Recode Daily: Have Chinese spies infiltrated Apple and Amazon with small chips?

Chinese spies have used tiny chips embedded in supply chain servers to infiltrate America's largest corporations, including Apple and Amazon.according to a Bloomberg Businessweek cover story citing former officials and "high level insiders" at Apple. "A government official said China's goal was to gain long-term access to high-value business secrets and sensitive government networks. No consumer data was stolen. But both companies denied the report in lengthy statements. Hmm. [Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley / Bloomberg Businessweek]

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Cruise Automation, the autonomous unit of General Motors, teams up with Honda, one of the world's largest automakers. The automotive giants will collaborate on a stand-alone vehicle designed for this purpose, capable of serving a "wide variety" of use cases and capable of being manufactured in large quantities for worldwide deployment. This is another great victory for GM's Cruise, one of the emerging leaders in the emerging auto-motive platform wars. Honda will spend $ 2 billion on the effort over 12 years, which combined with a $ 750 million equity investment in Cruise, brings the total commitment to $ 2.75 billion. Cruise General Manager Kyle Vogt spoke of some of the possibilities offered by a new vehicle built by GM and Honda in an average position.[Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge]

Lobbyists representing AT & T, Verizon, Comcast and Charter have filed lawsuits to block the new California law imposing net neutrality rules.The complaint described the California law as a "classic example of unconstitutional state regulation" and asked the court to block it before it came into effect on January 1. The Trump administration also immediately sued Californiato, blocking the new law. But legal experts argue that the effort to shield states from the consumer protection equation is based on a weak legal foundation, and that it only saves time for the telecommunications sector instead of completely canceling the law. [David Shepardson / Reuters]

Nintendo plans to release a new version of its popular Switch portable console next year, possibly with an improved display. [Takashi Mochizuki / WSJ]

YouTube's children's entertainment is more bizarre – and more global – than adults could have expected. For example, while "Sesame Street" has more than five billion views on YouTube, a local channel in southern India, called ChuChu TV, has more than $ 19 billion, making it one of 25 YouTube channels the most watched in the world. ChuChu is the largest of a new constellation of children's media brands on YouTube, spread around the world, including Little Baby Bum in London, Animaccord in Moscow and Billion Surprise Toys in Dubai. And the content is an exuberant, cheap, multicultural and data-driven catch that catches the attention of toddlers. [Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic]

Meet the coders who are programming without work. Programmers, of course, write code that has been automating their work for decades, but most do not go beyond complete or near complete automation of their work. The Atlantic chatted, by direct message on Reddit and by email, with a dozen auto-automatists; an encoder said to have inadvertently inadvertently automated the redundancy of an entire department; another has done everything to hide the contours of his fully automated job at $ 50,000 a year to his boss.[Brian Merchant / The Atlantic]

Do you have to tip your Uber or Lyft driver? And if so, how much? Uber added tips to its application a little over a year ago, and other carpool services allow riders to leave more tips to their drivers. But do drivers expect you to tip? Do they rely on them? Here are some quick and sensible tips from drivers, passengers and etiquette pros. [Kristin Wong / The New York Times]

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Elites like Amazon's Jeff Bezos think they are philanthropists. But they could do a lot more.Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All," said the elites only helped them on their terms – and would never put their extreme wealth at risk.

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