Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but a platform can't claim to be simple software when it recommends content
Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis — Most days, this column looks at controversies unfolding on other tech platforms.
Incase partners with Microsoft to sell PC accessories, which Microsoft stopped making in 2022; products will include ones Microsoft designed but never shipped
Microsoft surprised everyone last year by deciding to discontinue its range of popular mice, keyboards, and PC accessories.
Design software company InVision, once valued at $2B, plans to shut down at the end of 2024, after raising $350M+ from Goldman Sachs, Spark Capital, and others
In recent years, creators have made inroads into traditional entertainment through brand partnerships and other collaborations.
China says Tesla will deploy an OTA update to fix Autopilot issues in 1.6M+ cars, or almost all of its cars ever sold in China, after a US recall in December
- Carmaker will deploy over-the-air software upgrade to cars — Move mirrors recall of 2 million vehicles in the US last month
Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who devised nine programming languages and won the Turing Award in 1984, dies at 89
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, an update to the XR2 Gen 2 used in the Meta Quest 3, offering 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye, up from 3K per eye
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Netflix is considering ways to make money from video games, including via IAPs and ads; Apptopia: as of October 2023, <1% of subscribers played its games daily
Ideas include charging extra for some games and incorporating ads, in-game purchases — Netflix has said it plans to be in gaming for years to come.
Logan Paul says he is “personally committing” $2.3M+ to offer refunds for CryptoZoo, the allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021
Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021.
CertiK: over $1.8B were lost across 751 crypto hacks in 2023, down 51% YoY from $3.7B in 2022; Q3 recorded the most losses at over $686M
CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu told Cointelegraph that, all things considered, 2023 was a “positive development” for blockchain security. — Total views
Microsoft unveils a Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from its partners, the first major change to the PC keyboard layout in nearly 30 years
adds dedicated AI Copilot key to all future PCs Lily Polanco / New.blicio.us : Windows PCs Get Dedicated AI Key as Microsoft Bakes Copilot into Hardware Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat : Microsoft adds C...
Samsung debuts Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub accessories for the cloud Gaming Hub on its smart TVs, including a new controller from PDP
Ahead of CES 2024, Samsung is taking the wraps off of a new officially licensed accessory program for the cloud “Gaming Hub” available on its line of Smart TVs …
Memo: Coatue closes its European office in London after two years in order to “streamline” its investing and prioritize domain expertise over regional coverage
- Investment firm is reorganizing its venture capital strategy — Coatue's growth fund has been slammed by VC downturn
Health management solutions provider HealthEC suffered a data breach between July 14 and July 23, 2023 that impacted close to 4.5M patients
what to do now Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : HealthEC data breach impacted more than 4.5 Million people Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : 4.5 Million Individuals Affected by Data Breach at Heal...
Hackers are hijacking X accounts of governments and businesses marked with gold and gray checkmarks, including Google's Mandiant, to promote crypto scams
The hijacked account was used to push #cryptocurrency scams. — The “change password please” made me giggle. :ablobcatlurk: — Zoinks. — #security #twitter #birdsite — https://arstechnica.com/.....
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others
if they continue on their current trajectory, I bet Google buys them for $2B within the year. Talia Goldberg / @taliagold : In October 2022, I wrote a piece about a trillion dollar opportunity in sear...
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's newest laptop, the Qingyun L540 notebook, runs on a chip made by TSMC, quashing talks of another Chinese tech breakthrough
- New findings quash talk of another big Chinese advance — Huawei remains at the vanguard of China's tech war with the US
DeepMind Robotics researchers outline new methods for training robots, like AutoRT, which can leverage a visual language model for better situational awareness
2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics.
The EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager plans to meet with the CEOs of Google, Apple, Nvidia, and Broadcom in the US next week
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will meet the chief executives of Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Broadcom (AVGO.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) …
As Google restricts third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users, marketers, adtech companies, and publishers say Google has not done enough to prepare the market
which strips users of their anonymity and delivers a ton of data to publishers. Mastodon: Dr Ro Smith / @Rhube@wandering.shop : Google just got worse, but they're presenting it as getting rid of cooki...
Adobe: US online holiday sales between November 1 and December 31, 2023, reached a record $222.1B, up 4.9% YoY; BNPL contributed a record $16.6B, up 14% YoY
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Memo: OpenAI plans to launch its GPT store next week; the store was originally slated to open in November 2023, but was delayed after OpenAI's leadership crisis
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A California judge lets a lawsuit against Snap from relatives of dead kids move forward, saying Section 230 doesn't apply due to disappearing messages and more
https://www.techdirt.com/... #LawFedi X: Jess Miers / @jess_miers : There is a dangerous precedent emerging from these sorts of suits —> any design that enables users to communicate and share content...
The European Central Bank plans to award €1.3B in contracts to help develop a digital euro; Amazon was selected in the past to help design the CBDC prototype
A look at the current AI philosophy landscape of existential pessimism vs. accelerationism, and the need for a balanced, enterprising optimism as the third way
Cosmos Institute He and fellow founders briefed me recently and they have ambitious focus. 🧵 Chris Petkas / @chris_petkas : Keep an eye on @mbrendan1, he's exploring beautiful perspectives at the inte...
Intel spins out Articul8, an AI company backed by DigitalBridge and others; executives did not share the deal's value or if Intel would retain a majority stake
The US NLRB rules that Alphabet illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers employed by Cognizant after they voted to unionize
Current and former employees detail Baidu's difficulty incubating new businesses including CEO Robin Li's leadership style and most talented staff leaving
Financial Times :
Route package data: Amazon had 29% of global online order volume in the two weeks before Christmas, up from 21% in the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday
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