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Fri. 12/14 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiry

https://feedpress.me/RideHome - Direct RSS feed starting this weekend, just in case

The bomb scare email scam that demanded bitcoin, Facebook’s Photo API gave away too many photos, Apple strikes back at Qualcomm, Apple kills its second music-based social network, an Apple analyst sounds alarm bells about iPhone unit sales, Instacart breaks up with Whole Foods, PlanetScale brings mega-scaling technology to the masses, and of course the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

Sponsors:

• MacStadium.com/ridehome 
• Tiny.website

Links:

• Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats worldwide, causing evacuations (The Verge)
• Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos to apps (TechCrunch)
• Irish regulator to investigate Facebook after new data leak (Financial Times)
• Apple Says China iPhone Ban Would Force Settlement With Qualcomm (Bloomberg)
• Apple Music removes ability for artists to post to Connect, posts removed from Artist Pages and For You (9to5Mac)
• Ming-Chi Kuo cuts first quarter iPhone sales estimates by 20%, says iPhone XR demand is low (9to5Mac)
• Amazon has officially killed the Whole Foods-Instacart partnership (Recode)
• They scaled YouTube—now they’ll shared everyone with PlanetScale (TechCrunch)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads:

• EV News Daily (Podcast)
• Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (New York Times)
• The State of Technology at the End of 2018 (Stratechery)
• The rise of the recommendation site (Vox)
• How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight (Wired)