• Juli Clover / MacRumors: Ahead of the planned September 19 release date, Apple Arcade is rolling out to users running beta versions of iOS 13 or iOS 13.1, with 50+ games to play

• Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Apple Arcade is a no brainer at $4.99/mo., with a strong selection of exclusives and a model that lets devs focus on fun instead of extracting money from users

• Joseph Cox / VICE: Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein

• Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers

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• Yahoo News: Sources: Obama's move in 2016 to expel dozens of Russian diplomats and seize estates was in part due to a brazen Russian operation to breach FBI communications

• Reuters: Sources: Match Group's Tinder has finished filming its first TV series; spokesperson says making shows is part of a larger strategy to be revealed soon

• Ry Crist / CNET: The Wi-Fi Alliance launches the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program for devices using next-gen 802.11ax Wi-Fi radios, expected to be up to 40% faster than Wi-Fi 5

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• Chris Welch / The Verge: Google announces a hardware event on October 15 in NYC, where it's expected to announce the Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixelbook 2, and new Google Home speakers

• Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites   —  LastPass has released a fix last week.

• Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Personal information of most of Ecuador's population, including 6.7M children, left exposed online with home addresses, phone numbers, work information, more

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• Tina Bellon / Reuters: To comply with NYC regulations, Uber will start locking out drivers from its app at times and in areas of low demand in the city, from Tuesday

• Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank Vision Fund backers Saudi Arabia's PIF and UAE's Mubadala are reconsidering how much to commit to Vision Fund II as a big bet on WeWork sours

• 15 minutes ago Song Jingli / KrASIA: Hong Kong-based AutoX, which recently announced plans to roll out 100 robotaxis in Shanghai by early 2020, has closed $100M Series A from Alibaba and others

• 35 minutes ago Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Crisp, which helps food brands reduce food waste by analyzing data from sources such as inventory databases and POS systems, raises $14.2M Series A

• 80 minutes ago Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites   —  LastPass has released a fix last week.

• 2½ hours ago Joseph Cox / VICE: Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein

• 3½ hours ago Privacy International: The High Court of South Africa rules that bulk surveillance is unlawful, in case brought after a reporter found his phone communications were recorded in 2008

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• 4½ hours ago Tina Bellon / Reuters: To comply with NYC regulations, Uber will start locking out drivers from its app at times and in areas of low demand in the city, from Tuesday

• 5 hours ago Bloomberg: China is struggling to rein in its citizens' appetite for online gambling, which is fueling an online casino boom in the Philippines and Cambodia

• 6 hours ago Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Apple Arcade is a no brainer at $4.99/mo., with a strong selection of exclusives and a model that lets devs focus on fun instead of extracting money from users

• 6 hours ago Reuters: Sources: Match Group's Tinder has finished filming its first TV series; spokesperson says making shows is part of a larger strategy to be revealed soon

• 9 hours ago Yahoo News: Sources: Obama's move in 2016 to expel dozens of Russian diplomats and seize estates was in part due to a brazen Russian operation to breach FBI communications

• 10 hours ago Juli Clover / MacRumors: Ahead of the planned September 19 release date, Apple Arcade is rolling out to users running beta versions of iOS 13 or iOS 13.1, with 50+ games to play

• 10 hours ago Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook rolls out Instagram and IGTV content scheduling for up to 6 months in advance, and new video tools for live video, Watch Party, and Creator Studio

• 10 hours ago Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank Vision Fund backers Saudi Arabia's PIF and UAE's Mubadala are reconsidering how much to commit to Vision Fund II as a big bet on WeWork sours

• 11 hours ago Kerry Flynn / CNN: Following Twitter and Facebook, Snapchat launches a library of political ads on its platform globally from 2018 and 2019, available as downloadable spreadsheets

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• 11 hours ago Chris Welch / The Verge: Google announces a hardware event on October 15 in NYC, where it's expected to announce the Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixelbook 2, and new Google Home speakers

• 12 hours ago Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers

• 13 hours ago Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: Qualcomm to buy TDK's remaining interest in RF360 Holdings, a joint venture focused on RF front-end, paying $3.1B total, a sum that includes earlier payments

• 13 hours ago CBC News: Facebook says it is planning changes to tool allowing advertisers to rewrite news story headlines after UK's Conservative party altered a BBC headline in an ad