Reads: Open-But-Closed Android, Scraper Bots & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life - Gizmodo
2. Google's Iron Grip on Android: Controlling Open Source by Any Means Necessary - Ars Technica
3. Every Step You Take: How Companies Use Geolocation Data to Target You - Boston Globe
4. While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey - National Geographic
5. Thin You Can Tell What Others are Thinking? Think Again - Aeon
6. For My Entire Childhood, My Mom Convinced Me I Was Dying - Narratively
7. A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling - Bloomberg
8. The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan - Bloomberg
9. Project 'Fuchsia': Google is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android - Bloomberg
10. Inside Google's Shadow Workforce - Bloomberg
11. Behemoth, Bully, Thief: How the English Language is Taking Over the Planet - The Guardian
12. Rongorongo: Language at the End of the World - Cabinet
13. The Commas that Cost Companies Millions - BBC
14. The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage - GQ
15. The Ambien Diaries - Popula
16. How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies - Politico
17. Gaming's Toxic Men, Explained - Polygon
18. A Deadly Hunt for Hidden Treasure Spawns an Online Mystery - Wired
19. 'Scraper' Bots and the Secret Internet Arms Race - Wired
20. The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories - Wired
21. How a Flock of Drones Developed Collective Intelligence - Wired
22. The Quantum Meltdown of Encryption - TechCrunch
23. Cash is a Miracle. So Why Are More Businesses Refusing It? - Slate
24. We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much can Backfire - HBR
25. On WhatsApp, Fake News Is Fast — and Can Be Fatal - The Washington Post