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Thu. 07/08 – The States Go After Google First
8 juli 2021 · 19 min
State Attorneys General file an antitrust suit against Google. But why them, first? Visa wants you to spend crypto via their platform. Fintech leads a record first half of the year for VC raises. And if payment for order flow were nixed by the SEC, what would that do to Robinhood?
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36 states, D.C. sue Google for alleged antitrust violations in its Android app store (Politico)
Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life (XDA Developers)
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
London fintech funding soars in first half of the year (Reuters)
Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules (Bloomberg)
Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (Wall Street Journal)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (New York Times)
The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here. (Washington Post)
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (Julia Reda)
Ireland’s Days as a Tax Haven May Be Ending, but Not Without a Fight (New York Times)
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Wed. 07/07 – Pentagon, RE: The JEDI Contract: Jkjkjkjkjk
7 juli 2021 · 19 min
The Pentagon wants a do-over for that JEDI contract. YC wants to do Tinder but for founder matchmaking. Amazon open sources its gaming engine. How about NFT’s but for the stock market? And if you think China is cracking down on tech companies, wait till you hear how they want to regulate when and how kids can play videogames.
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Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)
Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC (Bloomberg)
Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (Venture Beat)
Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
China's Tencent Says It'll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night (Gizmodo)
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Tue. 07/06 – New Nintendo Switch (Finally/Kinda)
6 juli 2021 · 18 min
Nintendo finally announces the new Switch, but how new is it really? What the heck is happening with Didi and China? REvil strikes again, and what that might mean for the hacking situation going forward. And on a day of big geopolitical news, might big tech platforms be chased out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to jail?
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Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal)
Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times)
REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch)
American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times)
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(SPC CST) The Facebook Antitrust Blowup With @Kantrowitz
3 juli 2021 · 1 uur 16 min
lex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies.
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Fri. 07/02 – Robinhood’s IPO Success Depends On Doge?
2 juli 2021 · 18 min
Robinhood files for its long-awaited IPO. The Chinese government took the shine off of Didi’s recent IPO. More new features from Twitter. Is Apple the first to take advantage of 3nm chips? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
How Robinhood's explosive growth rate came to be (Tech Crunch)
Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC)
Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (Tech Crunch)
Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC's latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Three Weeks with iOS and iPadOS 15: Foundational Updates (Mac Stories)
Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built? (Wall Street Journal)
ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg)
‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (Los Angeles Times)
The Tin Man Gets His Heart: An Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (The Ringer)
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Thu. 07/01 – Instagram Is “No Longer A Photo-Sharing App”
1 juli 2021 · 16 min
Instagram and TikTok are on a collision course. Instagram wants to be more like TikTok, while TikTok hopes to move the goalposts first. Amazon wants Lina Khan to recuse herself. Big tech is not only taking over advertising, it’s consolidating it. And anyone can get their hands on Starlink next month, but not everyone might want to.
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Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC)
TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge)
Federal judge puts Florida 'deplatforming' law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News)
Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg)
Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input)
The EU’s 'vaccine passport' and what it means for travel (BBC)
Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)
Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you'll want it (Input)
SpaceX's Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input)
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Wed. 06/30 – Facebook’s Substack Clone
30 juni 2021 · 18 min
Facebook launches its Substack clone. Emphasis on clone. Shopify joins the platform tax wars by going to zero. A truce between Microsoft and Google has just lapsed. A big raise in the drone space. And would you pay to get actual search results instead of ads?
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Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch)
Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch)
Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch)
Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)
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Tue. 06/29 – Facebook Beats The Rap
29 juni 2021 · 19 min
A judge has completely thrown out the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and sent them back to the drawing board. Microsoft and OpenAI and Github have a tool that will suggest code to you as you code. And Sam Altman, as I understand this, wants to do Universal Basic Income on the blockchain. But first, he wants to scan your eyeball.
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Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook (CNBC)
Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11 (The Verge)
Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers (CNBC)
YouTube TV Unveils Dolby Digital Support & Premium Add-on with 4K, Offline Downloads, and Unlimited Streams (The Streamable)
Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)
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Mon. 06/28 – Binance Runs Into Trouble Around The Globe
28 juni 2021 · 18 min
The UK orders a halt to regulated activities by Binance, joining everybody, all the sudden. Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 888 Plus. Lenovo unveils an Android tablet that works as a portable monitor. And meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance.
