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October 21, 2018, 4:05 AM

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New York Times:
Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings  —  Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.
Dami Lee / The Verge:
OnePlus 6T launch event in NYC moved up by a day to avoid overlap with Apple's October 30 event; OnePlus event is a ticketed event for fans as well as press  —  OnePlus is moving up the launch of its OnePlus 6T by a day in order to avoid colliding with Apple's iPad Pro and Mac event on October 30th, which was just announced yesterday.
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate  —  AT ONE POINT this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore.  —  Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics, like the number of active users, in calculating stock awards to four top execs, including CEO  —  - Microsoft paid $27 billion for LinkedIn in 2016 and is now tying its performance to executive pay.
New York Times:
A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A., and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook  —  Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you.  —  You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people …
Triplebyte Blog:
Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more  —  On Becoming a Programmer … One moment I remember really getting into programming came while playing a fantasy RPG video game.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Officials say a government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising sensitive data for ~75,000 people  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month …
Wall Street Journal:
A look at traditional auto makers' attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo  —  As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology.
Amol Rajan / BBC:
Interview with Nick Clegg about his hiring and future at Facebook  —  Nick Clegg said no to Facebook when they first called this summer.  “But in that funny way that happens,” he says, “if you say no to people they suddenly become very interested in you.”  —  In a phone call …
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