Amazon doesn’t favor its own brands—except when it does

PLUS: Great note-taking apps, how to avoid Black Friday scams, and why the Cybertruck looks so weird. [View this email in your browser]( [[WIRED Daily Newsletter]11.25.19]( [tesla truck, side profile]( [TRANSGRESSION]( [Why the Tesla Cybertruck Looks So Weird]( BY AARIAN MARSHALL [The pickup truck Elon Musk unveiled Thursday night features sharp angles, but no side mirrors or “crumple zone” to absorb the force of a collision.]( [Multi colored notepads]( [PRODUCTIVITY]( [Jot Down Your Thoughts With These Great Note-Taking Apps]( BY BOONE ASHWORTH [There are many apps to help you record and organize your thoughts on your phone and PC. These are our favorites.]( [Programming symbols on a cracked screen]( [END OF LIFE]( [Think App Updates Suck? Try Upgrading a Programming Language]( BY KLINT FINLEY [Coders face their own version of update hell. Users of an old version of the popular Python language face a reckoning at the end of the year.]( [Jeff Bezos in a suit and tie]( [GATED COMMUNITY]( [Amazon Doesn’t Favor Its Own Brands—Except When It Does]( BY GILAD EDELMAN [The company told House investigators that it "gates" its own private-label products. Here’s why that matters.]( [Subscribe to WIRED]( [GET WIRED]( [Insider access to our Black Friday sale](  [For a limited time, get a full year of print + digital access for just $10 $5.](  [Subscribe today]( [A pipette with poison code.]( [GOOSE CHASE]( [Tainted Data Can Teach Algorithms the Wrong Lessons]( BY WILL KNIGHT [Researchers show how AI programs can be sabotaged by even subtle tweaks to the data used to train them.]( [electric bike]( [ECO-FRIENDLY BIKER]( [The Juiced Bikes Scorpion is an E-Moped for Short People]( BY ADRIENNE SO [If you’re tiny, want a motorcycle, and don’t want to pay for insurance, there’s an e-bike for you.]( [Finn in a storm in a Star Wars movie]( [THE MONITOR]( [A 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Script Almost Sold on eBay]( BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER [According to J.J. Abrams, a careless actor is to blame.]( [dude on the computer]( [STAY SAFE]( [How to Avoid Black Friday Scams Online]( BY DAVID NIELD [’Tis the season for scammers and hackers. Here’s how to stay safe out there.]( [saturn and its rings]( [PLANETARY BLING]( [Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?]( BY ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS [A debate is raging over the age of the rings. Resolving it could produce the best clue yet to the rings' mysterious origin.]( [WIRED]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( or [Manage your newsletter subscriptions](newsletter=wir)