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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option  —  The screen steals the show  —  The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries  —  The battery capacities and RAM inside the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR have surfaced in regulatory filings Apple …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18  —  Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach.  —  Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 AmazonGo cashierless stores by 2021  —  - Rapid expansion would rank it among biggest convenience chains  — Retailer is testing different formats for AmazonGo strategy  —  Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open …
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers  —  Android phones will soon send Google Maps-like location data to emergency call centers  —  Emergency call operators will soon have an easier time pinpointing the whereabouts of Android phone users.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market  —  Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61 billion this year, according to a new eMarketer study, up a whopping 60% from the projection of $2.89 billion in March.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display  —  Expected this Fall  —  Apple's recently released iOS 12.1 beta contains code that suggests a new iPad is coming this fall.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
GitLab raises $100M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a valuation of $1.1B  —  Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures.
Reuters:
Sources: Tencent Music Entertainment Group has confidentially filed for a $2B US IPO, down from the up to $4B rumored earlier  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's biggest music-streaming company, is seeking to raise about $2 billion in a U.S. listing …
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BuzzFeed News:
Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood wrote a blog post in 2013 in which he described having sex with an 11- or 12-year-old girl dying of AIDS; Wood says it was fiction  —  Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Gavin Wood wrote — and then deleted — a post about having sex with a preteen girl who was dying of AIDS.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child  —  The far-right figure allegedly met a teen on SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he told her he was a ‘big deal.’  —  The founder of a an alt-right crowdfunding site and a 3-D gun-printing company …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU sources: Facebook may face sanctions because it has yet to comply with EU consumer rules; Airbnb has made necessary changes in response to regulatory demands  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) may face sanctions because it has yet to comply with EU consumer rules while Airbnb …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare says it is rolling out resource public key infrastructure to all of its customers to stop route leaks and route hijackings  —  Internet outages happen all the time.  If it's not someone cutting through a cable in the street, it's a massive denial-of-service attack pummeling a pillar of the internet with junk data.
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3  —  20 ‘genre-defining’ games and two controllers for $99.99  —  Sony is following in Nintendo's footsteps and bringing back its original PlayStation console nearly 25 years …
Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors:
Apple finishes paying $15.3B in back taxes to Ireland, prompting EU regulators to drop lawsuit against the country  —  Just over two years after the European Commission ruled that Apple was receiving illegal state aid from Ireland — where it had reportedly paid less than 2 percent …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces a voluntary campaign for broadcasters to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by airing patriotic content

New York Times:
A US judge rebukes a DOJ prosecutor for not mentioning a 1980 law protecting journalists when seeking a warrant to search WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
California AG Rob Bonta says his office will give Netflix and Paramount bids for WBD a full and robust review; Netflix says 13-14 state AGs are probing the deal

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Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces it will shut down its standalone Gaming app and launches a new YouTube Gaming destination at youtube.com/gaming, first coming to the US
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Twitter update lets users revert to a chronological timeline, says it is working on a way for users to easily switch between algorithmic and chronological feeds
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