Techmeme: Deep dive into the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley's foremost technologists on self-driving cars, was charged …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without a warrant, up ~4x from three years prior, and increasingly denies entry to people over content sent by others — Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages …

More: The Harvard Crimson, Business Insider, VICE, and Slate

Tweets: @sanasaeed, @segalmr, @mattyglesias, @jamilsmith, @reappropriate, and @thecrimson

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong — Farhad Manjoo, in the New York Times, ran an experiment on himself: … Here is a shrunk-down version of the graphic that resulted …

Tweets: @stratechery, @joshuahoover, @petergorla, @tetzeli, @matthan, @joshsternberg, @jessekblum, @collmerica, @anjali28, @s_df, @ednever, @tractiontandon, @davealbright, @dialtone_, @antoniogm, @stephenpiment, and @jason_kint

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2 in New York City — We might see a new dual-screen Surface — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event in New York City in October. The event, which will be held on October 2nd, could serve as the first unveiling of Microsoft's dual-screen Surface device.

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:

Google Maps is rolling out the ability for users to combine different transit modes, like biking, public transit, and ride-sharing, in their directions — Google Maps is going multimodal — Google Maps is going multimodal. The navigation app announced the launch of a new feature today …

More: The Keyword, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Android Police, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Mashable, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, PYMNTS.com, Droid Life, Engadget, Neowin, and TechCrunch

Tweets: @google and @chrismessina

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:

Deep dive into 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: Yahoo Finance, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, Monday Note, and Business Insider

Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @angebassa, @dangillmor, @kylebrussell, @jp_koning, @geoffreyfowler, @benbajarin, @mollywood, @david_stillwell, and @khoi

Jon Porter / The Verge:

Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450 — Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials — Three years after the release of its last handset …

More: Fairphone, Android Police, Android Authority, Engadget, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Engadget, The Register, Thurrott, Mashable, Digital Trends, Fossbytes, TechSpot, Neowin, and Android Central

Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app — For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …

More: Yelp, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, iMore, Wired, OneZero, Wired, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @wongmjane

Jon Porter / The Verge:

Verizon will enable spam call filtering by default on many Android phones, after an FCC vote to let carriers do so; iOS users will need the Call Filter app — Available on select Android handsets at first — Verizon is starting to opt in customers to its call filtering service so they can better identify and block spam calls.

More: Verizon Fios & Custom TV, Digital Trends, Android Police, Engadget, Droid Life, CNET, and 9to5Google

Jalopnik:

Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report — In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, KnowTechie, Boing Boing, and Slashdot

Tweets: @bcmerchant, @profgalloway, @a_w_gordon, @yfreemark, @a_w_gordon, @boysenandrew, @derektmead, @peetzdavid, and @caseynewton

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

As Ethereum's network is increasingly used for Tether transactions, the cost of running smart contracts has spiked, and Ether's network utilization has hit ~90% — - Vitalik Buterin expressed concerns over scaling last week — Tether's use of Ethereum has grown as its utilization exploded

More: Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Blockonomi, and ETHNews. Tweets: @excellion

Todd Haselton / CNBC:

Amazon debuts Eero Secure and Eero Secure+, $3/month and $10/month services for its home Wi-Fi products, to add security with malware warnings, VPN access, more — KEY POINTS — Amazon introduced a new security features for Eero owners, which can be purchased with monthly or annual plans.

More: CNET, Engadget, and Windows Central

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date — Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million …

More: PYMNTS.com and PE Hub Blog

Bernie Sanders / Columbia Journalism Review:

Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media — Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right …

More: Vox, The Verge, VICE, and CNBC

Tweets: @jnaureckas, @sarahljaffe, @berniesanders, @thrasherxy, @muckrakery, and @benedictevans

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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:

Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga updated with Intel's 10th-gen chips, available in September starting at $1,479 and $1,609 respectively — Along with a bunch of updated ThinkPads — Intel's 10th Gen chips are making their way into the world, and Lenovo has a bunch of new ThinkPads …

More: AnandTech, SlashGear, Windows Central, and Engadget

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Tesorio raises $10M Series A, led by Seattle's Madrona Venture Group, to help companies track their cash flow and gauge their financial health using AI — Tesorio, a startup that helps businesses aggregate and analyze their cash flow data, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series …

More: FinSMEs and GeekWire

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

In a rare move, Apple debuts iOS 13.1's first beta, well ahead of iOS 13's ship date, improving mouse support and bringing back Automation, a Shortcuts feature — Apple today released a surprise iOS 13.1 beta, which is unprecedented as the company has never before released a point update for an unreleased software update.

More: VentureBeat, iMore, TechCrunch, iClarified, and Gotta Be Mobile

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

The Web Services Dynamic Discovery protocol, popular with IoT devices like printers and DVRs, is now being regularly abused in large DDoS attacks — Security researchers warn that the WS-Discovery protocol is currently being abused for massive DDoS attacks.

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:

Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018 — Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail OpenSpiel, a collection of AI training tools for video games, now available on Github — Reinforcement learning, the AI training technique that's brought to fruition systems capable of defeating world poker champions and guiding self-driving cars …

More: GitHub

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