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Abner Li / 9to5Google:YouTube Music rolling out “Discover Mix”, a personalized playlist mostly focused on evergreen tunes and artists that the user might not have heard before  —  From the beginning, YouTube Music has relied on playlists from the…

Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech:AMD says it is delaying release of its Ryzen 9 3950X until November due to high demand and the time needed to ensure sufficient stock availability  —  In a shock email late on Friday, AMD has released a statement to clarify the…

Patrick Flanary / Quartz:How Neil Young's reluctance to embrace streaming doomed his company PonoMusic, even as the company helped the industry to adapt high-resolution music  —  Toward the end of music legend Neil Young's recent memoir, he makes an…

Emily Stewart / Vox:Polling of US adults shows that most, across party lines, support breaking up Big Tech, such as reversing Facebook's Instagram purchase, to improve competition  —  One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark…

Chris Welch / The Verge:TiVo confirms it is planning to place pre-roll video ads before DVR recordings for all customers, even those with a lifetime subscription plan  —  Rolling out to TiVo's current devices over the next 90 days  —  So much for it…

Erin Griffith / New York Times:Sources: many Airbnb employees are frustrated they can't sell company stock; to compensate, management has offered more perks to keep longtime employees happy  —  Tension has grown among a 6,000-person work force as it waits…

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:A look at Sign in with Apple, which is available for users with iOS 13 for a small number of apps including Nike, Instacart, Bird, and Kayak at launch  —  Apple wants its new password killer to cut your dependency on…

Dina Temple-Raston / NPR:Profile of Adrian Lamo, a famous hacker in the early 2000s who died mysteriously in 2018 and was decried by the hacking community for turning in Chelsea Manning  —  Toggle more options  —  Debbie Scroggin and her husband live…

Henry Chu / Variety:Netflix CEO warns of a “whole new world” when streaming services from Disney and Apple drop in November, reiterates that Netflix isn't in “acquisition business”  —  After dominating the subscription streaming scene for so long,…

Financial Times:Amid rising competition and a dramatic fall in US subscribers during Q2, doubts arise over the sustainability of Netflix's debt-driven business model  —  On a sunny midsummer weekend in Los Angeles, Netflix turned the Santa Monica Pier —…

Julia Lee / Polygon:Minecraft's latest beta update introduces a character creator that allows players to change body types and wear accessories  —  You can be a mermaid  —  Minecraft's latest update has added a character creator to the game.  After…

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:Lookiero, a Paris-based personal clothing and accessory shopping service, raises $19M, bringing its total raised to $23M  —  Lookiero, the online personal shopping service for clothes and accessories, has closed a $19 million…

Jason Schott / Fox Business:Roku study: 2M people in the US moved from traditional pay TV to streaming in 2019; up to 60M US households will exclusively use streaming in the next 5 years  —  Television viewing has gradually expanded into streaming, and a…

Janko Roettgers / Variety:YouTube reverses course, says channels with verification badges will keep them without appeal and channels that reach 100k subs can still apply for verification  —  A day after announcing significant changes to its verification…

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:Apple's implementation of STIR/SHAKEN protocol in iOS 13 doesn't display “Caller Verified” notice on call screen, making it useless for identifying robocalls  —  STIR/SHAKEN comes to iPhones, but not in a useful way  — …