markjgsmith

Today’s links:

• Twitter goes down during White House social media summitwww.theverge.com #

• If you are curious about linkblog.io uptime, checkout the status page, it's not twitter for sure but currently averaging about 98-99% uptime which I think is quite goodstatus.linkblog.io #

• Hunt exhorts UK envoys to 'speak truth to power' in coded rebuke to Johnsonwww.theguardian.com #

• 'Ain't goin nowhere' - New Orleans residents brace for possible hurricanewww.theguardian.com #

• Google workers can listen to what people say to its AI home deviceswww.theguardian.com #

• Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European marketseconomictimes.indiatimes.com #

• Podcasters need listening data, so Nielsen is going to call people’s homes to ask for itwww.theverge.com #

• How U.S. Tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state - "We are dealing with thousands terabits per second"theintercept.com #

• Warner Bros Studios fire - Crews tackle blaze for 15 hours - The studio in Hertfordshire is where films such as Harry Potter, James Bond, Fast and Furious and the Mission Impossible have been madewww.bbc.com #

• Trump 'not a fan' of cryptocurrency, blasts Facebook's Librawww.zdnet.com #

• Why I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment - It’s interesting that for some podcasts ads are a better fit than listener supported fundingtim.blog #

• Loved, forgotten, abandoned - Thailand’s cinemas once ruled the kingdom - If you are at all into movies, this is a good read with some interesting anecdotes and great photographycoconuts.co #