Intelligent Machines 421

How important is it for companies to have good morals? Hackers in US power grid. An Oreo deep dive. Essential Phone: beautiful, unfixable. Facebook code controls 16% of the average website. Will Apple or Amazon make the next James Bond film? Farewell, Solaris. Good riddance, Juicero.

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Links

• Facebook sold ads to shady Russian company in elections
• Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid networks
• Trump Cybersecurity Advisors Resign, Cite 'Insufficient Attention' | Fortune.com
• Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights - Bloomberg
• Apple, Amazon Join Race for James Bond Film Rights (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter
• Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me
• A Serf on Google's Farm - Josh Marshall
• An Update On Information Operations On Facebook
• Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed
• How the Essential Phone won me over completely
• Techdirt's own story
• Juicero is shutting down - The Verge
• Progressive Web Apps
• Woodwind
• Why 16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook, and what that means
• Guess who paid for those "Netflix is a joke" billboards
• Goodbye Solaris
• Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple lead S&P 500 in R&D spending, with Amazon at #1 with $16.1B spent last year
• Google and Udacity offer 75k scholarships
• top 20 how to searches on Google
• Homebrew Website Club tonight -Baltimore, SF and now Austin
• IndieWeb Camp Dortmund this weekend
• Offline only website
• Mavic Pro