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Apple on Friday confirmed that it has issued an update to fix a security glitch on the iPhone that could have allowed hackers to disable or take over the smartphones.

I think the recording industry is a culture-gutting abomination, and that the entire outfit ought to be torched like Rome during a Nero violin recital. Whatever figure the jury arrives at, the artists Mr. Tenenbaum loves will never see a cent of it; after over a century of treating most artists like sharecroppers, "the industry" takes the droit de seigneur approach to windfall profit…. Music is so much more than the music industry, and for the sake of music — the transmission of it, the longevity of the worthwhile stuff — I hope the industry which treats one of humankind's most powerful communication devices and repositories of memory like so much chattel withers and dies.