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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?

• Solana’s Top NFT Projects DeGods and Y00ts to Migrate Chains (CoinDesk)
• Apple’s business under growing threat from China’s Covid wave (Financial Times)
• Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that’s more likely to be buggy (The Register)
• IRS Delays $600 Tax Reporting Rule for Venmo, Etsy Sellers (Bloomberg)
• American Bargain Hunters Flock to a New Online Platform Forged in China (WSJ)

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

• Amazon Agrees to Settle EU Antitrust Cases, Avoiding Fines (WSJ)
• Bitcoin Addresses Tied to Defunct Canadian Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Wake Up (CoinDesk)
• TikTok’s new feature will tell you why a particular video appeared in your For You feed (TechCrunch)
• Apple to start making MacBooks in Vietnam by mid-2023 (NikkeiAsia)
• Netflix’s Ad-Supported Tier Was Its Least Popular Plan, Analytics Firm Estimates (WSJ)
• More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter (The Verge)
• Magna to Buy Veoneer Vehicle Safety Unit for $1.5 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Silicon Valley start-ups race for debt deals in funding crunch (FT)
• Coinbase’s Value Is $1 Billion Below ‘Joke’ Token Dogecoin’s (Bloomberg)

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)

Saturday, December 17 2022 - (Bonus) Is This The Moment For Twitter Alternatives With @gabor and @BigTechnology

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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?

• Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It (Bloomberg)
• Twitter Suspends Over 25 Accounts That Track Billionaires’ Private Planes (NYTimes)
• Elon Musk offloads another $3.6bn of Tesla stock (FT)
• FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises (Chainalysis)
• 2022 will go down as the worst year for U.S. IPOs since 1990. (Axios Pro Rata)
• Mobile games market to decline for first time in over a decade (FT)
• Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation (VentureBeat)
• 1 big thing: The “battery belt” widens (Axios)
• The electric car Battery Belt is reshaping America’s heartland (Axios)

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

• Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws (Bloomberg)
• Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple Music (The Verge)
• Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs (NYTimes)
• Twitter is considering forcing users to let the company sell their data and phone numbers to advertisers, in potential breach of Apple rules (Insider)
• Binance CEO Zhao Warns Bumpy Road Ahead in Message to His Staff (Bloomberg)
• Instagram Challenges BeReal and Adds Notes Short-Message Feature (WSJ)
• Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill that aims to ban TikTok in the U.S. (CNBC)

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
• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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)

Saturday, December 10 2022 - (TWTR SPC) 2022 Year End Review And Look Ahead To 2023

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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
• 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
• 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 (Financial Times)
• 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)
• Elon Musk Meets With Apple CEO Tim Cook Amid Claims of Twitter App Store Dispute [Updated] (MacRumors)
• 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?

• Elon Musk Claims Apple Has ‘Mostly Stopped’ Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands (MacRumors)
• Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk (Platformer)
• Twitter’s $5bn-a-year business hit as Elon Musk clashes with advertisers (Financial Times)
• Binance clarifies initial $1 billion recovery fund deposit came from own assets (The Block)
• Amazon’s Create With Alexa generates unique animated children’s stories on Echo Show (Engadget)
• Google partners with med tech company to develop AI breast cancer screening tools (The Verge)
• Special Series Part 3: AI Could Transform Medical Imaging — So Why Don’t We See It More? (Crunchbase News)

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)

Thursday, November 24 2022 - (Bonus) Internet From Space! With The Internet Society

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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

• Crypto Brokerage Genesis Is Said to Warn of Bankruptcy Without Funding (Bloomberg)
• Hedge funds left with billions stranded on FTX (FT)
• Exclusive: Bankman-Fried’s FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million (Reuters)
• Elon Musk says Twitter is done with layoffs and ready to hire again (The Verge)
• Amazon is gutting its voice assistant, Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on ‘a wasted opportunity.’ (Insider)
• Apple Says Your iPhone’s Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That’s Not True (Gizmodo)

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

• Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (The Verge)
• Tweet thread on why @peterclowes left Twitter
• Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout (FT)
• End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile (Gizmodo)

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

• Sam Bankman-Fried steps down as FTX CEO as his crypto exchange files for bankruptcy (CNBC)
• FTX US Warns of Trading Halt Hours After Bankman-Fried Says It’s ‘100% Liquid’ (CoinDesk)
• Crypto Lender BlockFi Pauses Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse (CoinDesk)
• Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? (TechDirt)

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
• 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 (Financial Times)
• 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)
• 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?

• Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week (WSJ)
• Apple Issues iPhone 14 Pro Shipment Warning Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season (MacRumors)
• Apple’s Next Change for Siri: Dropping ‘Hey’ From ‘Hey Siri’ Trigger (Bloomberg)
• Airbnb to Make Cleaning Fees Clearer on Searches After Customer Complaints (WSJ)
• Elon Musk Appears To Threaten Advertisers Wary Of His Twitter Takeover (HuffingtonPost)

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?

• Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year (Axios)
• Jack Dorsey just saved Elon Musk about $1 billion by rolling over his shares of Twitter into a stake in the new private company (Insider)
• YouTube’s Primetime Channels bring streaming movies and TV into the YouTube app (The Verge)
• Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts (TechCrunch)
• Uber Shares Jump as Strong Ridership Eases Inflation Worries (Bloomberg)
• PlayStation Plus has lost nearly 2 million subscribers since its revamp (VGC)

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”

• App Store guidelines updated with new rules for apps with NFT and ad managers (9to5Mac)
• Apple is raising the price of Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple One from today (9to5Mac)
• Project Volterra launches today as the ‘Windows Dev Kit 2023’ with 32GB RAM and costs less than a Mac mini (Windows Central)
• Meta shareholder writes critical open letter saying company needs to slash headcount and stop spending so much money on ‘metaverse’ (CNBC)
• Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI (The Verge)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch) review: a few steps forward and one big step back (The Verge)
• Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (SQ3) review: Windows on Arm is not ready (The Verge)
• iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager is not the future of multitasking you were hoping for (The Verge)

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

• China Stocks Crater in US as Alibaba Leads $130 Billion Wipeout (Bloomberg)
• TSMC: the Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war (Financial Times)
• Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Debt to Be Held by Banks Amid Turbulent Markets (WSJ)
• These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious (CNN Business)
• The iPad Lineup Is Perplexing — Here’s How Apple Could Fix It (Bloomberg)
• Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’ (The Guardian)

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/Julia Alexander)
• The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
• 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

• Apple introduces next-generation iPad Pro, supercharged by the M2 chip (Apple Newsroom)
• Apple announces new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with M2 chip, Apple Pencil hover feature (9to5Mac)
• Apple Announces 10th-Generation iPad With Complete Redesign, 10.9-Inch Display, USB-C, and More (MacRumors)
• Meta gets final order to sell Giphy from UK antitrust watchdog (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft becomes latest tech firm to cut staff (Axios)
• Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. (Engadget)
• Intel Eyes Significantly Lower Valuation in IPO of Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
• Stability AI Raises Seed Round at $1 Billion Value (Bloomberg)

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

• Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android (BleepingComputer)
• Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul (The Verge)
• FCC poised to ban all U.S. sales of new Huawei and ZTE equipment (Axios)
• Microsoft’s Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Parent ByteDance Sets Sights on Spotify With Music-Streaming Expansion (WSJ)
• I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here’s how I found my clients and built a booming side hustle from scratch. (Insider)

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

• America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now (WSJ)
• Google selects Coinbase to take cloud payments with cryptocurrencies and will use its custody tool (CNBC)
• Chips, canvases, and chats: Google Workspace’s plan to crush Office (The Verge)
• Google is trying to make Chromebooks built for cloud gaming (Engadget)
• It’s Lonely in the Metaverse: DappRadar Data Suggests Decentraland Has 38 ‘Daily Active’ Users in $1.3B Ecosystem (CoinDesk)
• You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back. (WSJ)
• ‘The Owner of This iPhone Was in a Severe Car Crash’—or Just on a Roller Coaster (WSJ)
• How to change the AirTags battery (AppleInsider)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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

• EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 (MacRumors)
• Xiaomi’s 12T Pro launches with high-resolution 200-megapixel camera (The Verge)
• Google debuts new Nest Doorbell Wired, Nest Wifi Pro and launches fully new Google Home app preview (ZDNet)
• YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K (TechCrunch)
• Meta launches AI software tools to ease switching between Nvidia, AMD chips (Reuters)
• Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists (WSJ)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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?

• Crypto Exchange FTX Wins Bankrupt Firm Voyager’s Assets (Bloomberg)
• ‘Smash and grab’: Meta uncovers Russia’s ‘largest and most complex’ info op since the war began (Protocol)
• Meta makes it easier to switch between Facebook and Instagram accounts (CNBC)
• Nreal’s $379 AR glasses launch in the US today (The Verge)
• If you still miss Google Reader, Substack has a new web-based RSS client (The Verge)
• Walmart enters the metaverse with Roblox experiences aimed at younger shoppers (CNBC)
• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse (GamesBeat)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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 - Mon. 09/19 – Uber Hack ≡ GTA VI Leak?

• GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos (The Verge)
• South Korean prosecutors ask Interpol to issue red notice for Do Kwon (Financial Times)
• iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking and rattling in TikTok, Snapchat, and other apps (9to5Mac)
• ‘No One Is Profitable’: GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge (PCMag)
• Instacart Plans to Focus IPO on Selling Employee Shares (WSJ)
• The Adobe-Figma deal is historic for tech startups — if it goes through (Protocol)
• Why Figma is Worth $20B And Other Observations From The Adobe Acquisition (Hunter Walk)

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

• ‘Quest Pro’ video shows Meta’s next VR headset a month before its launch event (The Verge)
• New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities (ArsTechnica)
• Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (TechCrunch)
• Roku to Launch ‘The Buzz’ Short-Form Content Hub on Home Screen, Refreshes $30 Streaming Device (Variety)
• Google’s Loon Project Gets Resurrected. Without Google. Or Balloons (Bloomberg)
• TikTok’s Secret To Explosive Growth? ‘Billions And Billions Of Dollars’ Says Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Forbes)

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. 08/09 – 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

• Google Chrome emergency update fixes new zero-day used in attacks (BleepingComputer)
• Binance, Issuer of Third-Biggest Stablecoin, to Stop Supporting Larger Rival USDC (CoinDesk)
• CVS Makes $8 Billion Bet on the Return of the House Call (NYTimes)
• Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during ‘energy emergency’ (Denver7)
• Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple (9to5Mac)
• iPhone 14 Pro’s Always-On Display Behavior in iOS 16 Allegedly Revealed Days Ahead of Unveiling (MacRumors)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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 (Matt Levine/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

• Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health (WSJ)
• Elon Musk says Tesla will hike the price of FSD driver assistance software by 25% in September (CNBC)
• FTX grew revenue 1,000% during the crypto craze, leaked financials show (CNBC)
• Stablecoin issuers hold $80bn of short-dated US government debt (Financial Times)
• How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture (NYTimes)
• A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. (NYTimes)

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

• Exclusive: Airbnb rolls out new anti-party tech to prevent unapproved gatherings (Fast Company)
• MacBook design changes enable Vietnamese production for the first time; Apple Watch too (9to5Mac)
• Chipmakers Are Flashing More Warnings on the Global Economy (Bloomberg)
• Wall Street’s Record Fines Over WhatsApp Use Were Years in the Making (Bloomberg)
• Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation (CNBC)
• Mid-year Crypto Crime Update: Illicit Activity Falls With Rest of Market, With Some Notable Exceptions (Chainalysis)
• Google invested a whopping $1.5B into blockchain companies since September (CoinTelegraph)
• Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web (Wired)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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 (Financial Times)
• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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

• Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid (CNBC)
• Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC)
• Ex-Coinbase Manager Arrested in US Crypto Insider-Trading Case (Bloomberg)
• Your next smart lock could ditch the battery by harvesting energy from your phone (The Verge)

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
• 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

• Netflix loses fewer subscribers than expected and says cheaper ad tier is coming in early 2023 (CNBC)
• Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay (CNBC)
• A Neuralink cofounder left Elon Musk’s brain-chip company, leaving it with just 2 of its 8 founding members (Insider)
• Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses (CNET)
• Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now (FastCompany)
• Why BeReal is breaking out (Platformer)

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

• Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app’s core features to desktop (TechCrunch)
• Leaked emails: Crypto exchange Coinbase is ‘temporarily shutting down’ its US affiliate-marketing program (Insider)
• Coinbase stirs rumors of liquidity woes as it halts affiliate-marketing program (Insider Bitcoins)
• Crypto Crash Stalls WeWork Founder Adam Neumann’s Climate Venture (WSJ)
• The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups (Wired)
• Tiger Global-backed Missfresh faces fight for survival (FT)
• 71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. (WSJ)

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?

