign up to upgrade their phones when they want, up to twice a year as soon as six months from enrollment.

    "The number of reasons not to switch to T-Mobile this summer is ZERO," said John Legere, president and chief executive officer, T-Mobile US. "This is a fantastic offer and we're making it easier than ever for customers to get the latest amazing devices. Adding Zero Down in addition to JUMP!, and Simple Choice with no contract is all about making wireless work for consumers and shaking up this industry."

    The hottest devices of the summer at the lowest upfront cost combined with T-Mobile's Simple Choice Plan, unlimited data on a nationwide 4G network and no annual service contracts gives customers an opportunity that's tough to beat. The promotion will be available nationwide at participating T-Mobile retail stores, via customer care, and online at http://www.T-Mobile.com. A selection of the devices included in the promotion is as follows:

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    JUMP!
    JUMP!, only from T-Mobile, offers customers the freedom to upgrade to a new device more frequently and affordably, and it includes handset protection that helps to protect against malfunction, damage, loss or theft – all for just $10 per month, per phone (plus taxes and fees). Customers can upgrade to a new phone, financed through T-Mobile's Equipment Installment Program (EIP), twice every 12 months after they've been in the JUMP! program for six months.[3] Simply trade in an eligible T-Mobile phone in good working condition at a participating store location. Any remaining EIP payments will be eliminated, and current customers can purchase new phones for the same upfront pricing as new customers, with device financing3 and a no-annual-service contract Simple Choice Plan.

    Simple Choice Plan

    T-Mobile's Simple Choice and Simple Choice for Business Plan start with a base rate of $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and Web with 500MB of high-speed data. Customers can get 2.5GB of high-speed data for $10 more per month per line or unlimited data for an additional $20 per month per line. Customers can add a second phone line for $30 per month, and each additional line is just $10 per month. There are no caps and no overages on T-Mobile's network, and no restrictive annual service contracts.

    When small business customers activate a new line or renew an existing line of service with a Simple Choice for Business plan (min. 500 MB data required), they can access T-Mobile's Business Extras bundle for added value. Business Extras customers with capable devices may opt into a free year of 24/7 remote IT support from a well-recognized, third-party service provider and a year of T-Mobile North American Flat-rate Data feature, allowing free monthly access to up to 150MB of overage-free, high-speed data across North America, including Canada and Mexico on our partner networks.[4] Other benefits include two free paper-to-mobile form conversions, waived activation fees, Business Care support, Wi-Fi Calling on enabled devices, and free Smartphone Mobile Hotspot on select rate plans.

    T-Mobile's 4G LTE Network
    T-Mobile's 4G LTE network now reaches more than 157 million people across the United States and is live in 116 metropolitan areas. T-Mobile remains on target to deliver nationwide 4G LTE coverage by the end of the year, reaching 200 million people in more than 200 metropolitan areas. In addition, T-Mobile's 4G HSPA+ service is available to 228 million people nationwide. By combining 4G HSPA+ and LTE network technologies, T-Mobile can provide customers with a strong, seamless nationwide 4G network experience[5].

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Hacker Barnaby Jack dies in San Francisco aged 35

Barnaby JackJack, who became famous after demonstrating an ATM hack,
died on Thursday – but coroners did not give details

Barnaby Jack, a hacker who was due to present his findings on the
security vulnerabilities of implanted medical devices, has died.

The San Francisco medical examiner's office said Jack, 35, died in the
city on Thursday – but did not provide details on the circumstances
surrounding his death.

Jack had exposed a security flaw in insulin pumps that could be made
to dispense a fatal dose by a hacker 300ft away, pushing some medical
companies to review the security of these devices.

He was also a popular and respected figure in the information security
scene. Within that small scene, reverse engineers are especially
close, said Matthieu Suiche, a friend of Jack's and chief scientist at
CloudVolumes Inc in an email. "We pretty much all know each other, or
have lots of common friends," Suiche said. "It's almost like we all
grew up together."images

He added: "There isn't much to say except that Barnaby was one of the
rare people in InfoSec who was a brilliant researcher but also a good
friend to many of us."

Suiche met Jack at the Black Hat conference a few years ago and said
they had been really good friends since. He said he had drinks with
Jack and his girlfriend in San Francisco just over a week ago.

He called his friend "brilliant", and said Jack's latest research on
medical devices could help save the lives of many people. "In this
world full of people fearfully complying and worrying, very few people
are crazy enough to challenge the rules, to approach life in an
unconventional paradigm and to speak up to contribute to change this
world," Suiche said.

Jack was due to speak at the Black Hat conference, which starts
Saturday in Las Vegas. His presentation, "Implantable medical devices:
hacking humans," would have explained how these devices could be
compromised and would have suggested ways to improve device security.

