Airbnb opens the kimono, a disc-less Xbox, Facebook pushes back on controversy, SpaceX gets a key go-ahead, and the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
Airbnb booked more than $1 billion in third quarter revenue (CNBC)
Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (Thurrott.com)
Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ)
‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes)
Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (The Verge)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired)
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine)
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (Motherboard)
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (First Round Review)
THE HAIL MARY PLAN TO RESTART A HACKED US ELECTRIC GRID (Wired)
Space Camp grows up (Mashable)
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