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Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (Financial Times)
The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 Plus will speed up gaming, AI in high-end 5G phones (Cnet)
Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor (The Verge)
Apple Explores Bigger iPads and Reshuffles Its Car Team (Bloomberg)
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply chain fiasco (Bleeping Computer)
Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance (Financial Times)
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(SPC CST) a16z's Future Plans And Audio Spaces With @smc90 and @kyurieff
26 juni 2021 · 1 uur 29 min
We have two special guests this week! The first is Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief of a16z and showrunner of a16z podcasts. We’ll be getting her perspective on the launch of FUTURE, which we discussed last week.
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Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)
25 juni 2021 · 17 min
Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)
Some Western Digital NAS devices are getting ill (matic). A breakdown of the 5 or 6 big tech antitrust bills that just passed House committees. Windows 11 is free, but what if your device can’t run it? Also, more on Microsoft’s anti-Apple posturing. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide (Bleeping Computer)
Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup (The Verge)
Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge)
Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
What Is Blue Box? A Vast Conspiracy Grips the Video Game World (Bloomberg)
A very brief history of every Google messaging app (The Verge)
The Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on Ethereum (Decrypt)
How Roku used the Netflix playbook to beat bigger players and rule streaming video (CNBC)
Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? (Bloomberg)
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Thu. 06/24 – New Windows!
24 juni 2021 · 17 min
The new Windows is Windows 11. Google delays the Adpodcalypse. BuzzFeed finally to go public. Comcast is having issues with Peacock. Google and Jio’s cheap smartphone is announced. Is the biggest ever crypto crime story evolving right now in South Africa? And RIP John McAfee.
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Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
Google delays Chrome's cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years (Cnet)
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant (Wall Street Journal)
Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next (Tech Crunch)
South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (New York Times)
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Wed. 06/23 – Microsoft Joins The $2T Club
23 juni 2021 · 17 min
Ticketed Space and Super Follows begin to roll out, and depending on how you slice it, folks stand to make a ton of money… or a ton of money for the app stores. Speaking of, Apple launches a PR campaign defending the App Store on security grounds. Microsoft becomes the second company to reach the $2 trillion dollar club. And you know about phishing scams, but let me introduce you to “brushing” scams.
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Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
Apple’s Fight for Control Over Apps Moves to Congress and EU (Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (Tech Crunch)
Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta (Tech Crunch)
What is the 'brushing' scam and how can you protect yourself? (Yahoo Life)
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Tue. 06/22 – More EU Trouble For Google
22 juni 2021 · 17 min
Another antitrust investigation formally opened against Google in Europe. Facebook’s Oculus ad partner thinks better of the experiment. Stephen Spielberg decides that Netflix’s money is as green as anybody’s. Ransomware gangs are abandoning bitcoin. And Amazon, at least, still believes in autonomous vehicles.
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EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s advertising business (Financial Times)
Resolution Games Pulls Blaston Out Of Facebook Ad Test (Upload)
Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge)
Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget)
Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers (The Verge)
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, Netflix Forge Film Deal in Sign of Changing Hollywood (Variety)
Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (Financial Times)
Amazon Snaps Up Option to Buy Stake in AI Truck-Driving Startup (Bloomberg)
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Mon. 06/21 – Can Facebook Win Audio?
21 juni 2021 · 17 min
Facebook’s Clubhouse clone rolls out. Here’s how it works. China really does seem to be cracking down on Bitcoin mining. Here’s why that could be important. Some power companies in Texas are remotely adjusting the smart thermostats of users. Here’s why that’s likely the future of things. And had you heard of cyclic propulsion aircraft before? I hadn’t. Let me tell you about it.
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Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US (Tech Crunch)
China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (Global Times)
Digital euro will protect consumer privacy, ECB executive pledges (Financial Times)
'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (KHOU)
Apple Watch accessory maker Wristcam raises $25M (Tech Crunch)
Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar (New Atlas)
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Fri. 06/18 – Cell Networks Security Deliberately Nerfed?
18 juni 2021 · 18 min
Were some of the base encryption algorithms on cell networks deliberately nerfed? The first ever mass arrest of a ransomware gang? Proof that Google is working on a FindMy network rival? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened (Vice)
Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cyber criminal crackdown (Financial Times)
Google may be working on an Android version of Apple’s “Find My” network (XDA Developers)
Gopuff to Buy Siemens-Backed RideOS in $100 Million-Plus Deal (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Ransomware claims are roiling an entire segment of the insurance industry (Washington Post)
THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN TECH GIANT (The Atlantic)
Anatomy of a Seed Round During COVID-19 (Fresh Paint)
Meet Wu Dao 2.0, the Chinese AI model making the West sweat (Politico)
Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips (Vice)
How governments and spies text each other (Wired)
Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away (Bloomberg)
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Thu. 06/17 – How About Some Ads On Your Oculus?
