Airbnb opens the kimono, a disc-less Xbox, Facebook pushes back on controversy, SpaceX gets a key go-ahead, and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Airbnb booked more than $1 billion in third quarter revenue (CNBC)

Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (Thurrott.com)

Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ)

‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes)

Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (The Verge)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads:

THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired)

Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine)

The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (Motherboard)

How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (First Round Review)

THE HAIL MARY PLAN TO RESTART A HACKED US ELECTRIC GRID (Wired)

Space Camp grows up (Mashable)