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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting  —  Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
Apple:
Apple says it has never found malicious chips in its servers, calls Bloomberg reporters' claims unsubstantiated and untrue, says it is not under a gag order
Bloomberg:
Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese government issue statements disputing the allegations of Bloomberg Businessweek's hacking story
Bloomberg:
Sources: Chinese spies inserted tiny chips onto products from US-based motherboard giant Supermicro to infiltrate ~30 US companies including Amazon and Apple
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Elastic, a search and data analytics startup, closes up 94.4% on its first day of trading after raising $252M in its IPO and is now valued at about $4.8B  —  - The company offers its technology through cloud providers such as Amazon, but Amazon also represents competition.
Axios:
Source: in a company-wide Facebook town hall, Joel Kaplan said he should have talked to Zuckerberg and Sandberg before attending Kavanaugh hearings  —  Top Facebook executive Joel Kaplan made an emotional appearance at a companywide town hall Friday, and admitted that he should have consulted …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources describe the internal turmoil at Facebook following Joel Kaplan's appearance in support of Brett Kavanaugh during his testimony to Congress last week
Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT:
Sources: Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home  —  Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home.  The retailer has instructed potential suppliers …
Tweets: @leeratliff
Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal:
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to other tech startups, raises $125M Series C led by DST Global and Greenoaks, at a valuation of $1.1B  —  Payments companies are hot, but none are hotter than Brex  —  Henrique Dubugras, a 21-year-old Stanford freshman and entrepreneur …
More: PYMNTS.com.  Tweets: @flyosity, @mdudas, @mims, @rudegeair, and @dmitry140.  Thanks:@rafie517
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:
Amazon says it has fired an employee for sharing users' email addresses with a third-party seller, is working with law enforcement, informing affected customers  —  An Amazon employee was fired after sharing customers' email addresses with an unnamed third-party seller, in violation of company policies, Amazon said.
Srividya Kalyanaraman / BostInno:
Randori, a Boston-based startup that claims to have “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform” to test corporate networks, raises $9.75M seed round  —  Randori, a startup that claims to be the “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform,” …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study: 80%+ of the Twitter accounts that spread false info during 2016 election are still active, continue to push more than a million tweets per day  —  Enough with the “whack-a-mole” claims that as soon as you ban one fake news site, another one pops up: A report released by Knight …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook confirms Messenger is testing voice features to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders, as the app's Android code shows  —  Facebook Messenger could soon let you user your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders.
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
A look at the Internet Bill of Rights, framed by a Democrat on request by Nancy Pelosi, for how tech and telecom companies should treat Americans online  —  If Democrats win back the House, they promise to start regulating Silicon Valley.  —  Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian streaming service JioCinema launches an ad-free subscription plan with the lowest tier costing $0.35/month for a single device, undercutting rivals

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX, and other assets to a new company, Uproxx Studios, formed by Jarret Myer, Rich Antoniello, and will.i.am

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Proxy filing for TKO Group Holdings: Endeavor's Ari Emanuel received a pay package of nearly $65M in 2023, the year that Endeavor merged UFC and WWE

More News

Alex Marshall / New York Times:
The National Theatre in London is offering “smart caption glasses” that display live subtitles synchronized by software and transmitted over Wi-Fi
Steven Musil / CNET:
Samsung forecasts record Q3 operating profit of ~$15.8B, up 20% YoY, and revenue of ~$57.3B, up 5% YoY, on continued strong demand for its memory chips

Earlier Picks

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Leaked documents show Macs with T2 chips must pass Apple diagnostics, which is limited to internal use by Apple, or be rendered nonfunctional after repair
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Spotify says it is beta testing Spotify for Podcasters, a program to give any podcaster the ability to syndicate their show via the music service
BBC:
US DOJ indicts seven GRU officers with charges relating to cyberattacks on the global chemical weapons watchdog, anti-doping agencies, and a US nuclear company
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