"The 2020 iPhone is already overshadowing the iPhone 11: Rumors about next year's iPhone are heating up, with promising sales forecasts and some standout features." CNET 8:10 AM
"Tesla to Apple: Help Us Nail Robocar-Secrets Thief" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"Tesla wants Apple's help in solving IP theft" Cult of Mac 7/12
"Tesla requests iCloud data for engineer who allegedly stole Autopilot secrets" AppleInsider 7/12
"Why the recent hacks show Apple's security strength, not its weakness" Digital Trends 7/12
"Apple reportedly suspends development of AR/VR headsets" DigiTimes [Subscription Required for Full Article] 7/12
"Does Apple's simplified Mac lineup have a hole in it? Apple's recent tweaks to its portable Mac lineup puts the company in an unusual position." Macworld 7/12
"PC Shipments Up as Manufacturers Scramble to Get Ahead of Tariffs: Vendors such as Lenovo, Acer, and Apple deliberately shipped more products to avoid getting ensnared in the ongoing US-China trade war, according to IDC." PC Magazine 7/12
"Apple's Creative Director, Europe and Worldwide Video explains company's TV plans" Apple Must 7/12
"Upcoming Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Drama 'See' Reported to Cost $15 Million Per Episode" MacRumors 7/12
"Imelda Staunton to star in BBC-made comedy/Exclusive: The corporation's first co-production with Apple" Chortle 7/12
"Apple may be working with the BBC on a comedy-drama series" Engadget 7/12
"U.S. to hold hearing on French tax investigation Aug. 19" Reuters 7/12
"City of Vancouver approves contested Pacific Centre Apple Store development" 9to5Mac 7/12
"Amazon Music Unlimited is growing faster than Apple Music or Spotify, report says: Amazon still has a long way to go to catch up with Apple or Spotify, though." Ars Technica 7/12
"Amazon's $700 Million Training Pledge Is Actually a Bargain: The retail giant may end up spending less per employee than the average organization." Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 4:24 PM
"Facebook Reportedly Staring Down Barrel Of $5 Billion FTC Fine Over Privacy Violations" HotHardware 4:22 PM
"Zuckerberg takes $5B fine in stride at 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'" New York Post 10:26 AM
"Facial recognition bolstered by mass database scraping, but not from Apple" AppleInsider 4:24 PM
"Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:30 AM
"F.T.C. Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"Negative? How a Navy veteran refused to accept a 'no' to his battery invention" TechCrunch 7/12
"Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack/Avast: More than 180,000 routers in Brazil had their DNS settings changed in Q1 2019." ZDNet 7/12
"Peddlers of Medical Misinformation Are Using Social Media 'Censorship' as a Selling Point" Gizmodo 7/12
"T-Mobile quietly reported a sharp rise in police demands for cell tower data" TechCrunch 7/12
"The White House social media summit was full of hypocrisy — and comedy: Twitter going down was the icing on the cake" The Verge 7/12
"Amazon Plans High-End Echo, Ramps Up Work on Alexa Home Robot" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"An Amazon Phishing Scam Hits Just in Time For Prime Day" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement: FTC commissioners broke along party lines, 3-2, with the Republican majority lining up to support the pact while Democratic commissioners objected" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
"Facebook Denies Being a Social Network in Lawsuit Response: Facebook denies a consumer can create a Facebook account, make friends, and build a social network, which are all things you can do on Facebook..." PC Magazine 7/12
"AT&T to auto block fraud robocalls for free, but blocking spam calls will cost extra: AT&T will charge $4 month to automatically block all spam robocalls." ZDNet 7/12
Publications/Podcasts
"New Macs smackdown! [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 304] Cult of Mac 12:39 PM
"Apple without Jony Ive, Services, and Current Macs, with John Kheit -ACM 518" The Mac Observer 7:46 AM
"iMore show 665: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 7/12
"The Dalrymple Report: MacBooks, an old iPhone, and Apple Watch" The Loop 7/12
"Bryan Chaffin on A Post-Ive, Post-Ahrendts Apple, and Facebook's Cryptocurrency" MacVoices 7/12
"Apple's AR Glasses, HomeKit Hardware – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-12" The Mac Observer 7/12
"9to5Mac Daily: July 12, 2019 – Q2 Mac shipments, Apple's big TV budget" 9to5Mac 7/12
"9to5Mac Happy Hour 233: Apple shakes up the MacBook line, iOS 13 beta 3 and iPad rumors" 9to5Mac 7/12
"RIP Macbook, Zoom runs afoul of Apple & more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 7/12
"Big Mac updates! This week on, The CultCast" Cult of Mac 7/12
"Vergecast: new hardware from Nintendo and Apple" The Verge 7/12
"The End of iTunes: Apple's New Mac Media Strategy Explained/Apple isn't really killing iTunes as much as setting it free." iMore 7/12
"Apple's AR smart glasses may have been cancelled" GearBrain 7/12
"Apple's AR glasses may be coming sooner than we think" Computerworld 7/12
"If iGlasses are truly on ice, Apple's 2020 will be dull but lucrative" VentureBeat 7/12
"Back to school 2019: should you choose Apple's Mac or an iPad" AppleInsider 7/12
"Apple's Mac Lineup Finally Make Sense" iPhone Hacks 7/12
Non-Apple
"The End of the Free Internet Is Near: The idea that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone has been turned on its head." Reason 12:38 PM
"The FTC's $5 billion fine for Facebook is so meaningless, it will likely leave Zuckerberg wondering what he can't get away with" Business Insider 8:32 AM
