New DRM rules allow jailbreaking of voice-assistant devices and unlocking of new phones, but don't allow game consoles to be fixed or HDCP to be bypassed
Six months ago, on a sunny spring day in LA, I donned a suit—a rare event—and walked into a courtroom at UCLA.
Amazon Q3: revenue of $56.6B, up 29% YoY, operating income of $3.7B, up from $347M YoY, net income of $2.9B, up from $256M YoY; stock down 7%+
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) October 25, 2018—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2018.
Github's new CEO Nat Friedman says Microsoft's $7.5B acquisition of Github is now complete
I'm thrilled to share that the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is complete. Monday is my first day as CEO. Millions of people rely on GitHub every day, and I am honored by the opportunity to lead th...
Sources: Andy Rubin left Google with $90M after credible sexual misconduct allegation; one accused executive left with a big exit package while another remained
starting with this bombshell story. http://twitter.com/... Keith Boykin / @keithboykin : Rich people get rewarded for bad behavior, but working class people get vilified simply for asking for a living...
US Copyright Office files final rule on right to repair that allows consumers to legally break DRM for repairing or maintaining devices beginning Oct. 28
a major win for #RightToRepair—consumers can legally repair smart home devices, modify software in tractors, and more starting Sunday. Read our full summary of the exemptions here: http://ifixit.org/....
Tether says it has destroyed over half of its total supply, or 500M USDT, from the Tether treasury wallet
UPDATE (24 October 19:25 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from a Bitfinex spokesman. — Shortly before 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, Tether …
Andy Rubin says NYT story is part of a smear campaign, calls allegations false, is troubled that Google execs are commenting and misrepresenting facts about him
1/2 The New York Times story contains numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations about my compensation. Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel roo...
Source: Samsung is working with Google on developing a special version of Android OS for a foldable-screen device codenamed “Winner”
- Company in talks with Verizon for 5G network-ready phone — New flagship to include fingerprint scanner under screen
Christie's sells a portrait by the French art collective Obvious generated using AI for $432,500, over 40x its estimated price, a first for the auction house
Last Friday, a portrait produced by artificial intelligence was hanging at Christie's New York opposite an Andy Warhol print and beside a bronze work by Roy Lichtenstein.
Following Trump's complaint about Twitter removing many people from his account, Twitter explains how its fake account removal policies make the service better
- Platform has been eliminating fake and abusive accounts — Conservatives have argued social media platformed biased
In email to employees, Sundar Pichai says Google fired 48 people, including 13 senior managers, over last 2 years for sexual harassment; none had exit packages
Has Amazon Peaked? Rob Quinn / Newser : Google CEO: NYT Story on Us Is ‘Difficult to Read’ Richard Chirgwin / The Register : If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its ‘se...
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $33.7B, up 21% YoY, operating income of $8.3B, up from $7.8B YoY, and net income of $9.2B, up from $6.7B YoY
here's why that should concern you Karen Weise / New York Times : Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows Keris Lahiff / CNBC : Amazon and Alphabet are tumbling after earnings — here's w...
Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500
This article started out with an email, one that arrived in my inbox years ago. I can't remember when the first of them came exactly …
Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of $6.68B, up 46% YoY, and $2.1B in operating income; AWS was 12% of Amazon's total revenue and 56% of its total operating income
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Blockchain partners with Ledger to unveil $99.99 Lockbox hardware wallet, which will enable crypto-to-crypto trades through the company's native brokerage
One of the oldest software wallet providers in the cryptocurrency industry is launching its first hardware product.
Samsung Galaxy Book 2 review: thin and light design with long battery life, integrated LTE, but Snapdragon 850 is sluggish, and Windows 10 on ARM has issues
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Amazon says its “other” sales, which are mostly comprised of its advertising services, earned nearly $2.5B in net sales in Q3, up 122% YoY from $1.12B
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic :
Interviews with 70+ current and former Netflix employees tell of a culture of candor and transparency that some find ruthless, demoralizing, and dysfunctional
Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandal
Snap reports Q3 revenue of $298M, vs. $283M estimated, up 43% YoY, and DAUs of 186M, vs. 186.1M estimated, up 5% YoY but down 1% QoQ; stock down 15 %+
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of $28.95B, “other” revenues, like cloud and hardware, of $4.64B, and traffic acquisition costs of $6.58B
Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC :
Sources: Chinese media giant Bytedance, owner of Toutiao and Tik Tok, has raised $3B from SoftBank and others, at a $75B valuation
- A deal will crown the Chinese startup the world's largest — Funding from SoftBank and others will fuel global expansion
Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, raises $1.25B from KKR, Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Vulcan Capital, and others
Jonathan Shieber , Jordan Crook 7 hours — It pays to have the most popular game in the world. — Epic Games, the creators … Tweets: @ow , @tim , and @ow Tweets: Owen Williams / @ow : Fortnite made ...
AT&T to shut down WarnerMedia's FilmStruck, its two-year-old streaming video service for indie, arthouse, and classic films, on November 29
the largest and most significant in Hollywood—more easily available. http://variety.com/... Dana Delany / @danadelany : FilmStruck Movie-Streaming Service to Shut Down. @ATT @ATTCares This is a HUGE m...
The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling for an EU audit of Facebook's data protection and user security protocols
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Intel reports Q3 revenues of $19.2B, up 19% YoY, and net income of $6.4B, up 42% YoY, beating analyst estimates on strong PC and data center chip demand
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Trump signs memo asking Department of Commerce to develop a national spectrum strategy for 5G and is creating a White House Spectrum Strategy Task Force
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Sources: two hackers, who stole millions of users' data from Uber in 2016, indicted on charges related to 2016 data breach at online learning company Lynda
who were behind the 2016 Uber data breach — were just indicted for another hack. http://techcrunch.com/...
Sources: Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury is weighing strategic options including an IPO in Amsterdam, London, or Hong Kong, aiming for a valuation of $3B to $5B
Ruth David / Bloomberg :
Google Maps adds a “follow” button for businesses, which lets users get updates on events and offers, rolling out over the next few weeks, initially on Android
much less find. https://twitter.com/...
Airbnb says it has hired Aristotle Balogh, Google's VP of engineering, application storage, and indexing and serving, to be its new CTO; current CTO to leave
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Terminus Technologies, a Chinese startup that provides IoT solutions in 70 cities, raises ~$173M Series B led by China Everbright and IDG Capital
Eudora Wang / China Money Network :
Twitter beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $758M, up 29% YoY, but monthly usage drops to 326M MAUs, down 9M since Q2
way more than ever pic.twitter.com/RaBwviLDEW @twitterir : Q3 Avg MAUs were 326M, -4M y/y and -9M q/q, impacted by a number of factors including: 1) GDPR, 2) decisions we have made to prioritize the h...
Facebook says it was a mistake to approve ads with inaccurate disclosures like “Mike Pence” and “Islamic State” in the “paid for by” field for political ads
William Turton / VICE News :
SF-based Innovusion, which develops lidar tech for autonomous vehicles, raises $30M Series A, launches Innovusion Cheetah, its first image-grade lidar system
Violet Tang / China Money Network :
A look at how Apple combines algorithms and roughly 30 journalists to curate Apple News, which is read regularly by 90M people, and its plans for the app
it is taking a non-tech approach to pickng the news, while taking a very Silicon Valley approach to taking a meaty cut from publishing it without creating it. http://www.nytimes.com/... Scott Galloway...
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