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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Apple is planning a subscription service for games; it began discussions with game developers in the second half of 2018  —  Apple is planning a subscription service for games, according to five people familiar with the matter.  —  The service would function like Netflix for games …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Sources: 2013 “Assembled in USA” Mac Pro was delayed due to custom screw shortage in US, illustrating why Apple is unlikely to move manufacturing out of China  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump …
Washington Post:
DOJ unseals 13-count indictment against Huawei, CFO Meng Wanzhou, and two affiliated firms; charges include bank, wire fraud, conspiring to obstruct grand jury  —  The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday against Huawei Technologies Co., the world's largest communications …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007  —  Dropbox on Monday said it's acquiring electronic signature start-up HelloSign for $230 million in cash.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Internal docs and sources describe how Facebook educates moderators about political issues and potential “PR fires” that are particular to different elections  —  Internal Facebook documents obtained by Motherboard show specific steps and strategies taken by the company …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
GDPR complaint against Google and IAB by privacy advocates claims that ad category lists enable mass broadcasting of intimate personal data  —  Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Bluetooth 5.1, available to developers today, includes a feature that allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal  —  Bluetooth is already a key feature in billions of connected devices, serving as a wire-free way of transferring data over short distances.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook shares draft proposal describing how its new content review board could work, suggesting it have 40 diverse members, none of whom are Facebook staff  —  In November, Facebook announced a new plan that would revamp how the company makes content policy decisions on its social network …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Kite raises a $17M Series A led by Trinity Ventures for its Python IDE that uses AI to suggest code snippets in real time  —  Kite, which suggests code snippets for Python developers in real time, has raised $17 million in a series A round led by Trinity Ventures.
More: FinSMEs and TechCrunch.  Tweets: @epro
Kif Leswing / Business Insider:
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at seven public locations like malls in US, Canada, and Asia, raises $68M Series A to expand to new locations  —  - Sandbox VR makes virtual-reality experiences combining off-the-shelf hardware, green screens, and custom content.
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Nvidia lowers revenue guidance from $2.7B to $2.2B for Q4 2019 due to “deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China”; stock closes down 13%+  —  - The company reports earnings on Feb. 14, and now expects quarterly revenue of $2.20 billion, down from previously stated guidance of $2.70 billion.

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From Mediagazer

Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: BBC News will announce hundreds of job cuts next week, in the first part of a broader plan to cut ~10% of costs and ~2,000 jobs across BBC departments

Max Tani / Semafor:
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates

More News

Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
As “deepfake” videos become more common and convincing, the tech will give cover to those dismissing real events as fake; DARPA researches ways to detect fakes
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
References are found in iOS 12.2 to four new iPad models without FaceID, two of which are WiFi-only, and a new iPod Touch without FaceID or TouchID

Earlier Picks

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Testing GDPR's “Right of Access”, a reporter received 138GB of raw personal data from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, much of which was very hard to parse
More: CSO, AdExchanger, iMore, and 9to5Mac
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