DEFENDING AGAINST HACKERS TOOK A BACK SEAT AT YAHOO, INSIDERS SAY

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ARTS:

- The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art (The New Yorker)

BUSINESS/FINANCE:

- Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say (NYT) "To make computer systems more secure, a company often has to make its products slower and more difficult to use. It was a trade-off Yahoo’s leadership was often unwilling to make."

- How High-Frequency Trading Is Conquering Emerging Markets (Ozy)

NEWS:

- The Deepwater Horizon spill may have caused ‘irreversible’ damage to Gulf Coast marshes (WaPo) "The study, published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, finds the oil spill caused widespread erosion in the salt marshes along the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. And the researchers say there’s a chance these marshes might never completely grow back."

- A New Cuba (The New Yorker)

TECHNOLOGY:

- A High-Stakes Bet: Turning Google Assistant Into a ‘Star Trek’ Computer (NYT) "Now Google is melding these advances [a collection of data mining and artificial intelligence systems, from speech recognition to machine translation to computer vision] into a new product, a technology whose ultimate aim is something like the talking computer on “Star Trek.” It is a high-stakes bet: If this new tech fails, it could signal the beginning of the end of Google’s reign over our lives. But if it succeeds, Google could achieve a centrality in human experience unrivaled by any tech product so far."

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