• Embattled crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy protection (CNBC)
• Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt (Financial Times)
• Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he’s leaving the company (CNBC)
• Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its new ad-supported tier (The Verge)
• Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs (TechCrunch)
• Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps (TechCrunch)
• APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK AIR M2 IS THE START OF A WHOLE NEW AIR-A (The Verge)

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?

• Three Arrows Founders’ Whereabouts Unknown, Liquidators Say (Bloomberg)
• FTC to Crack Down on Sites That Claim Your Data Is ‘Anonymized’ When It’s Not (PCMag)
• Hive’s abandoned smart home devices will cease operation starting in 2023 (The Verge)
• Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.8 billion, is laying off 29% of staff in its second wave of job cuts in 2022 (Insider)
• Twitter Lawyers Call Musk’s Deal Termination ‘Wrongful’ (Bloomberg)
• As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in Charge (Wired)

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 (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
• Tweet Storm #1
• Tweet Storm #2

Friday, July 08 2022 - (IHP) The eBay Story Part 2

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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

• Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover faces competition probe in the UK (CNBC)
• US Wants Dutch Supplier to Stop Selling Chipmaking Gear to China (Bloomberg)
• NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new ‘quantum-proof’ cryptography standards (SC Media)
• Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with big Grubhub investment and partnership (TechCrunch)
• Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis (CoinDesk)
• Crypto Mining Giant Dumped Most of Its Bitcoin Holdings in June (Bloomberg)
• How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown (NYTimes)

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)

Monday, July 04 2022 - (IHP) The eBay Story Part 1

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Friday, July 01 2022 - Google Talk (Dec. 2018)

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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)
• Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers [Update] (Kotaku)
• 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 (Recode/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

• Crypto lender Babel Finance announces steps to improve its liquidity situation (The Block)
• New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account (The Block)
• iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites (MacRumors)
• Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. (NYTimes)
• Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up (NYTimes)
• MICROSOFT’S WEIRD SURFACE DUO 2 HAS SURPRISINGLY BECOME MY FAVORITE DEVICE OF THE YEAR (The Verge)

Monday, June 20 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) Juna

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

• Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes)
• Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge)
• Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet)
• Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ)

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

• After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital’s future is uncertain (The Block)
• Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ)
• Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT)
• YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge)
• Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early (The Verge)
• Exclusive: New entry-level iPad to pack A14 chip, 5G, and USB-C connectivity (9to5Mac)
• Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games (WSJ)
• Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian)

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

• TikTok’s new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch)
• US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest (Bloomberg)
• USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’ (The Verge)
• Security Fixes Won’t Require Full iOS Update in iOS 16, Will Be Installed Automatically (MacRumors)
• Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022 (AnandTech)
• A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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?

• Cruise can finally charge for driverless robotaxi rides in San Francisco (TechCrunch)
• Twitter is building a tool for keyword alerts, in case you need more Twitter notifications (The Verge)
• Elon Musk asks Tesla execs to ‘pause all hiring,’ cut 10% of staff, amid ‘super bad feeling about economy’ (Electrek)
• Apple Plans to Make the iPad More Like a Laptop and Less Like a Phone (Bloomberg)

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

• Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down (CNBC)
• Sandberg’s Advertising Empire Leaves a Complicated Legacy (Bloomberg)
• Javier Olivan, who’s replacing Sheryl Sandberg at Meta, built his career on international expansion (CNBC)
• US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading (CoinDesk)
• Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (The Verge)

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)

Monday, May 30 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) Check-in With Rownd (How To Raise A Round Right Now)

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

• Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed ‘Keystone’ (Windows Central)
• Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal (CNBC)
• Twitter director Egon Durban won’t leave the board after shareholders voted to boot him (CNBC)
• Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes)

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 Electric/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 (Motherboard/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?

• OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu (TechCrunch)
• Zoom pops 16% on first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance (CNBC)
• Snap plunges 30% after CEO warns company will miss revenue and earnings estimates, slow hiring (CNBC)
• Google is testing a smaller, modular Street View camera system (Engadget)
• APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY (The Verge)

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?

• 2 vulnerabilities with 9.8 severity ratings are under exploit. A 3rd looms (ArsTechnica)
• TikTok’s new ad product gives creators a chance to partner with marketers on branded content (TechCrunch)
• EXCLUSIVE TikTok plans big push into gaming, conducting tests in Vietnam -sources (Reuters)
• FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading (The Block)
• Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain (Financial Times)
• SoftBank-Backed Fintech Giant Klarna Looks for New Funds at Lower Valuation (WSJ)
• New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent (Curbed)

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 (Matt Levine/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

• Apple, Google, Microsoft Back ‘FIDO’ Tech to Dump Passwords on Websites and Apps (CNET)
• China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs (Bloomberg)
• Epic’s Fortnite Now Free to Play on Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console (CNET)
• Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)

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

• Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter (FT)
• Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
• Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)
• Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (Protocol)
• Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically (TechCrunch)
• White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers (The Record)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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)
• Apple’s Studio Display’s poor webcam quality is not a software bug after all (9to5Mac)
• 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/Casey Newton)
• From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (Financial Times)
• 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 - Mon. 04/25 – Wherein I Race Elon On Breaking News

• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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 (Matt Levine/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)

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

• Researchers find new malware variant after stopping attack on Ukrainian energy provider (The Record)
• Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip (CoinDesk)
• CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users (CNBC)
• Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start (Axios)
• Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter Stake (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s New 47.5% Fee on Metaverse Items Has NFT Twitter Pissed (CNET)
• Meta: 124 Quest Apps Have Earned More Than $1M, 8 Have Earned More Than $20M (RoadToVR)
• DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop (Wired)

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/Matt Levine)
• 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/NPR)
• NFT Collection Failures Begin to Mount in Flashback to ICO Bust (Bloomberg)
• Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups (WSJ)

Friday, March 25 2022 - Profile Of Ukrainian Startup Lemon.io

• 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/

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

• 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

• The Third-Party Okta Hack Leaves Customers Scrambling (Wired)
• Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos (The Block)
• Apple Buys UK Fintech Start-Up Credit Kudos (CNBC)
• El Salvador postpones bitcoin bond issue, expects better conditions (Reuters)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse (The Verge)
• Crypto investor Katie Haun raises $1.5 billion, the largest debut fund ever by a female VC (CNBC)
• Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s Leadership Take Remote Work to the Extreme (WSJ)
• Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog (The Verge)

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-Evans.com)

Friday, March 18 2022 - $APE GMI?

• Australian watchdog sues Facebook-owner Meta over scam advertisements (Reuters)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club Ethereum NFT Sales Surge as ApeCoin Price Pops, Then Drops (Decrypt)
• U.S. antitrust enforcers won’t challenge Amazon’s MGM deal, dashing hopes of monopoly critics (Politico)

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 (CBS58)

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)

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

• Crypto lender Babel Finance announces steps to improve its liquidity situation (The Block)
• New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account (The Block)
• iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites (MacRumors)
• Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. (NYTimes)
• Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up (NYTimes)
• MICROSOFT’S WEIRD SURFACE DUO 2 HAS SURPRISINGLY BECOME MY FAVORITE DEVICE OF THE YEAR (The Verge)

Monday, June 20 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) Juna

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Saturday, June 18 2022 - (TWTR SPC) Stock Options; DALL·E; Internet Explorer

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

• Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes)
• Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge)
• Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet)
• Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ)

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

• After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital’s future is uncertain (The Block)
• Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ)
• Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT)
• YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge)
• Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early (The Verge)
• Exclusive: New entry-level iPad to pack A14 chip, 5G, and USB-C connectivity (9to5Mac)
• Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games (WSJ)
• Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian)

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)

Saturday, June 11 2022 - (TWTR SPC) WWDC 2022 Wrap Up

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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

• TikTok’s new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch)
• US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest (Bloomberg)
• USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’ (The Verge)
• Security Fixes Won’t Require Full iOS Update in iOS 16, Will Be Installed Automatically (MacRumors)
• Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022 (AnandTech)
• A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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?

