The Verge :

Google is today introducing the Nexus 6, the latest in its line of smartphones designed to show off the capabilities of new Android releases. This is the biggest Nexus phone that Google has released yet, adopting a 6-inch display — bigger than both the iPhone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note 4. Like the Note 4, Google’s Nexus 6 also uses a Quad HD display, which means that text and images on the phone should still be really sharp, despite its large size. The phone has a Snapdragon 805 processor, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front camera, a 3220 mAh battery, and two front-facing speakers. It can include either 32 or 64GB of internal storage and comes in either blue or white.

This is comically huge. The iPhone 6 plus and Galaxy Note are, I think, the biggest form factor you could use on a phone, but this? Come on Google! 5.92 inches?!

And 649$ too. I’m very happy to have bought a 349$/€ Nexus 5, but those 2 things makes the Nexus 6 a deal breaker for me.

But those 2 things take apart, this is a beautiful phone, if you remove the 2 HORRIBLE front speaker (great feature, but so badly implemented, it looks like two scars on the glass).

The Verge :

Apple has made an unusual blunder ahead of its Thursday press event; the company has accidentally revealed both of its new iPads: the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. An official user guide for iOS 8 in the iTunes Store has apparently had its screenshots updated ahead of schedule; both new iPads are pictured, and the images reveal each will have a Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Aside from the addition of Touch ID, it seems these latest iPads will look nearly identical to their predecessors. 9to5Mac first spotted the premature iPad screenshots.

Oops.

Re/Code :

French carrier Iliad said Monday it is giving up on plans to acquire T-Mobile US, following discussions with majority owner Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile US board.

It’s not really a surprise, if you look at the size of Illiad, and the will of it’s main shareholder, Xavier Niel, to not run into a huge debt. But it’s not a good news for U.S. citizens, if you look at the mobile subscriptions prices and all the Comcast bulls**t. Thanks to Free (the name of Illiad’s ISP and mobile carrier), who shoke the French market 2 years ago, I pay only 25€ (30 $US) for unlimited voice and text, 5GB of LTE and with no engagement. How much Verizon/AT&T charges for this?

Ars Technica :

Popular online locker service Dropbox appears to have been hacked. A series of posts have been made to Pastebin purporting to contain login credentials for hundreds of Dropbox accounts, with the poster claiming that altogether 6,937,081 account credentials have been compromised

And this is the Dropbox answer:

Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.

While I’m changing my password, I think this is the right time for you to activate the two-factor authentication and subscribe to Have I’ve Been Pwned? website. This very useful tool automatically checks websites like Pastebin and others, where the results of those hacks are often published, and send you an email if any of the logins that you have and registered to Have I’ve been pwned are in those leaks. Very useful.

So, be careful with any third party service. And check 1Password or Dashlane too.