Navajo Generating Station coal plant shutdown looms, Arizona Navajo and Hopi tribes look for economic solutions

Navajo Generating Station coal plant shutdown looms, Arizona Navajo and Hopi tribes look for economic solutions. By Evan Wyloge, photos by Nick Oza.
Read more: https://azcir.org/news/2017/10/20/navajo-generating-station-coal-plant-shutdown-looms-arizona-navajo-and-hopi-tribes-look-for-economic-solutions/?source=Snapzu

U.S. Posts Its Largest Budget Deficit Since 2013

The U.S. posted its largest budget deficit since 2013 in the fiscal year that just ended, as a pickup in spending exceeded revenue gains. The federal government’s gap grew to $665.7 billion in the 12 months through Sept. 30, compared with a $585.6 billion shortfall in fiscal 2016, the Treasury Department said Friday in a report released in Washington. That was in line with the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of $668 billion.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-20/u-s-registers-largest-fiscal-year-budget-shortfall-since-2013?source=Snapzu

Apple hit with trademark lawsuit over iPhone X 'animoji' feature

A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on a feature of its iPhone X. Tokyo-based Emonster kk sued Apple on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, saying it holds the U.S. trademark on the term animoji and that Apple’s use of the word is a “textbook case” of deliberate infringement.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-trademark/apple-hit-with-trademark-lawsuit-over-iphone-x-animoji-feature-idUSKBN1CP29Q?source=Snapzu

The Nintendo Switch is having an incredible run so far, and the future looks even brighter

The Nintendo Switch is still hard to find, and it's regularly beating the competition in sales. Its main launch game, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," is heralded as one of the best games ever made. And Nintendo has a huge new Mario game, "Super Mario Odyssey," launching in less than a week.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nintendo-switch-upcoming-games-2017-10?source=Snapzu

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities

A pentester shares a story that shows how social engineering can get you anywhere.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities?source=Snapzu

Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty

Opinion: The company had one job, and it failed. It deserves to be dissolved.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-deserves-the-corporate-death-penalty/?source=Snapzu

She was 92, stranded in Puerto Rico nursing home. Her rescue: an Uber sent from Miami

The good news out of San Juan came in a hurry for Natascha Otero-Santiago but it wouldn’t last long: Her mother’s 92-year-old friend, stranded on the fifth floor of a nursing home with no power, finally had a seat waiting for her on a private jet. It was leaving in 90 minutes.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article179629561.html?source=Snapzu