• Cruise can finally charge for driverless robotaxi rides in San Francisco (TechCrunch)
• Twitter is building a tool for keyword alerts, in case you need more Twitter notifications (The Verge)
• Elon Musk asks Tesla execs to ‘pause all hiring,’ cut 10% of staff, amid ‘super bad feeling about economy’ (Electrek)
• Apple Plans to Make the iPad More Like a Laptop and Less Like a Phone (Bloomberg)

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

• Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down (CNBC)
• Sandberg’s Advertising Empire Leaves a Complicated Legacy (Bloomberg)
• Javier Olivan, who’s replacing Sheryl Sandberg at Meta, built his career on international expansion (CNBC)
• US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading (CoinDesk)
• Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (The Verge)

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)

Monday, May 30 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) Check-in With Rownd (How To Raise A Round Right Now)

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

• Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed ‘Keystone’ (Windows Central)
• Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal (CNBC)
• Twitter director Egon Durban won’t leave the board after shareholders voted to boot him (CNBC)
• Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes)

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 Electric/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 (Motherboard/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?

• OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu (TechCrunch)
• Zoom pops 16% on first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance (CNBC)
• Snap plunges 30% after CEO warns company will miss revenue and earnings estimates, slow hiring (CNBC)
• Google is testing a smaller, modular Street View camera system (Engadget)
• APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY (The Verge)

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)

Saturday, May 21 2022 - a16z’s Chris Dixon (@cdixon) On The State Of Crypto And Web3

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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?

• 2 vulnerabilities with 9.8 severity ratings are under exploit. A 3rd looms (ArsTechnica)
• TikTok’s new ad product gives creators a chance to partner with marketers on branded content (TechCrunch)
• EXCLUSIVE TikTok plans big push into gaming, conducting tests in Vietnam -sources (Reuters)
• FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading (The Block)
• Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain (Financial Times)
• SoftBank-Backed Fintech Giant Klarna Looks for New Funds at Lower Valuation (WSJ)
• New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent (Curbed)

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 (Matt Levine/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)

Saturday, May 14 2022 - (TWTR SPC) Techpocalypse Now! W/ @EricNewcomer @loganbartlett & @alexrkonrad

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

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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

• Apple, Google, Microsoft Back ‘FIDO’ Tech to Dump Passwords on Websites and Apps (CNET)
• China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs (Bloomberg)
• Epic’s Fortnite Now Free to Play on Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming for Mobile, Desktop, Console (CNET)
• Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)

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

• Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter (FT)
• Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant (The Verge)
• Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)
• Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (Protocol)
• Stripe flexes its fintech muscle with Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically (TechCrunch)
• White House wants nation to prepare for cryptography-breaking quantum computers (The Record)

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 (Financial Times)
• 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)

Sunday, May 01 2022 - The Reunion Of The Social Web TV Crew (Fixed)

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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)
• Apple’s Studio Display’s poor webcam quality is not a software bug after all (9to5Mac)
• 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/Casey Newton)
• From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (Financial Times)
• 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 - Mon. 04/25 – Wherein I Race Elon On Breaking News

• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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)

Sunday, April 24 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) OpenAxis

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Saturday, April 23 2022 - WTF Netflix? W/ @loudmouthjulia

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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 (Matt Levine/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

• Composer.trade/ride

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

• Researchers find new malware variant after stopping attack on Ukrainian energy provider (The Record)
• Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip (CoinDesk)
• CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users (CNBC)
• Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start (Axios)
• Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter Stake (Bloomberg)
• Meta’s New 47.5% Fee on Metaverse Items Has NFT Twitter Pissed (CNET)
• Meta: 124 Quest Apps Have Earned More Than $1M, 8 Have Earned More Than $20M (RoadToVR)
• DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop (Wired)

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)

Saturday, April 09 2022 - (Portfolio Profile) MRGN, With Yoni Rubin

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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/Matt Levine)
• 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)

Saturday, April 02 2022 - (Bonus) Inventing FaceTime And iMessage With Apple Engineer Justin Santamaria

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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/NPR)
• NFT Collection Failures Begin to Mount in Flashback to ICO Bust (Bloomberg)
• Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups (WSJ)

Saturday, March 26 2022 - (TWTR SPC) Mark Gurman On Apple

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Friday, March 25 2022 - Profile Of Ukrainian Startup Lemon.io

• 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/

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

• 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

• Linkedin.com/ride

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-Evans.com)

Saturday, March 19 2022 - (TWTR SPC) Every.to And Mac Studio

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Friday, March 18 2022 - $APE GMI?

