The AT&T-Time Warner deal will get a hard look from regulators

After looking at [the pros] and [the cons], AT&T pulled the trigger on [an $85 billion deal for Time Warner], the biggest media hook-up since [the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger] in 2000. Now the transaction faces an obstacle course lined with [regulatory agencies], [politicians], media and telecom rivals and [consumer groups]. [[Thomas Gryta, Shalini Ramachandran and Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal]] There are a couple of things you can do to try to [prevent your smart-home gadgets from being conscripted] into a zombie army like [the one used to attack the internet Friday], but not much. Security experts [saw this one coming], but the [makers of cheap Internet of Things devices] have [little motivation to make them more secure]. The upshot: Expect more such attacks. [[David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth / New York Times]] So what should we look for at [Apple's "Hello Again" event] on Thursday? The rumor mill consensus says the highlights will be [a redesigned MacBook Pro] with an OLED touch bar on the keyboard and a 13-inch MacBook Air. New iMacs and a stand-alone 5K display are reportedly in the works but not ready yet. [[Eric Slivka / MacRumors]] Samsung made a rushed decision to recall and replace its original Galaxy Note 7 phones based on incomplete evidence about the cause of overheating batteries, and when that initial diagnosis turned out to be wrong, the model was doomed. [[Jonathan Cheng and John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal]] Online brokerage TD Ameritrade and its largest stakeholder, Toronto-Dominion Bank, are close to a deal to buy rival Scottrade for $4 billion. [[Matthew Monks, Anna-Louise Jackson and Doug Alexander / Bloomberg]] On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Sam Esmail, creator of "Mr. Robot," says the key to making a successful show about hacking was to focus on the hackers and the other human facets of tech. [[Eric Johnson / Recode]] [Insert alt text here] [America’s biggest banks have announced their Venmo competitor, Zelle] Better late than never? [Before Nintendo Switch: Let’s remember how weird Nintendo’s ads used to be] Only one of them had Paul Rudd, though. [Leslie Jones took on her Twitter trolls and hackers on ‘Saturday Night Live’] “If you want to hurt anyone these days, you have to do way more than leak their nudes, or call them names.” [Pokémon Go made you walk 25 percent more than you used to] In a month, America walked an additional 144 billion steps, a new Stanford/Microsoft study says. [Watch the CEO of AT&T — and new owner of Time Warner — explain why Black Lives Matter] An extraordinary speech from Randall Stephenson: “I’m not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards.” [Silicon Valley gets musically reviewed in ‘South of Market’] Characters include Riley, who yearns to be on the 30 Under 30 list, and sharing economy worker “Sarah, 4.9 Stars.” [Insert alt text here] [MIT's Nightmare Machine] Just in time for Halloween, MIT is teaching deep-learning algorithms what scary faces, haunted buildings and toxic cities look like. [Twitter] [Facebook] [Instagram] This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences], or [unsubscribe] to stop receiving emails from Recode Daily. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.