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 Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Friday. 1. Apple's iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus — but not the iPhone X — have now gone on sale, and turnout in Asia has been mixed. New iPhones usually draw long queues at Apple's retail stores, but reports suggested just 30 people turned out in Sydney, but that 200 queued up in Singapore. 2. A former employee at fintech startup SoFi has alleged a "fratboy culture" at the firm in a new lawsuit. Yulia Zamora said she was repeatedly harassed, and her suit comes after SoFi's CEO stepped down over wider harassment allegations. 3. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to disclose who purchased political ads on the social network, as part of a nine-point plan to help stop international interference in elections. That will involve handing over 3,000 Kremlin-funded ads to Congress. 4. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is reportedly laying off 5,000 staff. The cuts comprise 10% of the company's workforce, and are part of a bigger cost-cutting effort. 5. Uber was dealt a major blow in London after losing its licence to operate in the city after September 30. The city's transport regulator cited passenger safety, its secret Greyball software, and driver checks as reasons for the decision. 6. SoftBank's decision to potentially invest in Uber stymied funding for a British food delivery startup. SoftBank was on the brink of investing in Deliveroo, but the Japanese giant decided not to invest in a company which rivalled UberEats. 7. Snap has laid off a dozen people from its Spectacles hardware division, mostly marketing employees. There's also been a shakeup with the VP of Operations, Mark Randall, taking on the newly created role of VP of Hardware. 8. There's another self-driving car startup, with former Y Combinator COO Qasar Younis working on his own automation software firm. The firm is about to close a $10 million funding round from Andreessen Horowitz, according to Axios. 9. Instagram will now let you add face filters while shooting live video. Previously, the app could only add filters to video and photos which had been captured first. 10. MongoDB, a database rival to Oracle and Amazon, has filed to go public. The $1.6 billion startup reported a $45.76 million loss on $67.9 million in revenue in the six months ending on July 31. | 
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