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August 23, 2018, 7:40 PM

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google says it removed 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs and 13 Google+ accounts tied to a misinformation campaign by Iran state media with help from FireEye  —  Google has uncovered a misinformation attack across several of its properties that it has connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting …
Motherboard:
Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages  —  Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge.
Raymond Zhong / New York Times:
Huawei says the Australian government has barred it and ZTE from providing 5G equipment to support the country's new telecom networks  —  BEIJING — The fog of cyberespionage concerns surrounding Huawei has for years kept the Chinese technology giant largely out of the United States.
iFixit:
Magic Leap One teardown shows the six-layer “waveguide” display used for projection and other internals, like 8GB RAM and 128GB storage  —  Tools Featured in this Teardown  —  Introduction  —  The Magic Leap One's mixed-reality tech has been so much pie in the sky for so long …
Joshua Goldman / CNET:
DJI launches $1,449 Mavic 2 Pro drone with an embedded Hasselblad camera and $1,249 Mavic 2 Zoom with 2x optical zoom, available today  —  DJI's bringing the Mavic Pro back, and it has a friend.  —  The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, accidentally revealed in July, are now official.
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk:
The SEC says it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETF proposals from ProShares, GraniteShares, and Direxion, which have been stayed  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETFs issued on Wednesday.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Sony says it will bring its new dog-like robot Aibo to the US in September for $2,899, including accessories and a three-year subscription to Sony's AI Cloud  —  We got a brief glimpse at Sony's sixth-generation Aibo back at CES — but we couldn't touch it, no matter how adorable it looked …
New York Times:
A look at how FireEye helped Facebook identify Iran-linked fake accounts, after working on the DNC hack in 2016  —  SAN FRANCISCO — FireEye, a cybersecurity company that has been involved in a number of prominent investigations, including the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee …
Catherine Cadell / Reuters:
Alibaba's Q1 revenue beats estimates, rising 61% YoY to ~$12.2B, but net income falls 41% YoY to ~$1.27B  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest online retailer, said on Thursday first-quarter revenue rose 61 percent, beating analysts' estimates, driven by growth in its core e-commerce business.

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