This Week in Tech 732

• Amazon's paid tweeters program backfires
• Telus email out for the past 4 days
• $3 Million Fortnite winner SWATted
• How Gamergate launched a culture war
• Esports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to college
• Verizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years ago
• iPhone 11 coming September 10 - how private will it be?
• Apple sues Corellium for virtualization service
• Google's challenging past 3 years
• Google forces Nest to leave recording lights on
• iPhone 11 Pro Max?
• Pixel 3a's faux 20x zoom
• Rival search engines drop out of Google's search engine ballot auction
• Amazon's Rekognition face recognition system can't tell the difference between congressmen and criminals
• "NULL" vanity plate garners man $12,000+ in parking violations
• 3 simple ways to defeat face recognition
• Update your Windows 10 system NOW. Seriously.
• New Bluetooth KNOB attack
• Huawei gets a break
• Georgia required to use paper ballots
• FTC willing to break up big tech
• IKEA gets serious about smart tech
• Disney after account sharers
• Don't use Kaspersky anti-virus
• Tesla owner implants her key in her arm
• Apple shuts down 3rd-party WebKit anti-tracking abusers

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Links

• Apple Files Lawsuit Against Virtualization Company Corellium for Illegally Replicating iOS and Apple Apps - MacRumors
• Apple will almost certainly unveil the iPhone 11 on September 10
• Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech | WIRED
• Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘unethical’ and ‘anti-competitive’
• Amazon's army of tweeting warehouse workers backfired spectacularly this week after a thread about working conditions went viral
• Amazon's Rekognition falsely matched lawmakers to criminals... again, ACLU says - CNET
• Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus puts users at risk | c't Magazin
• WebKit’s new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security | TechCrunch
• Daring Fireball: Siri, Privacy, and Trust
• Chrome's 'more private' Incognito mode: Websites can still detect you're using it
• $3 million Fortnite winner—and his parents—become latest swatting targets
• Huawei technicians have been helping governments in Uganda and Zambia spy on their political opponents, a new report says
• Exclusive: U.S. set to give Huawei another 90 days to buy from American suppliers - sources - Reuters
• FTC Head Says He's Willing to Break Up Big Tech - Bloomberg
• Judge orders Georgia to switch to paper ballots for 2020 elections
• 8chan owner Jim Watkins gets Congressional subpoena after mass shootings linked to site
• Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner - WSJ
• Ikea goes all in on smart home tech - The Verge
• A Tesla owner implanted the RFID chip from her Model 3’s keycard into her arm
• How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War
• An Apology To Our TELUS.net Email Customers
• Nintendo World Championships eSports event will air on CBS, August 25
• UCI Esports
• UCI Esports to offer scholarships for top ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’ players
• Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
• The Vintage Operating System Archive
• White House proposal would have FCC and FTC police alleged social media censorship
• Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of 'very illegal' action ahead of election - Reuters
• Young Beauty Vlogger Revealed To Be 58-Year-Old Woman After Filter Glitches
• This Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers
• It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology
• Teen claims to tweet from her smart fridge – but did she really?
• I Transform Myself Into Any Celebrity I Want
• Ali Spagnola
• Triangulation
• United States Digital Service
• Raising a Ninja - iqmz.com
• PiPhone
• Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry