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Olivia Carville / Bloomberg : IBM reports Q3 revenue of $18B, down 3.9% YoY, the fifth consecutive down quarter; Red Hat sales of $371M, included for the first time, did not stop the decline   —  - Third-quarter revenue fell 3.9% in fifth period of decline  — Red Hat included in results for first time since 2018 purchase Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Skip, one of the original scooter rental startups SF granted a permit, leaves SF after its permit wasn't renewed, still operates in DC, San Diego, and Austin   —  The balance of scooter power in SF shifts  —  San Francisco announced recently that it was expanding its permit program to include Uber's Jump … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

VICE : Pornhub removes Girls Do Porn, months after a lawsuit by 22 women and days after the channel's owners and staff were charged with federal sex trafficking counts   —  After months of knowingly working with porn production company that was accused of lying to women, Pornhub finally removes its official page from its platform. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

MacRumors : Kuo: iPhone SE 2 will have 3GB RAM, 64GB and 128GB storage options, but won't have 3D Touch, and will be priced from $399   —  Apple is planning on releasing an iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020 and starting at a $399 price point, according to the latest research report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal : Google bans payday loan apps with an APR of 36% or higher from the Play Store, with praise from an African-American advocacy group that pressed it for the ban   —  Google said it made the change ‘to protect people from deceptive and exploitative personal loan terms’ Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost : Researchers identify zero-day vulnerability in iTunes for Windows, now patched, that was exploited by attackers to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware   —  Bad actors are actively targeting a vulnerability in the Windows version of Apple iTunes to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Lauren Goode / Wired : The Essential Gem's unveiling resurface allegations against Andy Rubin, making clear that it's becoming hard to disassociate products from their makers   —  The Essential Gem's unveiling makes clear that it's becoming harder to disassociate new products from the people making them. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Apple starts selling Microsoft's Xbox Wireless Controller on its online store for the first time   —  Apple has added the Xbox Wireless Controller to Apple.com, although the accessory is currently unavailable to purchase at the time of writing.  Apple sells a few different gaming controllers … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note : The Surface Pro X, Duo, and Neo, basically running on new forks of Windows 10, look risky and puzzling, and their justification by Satya Nadella is unconvincing   —  Microsoft has been on a roll and is back at the top of the tech industry by doing exactly what Satya Nadella said he'd do when he took the reins from Steve Ballmer. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Andreessen Horowitz : A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm   —  Editor's Note: The open source software (OSS) movement has created some of our most important and widely used technologies, including operating systems, web browsers, and databases. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Nico Grant / Bloomberg : HP Inc. says it plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 positions, or as much as 16% of its workforce, as it prepares for a CEO transition in November   —  - Fiscal 2020 adjusted profit to be $2.22 to $2.32 per share  — PC giant boosts share buybacks by $5 billion, dividend by 10% Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech : Intel's high-end desktop Cascade Lake-X CPU line gets a price drop of up to ~50% as AMD prepares to launch comparable Ryzen 9 3950X in November for $749   —  With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Jules Wang / Android Police : Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango   —  Back at I/O, Google announced a major expansion to its Assistant-based concierge automation engine, Duplex.  Up until then, it would help people book restaurant tables … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown “hot” civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump   —  When is promoting violent extremism not promoting violent extremism?  When Twitter says so. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott : Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally   —  Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage.  Both of the features are launching worldwide today. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Jason Torchinsky / Jalopnik : Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral   —  Just a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Wall Street Journal : Influencer marketing ad spend on Instagram reportedly grew to $265M in North America in Q1 2019, up 62% YoY, threatening the platform's originality and appeal   —  The draw of 1 billion monthly users has spawned an aggressive behind-the-scenes advertising economy that threatens the site's originality and appeal Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M   —  Crossix makes a patient data and analytics platform used by pharmaceutical marketers.  —  Veeva Systems, a key life sciences industry cloud player … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Jasmine Pennic / hitconsultant.net : Eko raises $20M Series B for its AI powered in-clinic and at-home cardiac monitoring platform which includes devices that combine digital stethoscope and ECG   —  - Funding will be used to accelerate research and development (R&D) and commercialization of Eko's machine learning platform for cardiac screening/analysis. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB   —  Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data.  —  Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen