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Thursday, December 29 2022 - Thu. 12/29 – Someone Tell Zuck About This ABBA Avatar Concert

Alameda Research wallets swap several crypto tokens for bitcoin (The Block)
U.S. charges fraud in Mango crypto manipulation case (Reuters)
Crypto Trader’s Fraud Charges Show DeFi Isn’t Outside the Law (Bloomberg)
Amazon Has Discussed a Stand-Alone Sports App as Andy Jassy Doubles Down on Prime Video (The Information)
Tech stocks got whacked in 2022 — but one server maker soared almost 90%, beating all its peers (CNBC)
ABBA’s successful avatar show in London offers a glimpse at a daring new direction for live music (CNBC)

Tuesday, December 27 2022 - Tue. 12/27 – Is The Sun Setting On SOL?

Thursday, December 22 2022 - Thu. 12/22 – Caroline Drops A Dime

Two Bankman-Fried colleagues plead guilty to fraud (Washington Post)
Twitter adds BTC and ETH price indexes to search function (CoinTelegraph)
A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business (NYTimes)
YouTube Paying Roughly $2 Billion a Year for NFL Sunday Ticket (WSJ)
FCC proposes record $300 million fine against auto warranty robocall campaign (CyberScoop)

Wednesday, December 21 2022 - Wed. 12/21 – YouTube Sunday Ticket?

Google’s YouTube in Talks for Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket (WSJ)
Anker’s Eufy breaks its silence on security cam security (The Verge)
Kuo: Apple to Cancel or Postpone 2024 iPhone SE 4 (MacRumors)
Slow fade for Google and Meta’s ad dominance (Axios)
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models (TechCrunch)
‘South Park’ Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone Land $20 Million in Funding for Their Deepfake VFX Studio (Variety)

Tuesday, December 20 2022 - Tue. 12/20 – An Old Crypto Mystery Resurfaces

Monday, December 19 2022 - Mon. 12/19 – Elon’s Voted Himself Off The Twitter Island?

Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors (The Verge)
Google is letting businesses try out client-side encryption for Gmail (The Verge)
Binance.US to Buy Voyager Assets in $1.022 Billion Deal (Bloomberg)
Bankman-Fried is ready to ‘face the music,’ prison official says (Washington Post)
Apple Scales Back High-End Mac Pro Plans, Weighs Production Move to Asia (Bloomberg)
Facebook’s Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs to Metaverse Next Year (Bloomberg)

Friday, December 16 2022 - Fri. 12/16 – I Lied. More Twitter News Today.

Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers (TechCrunch)
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company (NBCNews)
Accountant That Vetted Binance Reserves Halts Crypto Work (Bloomberg)
Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets (Digiday)

Thursday, December 15 2022 - Thu. 12/15 – This Again?

Wednesday, December 14 2022 - Wed. 12/14 – Apple To Allow Third-Party App Stores

Tuesday, December 13 2022 - Tue. 12/13 – SBF Arrested And Charged

Federal prosecutors, SEC unveil charges against Sam Bankman-Fried (Washington Post)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges (CNBC)
Jim Edwards thread summarizing the SEC complaint (Twitter)
Binance CEO addresses USDC outflows: ‘feel free to withdraw any other stablecoin’ (The Block)
AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success (TechCrunch)
Elon says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’ (TechCrunch)
Radeon 7900 XTX and XT review: Faster, hotter, and cheaper than the RTX 4080 (Ars Technica)
Rise of Open-Source Intelligence Tests U.S. Spies (WSJ)

Monday, December 12 2022 - Mon. 12/12 – The New Xiaomi 13 Flagships

The Xiaomi 13 series launches as true Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 darling (Android Police)
Binance Is Trying to Calm Investors, but Its Finances Remain a Mystery (WSJ)
‘Abnormal’ Altcoin Trading on Binance ‘Just Market Behavior,’ Says CEO (Decrypt)
US Prosecutors Look to Charge Binance, Executives on Possible Money Laundering Violations: Reuters (Coindesk)
Twitter Blue to Relaunch Monday, With Blue Check Mark, Higher iOS Price, Company Says (CNET)
US Says Scientists Make Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Energy (Bloomberg)
The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? (NYTimes)
Why Google Missed ChatGPT (Big Technology)

Friday, December 09 2022 - Fri. 10/09 – FTC Sues To Block The Microsoft/Activision Deal

Twin complaints signal new FTC strategy to rein in tech industry (Washington Post)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried agrees to testify at U.S. House hearing on Tuesday (CNBC)
We Couldn’t Have Made It Through This Year Without the Saluting Emoji (Rolling Stone)

Thursday, December 08 2022 - Thu. 12/08 – Explaining Those Lensa Magic Avatars

Apple Plans New Encryption System to Ward Off Hackers and Protect iCloud Data (WSJ)
@matthew_d_green’s twitter thread on Apple’s new encryption push (Twitter)
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Said to Face Market Manipulation Inquiry (NYTimes)
Coinbase CEO Sees Revenue Falling 50% or More on Crypto Rout (Bloomberg)
AI selfies — and their critics — are taking the internet by storm (Washington Post)
Ask these questions before you make your Lensa Magic Avatars (TechRadar)
Dyson’s Air Purifying Headphones Will Cost $949 (Gizmodo)

Wednesday, December 07 2022 - Wed. 12/07 – SBF Tried To Give Taylor Swift $100M? (She Said No)

Microsoft says it will bring Call of Duty to Nintendo (Washington Post)
FTX held talks with Taylor Swift over $100mn sponsorship deal (FT)
Tim Cook says Apple will use chips built in the U.S. at Arizona factory (CNBC)
Telegram drops SIM requirement for sign-ups, adds Global Auto-Delete timers (9to5Google)
SpaceX unveils ‘Starshield,’ a military variation of Starlink satellites (CNBC)
Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos (NYTimes)
Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026 (Bloomberg)
Google Faces a Serious Threat From ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 06 2022 - Tue. 12/06 – Is Elon’s Neuralink Cruel To Animals?

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is reportedly facing a federal probe on animal welfare grounds (The Verge)
Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests (Reuters)
Google Pixel 7 just got a bunch of exciting features — here’s what’s new (Tom’s Guide)

[Microsoft Raising Prices on New, First-Party Games Built for Xbox Series X

S to $70 in 2023](https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raising-prices-new-first-party-games-xbox-series-70-2023-redfall-starfield) (IGN)

@sama’s Tweets about ChatGPT (Twitter)
Google Search brings continuous scrolling to desktop (The Verge)
Facebook threatens to ban news from platform if U.S. bill passes (MarketWatch)
TSMC triples Arizona chip investment to $40bn (FT)

Monday, December 05 2022 - Mon. 12/05 – Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT

Kuo: Apple Headset Shipments Potentially Delayed Until Second Half of 2023 (MacRumors)
Foxconn sees COVID-hit China plant back at full output in late Dec-early Jan -source (Reuters)
Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services (The Register)
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow (The Verge)
Crypto broker Genesis owes Winklevoss exchange’s customers $900mn (FT)
Why Hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet? (Intelligencer)

Friday, December 02 2022 - Fri. 12/02 – Will 2023 Be The Year Of The Headset Wars?

Apple Renames Mixed-Reality Software ‘xrOS’ in Sign Headset Is Approaching (Bloomberg)
Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch)
Andreessen Horowitz’s buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (Insider)
Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto)
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch)
No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights (BBC News)
Silicon Valley startup beaming electricity wirelessly raises $30 million (Reuters)

Thursday, December 01 2022 - Thu. 12/01 – Elon And Apple Bury The Hatchet?

FTX Missing Billions Remain Mystery After Bankman-Fried Grilling (Bloomberg)
Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc (TechCrunch)
While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor (MIT Technology Review)
Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months (Bloomberg)
Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older) (Gizmodo)
TSMC Plans to Make More Advanced Chips in US at Urging of Apple (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, November 30 2022 - Wed. 11/30 – Am I On Your Spotify Wrapped This Year?

China’s Zhengzhou, home to world’s largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same (CNN Business)
India Becomes Biggest Smartwatch Market in Q3 2022 (Counterpoint)
Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data (TechCrunch)
Amazon Kindle Scribe review: absolutely adequate (The Verge)
Apple Music reveals top music in 2022 and listener charts (AP News)
Gorilla Glass Victus 2 could save your big phone from disastrous falls on concrete (TechRadar)
Sony is getting into the metaverse with a new motion-tracking system (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 29 2022 - Tue. 11/29 – Is Elon Going To War With Apple?

Monday, November 28 2022 - Mon. 11/28 – The China Protests

Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests (Washington Post)
US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecom Equipment on Data-Security Risk (Bloomberg)
Crypto Lender BlockFi Filing for Bankruptcy and Conducting Major Layoffs as FTX Contagion Claims Another: Source (Decrypt)
Binance releases proof-of-reserves system, starting with bitcoin (The Block)
WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself (WhatsApp)
A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing (MIT Technology Review)
Special Series Launch: The Promises And Perils Of A Decade Of AI Funding (Crunchbase News)

Wednesday, November 23 2022 - Wed. 11/23 – Foxconn Riots?

Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China (Bloomberg)
Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store (BleepingComputer)
Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more. (Washington Post)
Nest Wifi Pro review: better, faster, shinier (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 22 2022 - Tue. 11/22 – The Alexa Deathwatch Is Real

Monday, November 21 2022 - Mon. 11/21 – More Crypto Trouble?

Grayscale won’t share proof of reserves, citing ‘security concerns’ (The Block)
Grayscale refuses to share proof of reserves due to ‘security concerns’ as shares trade at a 45% discount to bitcoin (CNBC)
Disney Shocker: Bob Iger Returning as CEO, Bob Chapek Exits (The Hollywood Reporter)
SwiftKey is unexpectedly back on iOS (The Verge)
Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies (Forbes)
Kite is saying farewell (Kite.com)
Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators (TechCrunch)

Friday, November 18 2022 - Fri. 11/18 – Twitter: Not Dead At The Time Of This Posting

Thursday, November 17 2022 - Thu. 11/17 – A Deepfake Detector

New FTX Boss Condemns Management of the Crypto Exchange During Sam Bankman-Fried’s Tenure (CoinDesk)
Built-in Discord voice chat is now rolling out to all Xbox users (Engadget)
Apple Kicks Off Major League Soccer Plans With Pricing & Launch Details (Deadline)
Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era (TechCrunch)
Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping (TechCrunch)
Intel unveils real-time deepfake detector, claims 96% accuracy rate (VentureBeat)
Cloud computing: Microsoft and Nvidia are building a ‘massive’ AI supercomputer. Here’s why (ZDNet)
Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build massive cloud AI supercomputer (SiliconRepublic)

Wednesday, November 16 2022 - Wed. 11/16 – The Tesla Of Home Appliances

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 gives us a glimpse of 2023’s Android flagships (The Verge)
DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection beta is now available to all Android users (The Verge)
Netflix’s new feature lets subscribers kick devices off their accounts (TechCrunch)
Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance (Washington Post)
Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse (TechCrunch)
Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff (CNN Business)

Tuesday, November 15 2022 - Tue. 11/15 – “An Excel File Full Of The Howling Of Ghosts”

Musk Publicly Punishes Twitter Engineers Who Call Him Out Online (Bloomberg)
Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop? (TechCrunch)
FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad (Bloomberg)
Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees (NYTimes)
Nike to Open Its Own Virtual Sneaker Store and Trading Platform (Bloomberg)
Nike Launches Web3 Platform Offering Virtual Apparel and Other NFT-Based Products (CryptoNews)
Here’s what it’s like to use Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite (The Verge)

Monday, November 14 2022 - Mon. 11/14 – Paging Jonah Hill For The SBF Movie

Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning (The Verge)
SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink (CNBC)
Binance Starts Recovery Fund for Crypto Projects Facing Liquidity Crisis (CoinDesk)
Exclusive: Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity (CNN Business)
Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say (Reuters)
Meta Quest Pro review: get me out of here (The Verge)

Friday, November 11 2022 - Fri. 11/11 – A Summary Of This Crazy Week

Thursday, November 10 2022 - Thu. 11/10 – Binance Lets FTX Dangle

Binance Walks Away From Deal to Rescue FTX (WSJ)
SBF Tweet Storm This Morning (Twitter)
FTX’s Collapse Spurs $10 Billion Drop in Decentralized Finance (Bloomberg)
Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
Apple will spend $450 million with Globalstar and others to enable emergency satellite texting (CNBC)
‘Hey, GitHub!’ will let programmers code with just their voice (The Verge)
Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, November 09 2022 - Wed. 11/09 – CZ & SBF Make FTX Go Boom?

Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce (TechCrunch)
TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn (FT)
Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark (The Verge)
Disney+ reaches 164.2M subscribers as it prepares for ad-supported tier launch (TechCrunch)
The Story of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Backroom Deal With Binance’s CZ (CoinDesk)
Lucas Nuzzi (Twitter Thread) (Twitter)
FTX Venture Investors Fear Total Wipeout in Binance Rescue Deal (The Information)

Tuesday, November 08 2022 - Tue. 11/08 – FTX: You Ok, Bro?

Binance to Sell Rest of FTX Token Holdings as Alameda CEO Defends Firm’s Financial Condition (CoinDesk)
Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall (Platformer)
Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role (Washington Post)
OpenSea Breaks Silence on NFT Royalties, But Creators Don’t Like What They Hear (Decrypt)
Apple’s Brain Drain Hinders Efforts to Pick Its Next Jony Ive (Bloomberg)

Monday, November 07 2022 - Mon. 11/07 – Meta Layoffs Incoming?

Friday, November 04 2022 - Fri. 11/04 – The Twitter Layoffs

Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs are starting (The Verge)
Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat (TechCrunch)
Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce (CNBC)
DALL-E API released by OpenAI in public beta, potential boon for app builders (VentureBeat)
With Netflix’s ads tier, you never know what you’re going to get (The Verge)

Thursday, November 03 2022 - Thu. 11/03 – How About Some Non-Twitter News?

TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data (The Guardian)
WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities (TechCrunch)
Gmail to add a new package tracking feature ahead of holiday shopping season (TechCrunch)
Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools (Decrypt)
Patreon’s long-awaited video hosting feature is finally rolling out to creators (The Verge)
Elon Musk Aims to Start Charging for Twitter Verification Next Week (Bloomberg)
Stripe Cuts Headcount by 14%, Prepares for ‘Leaner Times’ (Bloomberg)
DOJ takes aim at Adobe’s $20 billion deal (Politico)

Wednesday, November 02 2022 - Wed. 11/02 – PlayStation VR2 Deets Revealed

PlayStation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99 (The Verge)
Elon Musk to charge verified Twitter users to give ‘power to the people’ (SiliconRepublic)
Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘high’ risk (Washington Post)
Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex (The Verge)
Twitch opens Guest Star up so anyone can run their own talk show not (TechCrunch)
U.S. banks processed roughly $1.2 billion in ransomware payments in 2021, according to federal report (CNBC)
Rewind wants to revamp how you remember, with millions from a16z (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, November 01 2022 - Tue. 11/01 – Twilight Of The Blue-Checks?

Monday, October 31 2022 - Mon. 10/31 – Would You Pay $20/Month For Twitter Blue?

Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter (The Verge)
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification (The Verge)
The 20 Richest Tech Billionaires Have Lost Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars This Year (WSJ)
Apple Gears Up to Launch Its Next Crop of Macs Early Next Year (Bloomberg)
India’s Central Bank to Start Wholesale CBDC Pilot Nov. 1 (CoinDesk)
You’re Going To Have To Pay To Use Some Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now (Kotaku)

Friday, October 28 2022 - Fri. 10/28 – It Actually Happened

How Twitter Will Change as a Private Company (NYTimes)
Amazon stock sinks 13% on weak fourth-quarter guidance (CNBC)
Apple reports strong quarter but expects sales slump (Silicon Republic)
YouTube redesign gives long-form videos, Shorts and Live videos their own tabs on channel pages (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 27 2022 - Thu. 10/27 – Meta (Insert Bomb Emoji Here)

Meta Tumbles as Sales Forecast Shows Depth of Ad-Market Weakness (Bloomberg)
Meta Plummets 25% as Zuckerberg’s Plea for ‘Patience’ Falls Flat (Bloomberg)
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster (Intelligencer)
Mark Zuckerberg Is Going To Kill His Company (Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At)
Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down (TechCrunch)
Samsung’s Third-Quarter Profit Plunges Amid Chip Market Woes (CNET)
Google’s new service helps Web3 developers build for blockchain-based platforms (ZDNet)
Elon Musk Is In Twitter’s Office and Will Address Staff Friday (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk, on Eve of Twitter Deal Close, Promises Advertisers It Won’t Become a ‘Free-for-All Hellscape’ (Variety)

Wednesday, October 26 2022 - Wed. 10/26 – Meta Calls Apple On Its “Rentier Capitalism”

Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta (The Verge)
Spotify says Apple is ‘choking competition’ and ruining its audiobook store (The Verge)
Spotify Boosts Subscribers and Revenue, Says 2023 Price Increases Likely (WSJ)
Microsoft Plunges on Forecast for Lackluster Azure Growth (Bloomberg)
Twitter Asks: Where Have All the Tweeters Gone? (Gizmodo)
Alphabet misses on earnings as YouTube shrinks; company will cut headcount growth by half in Q4 (CNBC)
Intel unit Mobileye prices IPO above range to raise $861 mln (Reuters)
Developers Complain About Gambling Ads Appearing in Their App Store Listings (MacRumors)
First on CNN: LinkedIn knows there are fake accounts on its site. Now it wants to help users spot them (CNN Business)
The billion-dollar tech unicorn is becoming rare again (The Washington Post)

Tuesday, October 25 2022 - Tue. 10/25 – “Extractive Rentier Capitalists”

Monday, October 24 2022 - Mon. 10/24 – Investing In Chinese Tech Means Investing One Man’s Whims?

Friday, October 21 2022 - Fri. 10/21 – What If Uncle Sam Let’s Elon Off The Hook?

Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)
Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes)
OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)
Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)

Thursday, October 20 2022 - Thu. 10/20 – A Day Of Reviews

Aptos Token Plummets 40% After APT Airdrop for ‘Early Network Participants’ (Decrypt)
Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more (9to5Google)
The next generation of Thunderbolt seems nice but less necessary than ever (The Verge)
Intel Core i9-13900K review: an AMD Zen 4 beater (The Verge)
Uber rolls out ad business to reach more riders (FT)
I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse (NYTimes)

Wednesday, October 19 2022 - Wed. 10/19 – What Even IS Apple’s iPad Strategy?

Netflix adds more than 2.4 million subscribers, reveals details about password-sharing crackdown (CNBC)
The New Netflix Age Has Arrived (Puck)
The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues (Jason Snell)
Jack Dorsey-Founded Bluesky Unveils Roadmap for Decentralized Social Networks (Decrypt)
AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, October 18 2022 - Tue. 10/18 – It’s AI Vs. The Metaverse, And AI Seems To Be Winning

Monday, October 17 2022 - Mon. 10/17 – Kanye To Elon: Hold My Beer

Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler (The Verge)
Kanye West to buy social media app Parler (The Verge)
Decentralized Solana-based trading platform Mango reportedly hit by $100 million exploit (Fortune)
Biden declares economic war on the Chinese semiconductor industry (Noahpinion)
With New Crackdown, Biden Wages Global Campaign on Chinese Technology (NYTimes)
American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban (WSJ)
Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers (WSJ)

Friday, October 14 2022 - Fri. 10/14 – Meta Lied About Legs?

Netflix’s ad tier will cost $6.99 a month and launch in November (The Verge)
Meta Avatar Legs Demo ‘Created By Motion Capture’, Not Live VR (UploadVR)
Facebook’s Legs Video Was A Lie (Kotaku)
Apple Card to Offer Savings Account for Daily Cash (MacRumors)

Thursday, October 13 2022 - Thu. 10/13 – The End Of The Office Era

Wednesday, October 12 2022 - Wed. 10/12 – Meta’s VR Event; Microsoft’s Surface Event

The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,499 and ships October 25th (The Verge)
What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution? (Ars Technica)
It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing (TechCrunch)
Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta (Bloomberg)
Surface Pro 9 lets you pick between Intel or Arm 5G and new color options (The Verge)
Microsoft’s (barely) refreshed Surface Laptop 5 starts at $1,000 (Engadget)
Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2 Plus ships with an RTX 3060 for $4,299 (The Verge)
Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories finally have a release date (The Verge)

Tuesday, October 11 2022 - Tue. 10/11 – Odds And Sods

Friday, October 07 2022 - Fri. 10/07 – What Is It With These Dang Bridges?

Binance-linked blockchain hit by $570 million crypto hack (Reuters)
The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th (The Verge)
Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it, says exec in charge (The Verge)
Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts (Bloomberg)
Samsung Details GDDR7 and 1,000-Layer V-NAND Plans (Tom’s Hardware)

Thursday, October 06 2022 - Thu. 10/06 – The Made By Google Event

Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, 5x telephoto, starts at $899 (9to5Google)
Google gets serious about wearables with the Pixel Watch (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk’s deposition delayed as he wrangles with Twitter over deal (FT)
Former Uber Security Chief Found Guilty of Hiding Hack From Authorities (NYTimes)
Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data breach (Washington Post)
Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 05 2022 - Wed. 10/05 – Elon Wants Twitter Now. We Think. Who KNOWS ANYMORE!!??

Musk Revives $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Aiming to Avoid Trial (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk says Twitter will eventually be part of ‘X, the everything app’ (MarketWatch)
Musk offers to proceed with Twitter deal (Axios)
Lawyers Lose Out on Millions in Twitter-Musk Legal Fees (Bloomberg)
Tesla is now building Model 3 and Model Y vehicles without ultrasonic sensors (TechCrunch)
DDoS attack on ‘Overwatch 2’ servers prevents fans from playing the game on launch day (Engadget)
Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times (WSJ)

Tuesday, October 04 2022 - Tue. 10/04 – The End Of Lightning

Monday, October 03 2022 - Mon. 10/03 – Kim Kardashian In Crypto Trouble

Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram (CNBC)
Celsius Network founder withdrew $10mn ahead of bankruptcy (FT)
Sony Betting Big on Next VR Headset With Increased Production Plan (Bloomberg)
Social Media Company Liability Draws Supreme Court Scrutiny (Bloomberg)
Texas Social-Media Law on Web Censorship Upheld by Federal Appeals Court (Bloomberg)
Tech companies are gaming out responses to the Texas social media law (Washington Post)

Friday, September 30 2022 - Fri. 09/30 – Google Shutters Stadia

Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge)
Meta to Cut Headcount for First Time, Slash Budgets Across Teams (Bloomberg)
TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk on Twitter’s board but directors were too ‘risk averse,’ texts reveal (CNBC)
Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off The Rails (Big Technology)
How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts (The Verge)

Thursday, September 29 2022 - Thu. 09/29 – A Kindle You Can Write On

The OG App promised an ad-free Instagram feed then got pulled from App Store (TechCrunch)
The 11 biggest announcements at Amazon’s hardware launch event (The Verge)
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing (The Verge)
Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps (TechCrunch)
SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play (CoinDesk)
Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 28 2022 - Wed. 09/28 – iPhone Recession Warning Signal?

Apple Ditches iPhone Production Increase After Demand Falters (Bloomberg)
The latest iPadOS 16 beta brings Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models (Engadget)
Intel’s 13th Gen processors arrive October 20th with $589 flagship Core i9-13900K (The Verge)
Intel Arc A770 graphics card to launch October 12 for $329 (PCGamer)
NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak (Bloomberg)
Twitter says Elon Musk’s own data scientists did not back up bots claims (FT)
Turnstile is Cloudflare’s latest attempt to rid the web of CAPTCHAs (The Verge)
How To Watch Tesla’s AI Day (Forbes)

Tuesday, September 27 2022 - Tue. 09/27 – The First Meaningful AR Product To Hit These Shores?

Monday, September 26 2022 - Mon. 09/26 – Darth Vader’s Voice Is AI Now

UK Police arrests teen believed to be behind Uber, Rockstar hacks (BleepingComputer)
One Week with the iPhone 14 Pro Max: Apple’s Not-So-Dynamic Island (Bloomberg)
Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices (TechCrunch)
TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain (NYTimes)
Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art (Ars Technica)
James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I. (Variety)
Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (Variety)

Friday, September 23 2022 - Fri. 09/23 – Are DAO’s NOT A Liability Shield?

CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO (CoinDesk)
Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show (NYTimes)
Amazon Scores Big With First ‘Thursday Night Football’ Game (The Hollywood Reporter)
Fitbit will require a Google Account to use new devices and features from 2023 onward (9to5Google)

Thursday, September 22 2022 - Thu. 09/22 – Instagram To Crack Down On Nudes

2K Games says hacked help desk targeted players with malware (BleepingComputer)
Instagram’s finally working on protecting users from unsolicited nude photos (The Verge)
Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push (WSJ)
Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats (Protocol)
Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges (The Verge)
TikTok’s BeReal clone app is gaining traction outside the US (The Verge)
Google co-founder’s flying car startup is winding down (CNBC)
Apple Watch Ultra review: an aspirational debut (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 21 2022 - Wed. 09/21 – It’s Twitch’s Day Behind The Woodshed

Twitch to ban Stake.com streams and other unlicensed gambling content (The Verge)
Child Predators Use Twitch to Systematically Track Kids Livestreaming (Bloomberg)
YouTube will share ad revenue with Shorts creators (Engadget)
Windows 11’s 2022 Update has something new for everyone (The Verge)
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 GPUs (The Verge)
Helium Founders, T-Mobile Launch Crypto-Powered 5G Mobile Service (Decrypt)
Google is finally making its to-do list and reminder tools work together (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 20 2022 - Tue. 09/20 – Actual Inflation Comes To The App Store

Crypto market maker Wintermute hacked for $160 million (The Block)
Uber links breach to Lapsus$ group, blames contractor for hack (BleepingComputer)
Rockstar comments on GTA 6 leak and claims project won’t be delayed (VideoGameChronicle)
Nasdaq is preparing to launch an institutional crypto custody service (The Block)
Spotify Launches Audiobooks Business With A La Carte Pricing, No Discounts for Subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window (The Verge)
Apple to raise App Store prices in multiple countries next month (9to5Mac)
Apple says software update coming next week to fix iPhone 14 Pro camera shake issue (9to5Mac)
This Chatroom Only Opens When Your Phone’s About to Die (Motherboard)

Monday, September 19 2022

Friday, September 16 2022 - Fri. 09/16 – Big Uber Breach

Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems (NYTimes)
Uber suffers computer system breach, alerts authorities (Washington Post)
White House Releases ‘Comprehensive Framework’ for Crypto Regulation and Development (Decrypt)
The Amazon Experience Comes to the NFL (The Ringer)

Thursday, September 15 2022 - 09/15 – Adobe To Acquire Figma

Adobe Tumbles After Agreeing to Buy Figma for About $20 Billion (Bloomberg)
Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite (TechCrunch)
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake (The Block)
TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now (TechCrunch)
California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon (NYTimes)

Wednesday, September 14 2022 - Wed. 09/14 – The iPhone 14 Reviews Are Out

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Faces Arrest Warrant in South Korea (Bloomberg)
U.S. Treasury Department releases Tornado Cash guidance (Axios)
Google Suffers Setback in Court Fight to Topple Record EU Fine (Bloomberg)
EA will debut new anti-cheat tech with ‘FIFA 23’ on PC (Engadget)
Apple to use TSMC’s next 3-nm chip tech in iPhones, Macs next year (NikkeiAsia)
We finally got our hands and eyes on the PlayStation VR2 (The Verge)
What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress (TechCrunch)
Apple iPhone 14 review: meet the iPhone 13S (The Verge)
Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: early adopter island (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 13 2022 - Tue. 09/13 – Google Does Google Things

Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it (The Verge)
Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers (Engadget)
Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline (CNN)
Splatoon 3 has smashed Switch launch records in Japan (VideoGamesChronicle)
The Cheapest Kindle Is Now Less Cheap, but It’s Got a Better Screen (Gizmodo)
Intel just leaked its 13th Gen processor specs (The Verge)
iOS 16 review: unlocking the lock screen (The Verge)

Monday, September 12 2022 - Mon. 09/12 – The Whole “Oops! We Lost A Prototype” Gambit

Friday, September 09 2022 - Fri. 09/09 – White House Comes Out Against Proof-Of-Work?

White House report proposes possible restrictions on proof-of-work crypto mining (The Block)
Intel Reveals Specifications For Arc Alchemist Desktop GPUs (Tom’s Hardware)
Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas (The Verge)
Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp up its robotics operations (The Verge)

Thursday, September 08 2022 - Thu. 09/08 – Why Disney Also Had 2nd Thoughts About Buying Twitter

Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter (Vox)
Coinbase employees and Ethereum backers sue U.S. Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions (Fortune)
Legendary China Bets Unwind as Buffett, SoftBank Sell (Bloomberg)
Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility (TechCrunch)
Mysten Labs, creator of the Sui blockchain, closes $300 million raise led by FTX Ventures (The Block)
How the iPhone 14 Pro Transforms Blank Screen Space Into Something Actually Useful (CNET)
Apple might have fixed the notch by putting it on an island (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 07 2022 - Wed. 08/07 – The iPhone 14 Event

The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are official with satellite-based Emergency SOS (The Verge)
iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max announced with animated notches and always-on displays (The Verge)
The Apple Watch Ultra is finally here (The Verge)
Apple’s new AirPods Pro can cancel twice as much noise (The Verge)
Google confirms Pixel 7 series will run on new ‘Tensor G2’ chip (9to5Google)
Meta Connect Is A One-Day Virtual Event On October 11th (UploadVR)
Ring finally brings end-to-end encryption to its flagship video doorbells (The Verge)
Albania cuts diplomatic ties with Iran over July cyberattack (APNews)

Tuesday, September 06 2022 - Tue. 09/06 – When “They” Turn Off Your Devices For You

Friday, September 02 2022 - Fri. 09/02 – iPhone Takes The Market Share Crown

Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (FT)
Apple settles lawsuit with developer over App Store rejections and scams (TechCrunch)
Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips (Reuters)
Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own (The Verge)
More USB-C speed won’t fix users’ problems with cables (Apple Insider)

Thursday, September 01 2022 - Thu. 09/01 – Twitter Edit Button Arrives

Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it (The Verge)
Nvidia, AMD warned of new US export restrictions on AI chips (Protocol)
Source: iPhone 14 Pro display cutout to show camera plus microphone privacy indicators; redesigned Camera app also coming (9to5Mac)
Disney Explores Membership Program Like Amazon Prime to Offer Discounts and Perks (WSJ)
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold Gen 2 is bigger, better, and way more powerful (XDA Developers)
An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed (Motherboard)
Stable Diffusion is a really big deal (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Wednesday, August 31 2022 - Wed. 08/31 – Not Great, Snap!

Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees (The Verge)
Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available for Developers (MacRumors)
A16z Wants to Standardize NFTs by Giving You a License for Your Token (CoinDesk)
Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets (TechCrunch)
Comcast and Charter face a grim new reality: actual competition (Fast Company)
ASUS ZENBOOK 17 FOLD OLED REVIEW: THE BEST FOLDABLE YET (The Verge)
Crypto.com Sues Woman After Sending Her $10 Million by Mistake: Report (Decrypt)

Tuesday, August 30 2022 - Tue. 08/30 – Twitter Shelved An OnlyFans Clone

Elon Musk Attacks Twitter Deal Over Whistle-Blower as Feud Escalates (Bloomberg)
Musk Tries a New Way Out of Twitter (Bloomberg)
Twitter is launching its ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally (TechCrunch)
HOW TWITTER’S CHILD PORN PROBLEM RUINED ITS PLANS FOR AN ONLYFANS COMPETITOR (The Verge)
AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch (AnandTech)
Gopuff Tries to Raise Money Again (WSJ)
The Animal Translators (NYTimes)

Monday, August 29 2022 - Mon. 08/29 – Apple’s iGlasses To Be Called Reality One?

Trademark Filings Suggest Apple May Be Securing ‘Reality’ Names for AR/VR Headset (Bloomberg)
Apple says 95% of iCloud users already have 2FA enabled ahead of Passkeys launch (9to5Mac)
Snapchat brings ‘Dual Camera’ recording to in-app camera (Engadget)
Netflix Eyes $7-to-$9 Price for Its New Ad-Supported Plan (Bloomberg)
Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp’s super app ambitions are starting to come true in India (The Verge)
MTV VMAs: Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform as Bored Apes in the Metaverse (CNET)
Looks bare: OpenSea turns into NFT ghost-town after volume plunges 99% in 90 days (CoinTelegraph)

Friday, August 26 2022 - Forget 5G; T-Mobile And SpaceX To Offer Zero-G Service

T-Mobile and SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year (The Verge)
LastPass developer systems hacked to steal source code (BleepingComputer)
Twilio hackers breached over 130 organizations during months-long hacking spree (TechCrunch)
Meta to debut new VR headset in October, Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan (CNBC)
Twitter is becoming a podcast app (The Verge)

Thursday, August 25 2022 - Thu. 08/25 – Far Out

Twitter whistleblower to testify in Congress about security failures (Washington Post)
Twitter executives face questions from employees after whistleblower claims (CNN Business)
Internal memo: Amazon Care to shut down, ‘not a complete enough offering’ for corporate customers (GeekWire)
What Apple’s September Event Invite May Tell Us About the iPhone 14 (CNET)
Ethereum Foundation confirms September dates for the Merge (The Block)
Crypto’s massive marketing efforts have drawn few new investors (Washington Post)
HP’s new PCs include its first Dragonfly Folio and a 34-inch all-in-one (Engadget)
Nvidia to announce next-gen GPU architecture in September amid RTX 4090 rumors (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 24 2022 - Wed. 08/24 – Is The Twitter Whistleblower A “Material Adverse Effect”?

India forced Twitter to put agent on payroll, whistleblower says (Reuters)
Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (Washington Post)
Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws (Washington Post)
Apple delivers iPadOS 16.1 beta ahead of iOS 16 fall release (TechCrunch)
Plex tells users to reset their passwords after potential data breach (Engadget)
Fitbit Drops 3 New Fitness Trackers—and None Have Wear OS 3 (Wired)
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants (AP)

Tuesday, August 23 2022 - Tue. 08/23 – The Twitter Whistleblower

Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (Washington Post)
Instagram’s next feature might be a copy of BeReal (Engadget)
Apple’s New iPhone 14 to Show India Closing Tech Gap With China (Bloomberg)
Sony says the PlayStation VR2 is coming in early 2023 (The Verge)
Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook on iOS and Android (The Verge)
NFTs Turn Out to Be a Great Channel of Revenue for Businesses, Ask Nike (NFT Gators)
The high-resolution smartphone sensors are coming (The Verge)

Monday, August 22 2022 - Mon. 08/22 – Elon Musk Raising Prices Just For Fun

Friday, August 19 2022 - Fri. 08/19 – The Biggest Google Search Algo Change In Years?

Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone (WSJ)
Google search updates will prioritize real reviews over clickbait (The Verge)
New Google Helpful Content Update To Change SEO Much Like Panda Did (Search Engine Roundtable)
TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns (TechCrunch)

Thursday, August 18 2022 - Thu. 08/18 – Does Mark Zuckerberg Have No Taste?

Apple Targets Sept. 7 for iPhone 14 Launch in Flurry of New Devices (Bloomberg)
Netflix’s Ad-Supported Plan Will Block Downloads of Shows, Films (Bloomberg)
VPNs on iOS are a scam (Michael Horowitz)
U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says (Variety)
Windows 11’s widgets can now trigger notifications on your taskbar (The Verge)
Cameo Now Lets You Have 10-Minute Calls With Celebs (Gizmodo)
Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks? (Forbes)

Wednesday, August 17 2022 - Wed. 08/17 – “Anti Party” Technology

Tuesday, August 16 2022 - Tue. 08/16 – Was The Twilio Breach A Route Into Signal?

Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach (TechCrunch)
Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (Bloomberg)
Chipmakers’ Pandemic Boom Turns to Bust as Recession Looms (Bloomberg)
Twitter Has to Give Musk Only One Bot Checker’s Data: Its Ex-Product Head (Bloomberg)
Amazon accuses FTC of harassing executives including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy (FT)
Walmart+ members will soon get Paramount+ streaming as part of their subscription (Engadget)
Uber Raises Prices by About 5% in London to Attract More Drivers (Bloomberg)

Monday, August 15 2022 - Mon. 08/15 – Adam Neumann To Take Another Crack At Real Estate

Galaxy Digital terminates its acquisition of BitGo (The Block)
Unity rejects AppLovin’s takeover bid, to go ahead with ironSource buyout (Reuters)
Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer (NYTimes DealBook)
Court Documents Confirm Xbox One Sold Less Than Half PS4 Numbers (GameLuster)
Snapchat+ Tops 1 Million Paying Customers, Adds Four New Features (Variety)
Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever (NextTV)
The Secret Talks That Could Have Prevented the Apple vs. Facebook War (WSJ)

Friday, August 12 2022 - Fri. 08/12 – How Do We Feel About Arresting Open-Source Developers?

Suspected Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam (The Block)
LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content (TechCrunch)
Apple Expects to Sustain iPhone Sales in 2022 as Market Slows (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 11 2022 - Thu. 08/11 – Disney Half (Plus Ads)

Disney+ Ad Plan Price and Launch Date Set — Along With Fee Hikes for Disney+ Premium, Hulu (Variety)
Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen (BleepingComputer)
CISA warns of Windows and UnRAR flaws exploited in the wild (BleepingComputer)
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser (Felix Krause)
FCC denies Starlink’s application for $885M subsidy (TechCrunch)
Ethereum’s final proof-of-stake ‘test merge’ is live on Goerli (The Block)
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 (PEW Research Center)

Wednesday, August 10 2022 - Wed. 08/10 – The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Event

The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 is a little better and still too expensive (The Verge)
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it’s closed (Engadget)
Samsung goes big on battery with the Galaxy Watch 5 series (The Verge)
Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast (NYTimes)
Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly (TechCrunch)
Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH From Tornado Cash (CoinDesk)

Tuesday, August 09 2022 - Tue. 08/09 – WhatsApp Privacy Features

WhatsApp’s new update makes it easier to avoid your friends (The Verge)
WhatsApp now lets users delete messages up to two days after they were sent (9to5Mac)
iOS 16 beta 5 finally adds the battery percentage to the status bar (9to5Mac)
China Graft Probes Stem From Anger Over Failed Chip Plans (Bloomberg)
Warner Bros. Movies Are No Longer Guaranteed To Arrive On HBO Max After A 45-Day Theatrical Window: Source (Decider)
Garmin adds another bright spot to its line of multisport watches (Android Authority)
What Amazon’s Roomba and One Medical Deals Have in Common (Bloomberg)

Monday, August 08 2022 - Mon. 08/08 – What Data Is Telsa Collecting On You?

SoftBank plans Vision Fund job cuts after record net loss (Reuters)
US Treasury sanctions cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash (The Block)
Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies (TechCrunch)
Nvidia warns on second-quarter revenue, shares dip (CNBC)
Netflix is expanding its push into video games, but few subscribers are playing along (CNBC)
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting in Summer 2023 (Variety)
The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard (IEEE Spectrum)

Friday, August 05 2022 - Fri. 08/05 – Amazon To Acquire iRobot

Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B (TechCrunch)
Twitter slams Elon Musk’s response to its lawsuit (Axios)
Cooling Semiconductor Sales Heighten Fears of a Global Recession (Bloomberg)

Thursday, August 04 2022 - Thu. 08/04 – Is Stage Manager Worth It?

Apple Plans to Delay Launch of iPadOS 16 Update by About a Month (Bloomberg)
Solana Hack Blamed on Slope Mobile Wallet Exploit (Decrypt)
Vulnerabilities in Cross-chain Bridge Protocols Emerge as Top Security Risk (Chainalysis)
Twitter to revamp Spaces, tests themed stations and a daily digest (TechCrunch)
Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows (Bloomberg)
OnePlus 10T review: Speed above all (Engadget)
Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn’t going into Meet (The Verge)

Wednesday, August 03 2022 - Wed. 08/03 – An Actual Use Case For NFTs And An Actual Flying Car

Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack (Decrypt)
Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff as Retail Investors Fade From Platform (WSJ)
Michael Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO, shift to executive chairman role (The Block)
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment (TechCrunch)
UK regulator makes U-turn on Avast-Norton cyber security deal (FT)
Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs (The Guardian)
Samson Switchblade flying car is finally ready for takeoff (New Atlas)

Tuesday, August 02 2022 - Tue. 08/02 – What Is It With Bridges?

Nomad token bridge drained of $190M in funds in security exploit (CoinTelegraph)
Robinhood’s Crypto Unit Fined $30 Million by New York’s Top Financial Regulator (WSJ)
Twitter is probing Elon Musk’s social circle in broad legal requests (Washington Post)
As worldwide tablet shipments grow, Chromebooks face a different reality (ZDNet)
Activision Blizzard Sales Fall on Weak Call of Duty Release (Bloomberg)
The Morning After: Did Microsoft just neg Activision Blizzard? (Engadget)
Uber reports another big loss but beats on revenue, shares pop 14% (CNBC)

Monday, August 01 2022 - Mon. 08/01 – Silicon Valley’s Great Scooter Ride Is Over

Apple Pay may finally work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16 (The Verge)
Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya (Washington Post)
Bolt Mobility has vanished, leaving e-bikes, unanswered calls behind in several US cities (TechCrunch)
Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production (NikkeiAsia)
Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support (FT)
DELL XPS 13 PLUS REVIEW: XPS PLUS, BATTERY MINUS (The Verge)

Friday, July 29 2022 - Fri. 07/29 – Instagram Listens To The Kardashians

Apple iPhone Sales Remain Resilient as Company Reports 11% Decline in Profit (WSJ)
Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer)
CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries (The Verge)

Thursday, July 28 2022 - Thu. 07/28 – Meta Goes Backwards For The First Time Ever

Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ)
F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech (NYTimes)
Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group (WSJ)
Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google)
Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI cracks biology’s biggest problem (NewScientist)

Wednesday, July 27 2022 - Wed. 07/27 – Inflation Hits The Metaverse

Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today)
IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before (SiliconAngle)
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us (Ars Technica)
Senate’s Antitrust Crackdown Sputters as Schumer Signals Doubts (Bloomberg)
Quest 2 Price Jumps To $399 As Meta Costs Rise (UploadVR)
Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, July 26 2022 - Tue. 07/26 – Why Big Tech Hates The Leap Second

Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)
Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to ‘stop trying to be TikTok,’ which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)
Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)
Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ)
Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)
The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket)

Monday, July 25 2022 - Mon. 07/25 – NFL+

NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter)
Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register)
Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT)
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes)

Friday, July 22 2022 - Fri. 07/22 – Not Great, Bob! Snap And Twitter Edition

Thursday, July 21 2022 - Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash?

Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch)
Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge)
Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon)
Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg)
Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information)
Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt)
@CryptoKaleo Tweet (Twitter)
TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch)
OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 20 2022 - Wed. 07/20 – Netflix Earnings Not SO Bad

Tuesday, July 19 2022 - Tue. 07/19 – Amazon Sues Facebook (Group Admins)

Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews (TechCrunch)
Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing (Bloomberg)
Apple Sued Over Apple Pay, Accused of Antitrust Violations (Bloomberg)
Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch)
ESPN+ Monthly Subscription to Rise $3 as Disney Strives for Streaming Profits (Variety)
Crunchyroll is lowering monthly subscription fees in almost 100 regions (Engadget)
Samsung confirms August 10th Unpacked event date with ‘cryptic’ puzzle (The Verge)
WD begins shipping 22TB Red Pro, Purple Pro and Gold HDDs (Club386)

Monday, July 18 2022 - Mon. 07/18 – It’s Vibe Shifts All The Way Down

Friday, July 15 2022 - Fri. 07/15 – The “Vibe Shift” At Amazon

Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ)
Celsius Discloses $1.19 Billion Deficit in Bankruptcy Filing (Bloomberg)
Twitter is testing custom timelines, and first one is about The Bachelorette (TechCrunch)
Amazon Has Been Slashing Private-Label Selection Amid Weak Sales (WSJ)

Thursday, July 14 2022 - Thu. 07/14 – Is TikTok A Threat To Google Search?

Wednesday, July 13 2022 - Wed. 07/13 – Twitter Takes The Gloves Off

Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal (NYTimes)
15 Revelations in Twitter’s Suit Against Elon Musk (Intelligencer)
Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader (NYTimes)
Unity is merging with Ironsource in an all-stock deal valuing Ironsource at $4.4B in a big consolidation play for gaming (TechCrunch)
Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown (The Verge)
Nothing officially announces flashy Phone 1, starting at £399 (The Verge)
HBO & HBO Max Smash Past Netflix In Total Emmy Nominations As Hulu & Apple Score Strong Showings (Deadline)

Tuesday, July 12 2022 - Tue. 07/12 – What If (And Hear Me Out) We Actually Owned The Things We Buy?

Monday, July 11 2022 - Mon. 07/11 – What Happens Now With Elon And Twitter.

Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (The Guradian)
Here’s how North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms (CNN)
Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Go Bargain Hunting for Beaten-Down Tech Stocks (The Information)
Elon’s Out (Bloomberg)
Tweet Storm #1 (Twitter)
Tweet Storm #2 (Twitter)

Thursday, July 07 2022 - Thu. 07/07 – Apple Lockdown Mode

Apple Announces New Lockdown Mode on iOS 16 With ‘Extreme’ Level of Security (MacRumors)
Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch With Larger Screen, Metal Case (Bloomberg)
Heads of FBI, MI5 Issue Joint Warning on Chinese Spying (WSJ)
Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace (TechCrunch)
Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet (The Verge)
Meta Plans to Call New Virtual Reality Headset the ‘Quest Pro’ (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, July 06 2022 - Wed. 07/06 – How To Beat The Quantum Rap

Tuesday, July 05 2022 - Tue. 07/05 – What Did I Miss?

Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawls, trading and deposits amid financial challenges. (TechCrunch)
Number Three (Entrepreneurs Handbook)
Meta to Shut Down Novi Service in September in Crypto Winter (Bloomberg)
Klarna in Talks to Raise Fresh Cash at Slashed $6.5 Billion Valuation (WSJ)
Hackers Claim Theft of Police Info in China’s Largest Data Leak (Bloomberg)
AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (The Guardian)
Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)
President Biden to award Steve Jobs with posthumous Medal of Freedom (9to5Mac)

Thursday, June 30 2022 - Thu. 06/30 – If Sam Bankman-Fried Is Afraid To Give You Money…

Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources (CoinDesk)
Nvidia Game Card Prices Fall Along With Crypto Mining Demand (Bloomberg)
Samsung Electronics starts 3-nanometer chip production ahead of TSMC (TechCrunch)
Fuel Purchases Directly Within Apple CarPlay to Be Available This Fall (MacRumors)

Wednesday, June 29 2022 - Wed. 06/29 – Netflix Running Up That Hill

Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’ (NYTimes)
Crypto crash threatens North Korea’s stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests (Reuters)
U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores (CNBC)
Ray tracing and 64-bit only: What you should know about Arm’s 2023 CPUs and GPUs (Android Authority)
Sony targets PC gamers with new hardware brand, Inzone (Washington Post)
Here’s why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things (Recode)

Tuesday, June 28 2022 - Tue. 06/28 – Elon Could Let Me Do This Show From A Campsite

Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare (Axios)
Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight (TechCrunch)
Google Hangouts is shutting down in November (The Verge)
Elon Musk Has Twitter’s Data, but Getting Answers on Spam Accounts May Be Tougher (WSJ)
Amazon plans two Prime shopping events this year, with second one in Q4 (CNBC)
Airbnb’s party ban is now permanent (The Verge)
STARLINK RV REVIEW: THE DAWN OF SPACE INTERNET TO GO (The Verge)

Monday, June 27 2022 - Après Mai, Le Apple Déluge?

Apple Readies iPhone 14 and HomePod Upgrade in Flood of New Products (Bloomberg)
Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds (MacRumors)
AT&T, Verizon Raise Prices and Test Consumer Budgets (WSJ)
Venture Funding Set to Hit Lowest Level Since 2020 (Bloomberg)
More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down (WSJ)
Dissecting the DAO: Web3 Ownership is Surprisingly Concentrated (Chainalysis)

Friday, June 24 2022 - Fri. 06/24 – TikTok Turns On The Money Machine

Zendesk to be acquired by investor group for $10.2 billion (CNBC)
Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware (TechCrunch)
CISA, US Coast Guard warn of Log4Shell attacks after 130GB data breach in May (The Record)
Breaking: Harmony’s Horizon Bridge hacked for $100M (CoinTelegraph)
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool (TechCrunch)
TikTok Turns On the Money Machine (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 23 2022 - Thu. 06/23 – What If My Voice Was Your Alexa?

Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma (TechCrunch)
That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France (TechCrunch)
Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device (Tom’s Hardware)
Instagram Tests Child Age Verification, but Falls Short of Full ID Checks (WSJ)
Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year (Bleeping Computer)
NBCUniversal, Google Compete to Help Netflix Develop Ad-Backed Tier (WSJ)

Wednesday, June 22 2022 - Wed. 06/22 – New (Google) News

Google News gets desktop redesign with focus on customization (9to5Google)
GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month (The Verge)
Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (TechCrunch)
Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot (The Verge)
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire (Vox)
Why You Might Buy Your Next Car Online (NYTimes)
Announcing StackHawk’s $20.7 Million in Series B Funding to Drive Developer-First Security (StackHawk)

Tuesday, June 21 2022 - Tue. 06/21 – The Great Crypto Crash Of ‘22

Friday, June 17 2022 - Fri. 06/17 – Musk Speaks To The Tweeps!

Thursday, June 16 2022 - Thu. 06/16 – Serious Cases Of TikTok Envy

YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ)
FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge)
Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge)
SONOS VOICE CONTROL REVIEW: A SPEEDY, PRIVATE, MUSIC-FOCUSED ASSISTANT (The Verge)
A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ)
Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches ‘for months’ (NikkeiAsia)

Wednesday, June 15 2022 - Wed. 06/15 – Now The Crypto Hedge Funds Might Be Blowing Up

Tuesday, June 14 2022 - Tue. 06/14 – You Get A Photoshop! You Get A Photoshop! You Get A….

Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge)
Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge)
Firefox enables its anti-tracking feature by default (Engadget)
Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch)
Apple Lets You Move WhatsApp Chats From Android to iPhone (CNET)
Apple resized the iPad’s workflow with Stage Manager (TechCrunch)

Monday, June 13 2022 - Mon. 06/13 – (Another?) Crypto Bank Run

Celsius Tanks 70% in 1 Hour After Company Pauses Withdrawals to ‘Stabilize Liquidity’ (Decrypt)
Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin venture TBD unveils proposal for decentralized Web platform (The Block)
Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5 (CoinDesk)
Galaxy Z Flip 4 leaks in real-life shots with much smaller display crease (9to5Google)
Apple Goes Deeper Into Finance With Buy Now, Pay Later Offering (WSJ)
Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds (WSJ)
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Washington Post)
Nonsense on Stilts (Gary Marcus)

Friday, June 10 2022 - Fri. 06/10 – The Next Big—And Small—Things From Apple.

14-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in Early 2023 (MacRumors)
Apple Plans 15-Inch MacBook Air for 2023 and New 12-Inch Laptop (Bloomberg)
Meta Scales Back AR Glasses Plan Amid Reality Labs Shakeup (The Information)
AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture (AnandTech)
The federal government’s Tesla Autopilot investigation is moving into a new phase (The Verge)
Seth Green’s Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home (BuzzFeed News)

Thursday, June 09 2022 - Thu. 06/09 – Who Needs A Gaming Console? Not Xbox Or Samsung.

Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge)
The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge)
Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget)
Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg)
Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, June 08 2022 - Wed. 06/08 – Crypto’s Voldemort Goes Crypto

Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources (CoinDesk)
Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud (TechCrunch)
US: Chinese govt hackers breached telcos to snoop on network traffic (BleepingComputer)
Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (CrunchBase News)
Inside Roku, talk is heating up about an acquisition by Netflix (Insider)
Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time (Wired)

Tuesday, June 07 2022 - Tue. 06/07 – TikTok Avatars

Monday, June 06 2022 - Mon. 06/06 – WWDC 2022

Apple debuts iOS 16 with customizable lock screen, Messages updates, much more (9to5Mac)
Apple brings ‘undo send’ to iMessage (TechCrunch)
Live Activities is a new iOS 16 feature meant to improve notifications (The Verge)
Apple announces in-camera translations and improves dictation (TechCrunch)
Apple Pay Later lets you split up purchases into four payments at no interest (TechCrunch)
Apple Maps to get multistop routing and more in iOS 16 (TechCrunch)
watchOS 9 introduces new running metrics and medication reminders (The Verge)
Apple Announces Multi-Display CarPlay With Integrated Speedometer, Climate Controls, and More (MacRumors)
Apple announces new flagship M2 processor (The Verge)
Apple unveils new MacBook Air: M2 chip, case redesign, new midnight blue color, display notch (MacBook Air)
Apple slaps new M2 processor into 13-inch MacBook Pro (TechCrunch)
Apple announces macOS 13 Ventura, the next major software update for the Mac (Ars Technica)
Apple unveils iPadOS 16 with beefed up multitasking features (TechCrunch)
Apple Previews New ‘Freeform’ App to Work Collaboratively (MacRumors)

Friday, June 03 2022 - Fri. 06/03 – Time To Get Your Driverless Ride On?

Thursday, June 02 2022 - Thu. 06/02 – Something Something, A Joke About Leaning Out?

Wednesday, June 01 2022 - Wed. 06/01 – Surface Laptop Go Update

Microsoft’s compact Surface Laptop Go updated with 11th Gen Intel processor (The Verge)
High Court Halts Texas Law Targeting Social Media Platforms (2) (Bloomberg Law)
Twitter shutting down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1, here are alternatives to the web (9to5Mac)
TikTok is testing a ‘clear mode’ for a distraction-free scrolling experience (TechCrunch)
Fidelity Slashes Reddit, Stripe Valuations After Tech Rout (Bloomberg)
The Murena One shows exactly how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone (The Verge)
Apple’s Safari browser now has more than 1 billion users (AtlasVPN)

Tuesday, May 31 2022 - Tue. 05/31 – The New Fastest Computer In The World

AMD-Powered Frontier Supercomputer Breaks the Exascale Barrier, Now Fastest in the World (Tom’s Hardware)
Kuo: PlayStation VR2 Mass Production To Start H2 2022 (UploadVR)
China Is Leading the Global Decline in Venture Capital Deals (Bloomberg)
Uber and Lyft’s New Road: Fewer Drivers, Thrifty Riders and Jittery Investors (WSJ)
Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine (Rest Of World)
Can Paramount Go It Alone? (NYTimes)

Friday, May 27 2022 - Fri. 05/27 – An Xbox Gaming Dongle

Thursday, May 26 2022 - Thu. 05/26 – Apple Raises Wages

Apple Boosting Pay Budget for Workers Amid Tight Labor Market (WSJ)
Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech (Motherboard)
Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion (The Verge)
Oura collaborated with Gucci to make an 18 carat gold smart ring (Engadget)
Apple to Keep iPhone Production Flat as Market Grows Tougher (Bloomberg)
Snowflake stock falls as executives forecast a narrower margin than expected (CNBC)
Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding (CNBC)
After a Decade of Declines, EV Battery Costs Are To Rise 14% This Year (The Information)
The Trouble With Lithium (Bloomberg)
NYC’s ‘last’ payphone will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York (TimeOut New York)

Wednesday, May 25 2022 - Wed. 05/25 – Seth Green Wants His Apes Back

Someone Stole Seth Green’s Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show (Buzzfeed News)
Andreessen Horowitz bets on crypto ‘golden era’ with new $4.5bn fund (FT)
Microsoft’s Power Platform can now build websites and turn images into apps (XDA Developers)
Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Dev Box is a cloud-powered developer workstation (The Verge)
DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement (Bleeping Computer)
Do Kwon’s plan to rebirth the Terra blockchain gets approved (The Block)
Terra Collapse Triggers $83 Billion Decentralized Finance Slump (Bloomberg)
Ukraine Is Using Quiet Electric Bikes to Haul Anti-Tank Weapons (Vice)
Zotac’s minuscule Windows 11 Pro desktop PC is only slightly bigger than your phone (TechSpot)

Tuesday, May 24 2022 - Tue. 05/24 – Does Apple REALLY Want You To Repair Your Own iPhone?

Monday, May 23 2022 - Mon. 05/23 – Big Tech Consolidation Coming?

Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware (Bloomberg)
Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge (Kotaku)
Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them. (NYTimes)
AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced (AnandTech)
‘Move-to-earn’ Solana app StepN is latest crypto gaming craze (TechCrunch)

Friday, May 20 2022 - Fri. 05/20 – The Apple Headset Has Been Demoed!

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, for when flagship isn’t flagship enough (The Verge)
Apple Shows AR/VR Headset to Board in Sign of Progress on Key Project (Bloomberg)
Stablegains Faces Lawsuit After Losing $44M on UST (CryptoBriefing)
Coinbase Slashes Costs, Freezes Hiring Amid Crypto Crash (The Information)
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. (Insider)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Is Proceeding, Not ‘On Hold,’ Executives Tell Staff (Bloomberg)
DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers (Motherboard)

Thursday, May 19 2022 - Thu. 05/19 – TikTok To Get Into Games?

Wednesday, May 18 2022 - Wed. 05/18 – Apple Takes A Covid Step Back

Apple Delays Plan to Have Staff in Office Three Days a Week (Bloomberg)
Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit (Bloomberg)
China Makes a Comeback in Bitcoin Mining Despite Government Ban (Bloomberg)
Netflix Hit By Layoffs; About 150 Mostly U.S.-Based Employees Affected (Deadline)
Acer Just Revealed External Monitors With Stereoscopic 3D, and I’m Dying to Try Them (Gizmodo)
As Musk Tweets, Advisers Labor to Keep Twitter Deal on Track (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots (Bloomberg)
Cornami raises $68M to support quantum encryption (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, May 17 2022 - Tue. 05/17 – Sigh… More Elon/Twitter Stuff

Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44 Billion Deal to Proceed (Bloomberg)
Apple ‘testing’ foldable with secondary E Ink display, says analyst (The Verge)
Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases (MacRumors)
Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk)
Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block)
Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire)
Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’ (TechCrunch)
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests (The Register)

Monday, May 16 2022 - Mon. 05/16 – F It! Netflix Is Doin’ It Live! (Maybe)

Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials (Deadline)
LFG Reserves Dwindle to Just 313 Bitcoins From 80K After UST Crash (CoinDesk)
Exclusive: Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles (MusicAlly)
OpenSea is adding NFT copy detection and verification features (The Verge)
Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional (TechCrunch)
Tech groups ask Supreme Court to block Texas social media law (Washington Post)
Just How Incredibly Fucked Up Is Texas’ Social Media Content Moderation Law? (TechDirt)

Friday, May 13 2022 - Fri. 05/13 – Elon Puts Twitter Bid On “Hold,” But Is “Still Committed”

Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam / fake account report (The Verge)
Terraform Again Halts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna (Bloomberg)
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launches Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z and Paradigm (TechCrunch)

Thursday, May 12 2022 - Thu. 05/12 – The Everything Everywhere All At Once File Overflows

Terra Crunch Shakes Foundations of Crypto Stablecoin Complex (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks (Reuters)
SoftBank Reports Its Biggest-Ever Full-Year Loss (WSJ)
Instacart Files Confidentially for an IPO That Could Happen This Year (Bloomberg)
Senate confirms Bedoya to FTC, establishing Democratic majority (The Verge)
Disney+ Hits 137.7M Subscribers, Beating Wall Street Expectations in Streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
Google releases Android 13 beta 2 with finer privacy controls and improved Material You (Neowin)
Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 11 2022 - Wed. 05/11 – Google I/O 2022

Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps (9to5Google)
Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future (TechCrunch)
Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen (The Verge)
Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449 (9to5Google)
Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7 (Android Police)
Google unveils the Pixel Buds Pro (9to5Google)
Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7 (9to5Google)
Google will release a Pixel Tablet… in 2023 (TechCrunch)
As Luna holders watch the token slide, many won’t be able to cash out for weeks (The Block)
Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides (CryptoWorld)
Kuo: iPhone 15 to Switch From Lightning to USB-C in 2023 (MacRumors)
The iPod is dead (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, May 10 2022 - Tue. 05/10 – UST Stablecoin Not So Stable

UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg for Second Time in 48 Hours, LUNA Market Cap Falls Below UST’s (CoinDesk)
Crypto’s Audacious Algorithmic Stablecoin Experiment Crumbles (Bloomberg)
Tiger Global hit by $17bn losses in tech rout (FT)
Europe’s GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps (The Register)
Match Sues Google Over App Store Billing Rules (Bloomberg)
Amazon’s surprising new delivery partners: Rural mom-and-pop shops (Recode)
Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning (TechCrunch)

Monday, May 09 2022 - Mon. 05/09 – Everything Is Down

Bitcoin’s Unraveling Hits 50% From Peak With Drop Below $33,000 (Bloomberg)
Uber CEO tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’ (CNBC)
Why Musk’s Twitter Bid Has Shaken Tesla Investors (NYTimes)
Meta to start testing digital collectibles on Instagram (The Block)
Costa Rica declares national emergency after Conti ransomware attacks (BleepingComputer)
What to expect from Google I/O 2022 (The Verge)

Friday, May 06 2022 - Fri. 05/06 – Give Us The Passwordless Future Already

Thursday, May 05 2022 - Thu. 05/05 – Elon To Be Twitter CEO?

Wednesday, May 04 2022 - Wed. 05/04 – Uber Back To Pre-Covid Levels

Uber reports surging revenue as drivers return, but posts massive loss on investments (CNBC)
NFT Sales Are Flatlining (WSJ)
Samsung’s UFS 4.0 flash storage is a major upgrade, especially for 5G phones (Android Authority)
Twitter Testing New ‘Twitter Circle’ Feature for Sharing Tweets With a Smaller Number of People (MacRumors)
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free (MIT Technology Review)
Razer’s Blade 15 is the first laptop with a 240Hz OLED display, but you’ll have to wait a while (The Verge)
Larry Ellison leads $21.5 million Series A in cancer treatment startup Imagene AI (CTech)
Spotify becomes first music streamer to launch on Roblox (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, May 03 2022 - Tue. 05/03 – No More Podcasting On Facebook

Facebook Pulls the Plug on Podcast Business After a Year (Bloomberg)
SEC to Hire More Crypto Cops to Fight Digital Frauds (WSJ)
PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments (Bloomberg)
UK ministers ditch plans to empower tech regulator (FT)
Apple accuses engineers of stealing chip secrets with AirDrop and Time Machine (9to5Mac)
Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 (The Information)
Rocket Lab captures booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time (Engadget)

Monday, May 02 2022 - Mon. 05/02 – EU Says Apple’s NFC Chips Don’t Play Well With Others

Apple charged by Brussels with abusing its market power in mobile payments (FT)
Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum (Bloomberg)
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain (The Verge)
Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool (CoinDesk)
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years (WSJ)
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (NYTimes)
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord (NYTimes)

Friday, April 29 2022 - Fri. 04/29 – Snap’s Pixy Drone Is A Flying Camera

Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy (TechCrunch)
Snap Pixy Review: Don’t Call It a Drone or a Selfie Stick—Even Though It’s Both (WSJ)
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
The Twitter Thread With The Charts On Amazon (@juokaz)
Bolt, a Checkout Startup Worth $11 Billion, Lost Customers as Revenue Stalled (The Information)

Thursday, April 28 2022 - Thu. 04/28 – Twitter’s Last Ever Earnings Report?

Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk’s takeover bid (CNBC)
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (The Verge)
Meta’s Bleak Q1; Spotify’s Netflix Moment (The Information)
Apple to face fresh antitrust charges in Brussels (FT)
Google may now remove search results that dox you (The Verge)
Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (BBCNews)
NSA Re-awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (NextGov)
How the pandemic is changing home design (Axios)

Wednesday, April 27 2022 - Wed. 04/27 – Earnings Quick Hits

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (Alphabet)
Earnings Release FY22 Q3 (Microsoft)
Robinhood lays off nine percent of its full-time employees (Engadget)
DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business (Bloomberg)
Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery (TechCrunch)
Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE (CNET)
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (WSJ)

Tuesday, April 26 2022 - Tue. 04/26 – Twitter, Now Under New Management

Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal (CNBC)
Elon Musk buys Twitter (Platformer)
From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (FT)
Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts (WSJ)
Bored Ape Instagram account hacked: NFTs worth $2.8 million stolen (The Block)
SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash (Bloomberg)
THE F-150 LIGHTNING IS FINALLY SHIPPING — IS FORD READY? (The Verge)

Monday, April 25 2022

Twitter Eyes Deal With Musk as Soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
Analysis: Musk tears up buyout playbook with $46.5 billion Twitter financing (Reuters)
Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries (Ars Technica)
The iPhone 14 Is Less Than Six Months Away. Here’s What to Expect (Bloomberg)
Tech Wage Inflation Puts Pressure on Companies (WSJ)
Netflix and Facebook have given up most of the last few years’ gains since tech’s November peak (CNBC)
The Netflix Nightmare: What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game (Vanity Fair)

Friday, April 22 2022 - Fri. 04/22 – The Demise Of CNN+ Makes Quibi Look Good

CNN+ Streaming Service Will Shut Down Weeks After Its Start (NYTimes)
a16z Crypto is launching an academic research lab focused on web3 (The Block)
How Meta Platforms Fell Behind in Indian Mobile Payments (WSJ)

Thursday, April 21 2022 - Thu. 04/21 – Ok. Funding Actually Secured?

Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ)
Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge)
Tesla record profit blows away estimates (CNN Business)
Tesla reports $18.76 billion in revenue and record margins in Q1 (CNBC)
Apple Store workers in Atlanta are the first to formally seek a union. (NYTimes)
Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS (CNBC)
PlayStation Wants Ads In Its Games, Too (IGN)
MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules (TechCrunch)
Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 20 2022 - Wed. 04/20 – Netflix Earnings Bomb; Ads To The Rescue?

Netflix Q1 net subscribers unexpectedly decline, revenue misses expectations (Yahoo!Finance)
Netflix Plans to Launch Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans (The Hollywood Reporter)
Just Eat Weighs Grubhub Sale in Tough Food Delivery Market (Bloomberg)
Coinbase NFT marketplace goes live in beta for select customers (The Block)
Crypto Stocks Perform Worse Than Cryptocurrencies (WSJ)
Google: 2021 was a Banner Year for Exploited 0-Day Bugs (ThreatPost)
Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’ (The Verge)
The Tech Bubble That Never Burst (NYTimes)

Tuesday, April 19 2022 - Tue. 04/19 – Scraping The Web’s Still Legal

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s in-development Edit button offers hints as to how the feature could work (TechCrunch)
Apollo Global Considers Participating in a Bid for Twitter (WSJ)
Insteon is down and may not be coming back (Stacey On IOT)
Microsoft reportedly wants to bring ads to free-to-play Xbox games (The Verge)
Andreessen Horowitz unveils piloted program for early-stage entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)

Saturday, April 16 2022 - (TWTR SPC) How To Navigate Tech As An Employee W/ @GergelyOrosz

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Friday, April 15 2022 - Fri. 04/15 – Twitter To (Poison) Pill Elon?

Twitter Is Weighing a Poison Pill Defense to Thwart Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid (Bloomberg)
Twitter Board Expected To Fight Musk Offer (The Information)
US Officials Tie North Korea’s ‘Lazarus’ Hackers to $625M Crypto Theft (CoinDesk)
Apple Readies Several New Macs With Next-Generation M2 Chips (Bloomberg)
In latest gaming crackdown, China bans livestreaming of unauthorised titles (Reuters)

Thursday, April 14 2022 - Thu. 04/14 – Elon Hostile Takeover Of Twitter (Funding Secured?)

Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid to Take Twitter Private (Bloomberg)
US agencies warn of custom-made hacking tools targeting energy sector systems (The Record)
‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280 (CoinDesk)
MARK ZUCKERBERG’S AUGMENTED REALITY (The Verge)
Gen Z’s new favorite app (Axios)

Wednesday, April 13 2022 - Wed. 04/13 – Microsoft and ESET Help Ukraine Keep The Lights On

Tuesday, April 12 2022 - Tue. 04/12 – Meta Will Pay You To Get Creative In VR

Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items (The Verge)
Ethereum Undergoes Another Stress Test Ahead of Software Change (Bloomberg)
Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy (CoinDesk)
Apple Targets Watch Blood-Pressure Tool for 2024 After Snags (Bloomberg)
Over 14,000 Etsy sellers are going on strike to protest increased transaction fees (TechCrunch)
Digital Ad Revenue Jumped 35% in the U.S. Last Year, Biggest Gain Since 2006 (WSJ)
TikTok Ad Revenue Set To Triple in 2022 (The Information)
How Netflix tests Netflix: The story behind the service’s new two-thumbs-up feature (Protocol)

Monday, April 11 2022 - Mon. 04/11 – Elon DECLINES A Twitter Board Seat

Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. (Parag Agrawal)
China Ends Game Freeze by Approving First Titles Since July (Bloomberg)
Apple Sets the Date for Another Virtual WWDC—Here’s What to Expect (Bloomberg)
Meta Platforms is Struggling to Develop Its Own Device Chips (The Information)
Amazon Drone Crashes Hit Jeff Bezos’ Delivery Dreams (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 08 2022 - Fri. 04/08 – Elon To Give A “Hello, Fellow Tweeps” AMA

Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry (Washington Post)
Twitter test lets you ‘unmention’ yourself in tweets (Engadget)
Robinhood widens user access for crypto wallet transfers, unveils plan to support Lightning payments for bitcoin (The Block)
Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4% (Silicon Angle)
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’ (Washington Post)

Thursday, April 07 2022 - Thu. 04/07 – Zuck Bucks

Facebook owner Meta targets finance with ‘Zuck Bucks’ and creator coins (FT)
Google Play will hide and block downloads for outdated apps starting later this year (TechCrunch)
Solana NFTs Can Now Be Traded on OpenSea (Decrypt)
Facebook won’t hold its F8 developer conference this year after pivoting to Meta (The Verge)
Shein Valued at $100 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
Crypto Startup Wyre Being Acquired by Payments Company Bolt for $1.5 Billion (WSJ)
Lego and Epic Games partnership aims for a kid-friendly metaverse (Washington Post)
OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 06 2022 - Wed. 04/06 – Twitter Says Yes To An Edit Button?

Musk Refiles Twitter Disclosure to Show He’s an Active Investor (Bloomberg)
Twitter is adding an edit button (The Verge)
Sky Mavis raises $150 million to reimburse Ronin hack victims (The Block)
Fast, the Troubled Fintech Startup, Is Shutting Down (The Information)
MicroStrategy Funds Latest Purchase With Bitcoin-Backed Loan (Bloomberg)
Inside Epic’s Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse (Time)
How Epic Games is changing gaming—and maybe the metaverse (Fast Company)
Elden Ring players called Will Smith keep invading and slapping people (TechRadar)

Tuesday, April 05 2022 - Tue. 04/05 – Twitter Adds “Passive Investor” Elon Musk To Its Board

Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors, teases ‘significant improvements’ (CNBC)
Elon Musk Bought Some Twitter (Bloomberg)
Amazon’s Project Kuiper books up to 83 rockets to launch its internet-beaming satellites (The Verge)
Microsoft brings Arm support to Azure virtual machines (ZDNet)
Axie Infinity Was Losing Gamers Even Before Record Crypto Hack (Bloomberg)
The Hottest NFT Marketplace is Mostly Users Selling to Themselves (Bloomberg)
Hackers breach MailChimp’s internal tools to target crypto customers (BleepingComputer)
Internet communities are battling over pixels (The Washington Post)

Monday, April 04 2022 - Mon. 04/04 – Elon Musk To Take Twitter Private? Funding Secured?

Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up (Bloomberg)
Alphabet’s Wing will begin drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth on April 7th (Engadget)
AMD Returns to Deal Making with $1.9 Billion Purchase of Chip Specialist Pensando (WSJ)
NFTs to be launched by the Treasury later this year in crypto push (City AM)
It’s a big day at the State Department for U.S. cyberdiplomacy (Washington Post)
Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 01 2022 - Fri 04/01 – Is E3 Dead? Or Just Resting?

E3 2022 - Digital and Physical - Has Officially Been Canceled (IGN)
Food Delivery Stocks Lose $24 Billion in Just Three Months (Bloomberg)
A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS (The Verge)
Apple emergency update fixes zero-days used to hack iPhones, Macs (BleepingComputer)

Thursday, March 31 2022 - Thu. 03/31 – Hackers Forging Emergency Data Requests

Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests (Bloomberg)
Wyze Cam flaw lets hackers remotely access your saved videos (BleepingComputer)
Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story (The Verge)
TSMC says demand for smartphones, PCs starting to slow (Nikkei Asia)
SoftBank to slow investments following crash in tech holdings (FT)
Look up: Your burrito is arriving by drone (Axios)
FedEx will test autonomous cargo flights next year (Engadget)

Wednesday, March 30 2022 - Wed. 03/30 – The Axie Infinity Hack

Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Suffers $625M Exploit (CoinDesk)
Axie Infinity Owner ‘Fully Committed’ to Reimbursing Players After Hack (Bloomberg)
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post)
Messenger gets new shortcuts that let you send silent replies (The Verge)
New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling (Ars Technica)
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. probe of Google Maps picks up speed -sources (Reuters)
Gopuff Plans Hundreds of Layoffs to Cut $40 Million in Costs (The Information)
Why Stripe’s ‘Fast’ Horse Is Losing the One-Click Checkout Race (The Information)

Tuesday, March 29 2022 - Tue. 03/29 – And Now NFL+ ?

Sony merges PS Now and PS Plus to create three-tier subscription service (GamesIndustry.biz)
Sony announces new PlayStation Plus subscriptions, its answer to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge)
Spotify puts its Podz acquisition to use with test of new podcast discovery feature (TechCrunch)
My own phone number is now spam texting me (The Verge)
Leaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta’s Slow Response Look More Bizarre (Wired)
NFL considers creating a streaming service of its own (The Athletic)

Monday, March 28 2022 - Mon. 03/28 – Apple Wins Best Picture Oscar

Apple Is First Streamer to Win Best Picture Oscar for ‘CODA’ (Variety)
Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro’s Larger Camera Bump Due to New 48MP Camera System (MacRumors)
Apple to cut iPhone, AirPods output amid Ukraine war uncertainty (NikkeiAsia)
HP buys Poly for $3.3 billion to ride hybrid work boom (TechStartups)
Emergency Google Chrome update fixes zero-day used in attacks (BleepingComputer)
That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake (WNYC)
NFT Collection Failures Begin to Mount in Flashback to ICO Bust (Bloomberg)
Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups (WSJ)

Friday, March 25 2022 - Fri. 03/25 – Will Europe’s DMA Force AIM And MSN Messenger To Talk To Each Other?

https://bank.gov.ua/en/about/support-the-armed-forces
https://www.1kproject.org/
https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ (including crypto donations)
https://koloua.com/
https://novaukraine.org/donate/
EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants (Politico)
Apple Is Working on a Hardware Subscription Service for iPhones (Bloomberg)
Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal (BBC News)
Instacart Slashes Its Valuation by Almost 40% to $24 Billion (Bloomberg)

Thursday, March 24 2022 - Thu. 03/24 – Is A 16-Year-Old Behind Lapsus$?

Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind (Bloomberg)
A Closer Look at the LAPSUS$ Data Extortion Group (KrebsonSecurity)
Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s DM search will finally actually help you find conversations (The Verge)
Uber Reaches Deal to List All New York City Taxis on Its App (WSJ)
Report: Apple developing new 15-inch MacBook Air that could come in 2023 (9to5Mac)
YouTube is taking on over-the-air TV with nearly 4,000 free episodes of TV (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 23 2022 - Wed. 03/23 – Maybe Apple Should Just Start A Bank

Tuesday, March 22 2022 - Tue. 03/22 – A Day Of All The Infosec News

Statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity (WhiteHouse.gov)
Is Russia exploring cyberattacks against U.S. in response to hacktivists? (VentureBeat)
Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert (The Verge)
Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft’s alleged source code (BleepingComputer)
Hacker Steals Customer Data From Circle, BlockFi, Other Big Crypto Firms (Decrypt)
Alphabet’s quantum tech group Sandbox spins off into an independent company (CNBC)
Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, But Only 2GB Used (MacRumors)
Roku OS 11 will let you set your own photos as a screensaver (The Verge)

Monday, March 21 2022 - Mon. 03/21 – Telegram Was Banned In Brazil Until It Wasn’t

Telegram forgot to check its email and now it’s banned in Brazil (The Verge)
Brazil Lifts Its Ban on Telegram After Two Days (NYTimes)
Elon Musk’s Starlink is keeping Ukrainians online when traditional Internet fails (Washington Post)
Chipmakers face two-year shortage of critical equipment (FT)
Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town (NYTimes)
Apple Should Make Home Wi-Fi Routers Again as Part of Mac Reboot (Bloomberg)
TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising (Ben)

Friday, March 18 2022 - $APE GMI?

Thursday, March 17 2022 - Thu. 03/17 – Netflix Wants You To Make Your Freeloaders Pay Up

Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully available online (The Verge)
Tech Executives Threatened With Jail Time Under Proposed U.K. Law (The Information)
Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers to Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Test to Address Unauthorized Password Sharing (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
Bored Apes NFT project gets official ‘ApeCoin’ token (TechCrunch)
APPLE MAC STUDIO REVIEW: FINALLY (The Verge)
[Two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in one week](https://www.cbs58.com/news/two-ultra-fast-delivery-startups-shut-down-in-one-week#:~:text=(CNN)

Wednesday, March 16 2022 - Wed. 03/16 – NFTs Coming To Instagram “Soon”

Instagram rolls out new safety tools for parents (TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram (Engadget)
Google casually announces Steam for Chrome OS is coming in alpha for select Chromebooks (9to5Google)
Google Stadia is subtly reinventing itself to attract new games and gamers (The Verge)
Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’ (The Verge)
Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform (The Verge)
APPLE IPAD AIR (2022) REVIEW: IT’S THE NICE ONE (The Verge)
FC Barcelona agree to sponsorship deal with Spotify, will rebrand stadium as ‘Spotify Camp Nou’ (CBS Sports)

Tuesday, March 15 2022 - Tue. 03/15 – Rebuilding The Cable Bundle, Example #937

UK chipmaker Arm to cut up to 1,000 jobs after $40bn sale collapses (The Guardian)
Get Ready for Faster Game Load Times With DirectStorage for Windows (PC Mag)
Twitter rolls back its decision to force you into the out-of-order timeline (The Verge)
iOS 15.4 now live as Universal Control comes to iPads and Macs (The Verge)
Apple releases macOS 12.3 with Universal Control, new emoji, head tracking for Spatial Audio, more (9to5Mac)
Proposal Limiting Proof-of-Work Is Rejected in EU Parliament Committee Vote (CoinDesk)
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Combine for “Blowout” Product, CFO Says (The Hollywood Reporter)
Streaming boom propels film industry’s pandemic recovery (Axios)
Global Entertainment Industry Revenue Rebounds From Pandemic, Thanks to Streaming Boom (Variety)

Monday, March 14 2022 - Mon. 03/14 – Foxconn Shutting Factories Cause Of Covid. Again.

Friday, March 11 2022 - Fri. 03/11 – Russia Bans Instagram And Designates Meta As An “Extremist Organization”

Thursday, March 10 2022 - Thu. 03/10 – Apple Hasn’t Forgotten About The Mac Mini

Exclusive: Updated Mac mini to have versions with M2 and M2 Pro chip (9to5Mac)
27-Inch ‘Studio Display Pro’ With Mini-LED and ProMotion Could Launch in June (MacRumors)
Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split, $10 billion buyback (CNBC)
Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo (TechCrunch)
Magic Leap 2 Hands-On: AR Glasses That Can Dim The Real World (CNET)
Dreaming of Suitcases in Space (NYTimes)

Wednesday, March 09 2022 - Wed. 03/09 – The Regulatory Era For Crypto Starts Today

Biden Orders Study of Cryptocurrency Risk, Creation of U.S. Digital Currency (WSJ)
Amazon Flagged to Justice Department for Possible Criminal Obstruction of Congress (WSJ)
Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia (Motherboard)
Lumen, a second major American Internet carrier, pulling out of Russia (Washington Post)
EU Says Russia, Belarus Sanctions Extend to Crypto (CoinDesk)
LimeWire Is Making a Comeback, But Not As You Know It (Bloomberg)
Apple Announces M1 Ultra (AnandTech)

Tuesday, March 08 2022 - Tue. 03/08 – The Spring Apple Event

Apple’s Mac Studio is a new desktop for creative professionals (The Verge)
Apple unveils the M1 Ultra, its most powerful chip yet (Engadget)
Apple unveils iPhone SE 3 with A15 chip, same home button design (9to5Mac)
Google is buying the cybersecurity company that uncovered the SolarWinds hack (The Verge)
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity to provide free cybersecurity to vulnerable industries (Silicon Angle)
Amazon launches a ‘live radio’ app, Amp, which lets you play DJ with music and call-ins (TechCrunch)
Android 12L will come to Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft devices (The Verge)

Monday, March 07 2022 - Mon. 03/07 – Samsung Source Code Leaked?

Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever (Ars Technica)
Malware now using NVIDIA’s stolen code signing certificates (Bleeping Computer)
Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code (Bleeping Computer)
Kuo: 27-inch Apple external display coming this year, new iMac Pro and Mac Pro in 2023 (9to5Mac)
TikTok Suspends Livestreaming in Russia on ‘Fake News’ Law (Bloomberg)
How are the Big Sanctions hurting Russia so far? (NoahPinion Substack)
Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem. (NYTimes)

Friday, March 04 2022 - Fri. 03/04 – Disney+ Now With Ads!

Thursday, March 03 2022 - Thu. 03/03 – Epic Buys Bandcamp; Amazon Retrenches From Physical Retail

Ukraine cancels crypto airdrop, plans to sell NFTs instead (The Block)
The Ukrainian leader who is pushing Silicon Valley to stand up to Russia (Washington Post)
Crypto Powerhouse ConsenSys Faces Action by Former Employees (Bloomberg)
SEC Scrutinizes NFT Market Over Illegal Crypto Token Offerings (Bloomberg)
Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp as ‘Fortnite’ Maker Expands Into Music (Variety)
Amazon is shutting 68 retail stores, ending Amazon Books, 4-star and Pop Up shops (CNBC)
Apple Event Announced for March 8: ‘Peek Performance’ (MacRumors)
Google tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in April (CNBC)

Wednesday, March 02 2022 - Wed. 03/02 – Will Poker Be The Killer App For The Metaverse?

Prominent tech companies that originated from Ukraine (Analytics India)
Fitbit recall confirms its Ionic smartwatch could overheat and burn you (Engadget)
New UCIe Chiplet Standard Supported by Intel, AMD, and Arm (Tom’s Hardware)
Meta Releases New ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report for Facebook, Which Continues to be a Baffling Overview (SocialMediaToday)
Netflix to buy mobile game developer Next Games to strengthen its games business (Money Control)
The Metaverse Finally Has a Killer App: Poker (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Tuesday, March 01 2022 - Tue. 03/01 – Uber “Explore”

Netflix Won’t Add Russian Broadcasters to Service, Defying New Regulation (WSJ)
Crypto Exchanges Refuse to Freeze All Russian Accounts (Motherboard)
Chinese cyberspies target govts with their ‘most advanced’ backdoor (BleepingComputer)
Uber adds new ways to buy concert tickets and book restaurants in its app (The Verge)
Amazon Luna launches for anyone in the US, adds free games for Prime members and Twitch integration (The Verge)
BitConnect’s Indicted Founder Kumbhani Vanished, SEC Says (Bloomberg)
SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 AND S22 PLUS ARE THE DEFAULT ANDROID PHONES TO BUY (The Verge)

Monday, February 28 2022 - Mon. 02/28 – The Tech World Rides The War Whirlwind

Customers of banks targeted by Russia sanctions are unable to use Apple Pay or Google Pay (Insider)
Google blocks RT, other Russian channels from earning ad dollars (Reuters)
Meta to bar Russian state media from running ads, monetizing on platform (Reuters)
Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians (NBCNews)
Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine (Reuters)
Crypto Donations to Ukraine Jump to $20M (CoinDesk)
Computer chip industry begins halting deliveries to Russia in response to U.S. sanctions (Washington Post)
Airbnb to Provide Housing for 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees (Bloomberg)
Google Maps temporarily disables live traffic data in Ukraine (Axios)
Facebook, Apple and Other Tech Giants Face Rising Pressure Over Ukraine (WSJ)
TikTok is taking aim at YouTube with longer 10-minute video uploads (AndroidCentral)
Qualcomm’s X70 5G modem has an AI processor to improve signal strength (Engadget)
Lenovo announces new IdeaPads and tablets with 12th-gen Intel CPUs (XDA Developers)
Dutch App Store change complies with law, says Apple, as antitrust regulator rejects proposal (9to5Mac)
Apple Has a Chance to Launch an iPhone Costing Just $199 (Bloomberg)

Friday, February 25 2022 - Fri. 02/25 – The Ukraine Fallout Continues For Tech

Social media platforms on the defensive as Russian-based disinformation about Ukraine spreads (Politico)
Google Faces Sanctions Dilemma With Pro-Russia YouTube Channels (Bloomberg)
Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips (Reuters)
Biden hits Russia with tough export curbs, slashing access to global tech (Reuters)
Top subscription app revenue grew 41% in 2021 to reach $18.3 billion (TechCrunch)

Thursday, February 24 2022 - Thu. 02/24 – There Actually IS A Tech Angle To Ukraine

Ukrainian gov’t sites disrupted by DDoS, wiper malware discovered (ZDNet)
Stablecoins Soar in Value as Everything Else in Crypto Shrinks (Bloomberg)
Oppo’s Find X5 Pro flagship is finally official (The Verge)
The Motorola Edge Plus aims for full flagship status — with a price to match (The Verge)
A Meta prototype lets you build virtual worlds by describing them (The Verge)
Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away (Recode)

Wednesday, February 23 2022 - Wed. 02/23 – The Troubles At Truth Social

Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability (Washington Post)
Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo (NYTimes)
OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity (Bloomberg)
Amazon sues two companies that allegedly help fill the site with fake reviews (CNBC)
Amazon’s Astro Home Robot Remains Elusive Six Months After Debut (Bloomberg)
Waymo to keep robotaxi safety details secret, court rules (TechCrunch)
Gaming Company Backbone Reveals Series A Funding Backed by Ashton Kutcher, The Weeknd, Kevin Hart, Post Malone and More (The Hollywood Reporter)

Tuesday, February 22 2022 - Tue. 02/22 – The Original (DAO) Sin Solved?

Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether (Forbes)
Sony finally reveals the PlayStation VR2’s design (The Verge)
FTX Enters Gaming as Backlash Grows Against Crypto’s Incursion (Bloomberg)
Over 40% of West Coast Tech Job Listings Are Outside West Coast (Bloomberg)
Spotify’s Car Thing Is About to Face the Music (CNET)
SAMSUNG GALAXY S22 ULTRA REVIEW: NOTABLY UNIQUE (The Verge)

Monday, February 21 2022 - Mon. 02/21 – When The Contract Allows Your NFTs To Be Stolen

Friday, February 18 2022 - Fri. 02/18 – Microsoft Account Now Required

You’ll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro (Ars Technica)
Intel Discloses Multi-Generation Xeon Scalable Roadmap (AnandTech)
Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users (The Verge)
Biden seen issuing crypto oversight exec order next week (Yahoo!Finance)

Thursday, February 17 2022 - Thu. 02/17 – A Y2K Bug For Our Times?

