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November 4, 2018, 12:10 AM

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CNBC:
Sources: Amazon close to making a decision on HQ2, with Crystal City in Northern Virginia and Austin as frontrunners, but new HQ may be split between them  —  - Amazon is in the advanced stages of placing its second headquarters in Northern Virginia, The Washington Post reported on Saturday
Gizmodo:
A history of the ongoing quest to build a viable 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid and why they are so hard to design  —  In a recent barrage of new products, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lenovo, and HP have all shown off computers that are trying to tackle one of the industry's most vexing problems …
Jack Morse / Mashable:
Interview with three renowned women in infosec on how they got started, some of their most memorable finds, and how to encourage more women to join their field  —  This post is part of Mashable's ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech …
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Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
How companies use customer lifetime value scores to differentiate prices, services offered; unlike FICO scores, CLVs aren't regulated or accessible to consumers  —  Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term—and how well to treat them
Martha Pskowski / New York Magazine:
Profile of TIC, a community-run low-cost cellular service operating in underserved areas across Oaxaca in Mexico, as it gears up to launch in four more states  —  Talea de Castro is a four-hour drive through winding mountain roads from the capital of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Andrei Zakharov / BBC:
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts and claim to have details from up to 120M accounts for sale; FB blames 3rd-party browser extensions  —  Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation  —  Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity:
Current and former senior US officials say the Pentagon has outlined an offensive cyberattack against Russia if it electronically interferes with the midterms  —  U.S. military hackers have been given the go-ahead to gain access to Russian cyber systems as part of potential retaliation for any meddling in America's elections

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