"After Apple Warns China Tariffs Will Increase Prices, Trump Has Solution: Make Products in U.S." Slate 6:21 PM
"Apple announces new policies to aid law enforcement worldwide" Digital Trends 6:21 PM
"Apple permanently bans Alex Jones' Infowars app from App Store" iDownload Blog 8:23 AM
"Apple prices 'defy normal rules' as fans face spending £2,000 on new iPhone deals" The Telegraph 12:21 PM
"Batterygate: A Complete History of Apple Throttling iPhones" iFixit 8:24 AM
"Apple says proposed U.S. tariffs may hit Watch, does not name iPhone: A 'wide range' of Apple Inc products including its Watch likely would be hit by proposed U.S. tariffs, the company told U.S. trade officials, but it did not name the iPhone as among the products affected." Reuters 9/7
"Trump Threatens Tariffs on Another $267 Billion of Chinese Imports" ["Apple slumped on its warning that the Trump administration's musing over levying virtually everything imported from China would hit a broad range of its products."] Bloomberg 9/7
"Apple Worries Trump's Planned Tariffs on China Will Hit Apple Watch and Macs Hard" Gizmodo 9/7
"Apple aims to win back fans with redesigned iPad and new Watch" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 9/7
"Morgan Stanley predicts Apple's 'iPhone Xs' will offset threat of longer replacement cycles" AppleInsider 9/7
"Apple's Next iPhone Cycle Should Bolster Margins, ASPs" Forbes 9/7
"EU clears Apple's acquisition of British music app Shazam" Telegraph 9/7
"Apple wins pre-trial motions against Qualcomm; judge implies chipmaker made tactical error" 9to5Mac 9/7
"Qualcomm makes a tactical error in its battle with Apple" Cult of Mac 9/7
"Remembering the radically ever-changing iPod nano" AppleInsider 9/7
"Mac App Store apps are stealing user data" Malwarebytes 9/7
"Apple removed popular app that was secretly stealing your browser history" CNET 9/7
"Popular Mac Anti-Adware App 'Surreptitiously Steals' Your Browsing History, Researchers Say: Researchers accuse the developers of Adware Doctor, the 4th highest ranking paid app in the Mac App Store, have found a way to bypass Apple restrictions and collect sensitive user data." Motherboard 9/7
"A top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store will steal your browser history" ["Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app — Adware Doctor — stands as the number one grossing paid app in the app store's utilities categories. But Apple was warned weeks ago and did nothing to pull the app offline."] TechCrunch 9/7
"No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server" 9to5Mac 9/7
"Chrome 69 kills off www in URLs: Here's why Google's move has made people angry" ZDNet 9/7
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How to Perform a Clean Installation of macOS 10.14 Mojave" MacRumors 9/7
"Why you shouldn't rely on iCloud Drive as your only backup" Macworld 9/7
"How to Delete Your Private Data from Apple's Servers" The Mac Observer 9/7
"Checking For and Removing Adware From Your Mac" MacMost 9/7
Op/Ed
"Bad AppleScript: Load the Template Gun!" Six Colors 9/7
"Amazon and Apple are getting into medical clinics — here's why" CNBC 4:15 PM
"Apple seeks major newspaper allies for its subscription bundle" Engadget 8:10 AM
"Apple wants major newspapers to join new subscription service: Following rumors that Apple is looking to enter the magazine distribution business with its own curated subscription service, a report on Friday claims the company is in talks with daily news giants to add their content into the mix." AppleInsider 9/7
"Condé Nast executive joins Apple's growing News team" Cult of Mac 9/7
"5 reasons Apple's Video service will be worth billions" Apple Must 9/7
"Apple is building a site to handle data requests from law enforcement" The Next Web 9/7
"British Airways app and website hack exposes full card details of 380,000 customers" 9to5Mac 9/7
"Apple Sept. 12 iPhone XS event: Live blog, start time, what to expect" CNET 9/7
Non-Apple News
"Alibaba's Jack Ma, China's Richest Man, to Retire From Company He Co-Founded" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9/7
"China's richest man Jack Ma to stand down from Alibaba" Telegraph 9/7
"Amazon's cashier-free Go store is coming to NYC" TechCrunch 9/7
"ISPs Engage In Last Gasp Bid to Derail California's Net Neutrality Law: Employees are being urged to demand a veto by California Governor Jerry Brown." Motherboard 9/7
"It's not just you: Google Assistant Routines are broken on third-party speakers" Android Central 9/7
"Verizon throttling firefighters may have violated FCC rule, Democrats say" Ars Technica 9/7
"23andMe Cuts Off the DNA App Ecosystem It Created" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9/7
"Leaked five-camera Nokia phone has a few lenses too many: Shunning dual-camera phones for a penta-cam mess." Engadget 9/7
"Twitter hits Alex Jones and Infowars with permanent bans" BetaNews 9/7
Publications/Podcasts
"Interview Mac Geek Gab's Dave Hamilton and John F Braun -TMO Daily Observations 2018-09-07" The Mac Observer 9/7
"Vergecast: Apple event preview, social media hearings, and monopoly week" The Verge 9/7
"The 'iPhone Xs' to the Max, higher resolution Apple Watch, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 9/7
"iPhone Max, and the practical processes behind Apple's creative genius, on The CultCast" Cult of Mac 9/7
"Dozens of iOS apps secretly collect location history for data monetization, analysis says: GuardianApp, from the Sudo Security Group, finds that a number of iOS apps are secretly collecting and sending location histories and other sensitive user information to third-party data monetization firms." AppleInsider 9/7
