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Facebook wants to buy some cybersecurity, Washington wants to know what Silicon Valley will do for its country, Fred Wilson wants you to ask yourself if your investors are bad actors, and stealing a Tesla by hacking the entry fob.

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Facebook on Hunt for Big Cybersecurity Acquisition (The Information)

Who Are My Investors? (AVC)

Thieves steal a Tesla Model S by hacking the entry fob (Engadget)

A tech executive's video of his Tesla Model S being hacked and stolen is going viral (Business Insider)

Video of the Tesla theft

Google Home Hub review (CNET)

Google Home Hub review—Awesome hardware for Google’s nascent smart display software (Ars Technica)

Google Home Hub Review: At the intersection of useful and just plain cute [Video] (9to5Google)

Google Home Hub review: A more personal smart display (Engadget)

Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

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Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times)

Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)

Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News)

Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank's. (New York Times)

Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (The Verge)

Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? (Wired)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times)

How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulture/New York Magazine)

Drone Journalism's Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review)

Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired)

The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker)

Spotify Premium gets a spit shine, Facebook think it knows who was behind that big hack, why everyone and their mother has a subscription box service, and an Apple event in Brooklyn!

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Spotify Premium gets personalized artist radio stations and better search (The Verge)

Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (Tech Crunch)

Facebook Finds Hack Was Done by Spammers, Not Foreign State (WSJ)

Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff (Bloomberg)

Inside the $2.6 billion subscription box wars (Fast Company)

Beddr’s SleepTuner is a powerful standalone alternative to Apple Watch sleep tracking (9to5Mac)

Google bows to the EU’s demands, the biggest thing to happen to Github since the pull request, video game cheaters are getting sued, and Facebook brings back MTV’s The Real World. 

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Google will start charging Android device makers a fee for using its apps in Europe (The Verge)

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (Github)

Fortnite, GTA V hackers face legal action for online cheating (Ars Technica)

It turns out that Facebook could in fact use data collected from its Portal in-home video device to target you with ads (Recode)

MTV is bringing back 'The Real World' for Facebook Watch, and will let the audience vote on the direction of the show (Business Insider)

Uber’s targeting a blockbuster IPO valuation, cops told to stop looking at iPhones, the Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath, the Pixel reviews are in, and remembering Paul Allen.Sponsors:DatadogHQ.com/RideHomeTiny.website99designs.com/techmeme Links:Uber Proposals Value Company at $120 Billion in a Possible IPO (WSJ)Cops Told ‘Don’t Look’ at New iPhones to Avoid Face ID Lock-Out (Motherboard)The Kindle Paperwhite is ready for the bath (Engadget)Google Pixel 3 review: improving on incredible (Charged)GOOGLE PIXEL 3 AND 3 XL REVIEW: THE BEST CAMERA GETS A BETTER PHONE (The Verge)The Google Pixel 3 XL review (TechCrunch)Google Pixel 3 Review: The Other Way to Make a Killer Phone (Gizmodo)Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 (NyTimes)

The future of Photoshop is here today, Palm is back to bring us a tiny phone, Apple makes another acquisition, and why we’re doomed to a future of genetic surveillance.

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FINALLY: REAL PHOTOSHOP ON THE IPAD (The Verge)

Adobe launches new AR and drawing tools (TechCrunch)

Adobe launches Premiere Rush, a cross-platform video editor (Venture Beat)

Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii (Axios)

THE NEW PALM IS A TINY PHONE TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM YOUR PHONE (The Verge)

GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE’S DNA IS ANONYMOUS ANYMORE (Wired)

Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed (The Guardian)

Tweetstorm about Google+ from @morganknutson

Facebook announces the results of their investigation into that data breach, the market downturn is biting some tech companies, has Spotify ruined music, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

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An Update on the Security Issue (Facebook)

Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch)

Tencent Music Pauses IPO Amid Market Turmoil (WSJ)

FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here's how much each one is on sale (Business Insider)

Tesla sets deadline on new orders to get delivery and full tax credit by end of the year (Electrek)

Who Needs German Engineering? Tesla Outsells Mercedes-Benz For The First Time—And Has a Plan to Pass BMW Too (Fortune)

Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music? (The Guardian)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

This Is How Amazon Loses (NewCo Shift)

The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic)

Alexa, Should We Trust You? (The Atlantic)

Fear and loathing in venture capital (Max Niederhofer)

The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (WSJ)

Facebook cracks down again, ahead of the election, Apple make some interesting acquisitions, how many cameras does a smartphone need, and Dieter Rams just wants Silicon Valley to slow down.

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Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit (The Washington Post)

Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe (TechCrunch)

Apple buys machine learning AR firm specializing in mixed realities (Apple Insider)

Samsung’s Galaxy A9 is the first quad camera phone (Engadget)

Samsung hopes these four cameras will save its mid-range phone lineup (The Verge)

Gartner: Microsoft passes Acer to become top 5 PC vendor in the U.S. (Venture Beat)

Apple plans to give away original content for free to device owners as part of new digital TV strategy (CNBC)

Coinbase's Active Customers Drop 80% in Crypto Slump, Study Says (Bloomberg)

Plan to Fix Journalism With Cryptocurrency Draws Skepticism (WSJ)

Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop (Fast Company)

Windows needed a do-over, Snapchat hopes its Originals will give it one too, Minecraft abandons Apple TV, and Andy Rubin can’t quit smartphones. 

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Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update after fixing file deletion bug (The Verge)

Snapchat becomes the mobile HBO with 12 daily scripted Original shows (TechCrunch)

Snap Is ‘Quickly Running Out of Money,’ Analyst Says (Bloomberg)

Google Photos adds automated sharing through ‘Live Albums,’ which can stream to Home Hub (TechCrunch)

Apple's dream of making the Apple TV a gaming console just took a major hit (Business Insider)

A China Veggie-Selling App May Be Worth $7 billion (Bloomberg)

Android Creator Is Building an AI Phone That Texts People for You (Bloomberg)

AT&T will launch a Netflix rival next year (CNBC)

Where the next 10 million miles will take us (Waymo)

The big Made By Google event, follow up on that Google+ bug, WeChat is willing to debunk rumors for you and Saudi Arabia doubles down on Masa Son.

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First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge)

Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac)

Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery)

Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)

Some advertisers are moving half of their search budget from Google to Amazon, say ad industry sources (CNBC)

How China's biggest social network fights fake news (Abacus)

Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on SoftBank Bet With Extra $45 Billion (Bloomberg)