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November 4, 2019, 9:00 AM

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Apple:
Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California  —  Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware  —  After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
Klint Finley / Wired:
Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links  —  The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser  —  The new icon is a wave surfing the web  —  Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser.  The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
Wall Street Journal:
Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content  —  As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off  —  Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …
david.dev:
Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban  —  Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading  —  Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance.  He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.

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