Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.
Welcome to The Monday List.
Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.
What We’re Reading This Week:
A Guide to LockerGoga, the Ransomware Crippling Industrial Firms
Ransomware has long been the scourge of the cybersecurity industry. When that extortionate hacking goes beyond encrypting files to fully paralyze computers across a company, it represents not just a mere shakedown, but a crippling disruption. Now a nasty new breed of ransomware known as LockerGoga is inflicting that paralysis on industrial firms whose computers control actual physical equipment, and it’s enough to deeply spook security researchers.
Nike’s Air Jordan Brand Is Winning Over European Soccer Fans
The iconic basketball brand is storming onto Adidas’s home turf.
Intel’s Latest Chip Push Suggests the Company Has a Short Memory
Its renewed bet on a volatile business has disappointed analysts who wanted a fresh look from the new CEO.
Should I Report a Do-Nothing Co-Worker?
Being indebted to others can makes us feel that the person in whose debt we are is in a position to lord it over us.
Apple TV+ Is Here—but It Has a Long Way to Go
Since the middle of 2017, when Apple hired two presidents away from Sony Pictures Television to oversee “video programming,” its Hollywood aspirations have fallen in the latter category.
Q&A: Instagram’s New Head of Product, Vishal Shah
Instagram’s new product chief talks about the app’s push into e-commerce, life after the departure of Instagram’s two cofounders, and Facebook’s controversial plan to unify its family of apps.
