Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more
“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”
MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin
- Firm announced a $21 billion equity sale plan last month — Sold 13.6 million shares in past week to fund Bitcoin purchase
Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230 and says the FCC has “an important role to play reining in Big Tech”
- Senior Republican on panel seeks to rein in tech, backs Musk — Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC's priorities
Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games
Videogame company has denied the allegations and says the new protections were planned before a short seller's report
Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a framework to regulate autonomous vehicles
- Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis
News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more
The creators and consumers in the world of news and information on social media — Table of Contents Table of Contents
How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023
The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars.
Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads
Apple supplier Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age …
Sources: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly speaks during Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024 on February 7, 2024.
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready Kate Irwin / PCMag : Nvidia's Delayed Blackwell AI Chips Overheating in Servers Matthew Gooding / DatacenterDynamics : Nvidia redesigns 72-GPU AI server r...
India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies
India's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes …
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
code-named B589 — for release around the middle of next year. That accessory has now progressed in manufacturing tests, and Apple is getting ready to bring it to market. I'm told the new version wil...
How Wall Street is preparing to cash in on AI hysteria; analysis: delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and comms networks
Finance's biggest names are ready to gatecrash the artificial-intelligence party. — At a dinner hosted by some of Morgan …
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle. X: @noyesclt . Forums: Hacker News X: Tom Noyes / @noyesclt ...
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., and expects smartphone and EV growth in 2025
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Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and up say they use YouTube the most to listen to podcasts, passing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15%
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Sources detail efforts by Alphabet and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers using culture war issues
https://www.wsj.com/... X: @designitforus : Big Tech is manipulating folks on both sides of the aisle to stall #KOSA. Exactly how they run their platforms - constructing culture wars to pad their bott...
Samsung unveils a ~$7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which is down 30%+ in 2024 amid concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong
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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record
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An interview with Juan Carlos Reyes, who heads El Salvador's digital asset regulator CNAD, which employs 35, on the agency's crypto regulation approach and more
Tom Carreras / CoinDesk : X: @tom_carreras X: Tom Carreras / @tom_carreras : EXCLUSIVE: @jcreyes_sv, El Salvador's top crypto regulator, says the Latin American nation is years ahead of the rest of t...
Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more
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Chinese smartphone makers are ramping up efforts in Europe to grab market share from Apple and Samsung with foldables, advanced cameras, and superfast chargers
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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