- Facebook says it will limit the use of the "Save our Children" hashtag after QAnon co-opted the anti-trafficking movement (Rachel E. Greenspan/Business Insider)
- Apple launches the Apple One subscription bundle, with three tiers ranging from the $14.95 Individual tier to the $29.95 Premier tier (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- The screens or cameras on iPhone 12 models become unreliable when swapped between iPhones, which may lock out all unauthorized iPhone camera and screen repairs (Kevin Purdy/iFixit News)
- Onfleet, a provider of last-mile delivery management software, raises $14M Series A led by Kennet Partners (Linda Baker/FreightWaves)
- Facebook confirms it has stopped recommending that people join online groups dealing with political or social issues in the lead up to Election Day (BuzzFeed News)
- Brazil-based payments processor Conductor raises $150M led by Viking Global Investors to expand in Latin America (Reuters)
- Profile of FCC's Brendan Carr, a potential FCC chairman if Trump is reelected, and a key figure in the Republican fight against Big Tech (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
- UK's ICO reduces Marriott fine for a 2014 data breach, in which 339M Starwood hotels guest records were affected, from £99M to £14.4M (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- Under Armour to sell MyFitnessPal to investment firm Francisco Partners for $345M, after buying it in 2015 for $475M, and sunsetting Endomondo, bought for $85M (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
- Samsung launches SmartThings Find app to track down lost Galaxy devices, works with Galaxy phones, tablets, Buds, Watches, and more (Steve Dent/Engadget)
- Online auto insurance provider Root raises $724M in IPO, with shares closing the day at $27, giving it a market valuation of $6.8B (Bloomberg)
- Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
- Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Intel announces it will acquire SigOpt, a startup building a platform to optimize AI models; SigOpt will join Intel's machine learning performance division (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- 353.6M smartphones shipped in Q3 2020, with Samsung shipping 80.4M up 2.9% YoY, Huawei 51.9M, down 22%, Xiaomi 46.5M, up 42%, and Apple 41.6M, down 10.6% (IDC)
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