Black Hat said the room his discussion was meant to take place will
instead be used as a place for his friends and colleagues to gather
and remember him on 1 August, when the session was set to take place.

Black Hat said in a statement:

We have lost a member of our family. Everyone would agree that the
life and work of Barnaby Jack are legendary and irreplaceable. Barnaby
had the ability to take complex technology and intricate research and
make it tangible and accessible for everyone to learn and grow from.
Beyond his work in our industry, Barnaby was an incredibly warm
hearted and welcoming individual with a passion for celebrating life.
We all have a hilarious and upbeat story about Barnaby. He is truly a
shining example of what we love about this community.

Black Hat will not be replacing Barnaby's talk on Thursday, Aug.
1. No one could possibly replace him, nor would we want them to. The
community needs time to process this loss. The hour will be left
vacant as a time to commemorate his life and work, and we welcome our
attendees to come and share in what we hope to be a celebration of his
life. Barnaby Jack meant so much to so many people, and we hope this
forum will offer an opportunity for us all to recognize the legacy
that he leaves behind.

Our deepest sympathies go out to Barnaby Jack's family and loved
ones. Words cannot adequately describe how much he will be missed, but
it is certain that Barnaby will NEVER be forgotten.

At the time of his death, Jack was director of embedded security
research at security firm IOActive. On Twitter, the company said:
"Lost but never forgotten our beloved pirate, Barnaby Jack has passed.
He was a master hacker and dear friend. Here's to you Barnes!"

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'The Wolverine:' A Howling Good Time

With his colossal muscle "guns" and his thousand-watt smile, there is
a reason the magnetic and charming Mr. Jackman makes the biggest
bucks. It might abut the reason he has played the same superhero more
times than anyone else on film (six with The Wolverine, seven with
2014's Days of Future Past).
He is known as the nicest man in Hollywood, extremely versatile and so
well cut his muscles have muscles, so much so we the audience take his
exceptional 44 year-old body for granted.

Not all his wolfish outings have been successful (X-men Origins:
Wolverine sent fanboys exiting the theaters in droves) …but The
Wolverine, a standalone adventure starring the wingy-banged grumpy
immortal X-man, does a great deal to explain the continued faith
Hollywood has in Jackman as a leading man and action star.

The movie, however, is far more than just a simple action-er and in
its choice to add depth and complexity to the story and character, it
follows the great trajectory so well established by recent movies like
The Avengers and Iron Man 3.

The story follows a reclusive Wolfie (aka Logan) who is leading a
hermitic existence in the wilds of Canada, looking like a filthier
Outlaw Josey Wales, living in caves and wandering the days aimlessly
after restlessly struggling through night after night of nightmares
featuring his past lady love, whom he was forced to kill in X-Men: The
Last Stand. She serves as tortuous delusion, popping up at the worst
times to remind him how miserable he is, and how little use he has for
his near immortality. He has lost his family, and everyone he loves
dies. He is lost.

Enter a wealthy Japanese businessman, whom he outed himself as mutant
saving him at Nagasaki, in an impressive sequence that starts by
featuring Logan's swoon-enducing male physicality and ends with the
unenviable task of reproducing moments from one of WWII's worst
disasters. Mr. Yashida is now dying, we are told by Yukio, a mutant
emissary in thigh-high red striped socks, Yukio. He wants to say good
bye, and offer a gift of thanks.

Out of that annoying sense of honor and duty he can't seem to shake,
Logan goes to Japan to see his old friend. Once there, he is offered
the chance to feel physical pain, deterioration and mortality like the
rest of humanity. It is in this newfound vulnerability that Logan
finds himself and we as the audience connect more with him than ever
before.

Mortality, love, vengeance and subjective morality are all themes that
trundle this tale along, and they are none too light a set of
subjects. There is the idea of Logan as ronin, or a samurai without a
master, which thematically has been used in a variety of genres, and
here, along with other clear influences, it is what integrates the
movie's desperate influences together. These influences separate The
Wolverine from the superhero movies of the past.

Logan's "man without a name" archetype brings to mind westerns like
The Outlaw Josey Wales. The hyper-colorized scenes in Tokyo seem
influenced by films like Happy Together and In the Mood for Love by
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai.

There is also an element of sparse expansiveness in the Japanese
seaside scenes reminiscent of classic director Yahujiro Ozu's work.
That freaky do-it-my-way auteur Darren Aronofsky (of Requiem for a
Dream and Black Swan) was originally attached to direct speaks to how
far a departure they were planning for The Wolverine...

Giving credit where it's due, without Hugh Jackman's versatility, this
kind of complicated blending of genres into a Marvel comic story would
not have worked. Jackman has the ability to seem intense and off the
cuff at the same time. Coming from another actor, some of the retorts
he tosses out would seem somewhere between cliched and ridiculous.

They seem perfectly at home coming from The Wolverine as a character,
and it shows just how well Jackman can embody the role, reminding us
how much we care about this troubled misanthrope with a heart of
gold. Immortality breeds existential despair, as well as, apparently,
perfect deadpan delivery of comic-book-ready pith and sass.

It was great to hear that Hugh Jackman found a way into the
character's bad attitude during the film shoots by starting every
morning with an ice cold shower. No wonder he's grumpy.

They have emassed a collection of pedigreed actors from all over the
world to play supporting roles, with greater and less successful
results. Rila Fukushima as Yukio, is immediately magnetic as friend
and battle-ready companion (or as she calls it, bodyguard) to the
reticent Logan.

She is a mutant with an unpleasant ability she wishes she could give
back, unlike her hard won and colossal fighting skills. Her costuming
and character are both unique and badass enough to inspire Halloween
homages, to become this year's "Hitgirl." The relationship between
her and Logan shows his goodness to the audience even before he
finally sees it for himself.

The character of Mariko as Logan's love interest, is less successful.
Tao Okamoto does what she can with the role, but she is meant to be
enigmatic, a mix of damsel in distress and femme fatale, and we as
the audience never learn to care much about her in specifics, beyond
the fact that she makes Logan feel again.

It is unfortunate that the climactic last quarter of the movie gets so
buried in CGI and desperate measures to fill holes in the plot or
explain character motivations that it almost loses us all to bleed to
death in its own bluster. It is assumed that Hollywood required
neater bows than the filmmakers would have wanted to tie, and as a
result, the bluster and cacophony ensued. The rest of the film is
inventive and unusual enough to compensate for the disastrous sections
towards the end.

At the X-Men: Days of Future Past panel at San Diego Comic-Con,
someone facetiously asked about Wolverine singing as part of the
movies. After saying no one wanted to see that, he burst into a song,
"I'm gonna SLICE 'em, i'm gonna DICE 'em…", bringing laughter and
cheers from the assembled masses. And speaking of Days of Future
Past, stay past the credits, for a scene worth going to see the movie.
It ties together the upcoming and highly anticipated movie to The
Wolverine, and features big talent and big hints about the next year's
star studded release.

Aussie man-meat, sharp claws, an over-the-top balletic fight atop a
bullet train, a nuclear explosion, an exciting clip from X-Men in 2014
that "plays the future cast," and more…Wolverine. See it. It's a
howling good time.

Leslie Combemale, "Cinema Siren", is a movie lover and aficionado in
Northern Virginia. Alongside Michael Barry, she owns ArtInsights
Animation and Film Art Gallery in Reston Town Center. She has a
background in film and art history. She often is invited to present at
conventions such as the San Diego Comic Con. In 2013 she will
moderate "Legendary Animators of Classic 60s Cartoons" at SDCC. She
previously moderated "The Art of the Hollywood Movie Poster" and is a
perennial panelist on the Harry Potter Fandom panel. Visit her art
gallery online at www.artinsights.com, and see more of her reviews and
interviews on www.artinsightsmagazine.com.
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Egypt: dozens killed in clashes between security forces and Mursi supporters in Cairo

Blood soaked the streets of Cairo around Rabaa al-Adawiya Square after
a night of deadly clashes between the Egyptian army and supporters of
ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

The Muslim Brotherhood said more than 70 people had been killed. Some
reports put the number of injured as high as 4,000.

Medical centres are overflowing with wounded people, some riddled with
bullet wounds. The head of the Rabaa al-Adawiya field hospital told
euronews: "All those admitted are in serious condition. You can see
for yourself, they've all got gunshot wounds."

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed al-Beltaji said the group would not
back down in the face of persecution, telling euronews: "We are
staying here in peaceful protest."

"We have the right to stand in front of the world to say that all the
people of Egypt have the right to choose their president, parliament
and constitution. No military force has the right to one day wake up
and suddenly decide who runs the government," al-Beltaji continued.

The deadly overnight clashes came after a day of pro and anti-Mursi
rallies. The former president was deposed by the military after mass
protests against his year-long rule.

From Cairo, Mohamed Shaikhibrahim reported: "The period of 48 hours,
which the army gave to negotiate on national reconciliation, has not
ended. The deterioration of the security situation is clear through
the bloody clashes we've seen at Rabaa al-Adawiya. The atmosphere here
indicates fear that even worse could still be to come."
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