Techmeme: Sources: SoftBank plans to lend up to $20B to its employees to buy stakes in its second VC fund, with Masayoshi Son accounting for more than half of the amount (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: the US Department of Commerce to extend Huawei's license to buy US goods, which expires on August 19, by another 90 days — SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm …

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, Android Police, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Hill, MSPoweruser, and Slashdot

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

How US-based companies are moving manufacturing out of mainland China while their Chinese counterparts are “de-Americanizing” their supply chains — - Electronics makers shift from China to side-step Trump tariffs — Tech giants like Huawei are ‘de-Americanizing’ supply chains

Tweets: @noahpinion

Thomas Ricker / The Verge:

Ikea says it is creating a new business unit, Ikea Home smart, with end-to-end responsibility for its portfolio of smart devices — ‘We are just getting started’ — Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue.

More: TechCrunch, Inter IKEA Group, and Engadget

Tweets: @ow, @beirutspring, and @aram

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Apple's WebKit announces strict anti-tracking policy to prevent covert tracking and all cross-site tracking, credits Mozilla's policy for inspiring its approach — WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple's Safari browser, has announced …

More: WebKit, The Next Web, AppleInsider, The Register, PCMag, Engadget, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, Fast Company, BetaNews, iMore, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and BleepingComputer

Tweets: @lukolejnik, @carnage4life, @lukolejnik, @jyasskin, @kurtopsahl, @webkit, @marcosc, @firefox, @adguard, @lukolejnik, and @bradeeoh

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: SoftBank plans to lend up to $20B to its employees to buy stakes in its second VC fund, with Masayoshi Son accounting for more than half of the amount — Unusual setup doubly exposes the Japanese company to a startup economy that is starting to show cracks

More: TechCrunch and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @edgecgroup, @josephjcabral, @bauhiniacapital, @gassee, @woganmay, @bryce, @r0h1n, @seldo, @shiraovide, and @chudson

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

By not providing Siri users with clear control over how their data is used, Apple is at odds with the privacy doctrine that it preaches on billboards — I pooh-poohed this story at first, mostly on the grounds that I thought we knew about this, and that the recordings were only saved from users who had consented to it.

Tweets: @funnymonkey, @ia, @carnage4life, @scramblesuited, and @panzer

Ari Levy / CNBC:

A look at donations by major tech execs to 2020 presidential candidates, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders notably absent from the list of recipients — KEY POINTS — LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has donated money to four Democratic primary candidates, while Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has provided money to three.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who says the company is now working with 4,500 AI startups, compared to 2,000 in April, 2017 — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proudly proclaimed on an analyst earnings call this week that artificial intelligence is the “single most powerful force of our time.”

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Facebook has built a static analysis platform, dubbed Zoncolan, that can scan Facebook's 100M lines of code in under 30 minutes to help catch bugs — FACEBOOK DOESN'T HAVE the most stellar privacy and security track record, especially given that many of its notable gaffes were avoidable.

Tweets: @trustedsec, @wired, and @wired

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:

Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator — Bakkt has been cleared to launch. — The Intercontinental Exchange's young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired …

More: Medium, Trustnodes, Department of Financial …, Hacked, Blockonomi, The Daily Hodl, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, CCN Markets, and The Block

Tweets: @coindesk, @jchervinsky, @reformedbroker, and @xrpcryptowolf

Luke Winkie / VentureBeat:

How cities like Katowice in Poland, Hangzhou in China, and Frisco, Texas are embracing esports tournaments in a bid to revive their economies — For centuries, Katowice was a mining town. The first settlers were craftsmen in the 18th century, who arrived in the lowlands of Southern Poland …

Duncan Leatherdale / BBC:

A look at What3words, a location sharing app that divides the world into 57 trillion three meter squares, and assigns them a unique, random three-word address — Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is it and how does it work?

More: The Mac Observer, ResearchBuzz, and The Overspill. Tweets: @jonrog1

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