This Week in Tech 585

A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new hardware - rumors predict an all-in-one Surface PC and new MacBook Pro laptops, respectively. Google's Pixel phones are out, and with Samsung damaged by Note 7 explosions, their timing couldn't be better. AT&T acquires Time-Warner. And Tesla announces full self-driving hardware will be in all new Tesla cars.

• David Pogue says that Friday's DDOS attack is just the beginning, and we have almost no ability to protect against the next attack.
• Steve Kovach lost sleep over the AT&T - Time-Warner merger - he says the deal was rushed to stay ahead of rumor.
• Leo says there are only two flagship phones anyone should buy now - the iPhone 7 and the Google Pixel.

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Links

• The Washington Post: Someone attacked a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure
• Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites - The New York Times
• IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack
• Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released — Krebs on Security
• How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts | Motherboard
• Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It
• On the wikileak-ed emails between Tanden and... | LESSIG Blog, v2
• Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event - Recode
• New MacBook Pro and 13-Inch 'MacBook' Coming Next Week, iMac and Display Not Ready Yet
• More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple | 9to5Mac
• Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking - ProPublica
• Google Pixel: the Android iPhone you've been waiting for
• When Moonshots Fall Back to Earth
• Patriots’ Bill Belichick dumps Surface tablets in five minute rant | Ars Technica
• Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition - Next at Microsoft
• Elon Musk Reddit AMA starting at 3pm PT
• AT&T agrees in principle to buy Time Warner for $85 billion: sources | Reuters
• Leo Beranek, Engineer Involved in Internet Precursor, Dies at 102 - The New York Times