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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, who is at the center of a debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley, as he tries to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy — The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.

More: CNBC, The Verge, and Business Insider

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app — Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.

More: Social Media Today, Marketing Land, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget. Tweets: @twitter

Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers — Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …

More: Engadget, The Verge, BGR, Gizmodo, CNET, Beyond Search, Neowin, Fortune, Android Police, and Slashdot

Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @matthewstoller, @theintercept, and @jamwil

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News:

Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some engineers with up to 11 years tenure, is circulating inside Google

More: Pocketnow, Axios, Fortune, MSPoweruser, BGR, CNET, The Intercept, The Hill, AndroidHeadlines.com, Reuters, Firstpost, 9to5Google, and TechNode

Tweets: @matthewstoller, @theintercept, @theintercept, @rj_gallagher, @natashakhanhk, @wonkvj, @buzzfeednews, and @ceodonovan

Brady Dale / CoinDesk:

After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …

More: Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Anycoin.news, NewsBTC, NullTX, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @tezosfoundation

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

NY regulator has sued the US government for usurping state powers over its decision to award national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision …

More: PYMNTS.com

Molly Taft / The Outline:

Inside the paid courses where deactivated NYC Uber drivers try to learn how to get back in, while critics say tutors are squeezing yet another fee from drivers — One of the only ways for drivers whose rating falls below about 4.5 stars to get reinstated is to take a class, where they get a side of labor organizing.

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Let's Encrypt has issued 380M+ free TLS certificates on 129M unique domains in three years since launch, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world — Bon anniversaire, Let's Encrypt! — The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation …

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:

After receiving “increased level of interest”, DOJ has invited a bipartisan group of 24 state AGs to upcoming meeting on alleged speech stifling by tech firms — Late-September meeting, announced last week, to focus on antitrust issues and stifling of conservative speech

Jason M. Bailey / New York Times:

Esports companies like Blizzard are growing by replicating traditional sports leagues like NBA that are structured around local franchises and fanfare — Jay Goldthwaite had never felt passion for a Boston sports team, no matter how often his neighbors' cheers pierced the walls …

Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle:

Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city's limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere

Tweets: @owenthomas

NASDAQ.com:

SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation — SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.

Sean Hollister / CNET:

Apple responds to viral customer complaint about deleting movies from his iTunes library, says it does not delete movies that users have already downloaded — Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this: — “Apple's ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies …

More: TorrentFreak, Cult of Mac, and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @bunnycartoon. Thanks:@starfire2258

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