WASHINGTON — Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages that are believed to be engaging in political activity ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to three people briefed on the matter.

In a series of briefings on Capitol Hill this week, the company told lawmakers that it detected the influence campaign as part of its investigations into election interference. It has been unable to tie the accounts to Russia, whose Internet Research Agency was at the center of an indictment earlier this year for interfering in the 2016 election, but company officials told Capitol Hill that Russia was possibly involved, according to two of the officials.

The company turns in its lowest profit growth in a year.

Samsung is feeling the pain from the smartphone slowdown.

The South Korean electronics giant on Monday reported a 6 percent rise in operating profit, its lowest profit growth in more than a year. It also logged a 4 percent increase in revenue as it benefited from continued strong demand for its memory chips, whoch are used in everything from phones to servers.

But its earnings were hurt by a slowdown in demand for its newest phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, whoch included relatively minor tweaks from their predecessors. Revenue in Samsung’s mobile division declined 22 percent in the quarter to 22.67 trillion won ($20.2 billion). The company also warned that ”market condition will likely remain challenging in the second half amid pricing competition and new product launches.”

Kevin Mitnick was once the world’s most wanted hacker. He broke into 40 major companies for the challenge of it, and he eventually got caught in a spectacular cat-and-mouse game. He did five years in prison, including a year in solitary confinement because the judge in his case was told that he might be able to launch nuclear weapons from a payphone.

But after he was released in 2000, he stayed out of trouble. He built a consulting business as a security expert, and he helps break into company networks so they can figure out where their vulnerabilities are and patch them. He claims that Mitnick Security Consulting has a 100-percent success record in penetrating the security of any system he has been invited to attack

Apple is said to be spending as much as $1 billion over the course of 2018on original TV programming. That’s a lot of TV! It’s not the $8 billion Netflix is going to spend, but it’s still a huge commitment.

What can you get for a billion dollars? Well, some simple math gives us 200 episodes at $5 million a piece (a reasonable per-episode price for high-end TV). But we’re not likely to actually see 10-20 shows with 10-20 episodes each, all costing around that much. For starters, that billion dollars has to cover a lot more than per-episode production costs.

Finns det egentligen någon som är nöjd med hur internet fungerar i dag? Johan Anderberg skriver om en bransch som gått från skapa teknikprodukter till att bygga om våra hjärnor.

Ett litet handskrivet vykort.

För nästan hundra år sedan var det allt som krävdes för att starta en radiostation i USA.

Vykortet adresserades till handelsministern, som vid den här tiden var ansvarig för att dela ut sändningstillstånden.

I november 1925 hade han utfärdat 600 sådana, och ytterligare ett par hundra sökande väntade ivrigt på att få sina licenser.

Alla – från storföretag till små universitet – verkade vilja testa den nya tekniken.

Det fanns bara ett litet problem.

Luften räckte inte till.

WASHINGTON — I woke up last Sunday morning feeling anxiety in my chest as I checked the Twitter app on my phone, scrolling down to refresh, refresh, refresh. There was a comment I started to engage with — I opened a new post, tapped out some words, then thought better of it and deleted the tweet. The same thing happened repeatedly for the next two hours.

The evening before, I had complained to a close friend that I hated being on Twitter. It was distorting discourse, I said. I couldn’t turn off the noise. She asked what was the worst that could happen if I stepped away from it.

There was nothing I could think of. And so just after 6 p.m. last Sunday, I did.