17 juni 2021 · 18 min
Facebook is bringing ads to Virtual Reality cause, why not, right? Stories are coming to the Xbox. Why is Google downsizing it’s healthcare team? Why are music artists flooding to Twitch? And is Facebook cornering the VR market like it cornered social media?
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Facebook to begin testing ads inside Oculus virtual reality headsets (CNBC)
Xbox’s June update adds speech-to-text chat feature (Engadget)
Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week (The Verge)
Amazon Appstore will reduce developer revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in Free AWS Credit (AFTV News)
EXCLUSIVE: Google is downsizing its health team and moving employees to Fitbit as part of a major reorganization (Insider)
Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. (New York Times)
Is Facebook cornering the VR market? (Platformer)
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Wed. 06/16 – A Nightmare FTC Chair For Big Tech?
16 juni 2021 · 17 min
Lina Khan has not only been confirmed as FTC commissioner, she’s also been named FTC chair. Waymo raises a big new round, which is soops interesting. Spotify joins the audio rooms sweepstakes. A Windows 11 build leaks. And forget Apple Stores, would you visit an actual Apple Health Clinic?
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Biden Names Lina Khan, a Big-Tech Critic, as F.T.C. Chair (New York Times)
Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round (CNBC)
GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits (CNBC)
Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (Tech Crunch)
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (Wall Street Journal)
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Tue. 06/15 – Automattic Acquires Day One
15 juni 2021 · 17 min
Automattic acquires the popular iOS and iPad OS journaling app, Day One. Everybody wants a piece of Stripe. Stripe wants to be the “Stripe for Identity” all by itself. With HBO vanquished, now Netflix wants to become Disney faster than Disney can become Netflix. And could I interest you in an NFT of the entire World Wide Web?
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WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (Tech Crunch)
U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data (Reuters)
Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (Wall Street Journal)
Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more (Tech Crunch)
Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location (Geek Wire)
Netflix Has a Plan to Sell You Toys, T-Shirts and Concert Tickets (Bloomberg)
Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (Financial Times)
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Mon. 06/14 – An “Extreme” Apple Watch?
14 juni 2021 · 20 min
Could we get an extreme sports Apple Watch soon? Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all. Bitcoin’s first major overhaul in four years is a go. TikTok has quickly become an advertising Monster. And I try to explain to you why everyone is suddenly so hype on Miami as a tech hub.
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Apple Plans Faster Watch, Future Temperature and Glucose Sensors (Bloomberg)
Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge)
Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22 (The Verge)
Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC)
TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg)
Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg)
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Fri. 06/11 – Now The Hackers Have Come For Our Hamburgers
11 juni 2021 · 19 min
Moar… hacking news. McDonalds. Electronic Arts. Le sigh. Apple wants to do away with passwords too. Elon Musk unveils the Model S Plaid. An interesting Apple Car hire. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (Wall Street Journal)
Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice)
Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet)
Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC)
Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. (Double Pulsar)
When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC)
APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge)
THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic)
Marcus Graham: Looking back on 10 years of Twitch’s experiment with livestreaming (Venture Beat)
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Thu. 06/10 – Another Payoff To Ransomware Hackers
10 juni 2021 · 18 min
Another payoff to Ransomware hackers. Facebook to launch a smartwatch? Microsoft to launch a dedicated game streaming device? Samsung unveils a tiny, tiny camera sensor. Stripe wants to handle your sales tax headache. And can the creator economy take off in a world of App Stores with 30% rakes?
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JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack (Wall Street Journal)
Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor (The Verge)
Microsoft is building its own streaming devices as part of a major Xbox Game Pass expansion (Protocol)
Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor (The Verge)
Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries (Tech Crunch)
The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge)
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Wed. 06/09 – The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As Legal Tender
9 juni 2021 · 16 min
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Biden reverses the TikTok and WeChat bans. Did one single customer cause that Fastly internet outage? Interesting raise for a faster Ethereum. Interesting new browser option. And maybe my favorite honey pot operation of all time.
