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October 6, 2018, 2:00 AM
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting  —  Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
Apple:
Apple says it has never found malicious chips in its servers, calls Bloomberg reporters' claims unsubstantiated and untrue, says it is not under a gag order
Bloomberg:
Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese government issue statements disputing the allegations of Bloomberg Businessweek's hacking story
Bloomberg:
Sources: Chinese spies inserted tiny chips onto products from US-based motherboard giant Supermicro to infiltrate ~30 US companies including Amazon and Apple
Axios:
Source: in a company-wide Facebook town hall, Joel Kaplan said he should have talked to Zuckerberg and Sandberg before attending Kavanaugh hearings  —  Top Facebook executive Joel Kaplan made an emotional appearance at a companywide town hall Friday, and admitted that he should have consulted …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources describe the internal turmoil at Facebook following Joel Kaplan's appearance in support of Brett Kavanaugh during his testimony to Congress last week
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Elastic, a search and data analytics startup, closes up 94.4% on its first day of trading after raising $252M in its IPO and is now valued at about $4.8B  —  - The company offers its technology through cloud providers such as Amazon, but Amazon also represents competition.
Venkat / Techdows:
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update from download page  —  Seems Microsoft has pulled the plug on Download Windows 10 website, they've removed October 2018 update download information from the page without any announcement and now showing ‘Windows 10 April 2018 Update now available’ message.
More: Windows Blog and ZDNet.  Thanks:@techdows
BuzzFeed News:
How a Quebec IT engineer got swept up in the crypto craze and started a multimillion ponzi scheme, defrauding dozens of people after his mining strategy failed  —  A Quebec IT worker was certain he'd developed a foolproof way to mine bitcoin.  Instead, it led him and his investors to ruin.
Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT:
Sources: Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home  —  Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home.  The retailer has instructed potential suppliers …
Tweets: @leeratliff
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:
Amazon says it has fired an employee for sharing users' email addresses with a third-party seller, is working with law enforcement, informing affected customers  —  An Amazon employee was fired after sharing customers' email addresses with an unnamed third-party seller, in violation of company policies, Amazon said.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook confirms Messenger is testing voice features to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders, as the app's Android code shows  —  Facebook Messenger could soon let you user your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders.
Srividya Kalyanaraman / BostInno:
Randori, a Boston-based startup that claims to have “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform” to test corporate networks, raises $9.75M seed round  —  Randori, a startup that claims to be the “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform,” …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: UFC is looking to get more than $1B a year from its next media-rights deal, more than double its current ESPN contract, which goes through 2025's end

John Micklethwait / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nexstar's NewsNation and 63 of its stations go dark on Altice cable systems amid a carriage dispute; Altice says Nexstar rejected an interim contract extension

More News

Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal:
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to other tech startups, raises $125M Series C led by DST Global and Greenoaks, at a valuation of $1.1B
More: PYMNTS.com.  Tweets: @flyosity, @mdudas, @mims, @rudegeair, and @dmitry140.  Thanks:@rafie517
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
A look at the Internet Bill of Rights, framed by a Democrat on request by Nancy Pelosi, for how tech and telecom companies should treat Americans online
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study: 80%+ of the Twitter accounts that spread false info during 2016 election are still active, continue to push more than a million tweets per day

Earlier Picks

Steven Musil / CNET:
Samsung forecasts record Q3 operating profit of ~$15.8B, up 20% YoY, and revenue of ~$57.3B, up 5% YoY, on continued strong demand for its memory chips
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Leaked documents show Macs with T2 chips must pass Apple diagnostics, which is limited to internal use by Apple, or be rendered nonfunctional after repair
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Spotify says it is beta testing Spotify for Podcasters, a program to give any podcaster the ability to syndicate their show via the music service
BBC:
US DOJ indicts seven GRU officers with charges relating to cyberattacks on the global chemical weapons watchdog, anti-doping agencies, and a US nuclear company
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