Mozilla warns Chrome, Firefox ‘100’ user agents may break sites (BleepingComputer)
Meta’s Clegg Promoted as Zuckerberg Steps Back From Policy (Bloomberg)
Circle valued at $9 billion under revamped SPAC deal terms (The Block)
Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms (The Verge)
Sequoia Capital launches crypto token fund (Axios)
Sequoia Capital is launching a $500-600 million crypto fund to invest in tokens (The Block)
Spotter raises $200M to invest $1 billion into YouTubers’ back catalogs (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, February 16 2022 - Wed. 02/16 – Uber Pulls Back The Curtain On YOUR Ratings

Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans (Washington Post)
Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years (The Verge)
ViacomCBS rebrands to Paramount in focus on streaming (The Verge)
Coalition of US crypto firms unveils travel rule compliance platform, TRUST (The Block)
Google Plans Privacy Changes, but Promises to Not Be Disruptive (NYTimes)
THEIR BIONIC EYES ARE NOW OBSOLETE AND UNSUPPORTED (IEEE Spectrum)

Tuesday, February 15 2022 - Tue. 02/15 – The Great Returning To The Office?

Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic (GeekWire)
Intel to Buy Israel’s Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 Billion (Bloomberg)
Instagram now lets you send private Story likes (Engadget)
Sea’s $16 Billion Crash Signals Trouble Beyond India Shutout (Bloomberg)
Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices (WSJ)
Google Messages, with RCS in tow, is now Samsung’s default messaging app in the US (9to5Google)
The New York Times has changed Wordle’s solutions (The Verge)

Monday, February 14 2022 - Mon. 02/14 – The Big Game Is Big For Crypto

Crypto apps soar in popularity after Super Bowl splurge (The Block)
iOS jailbreak dev wins $2M bounty for finding critical Optimism bug (CoinTelegraph)
HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case (BBCNews)
Digital euro bill due early 2023 (Politico)
Viam closes $30 Million Series A funding round (The Robot Report)
Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance (TechCrunch)
Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti is still missing, and the company refuses to say what’s going on (The Verge)

Friday, February 11 2022 - Fri. 02/11 – A New CIA Bulk Surveillance Program?

Secret CIA Bulk Surveillance Program Includes Some Americans’ Records, Senators Say (WSJ)
Apple Announces AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (MacRumors)
The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived (TechCrunch)

Thursday, February 10 2022 - Thu. 02/10 – Code Hints Of Apple’s “realityOS”

Is ‘realityOS’ Apple’s newest operating system? (The Verge)
In a bid to appease regulators, Microsoft announces new app store principles (The Washington Post)
Western Digital, Kioxia Lose ‘At Least’ 6.5 Exabytes of 3D NAND Due to Contamination (Updated) (Tom’s Hardware)
Why Static Video Memes Are All Over Instagram (The Information)
Gopuff stocks its warehouses with items purchased from Instacart, spending tens of thousands per month on the service (Insider)

Wednesday, February 09 2022 - Wed. 02/09 – The Samsung Galaxy S22 Event

Tuesday, February 08 2022 - Tue. 02/08 – Nvidia And Arm Are Off

Monday, February 07 2022 - Mon 02/07 – Rogangate And The ENS DAO Controversy

Spotify CEO Addresses Joe Rogan’s N-Word Use, Doubles Down on Keeping Podcaster on Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
Spotify CEO defends Joe Rogan deal in tense company town hall (The Verge)
Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Team Member Brantly Millegan Over 2016 Tweet (CoinDesk)
Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea (The Verge)
Gurman: New entry-level MacBook Pro with M2 chip coming this year, but no ProMotion (9to5Mac)
Gurman: Apple Event on March 8, At Least Four M2 Macs to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
Mapping the celebrity NFT complex (Read Max)

Friday, February 04 2022 - Fri. 02/04 – Tech Earnings Whiplash!

Thursday, February 03 2022 - Thu. 02/03 – Meta.Bomb

Meta estimates Apple’s iOS changes will cost it $10B in 2022 (ZDNet)
Facebook and Google’s Ad Addiction Can’t Last Forever (Bloomberg Opinion)
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole hacked for an estimated $322 million (The Record)
KP Snacks giant hit by Conti ransomware, deliveries disrupted (BleepingComputer)
Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
Inside Microsoft’s mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company’s metaverse strategy (Insider)

Wednesday, February 02 2022 - Wed. 02/02 – YouTube Bigger Than Netflix?

Google parent Alphabet announces 20-for-1 stock split (CNBC)
Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from SoftBank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public (TechCrunch)
SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (The Verge)
European Ad Group Hit With Sanctions Over Privacy Lapses (Bloomberg)
Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you. (Protocol)

Tuesday, February 01 2022 - Tue. 02/01 – Destiny And Wordle Get Acquired

Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (GamesIndustry.biz)
SONY’S BUNGIE ACQUISITION IS ALL ABOUT FORTNITE (The Verge)
Microsoft Deal for Activision to Be Reviewed by FTC in U.S. (Bloomberg)
Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)
Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play (The Verge)
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (TechCrunch)
Tesla recall: ‘Full Self-Driving’ software runs stop signs (AP)

Monday, January 31 2022 - Mon. 01/31 – Spotify “Clarifies” The Joe Rogan Situation

Friday, January 28 2022 - Fri. 01/28 – Making GPT-3 Less Gross

Apple CEO: ‘We Don’t Make Purely Financial Decisions’ About Apple TV Plus Content (Variety)
iOS 15.4 Beta Lets You Use Face ID With a Mask On (MacRumors)
White House reportedly preparing executive order on crypto (CoinTelegraph)
The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic) (Technology Review)

Thursday, January 27 2022 - Thu. 01/27 – Apple To Block Block (Née Square)?

Wednesday, January 26 2022 - Wed. 01/26 – Diem Dead?

Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel With Diem Sale Talks (Bloomberg)
Ditch Bitcoin: IMF Urges El Salvador to Rethink Crypto (Bloomberg)
Activision’s Next Three Call of Duty Games Will Be on PlayStation and Xbox (Bloomberg)
Samsung’s first Unpacked of 2022 will take place February 9th (Engadget)
Log4Shell: No Mass Abuse, But No Respite, What Happened? (Sophos News)
YouTube Shorts Tops 5 Trillion Views to Date, Platform to Test Shopping and Branded Content for TikTok-Style Videos (Variety)

Tuesday, January 25 2022 - Tue. 01/25 – Is The Nvidia/Arm Deal Off?

Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid (Bloomberg)
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s new Flock feature takes aim at Instagram Close Friends (Input)
Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022 (The Verge)
Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup (Ars Technica)
DHS warns of Russian cyberattack on US if it responds to Ukraine invasion (ABCNews)

Monday, January 24 2022 - Mon. 01/24 – Do We Even Have The Infrastructure To Make The Metaverse Happen?

Google deceived consumers about how it profits from their location data, attorneys general allege in lawsuits (Washington Post)
MEPs adopt Digital Services Act with significant last-minute changes (Euractiv)
European Parliament approves initial proposal to ban some targeted ads (The Verge)
Apple Nears First Product Launch of 2022, With 5G iPhone SE and New iPad on Tap (Bloomberg)
Solana Slides 17% to Lead Losses Amid Crypto Market Plunge (CoinDesk)
Despite the Drop in Crypto Prices, Weekly NFT Sales Reach $4.7 Billion, Increasing 81% (Bitcoin.com)
VR/AR Investments Increase Just As Metaverse Talk Heats Up—But That May Not Be The Only Reason (Crunchbase News)
The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue (FT)

Friday, January 21 2022 - Fri. 01/21 – Intel Bringing Silicon Back (To Ohio)

Thursday, January 20 2022 - Thu. 01/20 – Meta Wants To Bring NFTs To Your Insta Profile

Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze (FT)
Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive (Bloomberg)
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US (TechCrunch)
Google Play Games for PC starts limited beta for Android games on Windows, sharing system requirements (Android Police)
Amazon to try another tech-infused retail concept with ‘Amazon Style,’ its first physical fashion store (GeekWire)
Crypto.com Says Regulators Haven’t Reached Out After Hack (Bloomberg)
Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs (TechCrunch)
IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Online (Gizmodo)
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access (KrebsonSecurity)

Wednesday, January 19 2022 - Wed. 01/19 – The 5G Flight Issue Comes To A Head

Tuesday, January 18 2022 - Tue. 01/18 – Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard In The Biggest Gaming Deal Of All Time

Friday, January 14 2022 - Fri. 01/14 – Russia Cracks Down On REvil?

Russia takes down REvil hacking group at U.S. request - FSB (Reuters)
Crypto Exchange FTX Sets Up $2 Billion Venture Fund (WSJ)
“You Don’t Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail (Startups And Econ)
GOOGLE’S ANDROID 12 UPDATE HAS BEEN THE ROCKIEST IN YEARS (The Verge)
Tesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says reportTesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says report (The Verge)

Thursday, January 13 2022 - Thu. 01/13 – China To Do NFT’s, Minus The Blockchain

Apple Removes Wordle Apps Fueled by Confused Users (Bloomberg)
Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit (Reuters)
In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR (TechCrunch)
Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units (TechCrunch)
Instagram, still benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, again became the top app by downloads in Q4 (TechCrunch)
China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure, main developer says (South China Morning Post)
Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 12 2022 - Wed. 01/12 – About Those Apps Cloning Wordle…

‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules. (Washington Post)
Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22 (BusinessKorea)
App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B (TechCrunch)
The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store (The Verge)
Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, January 11 2022 - Tue. 01/11 – YC Ups The Ante

Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal (The Verge)
Y Combinator’s New Deal Sparks Fear in Seed Investors (The Information)
Apple Highlights Services in 2021, Recaps Upcoming Features Like IDs on iPhone (MacRumors)
The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism (The Verge)

Monday, January 10 2022 - Mon. 01/10 – Take-Two Acquires Zynga

Take-Two to acquire mobile gaming giant Zynga for $12.7B (TechCrunch)
SEC Pushes for More Transparency From Private Companies (WSJ)
Matter was a major star at CES 2022, but can it maintain its shine? (The Verge)
Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps (BleepingComputer)
My first impressions of web3 (Moxie.org)
Response From Vitalic Buterin on Reddit

Friday, January 07 2022 - Fri. 01/07 – Google Infringed On Sonos

Google Infringed on Sonos Speaker Technology, Trade Court Rules (NYTimes)
E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns (GamesBeat)
Mozilla pauses accepting crypto donations following backlash (The Verge)
Asus will release a 17-inch foldable OLED laptop this year (The Verge)

Thursday, January 06 2022 - Thu. 01/06 – Google Brings “It Just Works” To Everything

Google is working to improve Windows and Android integration (Engadget)
Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations (The Verge)
Instagram testing three new feed sorting choices, including chronological options (9to5Mac)
HTC is launching a VR wrist tracker for its Vive Focus 3 headset (The Verge)
Scoop: IBM tries to sell Watson Health again (Axios)
Electric Capital Developer Report (2021) (Electric Capital)
Crypto Crime Trends for 2022: Illicit Transaction Activity Reaches All-Time High in Value, All-Time Low in Share of All Cryptocurrency Activity (Chainalysis)
US start-ups raise record $330bn as venture investors vie for stakes (FT)

Wednesday, January 05 2022 - Wed. 01/05 – Sony’s VR Version 2 Deets

Sony confirms PlayStation VR2’s specs, first official game (Ars Technica)
Intel Says New Core i9 Processor for Laptops is Faster Than Apple’s M1 Max Chip (MacRumors)
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3050, 3070 Ti, 3080 Ti, and 3090 Ti graphics cards (GamesBeat)
Nvidia still has no idea how to pronounce the name of its best gaming GPU (The Verge)
AMD unveils Ryzen 6000 Series processors for laptops (GamesBeat)
Qualcomm and Microsoft are partnering on chips for future AR glasses (CNET)
John Deere’s Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming (Wired)
OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding. (NYTimes)
Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, January 04 2022 - Tue. 01/04 – Apple Becomes The First $3 Trillion Dollar Company

Monday, January 03 2022 - Mon. 01/03 – NFTs On Smart TVs?

Samsung’s new 2022 TVs bring Nvidia GeForce Now and Google Stadia gaming (The Verge)
Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support (The Verge)
Samsung shows off new monitors - including world’s first 4K 240Hz gaming monitor (TechRadar)
Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 to Feature Lossless Support and Sound-Emitting Charging Case (MacRumors)
Apple Set to Step Up Product Launches in 2022 After Modest 2021 (Bloomberg)
Metaverse Needs More Than VR Christmas Bump (WSJ)
China gaming crackdown: freeze on new video game licences extends into 2022 as 14,000 gaming-related firms shut down (SCMP)
Airlines Warn of Flight Delays as AT&T, Verizon Balk at 5G Delay (Bloomberg)
OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes (CoinTelegraph)
How NFTs became a $40bn market in 2021 (FT)