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Song Jingli / KrASIA: 20 mins ago

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

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: 40 mins ago

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

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: 85 mins ago

LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites

Joseph Cox / VICE: 2½ hours ago

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites

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

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:

Personal information of most of Ecuador's population, including 6.7M children, left exposed online with home addresses, phone numbers, work information, more

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

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

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