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How the US government shutdown affects cybersecurity, how the Open Government Data Act is possibly good tech governance, Airbnb and Slack are considering non-traditional IPOs and the state of AI research at the end of 2018.

• How a government shutdown affects America’s cybersecurity workforce (FifthDomain)
• In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (BoingBoing)
• Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams (Bloomberg)
• Layoffs Underway Amid ‘Adjustments,’ Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Confirms (CoinDesk)
• HQ Trivia launches HQ Words as reinstalled CEO seeks a game-changer (TechCrunch)
• Airbnb and Slack are considering untraditional IPOs that box out bankers like Spotify did (Recode)
• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (VentureBeat)