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El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC)
Biden revokes and replaces Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat (The Verge)
Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge)
Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block)
Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (Tech Crunch)
FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs (The Record)
Encrypted messaging app used by criminals was actually an FBI honeypot (Input)
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Tue. 06/08 – Fastly Takes Down The Internet
8 juni 2021 · 17 min
Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized. The US seized most of the bitcoins those hackers got from the Colonial Pipeline hack, highlighting how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable. Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on WWDC day, and I give you a wrap-up of the bits a pieces we missed from WWDC yesterday.
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Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch)
U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal)
Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge)
EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters)
Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge)
iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac)
Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet)
Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac)
Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge)
Book Recommendation: Network Effect by Martha Wells
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Mon. 06/07 - WWDC 2021
7 juni 2021 · 19 min
All the headlines from WWDC 2021. Bezos in space! France brings the first hammer down on this round of anti-competitive action, this time against Google. And Jane Manchun Wong has the details on the upcoming Twitter Super Followers thingy.
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Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner (TechCrunch)
Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices (WSJ)
Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge)
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(Bonus) SpaceCasts Sampler!
5 juni 2021 · 2 uur 3 min
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Fri. 06/04 – iPad Pro Rumors And WWDC Pre-Hype
4 juni 2021 · 18 min
Is MagSafe charging coming to iPads? Is the Biden administration actually cracking down harder on China than the Trump administration did? Is the recent slate of ransomware attacks the new normal or the sign of something bigger brewing? And, in the weekend longreads suggestions, we meet a guy who’s job is to negotiate with ransomware hackers.
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Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg)
Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge)
Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (New York Times)
Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers (The New Yorker)
Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Motherboard)
The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku)
Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics (Wall Street Journal)
Developer relations (Marco Arment)
Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect (The Verge)
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Thu. 06/03 – Twitter Launches Twitter Blue!
3 juni 2021 · 20 min
Twitter takes the wrapping off its subscription product, Twitter Blue. Multi-device support hints at a future WhatsApp app for iPads. Stack Overflow is the latest part of the developer ecosystem to sell for big bucks. And taking the temperature of Google’s Ethical AI team.
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Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC)
Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge)
WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors)
Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN)
Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode)
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Wed. 06/02 – Facebook’s F8 Refresh
2 juni 2021 · 16 min
All the headlines from Facebook’s F8 Refresh. Etsy buys a used clothes marketplace. Another ransomware attack shutting down a major player in a vital industry, this time, literally in the meat-space. And you can start trading Dogecoin on Coinbase tomorrow.
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Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (Tech Crunch)
Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge)
Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC)
Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (New York Times)
U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC)
Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (Wall Street Journal)
Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk)
Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters)
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Tue. 06/01 – Flagship GPU Headlines From Computex
1 juni 2021 · 21 min
Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why.
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Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica)
Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times)
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31 mei 2021 · 4 min
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Fri. 05/28 – SolarWinds Back In The Headlines
28 mei 2021 · 23 min
The SolarWinds hackers are back, and I’m starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here. Mark Gurman thinks we’ll see redesigned AirPods this year. Have I Been Pwned goes open source. And come for the longreads suggestions as always, but stay for my rant about that insane Citizen app story.
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Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times)
Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg)
Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice)
Own the Internet (Not Boring)
A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (New York Times)
The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times)
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Thu. 05/27 – Upgraded Nintendo Switch Imminent
27 mei 2021 · 15 min
An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead.
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Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg)
You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge)
James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times)
Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg)
PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors)
Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge)
Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)
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Wed. 05/26 – Amazon To Launch A Rocky Extended Universe?
26 mei 2021 · 20 min
Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding?
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Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC)
Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica)
Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge)
USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET)
Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)
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Tue. 05/25 – Fuchsia OS Finally Arrives
25 mei 2021 · 17 min
Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app, and it debuted number one on the app store. And Noom has raised a hell of a lot of money, but that’s because, its making a ton of money helping people lose weight.
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Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google)
ARM's first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget)
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times)
Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors)
Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch)
Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol)
Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)
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Mon. 05/24 - Reading The Tea Leaves Of The Epic/Apple Trial
24 mei 2021 · 18 min
After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is considering rent-a-cops as a service. The AI community wants to open source large language models to address recent controversies. And a computer chip that changes its structure to thwart hackers.
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Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch)
Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol)
HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac)
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas)
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(Bonus) How Ransomware Works With Cybereason's CISO Isreal Barak
22 mei 2021 · 28 min
Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service works.
