• Sameer Samat / The Keyword: Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color

• Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light, new iPads, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro next month

• Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters   —  KEY POINTS

• Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google's Chrome team proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track users across the web

• Wall Street Journal: Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook

• ProPublica: Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board

• Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect

• Jordan Novet / CNBC: VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B   —  KEY POINTS  — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black …

• Sponsor Post Smartsheet: Gartner research vice president Mike Gotta to present at Smartsheet ENGAGE   —  Gotta will discuss why collaborative work management is increasingly essential for business at Smartsheet's annual customer conference Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Seattle.

• CNBC: Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election

• Tony Romm / Washington Post: AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls

• Nick Statt / The Verge: DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board

• Lauren Feiner / CNBC: HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1

• Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess

• Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus   —  KEY POINTS

• Sponsor Post Google Fi: Google Fi - a phone plan, by Google   —  We felt that most phone plans just weren't made with you in mind.  So that's why we built Google Fi with features that real people actually want.  Click to learn more.

• Joseph Cox / VICE: Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation

• 30 minutes ago Alison Frankel / Reuters: Oracle board committee recommends court to proceed with the shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9.3B NetSuite acquisition in 2016

• Nitasha Tiku / Wired: Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace

• Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods

• Facebook Technology: A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible

• Washington Post: Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE

• Sponsor Post Ingram Micro: Apply for the World's Largest Startup Competition   —  B2B ISVs are encouraged to apply for the Comet Competition ahead of the September 30 deadline, with top prize of $1M made possible by Ingram Micro.

• Brian Fung / CNN: Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship

• Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon buys 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, and would give Amazon 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail

• Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012

• BBC: Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations

• 10 minutes ago Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: As Microsoft moves Lynda.com users to LinkedIn Learning, libraries protest the requirement for patrons to create a LinkedIn profile, citing privacy concerns

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• 10 minutes ago Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: As Microsoft moves Lynda.com users to LinkedIn Learning, libraries protest the requirement for patrons to create a LinkedIn profile, citing privacy concerns

• 30 minutes ago Alison Frankel / Reuters: Oracle board committee recommends court to proceed with the shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9.3B NetSuite acquisition in 2016

• 88 minutes ago Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon buys 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, and would give Amazon 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail

• 3 hours ago Lauren Feiner / CNBC: HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1   —  KEY POINTS

• 3 hours ago Joseph Cox / VICE: Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation

• Sponsor Post Smartsheet: Gartner research vice president Mike Gotta to present at Smartsheet ENGAGE   —  Gotta will discuss why collaborative work management is increasingly essential for business at Smartsheet's annual customer conference Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Seattle.

• 3½ hours ago BBC: Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations

• 4 hours ago Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters   —  KEY POINTS

• 4 hours ago Nick Statt / The Verge: DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board

• 4½ hours ago Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012

• 5 hours ago Jordan Novet / CNBC: VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B   —  KEY POINTS  — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black, a cybersecurity company …

• 5 hours ago CNBC: Salesforce beats with Q2 revenue of $4B, up 22% YoY, vs. $3.95B est. and Sales Cloud revenue of $1.13B, up 13% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours   —  KEY POINTS

• 6 hours ago Nitasha Tiku / Wired: Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace

• 6 hours ago Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods

• 7 hours ago Brian Fung / CNN: Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship

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• 7 hours ago Wall Street Journal: Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook

• 7 hours ago Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Valve patches recent Steam 0-days, calls turning away researcher who found them “a mistake”, and updates bug bounty program to start accepting “LPE"-class bugs

• 8 hours ago Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Despite a legally mandated ban enacted last year, ~2,000 Chinese surveillance cameras from Hikvision and Dahua remain active in US government networks

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