• Australian watchdog sues Facebook-owner Meta over scam advertisements (Reuters)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club Ethereum NFT Sales Surge as ApeCoin Price Pops, Then Drops (Decrypt)
• U.S. antitrust enforcers won’t challenge Amazon’s MGM deal, dashing hopes of monopoly critics (Politico)

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 (CBS58)

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.

• Foxconn Halts iPhone Shenzhen Site Due to Covid Lockdown (Bloomberg)
• Kuo: Only iPhone 14 Pro Models to Get ‘A16’ Chip, Standard Models to Retain A15 (MacRumors)
• Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
• Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine (WSJ)
• These are Netflix’s Most Popular Shows (According to Netflix) (Bloomberg)
• APPLE’S NEW IPHONE SE IS A MODERN PHONE STUCK IN YESTERDAY’S DESIGN (The Verge)
• Kawasaki’s Rideable Robotic Goat Is the Electric Car for Wandering Cowpokes (Gizmodo)

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

• Russia Asks Court to Label Facebook, Instagram as ‘Extremist’ (Bloomberg)
• DuckDuckGo reverses course, will demote Russian propaganda in search results (Engadget)
• EU and UK open antitrust probe into Google and Meta over online ads (FT)
• Stripe launches payments support for crypto businesses, partners with FTX (The Block)
• The great NFT sell-off: has the digital collectibles craze hit its peak? (FT)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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!

• Twitter to reopen offices March 15, though remote work remains an option (CNBC)
• Disney+ to launch cheaper ad-supported tier later this year (CNBC)
• Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries (Motherboard)
• SpaceX sent Starlink internet terminals to Ukraine. They could paint a ‘giant target’ on users’ backs, experts say (CNN Business)
• NFT Mania Show Signs of Cooling as Average Price and Sales Decline (Bloomberg)

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?

• Apple Halts All Sales From Online Store in Russia [Updated] (MacRumors)
• How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia (Slate)
• 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

• OpenSea Investigating ‘Exploit Rumors’ as Users Complain of Missing NFTs (CoinDesk)
• $1.7 million in NFTs stolen in apparent phishing attack on OpenSea users (The Verge)
• Apple Readies New MacBooks and iMacs for Part Three of Overhaul (Bloomberg)
• The Apple M2 could launch alongside up to seven new Mac models this year (TechRadar)
• Gurman: Apple to Launch New Macs Next Month, With More to Come Around May or June (MacRumors)
• Tencent Leads China Tech Selloff Amid Fears of Further Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• PrimaryBid raises $190M to double down on making it easier for ordinary people to invest in IPOs and follow-on fundraises (TechCrunch)
• Ford Mustang Mach-E usurps Tesla Model 3 as Consumer Reports top EV pick of the year (The Verge)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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

• Uber will now let you see how many one-star ratings you got from drivers (The Verge)
• 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)
• Exclusive: Pixel will be able to stream Android apps to your Chromebook/PC, here’s how it works [Video] (9to5Google)
• 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

• SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 AND S22 PLUS PUT IMPROVED CAMERAS AND PERFORMANCE IN A SAMEY DESIGN (The Verge)
• SAMSUNG’S GALAXY S22 ULTRA IS A NOTE BY ANOTHER NAME (The Verge)
• Samsung’s new tablets go bigger than ever (The Verge)
• Facebook market cap falls below $600 billion — which could actually help it dodge new antitrust scrutiny (CNBC)
• Justice Department Says It Seized $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Stolen in 2016 Hack (WSJ)
• Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper (Motherboard)

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

• SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses (THE (?) Financial Times)
• Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates (NYTimes)
• Peloton CEO John Foley to Step Down, Firm to Cut 2,800 Jobs (WSJ)
• I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification (NYTimes)
• Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music With Artificial Intelligence (Bloomberg)
• Apple announces new Tap to Pay feature that turns iPhones into contactless payment terminals (9to5Mac)
• Signal now allows you to keep messages and groups after changing phone numbers (ZDNet)
• Tinder will stop charging older users more for premium features (Engadget)

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!

