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Colin Stretch / Facebook: Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators -
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will make Pages disclose who paid for political ads and let users see all current ads from that advertiser, rolling out over the coming months -
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Apple TV 4K review: easy-to-use interface, lots of apps, cheaper 4K movies, but HDR makes some HD videos look bad, no YouTube 4K HDR support, and it's expensive -
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says 4K iTunes content cannot be downloaded, only streamed, and that the VP9 codec, which is used by 4K YouTube videos, is not supported on Apple TV 4K -
Maciej Cegłowski / Idle Words: When Amazon's “frequently brought together” engine grouped potassium nitrate with sulfur and more, reporters misleadingly implied site was aiding bomb makers -
Sponsor Post eero: Which state has the fastest internet speed? — Here's a list of WiFi speeds across the country. Where does your state rank? -
Andy Greenberg / Wired: Cisco Talos report: hackers who hid backdoor in CCleaner targeted computers inside at least 20 tech firms including Akamai, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft -
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Bose launches QC 35 II noise canceling headphones, with a dedicated button that triggers Google Assistant, for $349.95 — Push for Google -
Instagram Blog: Instagram adds Face Filters to live video, rolling out globally over the next few weeks — Starting today, you can play with face filters while sharing live video. -
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: SEC: MongoDB files for IPO, reports loss of $45.8M on revenue of ~$68M in 6 months ending July 31 — MongoDB, a database software company based in New York … -
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Benchmark has told Uber investors it's unlikely to sell any shares to the Softbank consortium, complicating its proposed ~$10B investment in Uber -
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Experian tool to retrieve credit freeze PIN relies on just four pieces of basic personal information for authentication, inadequate given widespread leaks -
Sponsor Post Vantiv: Learn how to improve shopper conversion via Pay with Google — Join Vantiv and Google to learn about the emerging shifts in online shopping and the need for online merchants … -
Cate Cadell / Reuters: Chinese search giant Baidu announces $1.52B autonomous driving fund to invest in 100 projects over three years — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine Baidu Inc … -
Joseph Menn / Reuters: Interviews and emails show NSA backed down on two encryption techniques, Simon and Speck, it wanted as global standards amid experts' concerns and lack of trust