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Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff
21 mei 2021 · 21 min
Snap releases its first true AR glasses, and buys the company that helped make them a reality. Is Netflix going to get into gaming to help juice growth in North America? Is the IRS going to crack down ever harder on Crypto? Twitter’s newly revamped verification system. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge)
Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge)
Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge)
Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information)
U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC)
$ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg)
Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget)
How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer)
Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign)
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Thu. 05/20 – Hello F-150 Lightning; Goodbye IE; Hello Again, RSS…
20 mei 2021 · 17 min
The newly announced electric F-150 is maybe the biggest EV effort since the launch of Tesla. Google is launching its first ever retail store. Internet Explorer is finally going to that great recycle bin in the sky. But could Google be breathing new life into RSS feeds in web browsers?
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Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (New York Times)
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (Tech Crunch)
'I'm not very social': ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
Apple cites 'significant' malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet)
Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)
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Wed. 05/19 – Google I/O Roundup
19 mei 2021 · 15 min
Google I/O continues and continues to produce new headlines for us to cover. Nvidia is nerfing the ability to mine crypto. Ethereum says it’s going to go super energy efficient real soon. Microsoft10X is officially, no longer a thing. And reviews of the new iPad Pro reveal it to be… an iPad.
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Helping all your devices work better together (Google)
Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 (Engadget)
Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram (Wired)
Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge)
Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing)
Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn't happening (ZDNet)
IPAD PRO (2021) REVIEW: DREAM SCREEN (The Verge)
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Tue. 05/18 – Google I/O
18 mei 2021 · 18 min
All the headlines from Google I/O. Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM and James Bond. When we might expect those new MacBook Pros, the first reviews of the M1 iMacs and what’s the deal with the new lossless streaming not working with most of Apple’s hardware?
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ANDROID 12 PREVIEW: FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE’S RADICAL NEW DESIGN (The Verge)
Amazon Pondering Deal to Buy MGM (The Information)
Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps (Bloomberg)
APPLE’S NEW IMAC BRINGS M1 GOODNESS TO THE DESKTOP (The Verge)
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China (NYTimes)
Exclusive: These are Apple’s new truly wireless in-ear Beats Studio earbuds (9to5Mac)
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Mon. 05/17 – Better Quality Streaming Audio (Basically) For Free
17 mei 2021 · 17 min
Apple Music and Amazon Music HD bring better audio quality to everyone. AT&T throws in the towel on Warner Media by doing a shotgun marriage with Discovery. GitHub now lets you add video. Jane Manchun Wong says the subscription service is going to be called Twitter Blue. And what we might be able to expect from Google’s I/O tomorrow.
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Apple announces lossless Apple Music is coming in June at no added cost (The Verge)
Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market (Billboard)
AT&T to spin off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery in deal that would create streaming giant (CNN Business)
Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge)
GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat)
‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99 (9to5 Mac)
Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (Wall Street Journal)
Google's Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena)
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(TWTR SPC) Tipping As The Currency For The Creator Economy
15 mei 2021 · 1 uur 30 min
From Friday, May 14, 2021. A long discussion about tipping as the base unit (???) of the creator economy? Featuring @gregarious as well as @NigelKofi (check out Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/) and @reeshahoward.
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Fri. 05/14 – Now Ransomware Is Shutting Down The Irish Health Service
14 mei 2021 · 20 min
A ransomware attack has brought down large sections of the Irish health service. Why Disney+ numbers are suddenly looking so weak to investors. A deep dive review on whether or not, or even to what degree, Elon’s internet service from space can free us from ISP hell. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Cyber attack 'most significant on Irish state' (BBC)
Disney Plus Hits 103.6 Million Subscribers as Rapid Growth Slows, ESPN Plus Perks Up (Variety)
STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
To Understand Amazon, We Must Understand Jeff Bezos (New York Times)
The PlayStation 5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised (Wired)
Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy (Every)
Robinhood’s Big Gamble (The New Yorker)
What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter? (Matthew Ball)
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body (Vice)
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Thu. 05/13 – Elon Rekt Crypto
13 mei 2021 · 19 min
The whims of Elon Musk go both ways when it comes to crypto markets. SpaceX signs a deal with Google Cloud to do battle with AWS and the Kuiper Project. Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the ransom and is getting back online. Will Facebook’s crypto project ever see the light of day, part 12. And the Ethereum creator donates Crypto to help India.
