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Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program -
Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: SIPC, which insures funds in brokerage accounts, disputes Robinhood's claims that money in newly launched checking and savings accounts is protected by the SIPC -
Aisha Hassan / Quartz: Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Facebook or Amazon -
Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a photo API bug gave user-approved apps access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users -
Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google -
Sponsor Post Zoho: Zoho Meeting: Evolution through 2018 — This year ends on a high note for Zoho Meeting. Our greatest joy has been delivering great features that have improved … -
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal obligations -
Nick Statt / The Verge: Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs -
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Propel raises $12.8M Series A from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Omidyar, others for its Fresh EBT app to check food stamp/SNAP balances and find stores to use them -
25 minutes ago Klint Finley / Wired: Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over the past two years -
Timothy McLaughlin / Wired: How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without WhatsApp they will die” -
Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: Amazon's Echo Wall Clock, which connects to nearby Echo devices over Bluetooth to track and display timers via LEDs around its rim, is now available for $29.99 -
Reuters: Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei's equipment -
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Discord says its PC game store will offer a 90/10 revenue split when it opens for all game developers in 2019 — The video game industry is witnessing the death …