HATING HILLARY

TOP OF THE NEWS:

- Hating Hillary (Economist) "Around 55% of Americans have an unfavorable view of her; about the same number do not trust her. Yet, among those who know Mrs Clinton, even critics praise her integrity. She is a politician, therefore self-interested and cynical at times—yet driven, they say, by an overarching desire to improve America. More surprising, given the many scandals she has been involved in, including an ongoing furor over her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state, not many of those who have dealt with her seem to think her particularly shifty. Even some of her foes say the concern about her probity is overblown. 'People can go back decades and perhaps criticize some of the judgments that were made,' Michael Chertoff, who was the Republican lead counsel in one of the first probes into Mrs Clinton, the Senate Whitewater Committee, but has endorsed her, told Bloomberg. 'That is very, very insignificant compared to the fundamental issue of how to protect the country.'"

BUSINESS:

- A chart about leggings sales that should scare every old-school apparel chain (WaPo) "Indeed, this data only reflects how people are buying two specific garments. But leggings and jeans are particularly important garments: Industry insiders have been known to say that “bottoms” are key to building loyalty to a clothing chain. When a woman finds that pants from a certain store fit her, she’s hooked, and she’ll hit that store up for jackets, blouses, shoes and so on."

- Meet LeEco, the Giant Chinese Mega-Corporation That Wants to Sell You Absolutely Everything (Wired)

- AT&T Is Buying Time Warner Because the Future is Google (Wired)

ENTERTAINMENT:

- The Unholy Gospel of Sam Kinison (Ozy) "Kinison is buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma, under a gravestone that reads: 'In another time and place he would have been called prophet.'"

- The coming-of-age movie is reborn, with fresh stories and characters (LA Times)

HEALTH:

- We review Ambronite v5, the newest meal-in-a-pouch all the way from Finland (Wired)

FRIDAY CYBER ATTACK:

- A New Era of Internet Attacks Powered by Everyday Devices (NYT) "But hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions, of those security cameras and other devices have been infected with a fairly simple program that guessed at their factory-set passwords — often “admin” or “12345” or even, yes, “password” — and, once inside, turned them into an army of simple robots. Each one was commanded, at a coordinated time, to bombard a small company in Manchester, N.H., called Dyn DNS with messages that overloaded its circuits."

- Today's Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future (Gizmodo) "Recently, we've entered into a new DDoS paradigm. As security blogger Brian Krebs notes, the newfound ability to highjack insecure internet of things devices and turn them into a massive DDoS army has contributed to an uptick in the size and scale of recent DDoS attacks"

- What’s Going On With the Internet Today? (The Atlantic)

NEWS:

- Philippines’ Duterte says ‘goodbye’ to Washington and hello to Beijing (WaPo)

- Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States (FP)

- A Game-Changing Year for Women — in More Ways Than You Think (Ozy)

SCIENCE:

- Your Neanderthal DNA might actually be doing you some good (WaPo) "The DNA that does remain has been blamed for increasing risk of depression, Type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, lupus, allergies, addiction and more."

SPORTS:

- The Spy Who Played Major League Baseball (Ozy)

TECHNOLOGY:

- How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History (Esquire)

BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:

- Finally, a Nerf Dart That Goes Exactly Where You Want It To (Wired) "The real fun starts with the real-world testing. The team fired over 3,000 darts under controlled conditions, at targets 30 feet away, and used a wind tunnel to asses in-flight performance. The end result? A Nerf dart that fills out your arsenal for when you’re in a close-quarters situation and can’t risk a miss."

- Watch this gut-wrenching new short by Pixar animators (WaPo)

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