Facebook’s Control Over Oculus and the Innovation of Microsoft Flight Simulator

Uber’s former CSO charged with obstruction of justice, becoming the first tech executive ever charged for a security incident. A legend of the Amazon C suite is leaving next year. Epic Games continues to gleefully poke Apple in the eye. How Apple is cutting 5G costs in the iPhone 12. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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• Former Uber Security Chief Charged With Concealing Hack (NYTimes)
• Uber and Lyft Get Reprieve After Threatening to Shut Down (NYTimes)
• Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s consumer boss and a top lieutenant to Bezos, will step down in 2021 (CNBC)
• Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes (The Verge)
• Apple secretly acquired Israeli photography startup Camerai (CalcalisTech)
• Kuo: Apple Looking to Save on Costs in iPhone 12 With Simpler Battery Board Design (MacRumors)

Weekend Longreads

• MONUMENTAL FAILURE - How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes (The Verge)
• The Case of the Top Secret iPod (TidBits)
• The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them (Forbes)
• Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn (Fast Company)
• Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition (Ars Technica)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator review: clear skies with some light chop (Polygon)
• Why Microsoft's new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous (Protocol)

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