Summary: <p><strong><em>The Tech earnings season earnings roundup, new DRM rules allow jailbreaking… for some things, China’s rival GPS system, AI “art” fetches $400,000 at auction and the weekend longreads suggestions.</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://hi.photoslurp.com/" target="_blank"><strong>hi.Photoslurp.com</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://metalab.co/" target="_blank"><strong>Metalab.co</strong></a></li> </ul><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/twitter-q3-2018-earnings.html" target="_blank">Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat</a> (CNBC)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/tesla-earnings-q3-2018.html" target="_blank">Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations</a> (CNBC)</li> <li> <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/24/microsoft-earnings-q1-2019/" target="_blank">Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3%</a> (VentureBeat)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/amazon-quarterly-earnings.html?smid=tw-nytimesbits&smtyp=cur" target="_blank">Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows</a> (New York Times)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/amazon-quarterly-earnings.html?smid=tw-nytimesbits&smtyp=cur%20" target="_blank">Google Stock Falls As Revenue Misses; Amazon Ad Competition To Blame?</a> (Investor’s Business Daily)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/snap-earnings-q3-2018.html%20" target="_blank">Snap Hits All-Time Low After Lackluster Earnings Report</a> (CNBC)</li> <li> <a href="https://ifixit.org/blog/11951/1201-copyright-final-rule/" target="_blank">Copyright Office Ruling Issues Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms</a> (iFixit)</li> <li> <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bwd/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair" target="_blank">In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal</a> (Motherboard)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45471959" target="_blank">How China's GPS 'Rival' Beidou is Plotting to Go Global</a> (BBC News)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/design/ai-art-sold-christies.html" target="_blank">AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500</a> (New York Times)</li> </ul><p><br></p><p>The <a href="https://www.betterment.com/ride" target="_blank">Betterment</a> Weekend Longreads:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466" target="_blank">Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch</a> (Kotaku)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency-and-blunt-firings-unsettle-the-ranks-1540497174?mod=e2tw" target="_blank">At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks</a> (WSJ)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/13/550793717/episode-647-hard-work-is-irrelevant" target="_blank">Podcast on Netflix Culture</a> (Planet Money Podcast)</li> <li> <a href="http://fortune.com/longform/amazon-google-apple-voice-recognition/" target="_blank">It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech</a> (Fortune)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90245381/how-dara-khosrowshahi-iranian-heritage-shapes-how-he-leads-uber" target="_blank">How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber</a> (Fast Company)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-history-of-silicon-valley-disruption/" target="_blank">AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION</a> (Wired)</li> </ul><p><br></p><p>Bonus Link (from Wednesday):</p><ul><li> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cold-war-china-could-doom-us-all/" target="_blank">THE AI COLD WAR THAT COULD DOOM US ALL</a> (Wired)</li></ul> <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/34f8474/podcast/sponsor/acugia/url/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.com%2F">https://flipboard.com/</a>
