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Ju-min Park / Reuters: Samsung says it will issue a patch for a fingerprint recognition bug on its Galaxy S10 phone that allowed any fingerprint to unlock the phone -
New York Times: Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads -
Chris Fox / BBC: Google confirms the Pixel 4's Face Unlock can allow access to users' devices even if their eyes are closed — Google has confirmed the Pixel 4 smartphone's Face Unlock system … -
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Interview with Google execs about Project Soli, the tech behind Pixel 4's Motion Sense radar, and why they think gesture-sensing is not just a gimmick -
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Report: Airbnb doubled Q1 losses YoY to $306M, with revenue growing 31% YoY to $839M, as it prepares for an IPO in 2020; Source: Airbnb has $3B+ in cash -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: US, UK, and South Korea dismantle one of the largest child exploitation dark web sites, with 200K unique videos; over three dozen people have been arrested -
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: DOJ officials say they tracked the owner and users of the dark web child-porn site Welcome to Video by working with Chainalysis to trace bitcoin transactions -
Yogita Khatri / The Block: Privacy focused browser Brave says it now has 8M MAU and 2.8M DAU — Privacy-focused internet browser Brave has hit 8 million-mark in terms of monthly active users. -
Reuters: Startup founders in Mexico say they shun publicity due to extortion fears, holding back country's tech sector; Mexico drew only $175M in venture capital in 2018 -
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft announces two new open-source projects, Open Application Model and Dapr, to make it easier for developers to build cloud, edge, and Kubernetes apps -
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: The Information to launch a tech news app, Ticker, later this fall, costing $29/year and including summaries of the day's tech headlines and an event calendar -
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max review: the Pro and Pro Max models are worthwhile generational upgrades, but the regular iPhone 11 is not very impressive -
Nat Levy / GeekWire: Microsoft spent $9.1B, led by $7.5B GitHub deal, on 20 acquisitions in FY 2019, making it the company's third-biggest year for acquisitions since 2003 -
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Google says Chrome 77 for Android enables Site Isolation security feature on pages where users log in with a password, adds additional protections on desktop -
Tony Romm / Washington Post: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to launch a $10M “anti-monopoly fund” to explore antitrust actions, support research and advocacy projects across industries -
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Graphic design app Canva raises $85M led by Mary Meeker's VC firm Bond Capital at a valuation of $3.2B, five months after raising $70M at a $2.5B valuation -
Wall Street Journal: Analysis of 168,907 tweets at Daryl Morey following his Oct. 4 pro-HK tweet: ~50% came from accounts with 0-13 followers, 4,855 users had never tweeted -
Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Equity management platform Carta, formerly eShares, says it has hired a 51-member team from Kik as part of an expansion into Canada