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Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud (The Verge)
Biden signs executive order designed to strengthen federal digital defenses (Washington Post)
Roku will launch original programming fueled by Quibi’s content on May 20 (Tech Crunch)
Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash (Axios)
Facebook-backed crypto project Diem abandons Swiss license application, will move to the U.S. (CNBC)
Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19 (Tech Crunch)
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Wed. 05/12 – Xiaomi Gets Out Of The Dog House
12 mei 2021 · 19 min
The US lets Xiaomi out of the blacklist. GitHub ads security key support and wants to move on from the password era. eBay wants in on the NFT action. WhatsApp is gonna turn the screws until you agree to their terms. And speaking of, Brian Krebs outlines how that group suspected to be behind the pipeline hack has sophisticated ways of getting you to pay up.
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US agrees to drop Xiaomi from blacklist after lawsuit (Bloomberg)
Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras (The Verge)
GitHub shifts away from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations (ZDNet)
EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block)
WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don't agree to its new privacy policy (Insider)
E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios)
SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters)
A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security)
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Tue. 05/11 – It’s New Chip Tuesday!
11 mei 2021 · 18 min
It’s new chip day. Intel unveils it’s 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake-H 10nm chips, while Nvidia unveils the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs. So expect a bunch of laptop lines to be refreshed. And, oh, look at that. The Dell XPS lineup already has been. Details on the next gen PlayStation VR hardware. And an argument that Apple’s recent privacy movies are a naked and ugly power play that harms the open web.
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Intel Launches 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H: Eight Core 10nm Mobile Processors (AnandTech)
NVIDIA's RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti bring ray tracing to affordable laptops (Engadget)
Dell’s new XPS 15 and XPS 17 get upgraded with Intel’s long-awaited 11th Gen H-series chips (The Verge)
Next-Gen PlayStation VR Is 4K With Foveated Rendering And Vibration Feature (Upload)
Foxconn’s iPhone output in India down amid COVID surge-sources (Reuters)
Apple robbed the mob’s bank (Mobile Dev Demo)
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Mon. 05/10 – No PlayStation For Me Until 2023?
10 mei 2021 · 17 min
Sony warns that it might be literal years before I can finally win one of those PlayStation 5 sales windows on Walmart.com. The big ransomware attack that threatened fuel supply on the US East Coast, and the hackers allegedly behind it. Clubhouse hits Android. A researcher claims to have already hacked AirTags. And Elon Musk’s SNL appearance, and Dogecoin, and everything.
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Sony warns tight Playstation 5 supply to extend into next year (Bloomberg)
Colonial hackers stole data Thursday ahead of pipeline shutdown (Bloomberg)
Here’s the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown (CNBC)
Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity (The Verge)
AirTag hacked for the first time by security researcher [Video] (9to5 Mac)
Apple's 2023 iPhone could ditch Qualcomm and launch with its own 5G chip (Laptop Mag)
Apple Awards iPhone Glass Supplier Corning Additional $45M From Advanced Manufacturing Fund (Mac Rumors)
Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ (The Verge)
SNL was a good night for Elon Musk — and a bad one for Dogecoin (Protocol)
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(TWTR SPC) Tip Jar, Basecamp And Doge
8 mei 2021 · 1 uur 44 min
We talk about the Tip Jar and all the other big changes Twitter has been making. We get into the Basecamp brouhaha and also why I didn’t end up covering it this week. We talk about Dogecoin with someone who was there at the beginning of the project. And we even have an actual newsmaker on the show. At the very end, we talk to Tony Haile, founder of Scroll, which, if you’ll remember, just got acquired by Twitter this past week.
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Fri. 05/07 – Twitter Introduces Tip Jar
7 mei 2021 · 19 min
Twitter introduces a tip jar, literally called Tip Jar. Why crypto trading juicing Square’s earnings is worth thinking about. What is the mysterious social space Netflix is surveying users about building? Yes, Substack is letting writers build magazines and newsrooms, so stop pointing out the obvious. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts (The Verge)
Square gets a bitcoin boost with revenue up 266% (CNBC)
Playlists and podcasts? Netflix is exploring developing ‘N-Plus’ (Protocol)
You can now build a “mini media empire” on Substack (Financial Times)
Everyone yells at the Oversight Board (Platformer)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? (Harvard Business Review)
Crypto pros are getting tired of the 79 billion dollar dogecoin joke (Bloomberg)
I'm seeing a lot of people FOMO quit their jobs to join "crypto" (Jon Syu)
THE LAST DAYS OF SATOSHI: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BITCOIN’S CREATOR DISAPPEARED (Bitcoin Magazine)
John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (The New Yorker)
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