A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom
Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire … X: @elatable . Bluesky: @mranthropology , @turoczy , @metacurity.com , @sauthoff , and ...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
what a shame! I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever. In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple. Threads: @eshumarneedi , @lscottspe...
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
Web3 notes from a sci-fi writer and “enemy” of the tech: it shows new protocols are still possible, but is expensive, undemocratic, and impedes ephemerality
he's an enemy and, full disclosure, so am I. https://society.robinsloan.com/ ... Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : “The money thing confounds evaluation; it's like trying to look at a star next to the sun. ...
Hacking collective Ghost Security Group says ISIS created its own encrypted messaging app
this illustrates the futility of communication surveillance Rob Jackson / Phandroid : ISIS creating own Android App to coordinate terror attacks Tweets: Craig Mod / @craigmod : A gift from ISIS to Ame...