The Week in Review: news and features you don't want to miss

Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other informative news articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed:

News

• Court docs reveal Apple told GTAT, "Put on your big boy pants and accept the agreement"

• SEC investigating suspicious trading activity of GT Advanced shares

• Rare photos show NeXT-era Jobs doing his best to change the world

• Apple ranked the most valuable brand on the planet by Forbes

• Amazon launches Prime Photos, cloud storage for iOS

• Apple to open highly caffeinated office in Seattle

• AT&T, Verizon agree to VoLTE interoperability in 2015

• Apple partners with Southwest for in-flight Beats Music

• Starwood Hotels now lets you use your iPhone to completely bypass the desk

• Apple Watch release date gets ever so slightly more accurate

Features

• Point: Keeping an eye on your home with electronic ears

• Why the danger and hysteria surrounding the WireLurker malware is overblown

• Rumor Roundup: 'The skepticism it deserves'

• Obituary: Mac OS X Hints might be "pining for the fjords"

• Google has been killing Apple on the advertising front lately

• CurrentC will soon have to compete directly with Apple Pay

• Is your iDevice screen unusually dim after installing iOS 8.1?

• Rumor Roundup: Sad journalism trombone

• How to speed up adding album art in iTunes 12

TUAW will be back next week with another round of handy features and breaking news, so be sure to drop by to see what's new and what's useful.