This Week in Tech 688

• Defending Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story Google+ killed by a breach that wasn't a breach.
• Facebook breach that WAS a breach hits 30 million users. In related news, Facebook now sells a video chat device with a camera that can follow your every move.
• Made by Google event: what we think of the Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub.
• Apple's TV content will be free for everyone who owns an Apple device.

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Links

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies - Bloomberg
• Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? — Krebs on Security
• New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
• Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public - The Wall Street Journal
• Google is shutting down Google+
• How to find out if you are one of the 30M Facebook users whose account was affected by the security breach
• Facebook debuts video chat devices for home: the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen
• Never Too Late to Learn: Google+
• Here's everything Google revealed at its Pixel 3 event
• This is the Google Pixel 3 XL - Android Authority
• Pixel 3 XL looks amazing
• Marques Brownlee - There is FOR SURE no beauty smoothing happening with this Pixel 3 camera. Holy sharpness.
• Hands-on with Google's Pixel Slate: the $200 keyboard is a must-have, making it $800+ all-in
• Google Home Hub—Under the hood, it’s nothing like other Google smart displays
• Pixel Buds Real-Time Translations Available on All Google Assistant Headphones – Droid Life
• Apple rebukes Australia’s “dangerously ambiguous” anti-encryption bill
• Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore
• Sources: Apple plans to make content it owns free to device owners as part of its forthcoming TV service