Something that never happened bugged you? Apple never removed cable syncing from Mac OS X and iOS devices.

What did change, in Mavericks, was that SyncServices was removed. SyncServices was only responsible for syncing calendars and contact information and without it iCloud was required to sync calendars and contacts. iTunes still synced everything else.

SyncServices was added back in Mac OS X 10.9.3. But at no time did they remove the ability to sync music, photos, videos, apps, or anything other than contacts and calendars from iTunes.

You're not required to file tax returns if you fall below a certain limit or otherwise don't owe taxes. Of course, if you don't file and do owe taxes, you get punished. (And if you don't file, you can still be audited, which is fun if it turns out the IRS owes you six years of refunds)

A123 has had a number of problems, from their bankruptcy in 2012, their massive layoffs and executive bonuses, to later being purchased by a Chinese company and selling off their assets

Also, non-compete agreements are not valid in California. Even out-of-state NCAs are invalidated if the employee is to work at a CA company, (Exceptions if the employee is a stakeholder/partner/owner, which doesn't apply here).

Correct, LoopPay only works with existing magnetic swipe readers. LoopPay works by basically cloning the credit card. The LoopPay devices sends out a magnetic field that is picked up by the magstripe reader in the POS terminal.

LoopPay does not use NFC or RFID. Which also means it's great for those that want to commit credit card fraud since there is no verification or executable code to copy. Just load up the LoopPay device with multiple CC numbers, and see which ones work.

LoopPay also does not work unless there is a magstripe reader in the POS device. In October 2015, retailers in the US will start being liable for fraud committed via the magstripe reader, meaning retailers likely won't be willing to accept magstripe cards, such as those the LoopPay copies.

And how would that work? The iPhone's activation lock is removed by entering the Apple ID/password that set up Find My iPhone on the device. You cannot change the username/password combo online (because the iPhone's activation lock doesn't use network access when triggered)

Citation of a smartphone remote kill switch being abused? Especially one that, like iOS, is triggered on an erase and is only based on the owner's credentials for unlocking?

At least on iOS, it's not so much a "remote kill switch". That is, it cannot be triggered remotely. For iPhones, if you opt in, a setting is set on the phone that if the iPhone is erased a username/password is required to activate the phone again. While you can initiate a remote wipe, that wipe just causes the iPhone to respect the initial offline setting.

For users, it's better if the iPhone is not wiped because then it can still be tracked with Find My iPhone.

Oddly, the 10GB plan is the only one that went up in price (and by $20, no less). There's a chart of all the new prices.

So in order for this to work, an iOS device must already be compromised with a jailbreak? Why is that news?

This isn't a vulnerability, and to disable it all you have to do is uncheck "Mail & Messages" in the Spotlight preference pane in System Preferences.

If they have micro transactions (in-app purchases), then it's definitely not free. What kind of in-app purchases would products called, Clean Master, Battery Doctor, and Photo Grid have, anyways?

How are they earning a profit? If the apps are free, where do they get the money? If it's from ads, then that doesn't count as free.

You can download anything you've purchased again it's been that way for quite a while now.

No, those are all the hoops you have to go through to accept the "enterprise deployment" certificate profile the first time, then accept the app launching the first time. Also, the phone needs to be unlocked to accept any of these dialogs.

But then Apple can just revoke the cert (which it did for WireLurker) and blacklist the malware on the Mac side (which it also did for WireLurker).

The option is given when you set up a device for iMessage. It explicitly asks how you want to be contacted. By number, by email(s)/AppleIDs, or all of the above