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September 16, 2018, 9:55 AM

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
NY regulator has sued the US government for usurping state powers over its decision to award national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision …
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Let's Encrypt has issued 380M+ free TLS certificates on 129M unique domains in three years since launch, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world  —  Bon anniversaire, Let's Encrypt!  —  The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Molly Taft / The Outline:
Inside the paid courses where deactivated NYC Uber drivers try to learn how to get back in, while critics say tutors are squeezing yet another fee from drivers  —  One of the only ways for drivers whose rating falls below about 4.5 stars to get reinstated is to take a class, where they get a side of labor organizing.
NASDAQ.com:
SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation  —  SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
After receiving “increased level of interest”, DOJ has invited a bipartisan group of 24 state AGs to upcoming meeting on alleged speech stifling by tech firms  —  Late-September meeting, announced last week, to focus on antitrust issues and stifling of conservative speech
Jason M. Bailey / New York Times:
Esports companies like Blizzard are growing by replicating traditional sports leagues like NBA that are structured around local franchises and fanfare  —  Jay Goldthwaite had never felt passion for a Boston sports team, no matter how often his neighbors' cheers pierced the walls …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
An in-depth review of Android 9 Pie, which comes with a lot of useful user-facing changes and, maybe, improved battery life, but the gestures remain a mess  —  The time has come for our annual deep dive (~19,000 words) into the latest Android release.  —  It's time for another big Android release …
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