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August 11, 2019, 12:30 AM

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Emine Saner / The Guardian:

Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five — As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper

Tweets: @brianmcc, @hshaban, @caseynewton, @hshaban, and @timmaughan

Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers:

Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15 — Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch its own smart screen product.

More: Engadget, NDTV Gadgets 360, Wccftech, Neowin, Android Authority, Firstpost Tech, The Verge, Gizchina, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Gizmochina, and 9to5Google

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS

More: 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Wired, CNBC, Financial Times, CNET, Fossbytes, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, ExtremeTech, BGR, Bloomberg, Tech.co, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, China Money Network, Digital Trends, Axios, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, MacDailyNews, Mashable, South China Morning Post, Android Authority, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, Android Police, The Next Web, Fast Company, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Android Police, Neowin, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Inquirer, Patently Apple, Firstpost Tech, MSPoweruser, Gizmochina, Android Beat, CNET, and Seeking Alpha

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April Glaser / Slate:

There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical — Palantir is about a 15-minute walk from Stanford University. That stone's-throw convenience helped one morning in June when a group of Stanford students perched …

Tweets: @dhh, @mikeisaac, @ethanz, @ross, and @aprilaser

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:

Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …

More: Business Wire, CNBC, Z6 Mag, CFO, Marketing Dive, Footwear News, Fashion news …, ZDNet, Bloomberg, and AdExchanger

The Block:

China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture — Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists …

More: Messari Crypto. Tweets: @xrpcryptowolf and @theblock__

Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:

The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.

More: Benzinga, Finance Magnates, and FXTimes.com

Telegram:

Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more — The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.

More: TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, and Neowin

Tweets: @telegrambeta and @telegram

April Glaser / Slate:

Telegram has become a haven for white supremacists, violent men's groups, anti-PC agitators, and others who fear alleged censorship by big tech companies — The alleged shooter's manifesto was everywhere in the hours after the El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting on Saturday.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @dgolumbia, @carnage4life, @frankpasquale, @levynews, @libshipwreck, @maasalan, and @aprilaser

Nick Heath / ZDNet:

Interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum on Python's creation in the 1980s, its evolution, draw for developers, and future — Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

Tweets: @common_kelly, @dtunkelang, @pumpichank, @counternotions, @jbardram, @callysto_canada, and @techrepublic

Kate Clark / TechCrunch:

Squad, an eight-month-old video chat and screen sharing app making a safe space for its 450K users, raises a $5M seed round; 70% of its users are teenage girls — Why CEO Esther Crawford is rewriting the playbook for social startups — When we go online to communicate, hang out or play …

More: Crunchbase News and FinSMEs

Tweets: @runvc and @kateclarktweets

Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic:

Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships — What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. — Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step?

Tweets: @theatlantic

Zubair Naeem Paracha / MENAbytes:

Jollychic, a Chinese ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East, raises $65M Series C2; a Series C round a year ago valued the startup at $1B+ — Jollychic, a Chinese cross-border ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East has recently closed it's Series C+ (Series C-2) round …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Sara Fischer / Axios:

60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

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Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

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Stephanie Palmer-Derrien / SmartCompany:

Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based order management software for retail clients like Target in 11 markets globally, raises $22.4M Series B

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital publishers, raises $33M, bringing its total raised to nearly $40M

Sheri Fink / New York Times:

Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities

Tweets: @random_walker, @nytimes, @jimmyjwu, @robreich, @jswatz, @kellyhereid, @kellyhereid, and @kellyhereid

Joel Stein / Bloomberg:

A reporter describes trying to regain privacy by hiding from Silicon Valley using a slew of location-altering, signal silencing, face-masking gadgets

More: Politico. Tweets: @jenbotjones, @noahpinion, and @thejoelstein

Brianna Wu / Washington Post:

Video games don't cause violence, but toxic gamer culture, which has become a fertile recruitment ground for white supremacists and misogynists, does

More: Yahoo Finance, The Verge, and ZDNet

Tweets: @gerrymcgovern, @briannawu, @iansherr, and @briannawu

Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:

8chan users who are migrating to 08chan, an unofficial site hosted on ZeroNet, inadvertently lose anonymity because the P2P network exposes users' IP address

More: The Daily Beast, The Guardian, BBC, Media Matters for America, and Modern Consensus

Tweets: @thedailybeast, @soychicka, @kpoulsen, @noahshachtman, and @maxkennerly

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker

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Krystal Hu / Yahoo Finance:

Uber imposes hiring freeze on engineering teams in the US and Canada, canceling scheduled interviews with job applicants this week

More: Ars Technica and Bloomberg

Tweets: @carnage4life and @readkrystalhu

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Researcher finds hundreds of exposed AWS EBS snapshots leaking sensitive customer data, like VPN configurations, passwords, and in some cases government data

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @nixcraft, @b_fung, @kennwhite, @kennwhite, and @venturewised

Ina Fried / Axios:

AMD CEO talks about plans to quickly ramp up production of EPYC server chips, launched this week, and sustaining the advantage created by Intel's stumbles

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Brian Fung / CNN:

Sources: Trump's draft executive order calls for new FCC regulations narrowing CDA Section 230 protections for social media platforms when they suppress content