"The Toxic Potential of YouTube's Feedback Loop" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:10 AM
"AT&T Does the Obvious Thing Its CEO Said It Wouldn't Do and Restricts Its Valuable Media Properties" Pixel Envy 7/12
"How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem" The Verge 7/12
"The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason: Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution." MIT Technology Review 7/12
"The best foldables are going to be widescreen: Because no one wants to watch YouTube on a square" The Verge 7/12
"Microsoft backtracks on plans to scrap free software licenses for partners" BetaNews 8:31 AM
"Microsoft aims to make Windows 10 passwordless" Canadian Reviewer 8:29 AM
"Microsoft Word Hits 1 Billion Installs on Android" Thurrott 8:59 AM
"AMD Ryzen 3000 causes boot problems for some newer Linux distros" BetaNews 8:32 AM
"No, AMD Still Isn't Enabling PCIe 4 On 300/400 Series Boards" AnandTech 8:29 AM
"AMD Ryzen 3000 systems need a BIOS fix for Linux, 'Destiny 2' issues" Engadget 8:29 AM
"Judge sides with Pentagon and Amazon in cloud bidding case: A federal judge is dismissing allegations that bidding for a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon was rigged to favor Amazon. Friday's ruling dismissing Oracle's claims clears the Defense Department to award the contract to one of two finalists: Amazon or Microsoft." Associated Press 7/12
"Court Rules in Favor of Pentagon in JEDI Lawsuit: The ruling against Oracle clears the way for the government to award the contract in August to Microsoft or Amazon Web Services." Nextgov 7/12
"Judge Clears Way for Amazon and Microsoft to Compete for Giant Pentagon Contract: Oracle had alleged that Amazon and the Defense Department had biased the contract in Amazon's favor." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/12
"Another roadblock eliminated in the $10 billion JEDI bake-off between Microsoft and Amazon: A federal judge has dismissed Oracle's challenge on the Pentagon cloud mega-contract. The winner should be announced in August." ZDNet 7/12
"Oracle loses challenge to Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
"Oracle Falls After Judge Sides With Pentagon in $10B Government Contract Case: The judge allowed the Defense Department to void its $10 billion contract with Oracle, clearing the way for Amazon and Microsoft to compete for it." TheStreet 7/12
"Oracle loses challenge to Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
"Now Microsoft wants to use AI to save history: Microsoft creates a program that aims to use AI to preserve the world's cultures in the face of globalisation." ZDNet 7/12
"Microsoft capitulates and agrees to undo planned partner product-licensing changes: Microsoft is not going to eliminate internal use rights for partners who've been using software obtained as part of Microsoft's partner-program benefits to run their businesses, following partner complaints." ZDNet 7/12
"Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears/State of Hesse says student and teacher information could be 'exposed' to US spy agencies." ZDNet 7/12
"Microsoft: Teams now has 13M daily active users, outpacing rival Slack" Computerworld 7/12
"Microsoft Teams Hits 13 Million Users To Tighten Grip On Slack" Forbes 7/12
"Microsoft fixes some problems that blocked upgrades to Windows 10 version 1903" BetaNews 7/12
"Windows 10 build 18936 starts work towards removing the old Edge browser" Neowin 7/12
"With $34B Red Hat deal closed, IBM needs to execute now" TechCrunch 7/12
"Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google" The Intercept 7/12
"HP, Dell, Lenovo Recapture PC Growth Amid Windows 7 End-Of-Life: The three PC makers returned to growth in the U.S. market as the Intel CPU shortage slowed, but Apple shipments continued to fall, according to Gartner." CRN 7/12
"HP: Product design must reflect rapid Asian urbanisation, changing demographics" ZDNet 7/12
"Lenovo fuels the first PC sales increase in six months" Engadget 7/12
"PC Sales Grew Slightly in Second Quarter" Thurrott 7/12
"Intel delays a server product once again" SemiAccurate 7/12
"Intel Again Under Heat For Security Vulnerabilities" TechQuila 7/12
"Intel Comet Lake-S Desktop CPUs Will Support LGA 1200 Socket, Says Leak" Business Times 7/12
"Leak suggests Intel 10-core Comet Lake CPU could beat AMD Ryzen 9 3900X" TechRadar UK 7/12
"AMD: Patch On The Way For Ryzen 3000 Customers Affected By 'Destiny 2' And Linux Boot Problems" Forbes 7/12
"AMD Ryzen 3000 systems need a BIOS fix for Linux, 'Destiny 2' issues: AMD says it has delivered a patch to motherboard manufacturers." Engadget 7/12
"Rumour: AMD Radeon VII has been declared end of life" Hexus 7/12
"Get Ready To Buy Google, Apple, Facebook And Amazon" Forbes 7/12
"iPhone suppliers seeing solid revenues in run-up to 2019 models" AppleInsider 7/12
"Apple supplier Japan Display secures bailout after funding shortfall" Reuters 7/12
Industry News
"S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq close at record levels again as bulls bank on Fed rate cut: S&P 500 scores fourth straight day of gains" MarketWatch 7/12
"Dow Jones Romps 410 Points For The Week As S&P, Nasdaq Hit New Highs" Investor's Business Daily 7/12
"Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq post historic record setting week" FOXBusiness 7/12
"Stocks Close Out Week With More Gains: Oil prices also surged as markets show signs of strength while Fed postures for a rate cut" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7/12
"Asian shares largely rise after Wall Street sets new records" Associated Press 7/12
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