NEWSWORTHY
Step into the sunlight. Facebook has fallen short on its plan to share data on disinformation for academics and others to study. In April 2018, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he hoped his company would share its "first results" by the end of that year. Eighteen months later, the 2020 presidential race is kicking into gear and Facebook has struggled to share information for fear of breaching users' privacy.
Window-shopping. Browser-makers Google and Mozilla are planning to apply a new standard to "domain name service," a phonebook-like Internet tool essential for connecting to and loading websites. The move, which would encrypt DNS by default, aims to improve the security and privacy of web browsing. Internet Service Providers, like Comcast and AT&T, stand to lose insights about their customers' web browsing habits; they argue the change is anticompetitive.
There's a starman waiting in the sky. At a Sept. 28th event in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set a characteristically ambitious timeline for his company's Starship rocket to blast off. "This is going to sound totally nuts, but I think we want to try to reach orbit in less than six months," he said. A 65,000-foot tall, stainless steel prototype of the spacecraft towered behind him during the press conference.
Securitize this. A coalition of U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges has banded together to create a rating system for evaluating which digital assets regulators are likely to deem securities, and thus unable to be traded on their platforms. Members of the group include Coinbase, Circle, Kraken, and Bittrex. The Securities and Exchange Commission has not endorsed the initiative.
In the Middle Kingdom. An unnamed source familiar with the financials at ByteDance, the Chinese firm behind the social media phenom TikTok, told CNBC that the company booked revenues of about $8 billion for the first half of the year, beating expectations. Chinese video game maker Tencent took at 29% stake in Funcom, a Norwegian game developer. And Chinese phone-maker Huawei has opened a three-story flagship store in Shenzhen .
Pole-dancing. Google Cloud is opening a new cloud hub in Warsaw, Poland. The business unit's CEO, Thomas Kurian, said he planned to seize on sales growth in Europe, which is topping every other region globally.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
What more is there to say about WeWork, the hyper-growth, not-a-tech startup sporting an incredible shrinking valuation? A lot, apparently. Add Julie Bort at Business Insider's chronicling of the firm's crazed corporate culture to your reading list. She spoke to 20 recent and former WeWork employees about their experience inside the meat-banning, tequila-shooting "non-stop party."
For [WeWork's chairman and former CEO Adam] Neumann and anyone who worked for him, WeWork was all consuming, a place where the boundary between work and play not only didn't exist, but was fused together.
From meetings laden with tequila shots to mandatory company retreats filled with sounds of people having sex, working at WeWork meant signing up for a lifestyle that embraced, to an extreme degree, the no-holds-barred "hustle" culture the company promoted to clients.
The non-stop party, combined with the promise of a big payday, was intoxicating — at least at first.
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BEFORE YOU GO
Got a case of the Mondays? Maybe consider blowing off steam by honking at strangers, wagging your tail-feather, and causing a general ruckus about town. That's the basic premise of Untitled Goose Game, a video game in which players inhabit an ill-tempered goose who terrorizes a quaint English village.
"People seem to have this very particular relationship with geese," one of the game's developers, Nico Disseldorp, told Polygon in a recent interview. "They're kind of afraid of them. Geese can be really aggressive. They're a very powerful animal that people have lots of feelings about. But they're not seen as evil or wicked like a snake or a scorpion."
As Lizzo says, blame it on the goose.
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