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Apple makes a pile of money and their stock tanks, Flickr ends its mega-free-storage plan, a classic internet cartoon gets a 4K makeover, browser extensions steal Facebook private messages, testing the latest smartphones to see how their batteries hold up, and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Apple results: A record September quarter with $62.9B revenue (Six Colors)
• Apple’s price hike strategy is paying off (The Verge)
• Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos (The Verge)
• Several thoughts from your old pal Jason (Jason Scott/Twitter)
• The Cartoon That Invented Internet Culture Gets a High-Definition Rerelease (Intelligencer)
• Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale (BBC News)
• It’s not your imagination: Phone battery life is getting worse (Washington Post)
• ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online (Wall Street Journal)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads:

• The Facebook Dilemma, Part 1 (Frontline on YouTube) and The Facebook Dilemma, Part 2 (Frontline on YouTube)
• A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada (New York Times)
• The Man Behind the Scooter Revolution (CityLab)
• A Fork in the Road for Avis (Fortune)
• The Encyclopedia of the Missing (Longreads)