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August 27, 2019, 9:10 AM

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …

More: Business Insider, The Guardian, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, BGR, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Geek.com, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost Tech, Gizmodo, Mashable, and Engadget

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …

More: The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, Inquirer, BetaNews, Voicebot, and Neowin

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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:

Deep dive on the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy — In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.

More: Monday Note, The Mac Observer, and Business Insider

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:

Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.

Yogita Khatri / The Block:

Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it's done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers' licenses …

More: Eidgenössische …, Coinspeaker, CoinGeek, CoinDesk, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto

Tweets: @rogerdarin and @mdudas

Emily Baumgaertner / Los Angeles Times:

Source: DHS exposed sensitive data from a bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website for over a decade, despite warnings, before being secured in May — The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation's bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website …

More: Bloomberg, Mashable, and Gizmodo UK

Tweets: @latimes, @latimes, @emily_baum, and @emily_baum

Christopher Bing / Reuters:

Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments, US officials fear similar attacks on election databases; CISA to launch a program to help secure them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to launch a program in roughly one month that narrowly focuses …

More: The Next Web, Engadget, and Boing Boing. Tweets: @michikokakutani

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Axonius, which helps companies keep track of their enterprise assets like clouds, computers, and devices, on their network, raises $20M Series B led by OpenView — Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius has raised $20 million in its second round of funding this year.

More: VentureBeat

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Sensor Tower: daily US downloads required to reach No. 1 on the App Store Top Charts for non-game apps is 94K, down ~30% since 2016, but 174K for games, up ~47% — With the App Store's big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers' attention away from the Top Charts and more toward editorial content.

More: The Mac Observer

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

VMware unveils Tanzu, a new set of Kubernetes services to help enterprises manage virtual machines and containers in a single view — At VMworld today in San Francisco, VMware introduced a new set of services for managing virtual machines and containers in a single view.

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @cote

Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware:

GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …

More: New York Times, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Softpedia News, Nikkei Asian Review, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, PC Gamer, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, and Silicon Valley Business …

Tweets: @nytimes, @nytimestech, and @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:

VMware announces updates to its digital workspace platform, Workspace One, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant powered in partnership with IBM Watson — VMware is also updating the digital workplace platform with expanded endpoint management services, new multi-cloud support …

More: The Register

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Washington Post:

More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM

Wall Street Journal:

The US DHS says it is considering taking part in a reality show where immigrants compete for US citizenship, an idea that was pitched by producer Rob Worsoff

Advanced Television:

Dailymotion acquires Archery, the company that develops Mojo, an AI-assisted video creation and editing app, which has been downloaded 50M+ times

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Financial Times:

Despite Japan's reputation as a tech powerhouse, it only has three unicorns, compared to 192 in the US, 96 in China, and 20 in the UK, according to CB Insights

Tweets: @trevornoren, @psb_dc, @yaromir, @financialtimes, and @cint

South China Morning Post:

Tencent has teamed up with Chinese carmaker Changan to roll out a voice-operated version of WeChat for use in vehicles and to develop a connected car system

More: Reuters and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @zainmotani

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Hackers seen attacking enterprise networks' Webmin servers and VPN services by Pulse Secure and Fortinet, after critical flaws were recently made public

Tweets: @gossithedog

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

FreshToHome, which runs a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform in three Indian cities, raises $20M Series B, three months after an $11M Series A

More: PYMNTS.com and Inc42 Media

Reuters:

Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year

More: CNET, Telecoms.com, Digital Trends, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and Slashdot

Yogita Khatri / The Block:

Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest

More: Binance, InsideBitcoins.com, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Binance, CryptoSlate, SludgeFeed, Modern Consensus, NewsBTC, The Next Web, Altcoin Magazine, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Coinspeaker, CryptoGlobe, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto

Tweets: @mdudas and @mdudas. Thanks:@dogetoshi

Earlier Picks

Reuters:

German court temporarily suspends a February decision from competition watchdog that ordered Facebook to restrict its data collection practices in the country

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Rude Baguette, and PYMNTS.com

Canalys Newsroom:

Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments

Alison Bevege / Reuters:

Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, iTnews, TechSpot, The Next Web, and Engadget

Tweets: @inteloperator, @andreasharsono, and @inteloperator

Cherlynn Low / Engadget:

Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699

More: The Verge, The Verge, ZDNet, Digital Trends, CNET, Tom's Hardware, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, About Chromebooks, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, Fortune, and 9to5Google

Tweets: @geekwire, @chromeunboxed, and @kevinctofel

Yun Li / CNBC:

J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web

More: Fortune

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:

Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year

More: Reuters, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Abacus, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Pandaily, China Money Network, and FutureSin

Tweets: @tculpan, @tculpan, @tculpan, and @luluyilun