"Apple's 6.1-inch LCD iPhone may be called 'iPhone Xr,' not 'iPhone 9' as some presumed" iDownload Blog 9/7
"Siri Shortcuts Not Coming to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 5s" iPhone Hacks 9/7
"Netflix Skids on Growing Threat from Apple" The Motley Fool 8:05 PM
"Trump Is Predictably Backstabbing Apple on Tariffs" Gizmodo 4:16 PM
"The biggest mystery about Apple's new iPhones is the price" MarketWatch 2:22 PM
"Why so many Apple price targets still underwater" Apple 3.0 2:22 PM
"Apple Watch Is About to Hit a Major Milestone" The Motley Fool 12:22 PM
"What to Expect at Apple's September 2018 Event: iPhone Xs, Apple Watch Series 4, AirPods 2, and More" iPhone Hacks 12:18 PM
"Analysts admit they were wrong about iPhone X, predict $849 price for 6.1' LCD iPhone" 9to5Mac 10:21 AM
"How Apple Could Improve the Next iPhone's Battery Life" Slate 10:20 AM
"Forget the iPhone XS: the iPhone 9 could be Apple's undercover hit" TechRadar UK 8:31 AM
"Why was Adware Doctor even on the Mac App Store?" iMore 8:30 AM
"Apple's rumored TV service: Everything you need to know" CNET 8:24 AM
"Face ID 2 could be the next iPhone XS' biggest improvement" CNET 8:21 AM
"iPad Pro 2018 Rumors: What to Expect from Apple's Next Tablet" LAPTOP Magazine 8:21 AM
"Apple, Intel: US Tariffs on China Will Increase Prices for Electronics/Intel warned that potentially all consumer electronics including PCs and smartphones could face price hikes from the proposed tariffs. Apple, on the other hand, specifically named the Apple Watch and AirPods, as products that could get more expensive." PC Magazine 9/7
"Apple Offers Major Newspapers Opportunity and Challenge in Joining Texture Subscription Service" The Mac Observer 9/7
"The Curious Case of Adware Doctor and the Mac App Store" Daring Fireball 9/7
"Apple TV 8K May Never Ship. 8K TV Might Actually Fail in the Market" The Mac Observer 9/7
"Apple and 5G: It's not about the iPhone/Don't expect the next iPhone to support 5G. Or radical changes when a future one does." ZDNet 9/7
"Potentially bad news for Spotify as EU approves Apple's planned acquisition of Shazam" iDownload Blog 9/7
"How Apple Watch Series 4 will raise the bar for wearables" Cult of Mac 9/7
"Smart Home Diary: An update to our blinds revealing that Alexa is no smarter than Siri" 9to5Mac 9/7
"What we think we know about Apple Watch Series 4" Computerworld 9/7
"What to Expect at Apple's September 2018 Event: New iPhones, Apple Watch Series 4, AirPods, AirPower and More" MacRumors 9/7
"What to expect from Apple's 'Gather Round' event next week" Cult of Mac 9/7
"For the love of Jobs, Apple, don't call it the 'iPhone XS': It'd be an excessively silly move." Macworld 9/7
"iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max: New iPhone rumours, release date and everything we know" Telegraph 9/7
"What not to look for at the Sept. 12 Apple event: Dan Moren thinks it's important to go through the products that Apple will probably not show off or talk about on stage." Macworld 9/7
"Five things to expect at the Apple event next week: iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, software updates, and more!" The Verge 9/7
"iPhones, iPads, MacBooks: What new hardware will Apple unveil next week? New iPhones? New Apple Watch? New iPad Pro with Face ID? New MacBooks and Mac Minis? That's a crowded lineup, even for a launch event that could span three hours. Something will give." ZDNet 9/7
"Do any Android users plan on switching to the iPhone XS?" Android Central 9/7
"Why Apple's iPhone Xs will be a smash hit while Samsung's 'S' upgrades failed miserably" BGR 9/7
Non-Apple
"Twitter Banning Alex Jones Is Justified" Inside Sources 9/7
"AI Can Recognize Images, But Text Has Been Tricky—Until Now" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9/7
"Mingis on Tech: UEM and the future of mobile management" Computerworld 9/7
"A crazy conspiracy theory makes the Pixel 3 XL sound exciting for the first time" BGR 9/7
Humor/Cartoons
"Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 08, 2018 - GoComics" GoComics 10:13 AM
"Cisco, HP, others make last-ditch effort to avoid US-China trade war - Livemint" Live Mint 9/7
"Google-Cisco Hybrid Cloud Offering Now Generally Available: Organizations can use this hybrid cloud service to develop, deploy and manage applications more easily and securely across on-premise and cloud infrastructures, Google says." eWeek 9/7
"Nine out of 12 Apple launch events boosted shares within 60 days" Apple 3.0 9/7
"Goldman Sachs' Rod Hall eats hat, raises Apple price target to $240" Apple 3.0 9/7
Industry News
"Stock market logs weekly loss as Trump hints at more China tariffs: Tech Stocks remain under pressure" MarketWatch 9/7
"Stocks Sink as Trump May Slap China With $267 Billion More in Tariffs: Stocks fall after a strong U.S. jobs report bolsters the Fed's case for further increases in interest rates, while President Trump says he has tariffs ready to go on billions of dollars more of Chinese imports." TheStreet 9/7
"U.S. Stocks Slump on Fears of New China Tariffs: S&P 500, Dow industrials retreat; Tech Stocks recover some of their recent losses" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9/7
"Japan's Nikkei continues slide as yen gains; Chinese stocks stabilize: Selling continued Friday for most Asia-Pacific stock markets, with Japanese equities logging a sixth straight drop after getting hit by an overnight jump in the yen and China outperforming its peers." MarketWatch 9/7
"Ireland is planning to issue its first ever green bond: Ireland is planning to issue its first ever green bond in the coming months, the National Treasury Management Agency said on Friday." MarketWatch 9/7
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