The big Made By Google event, follow up on that Google+ bug, WeChat is willing to debunk rumors for you and Saudi Arabia doubles down on Masa Son.
Links:
First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge)
Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac)
Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery)
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)
Some advertisers are moving half of their search budget from Google to Amazon, say ad industry sources (CNBC)
How China's biggest social network fights fake news (Abacus)
Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on SoftBank Bet With Extra $45 Billion (Bloomberg)
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