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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.

Links:

• Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat (CNBC)
• Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations (CNBC)
• Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3% (VentureBeat)
• Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows (New York Times)
• Google Stock Falls As Revenue Misses; Amazon Ad Competition To Blame? (Investor’s Business Daily)
• Snap Hits All-Time Low After Lackluster Earnings Report (CNBC)
• Copyright Office Ruling Issues Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms (iFixit)
• In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (Motherboard)
• How China's GPS 'Rival' Beidou is Plotting to Go Global (BBC News)
• AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500 (New York Times)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads:

• Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch (Kotaku)
• At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (WSJ)
• Podcast on Netflix Culture (Planet Money Podcast)
• It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech (Fortune)
• How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber (Fast Company)
• AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION (Wired)

Bonus Link (from Wednesday):

• THE AI COLD WAR THAT COULD DOOM US ALL (Wired)