Apple admits to hardware quality problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro - Thurrott.com https://www.thurrott.com/apple/191172/apple-admits-to-hardware-quality-problems-with-iphone-x-macbook-pro

What does an orchestral conductor actually do? - Clemency Burton-Hill/BBC http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141029-what-do-conductors-actually-do

Tech CEOs are in love with their principal doomsayer - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/yuval-noah-harari-silicon-valley.html

So you wanna be a chef — Anthony Bourdain http://ruhlman.com/2010/09/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef%E2%80%94-by-bourdain-2/

Bussed out: How America moves thousands of homeless people around the country - Outside in America/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

Milky Way devoured a galactic challenger, astronomers reveal - Nadia Drake/National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-milky-way-galaxy-ate-dwarf-backward-stars-astronomy

Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back - Ivan Mehta/TNW https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/11/01/twitter-is-finally-giving-our-chronological-timelines-back/

Flickr, now owned by SmugMug, changes its free accounts https://blog.flickr.net/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

'Hey, you're a developer. That means there's a 100 percent chance you're using a Macbook,' says developer who writes blog post that gives "brew" installation instructions with no acknowledgment that non-Mac-using developers exist.

Make your Firefox browser a privacy superpower with these extensions | The Firefox Frontier https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/make-your-firefox-browser-a-privacy-superpower-with-these-extensions/

Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? - Alexandra Alter/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/business/mini-books-pocket-john-green.html

I have 1,500 followers, and my tweets draw between 50 and 200 "impressions," as Twitter calls them, per post. Retweets are rare. Twitter is a different game for those with 50k, 100k and more followers.

Thank you for this story @AntonieWrites: Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting survivors and their relatives reflect on a more-deadly ending in Pittsburgh rampage https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/31/pittsburgh-rampage-taps-memories-of-hate-fueled-attack-at-granada-hills-jewish-community-center/

OpenBSD has virtual machines - OpenBSD FAQ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html

Twitter should kill the retweet - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/twitter-should-kill-retweet/574321/

The Growth of Reddit - QuillBot Blog https://blog.quillbot.com/subreddit-growth-over-time/

Announcing the release of Fedora 29 - Matthew Miller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/

IBM acquires Red Hat | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-acquires-red-hat/

IBM to acquire Raleigh-based Red Hat for billion | Richard Stradling and Zachery Eanes/Bradenton Herald https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article220764180.html

The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy RedHat for – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/biggest-software-acquisition/

IBM is acquiring Red Hat for billion - Becky Peterson/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-a-deal-to-acquire-redhat-the-software-company-valued-at-20-billion-2018-10

IBM acquires Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider

Learning by copying the textbook - Eugene Wallingford http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-05T15_58_36.htm

A dark consensus about screens and kids begins to emerge in Silicon Valley - Nellie Bowles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html

Snapchat loses 2M more users in Q3 as shares sink to new low – Josh Constine/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/snapchat-q3-2018-earnings/

Is Gutenberg the end or a new beginning for WordPress? - Iain Poulson/Delicious Brains https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-gutenberg/

Google is making it easier to wipe out your search history - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017832/google-search-privacy-changes-2018