• Snap shares rocket as much as 62% on first-ever quarterly net profit (CNBC)
• Amazon Flexes Its Pricing Muscles (WSJ)
• Amazon Profit Shows Resilience Even as Labor, Supply Crunch Weigh on Results (WSJ)
• Apple will charge 27% commission for app purchases made using alternative payment systems in the Netherlands (9to5Mac)

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)
• Pinterest Adds Augmented Reality Feature for Home Decor (WSJ)

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

• Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19 (The Verge)
• Joe Rogan defends podcast and apologizes to Spotify for backlash (The Verge)
• Spotify’s big Rogan mistake (Protocol)
• Facebook parent Meta joins crypto group promoting open patents (The Block)
• Facebook’s metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate. (Insider)
• LooksRare Has Reportedly Generated $8B in Ethereum NFT Wash Trading (Decrypt)
• Losses Mount for Startups Racing to Deliver Groceries Fast and Cheap (WSJ)

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)?

• Apple to Rival Square by Turning iPhones Into Payment Terminals (Bloomberg)
• Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum (WSJ)
• Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets (WSJ)
• OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules start-up fundraising process (CNBC)
• Fireblocks raises $550 million in Series E funding, now valued at $8 billion (The Block)
• Anti-Work Subreddit Suddenly Goes Private to Clean Up After ‘Brigading’ (Bloomberg)
• Anti-work subreddit implodes after rough Fox News interview (Mashable)
• Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th (The Verge)

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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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 (Financial Times)

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

• Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside (Time)
• Twitter Embraces NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature (WSJ)
• GOOGLE IS BUILDING AN AR HEADSET (The Verge)
• Netflix Falls Short of Q4 Subscriber Target, Stock Tumbles on Weak Forecast (Variety)
• We regret to inform you that Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts (The Verge)

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

• Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch (WSJ)
• Major airlines cancel, change flights to US over 5G dispute (AP)
• Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard (Decrypt)
• OpenSea confirms acquisition of Dharma, sets sights on fiat onramps (The Block)
• Michael Jordan, Multicoin Back Solana NFT Firm Metaplex in $46M Round (Decrypt)
• Former SpaceX engineers bring autonomous, electric rail vehicle startup out of stealth (TechCrunch)
• Activision Blizzard’s Workplace Problems Spurred $75 Billion Microsoft Deal (WSJ)
• Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it (Recode)
• Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will take to get it reconnected. (MIT Technology Review)

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

• Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal (CNBC)
• Activision Blizzard Games Will Come To Xbox Game Pass As Part Of Acquisition (PureXbox)
• Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse (Financial Times)
• Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum (Decrypt)
• Samsung begins mass production of Exynos 2200 smartphone processor (ZDNet)
• Cross-country Exposure - Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app (Citizenlab.ca)
• Olympic burner phones? Athletes warned about bringing personal devices to China for 2022 Beijing Games (USAToday)

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 no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch [Update: Samsung speaks] (Ars Technica)
• 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)
• T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US [U] (9to5Mac)
• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• 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

• Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap (CNBC)
• The Galaxy S21 FE officially joins Samsung’s crowded midrange lineup (The Verge)
• Verizon, AT&T agree to FAA’s request for a two-week delay on 5G expansion plans (CNET)
• Verizon and T-Mobile Discontinue iPad Rebate Program Following Widespread Customer Complaints [Updated] (MacRumors)
• Version two of TCL’s wearable display glasses are lighter and less dorky-looking (The Verge)
• Are we ready for the smart front door? Masonite thinks so (The Verge)
• This smart collar wants to be an Apple Watch for your dog (The Verge)
• L’Oreal’s precision hair coloring device is the end of home dye job disasters (Input)

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)

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