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Today’s links:

• Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' - Analysis of his phone showed it was likely hacked by a file sent to him from the crown prince’s WhatsApp accountwww.theguardian.com #

• PHP in 2020 - I really liked this piece, I’m not a PHP programmer, but it’s nice to read something with a positive vibe that covers a lot of what modern PHP is like, there are a lot of similarities to NodeJS, they might even be implementing an integration with libuv, the library NodeJS uses for asyncstitcher.io #

• How I write backends - Really great writeup by NodeJS developer Federico Pereiro of his development and deploy environment as well as how he structures his apps - It’s amazing to me how similar this is to my setupgithub.com #

• Facebook Plans to Add 1,000 Jobs in London This Yearwww.adweek.com #

• Tech.eu Podcast - Interesting roundtable discussion on the podcast this week about AI tech in the european HR sector, the rising importance of independent teams, and how HR workers are anticipating much more rapid change over the next decade than in decades pasttech.eu #