This Week in Tech 690

• What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday?
• Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex"
• Amazon's government controversies
• IBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase ever.
• Linus Torvalds is back!
• Trump's phone may be hacked by Russia and China.
• The midterms may be hacked as well.
• Apple and Amazon might NOT be hacked by China.
• Microsoft still hasn't released Window 10 update 1809
• The Vatican releases its own version of Pokemon Go with saints instead of Pokemon.
• Elon's big tunnel under LA opens 12/10.
• Pokemon Go will use step info from Apple and Google.
• Right to Repair suit wins.

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Links

• Apple reportedly announcing iPad Pro with USB-C, MacBook Air successor, and new Mac Mini next week
• iFixit: iPhone XR is the spiritual "iPhone 9" with an inside that looks like a hybrid between the iPhone 8 and X
• Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” | TechCrunch
• Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider
• Jeff Bezos is just fine taking the Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract
• Anonymous Amazon employee says 450+ employees signed letter to Bezos and other execs asking them to stop selling Rekognition
• The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy RedHat for $34B
• IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT, COMPLETELY CHANGING THE CLOUD LANDSCAPE AND BECOMING WORLD’S #1 HYBRID CLOUD PROVIDER
• Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux
• China tells Trump to use a Huawei phone to avoid eavesdroppers
• The midterms are already hacked. You just don’t know it yet.
• Amazon canceled some ads on Bloomberg's properties, sources say due to China spy chips story
• Worst Windows 10 version ever? Microsoft's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad October
• Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it | Ars Technica
• The Vatican has launched it's own version of Pokemon GO where you catch saints instead of Pokemon.
• Follow JC Go! is like Pokemon Go, but with Catholic saints
• Elon Musk says the Boring Company’s first tunnel under LA will open December 10th
• Pokemon Go will soon use Apple Health and Google Fit data to hatch eggs and earn candy
• Half Of The News Outlets We Asked Would Take Cash To Post Our Content
• Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms | iFixit
• AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500 - The New York Times