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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 …
Bloomberg:
Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese government issue statements disputing the allegations of Bloomberg Businessweek's hacking story
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:
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.
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
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  —  Due to advanced security features of the Apple T2 chip, iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro models must pass Apple diagnostics for certain repairs …
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
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 …
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
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.
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.
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,” …
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  —  Samsung really appears to be cashing in chips.  —  The South Korea electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record …

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Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Interviews with 24 people reveal the tense relationship between President Biden and the New York Times, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, and a lack of trust

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