A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat
China Warns Move Could ‘Backfire’ DigiTimes : China's battery and energy storage firms lead, fueled by AI-driven power demand surge Simon Sharwood / The Register : US punishes China's ‘dominance’ of l...
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published
Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working...
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight
gizmodo.com/marc-andrees... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : “ChatGPT, you were at Netscape in the 90s and won the lottery. Give me advice on how I too can win the lottery of a bygone era.” [embedded ...
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law”
It'll take far longer than Twitter to topple, but it's *not* going to withstand its mismanagement. [embedded post] Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer.net : Reddit admins are now taking direction from Elo...
Q&A with the new CEO of NYT Meredith Levien on establishing the paper as a world-class digital product and technology company
and a tech company https://www.niemanlab.org/... by @kdoctor via @NiemanLab Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu : “Reader revenue now accounts for six of every 10 dollars of the [New York] Times' revenue. That ...
Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators
but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Things @WSJ found on Amaz...
Facebook exec says company will build an API for machine-readable access to info on ads in political-ad archive, but researchers worry that may not be enough
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Tweets: @facebook , @juliaangwin , @yayitsrob , and @profcarroll Tweets: @facebook : Thanks @JuliaAngwin. You've done a lot to uncover issues in our ads systems, w...
Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony says Facebook dealt with several Russian threats, including from APT28, before the 2016 US election
here are the tough questions we'd ask WRAL TechWire : Was your data harvested? Facebook begins alerting affected users David Meyer / Fortune : Facebook Co-Founder Says It's ‘Shocking’ the Company Didn...
Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic : Tweets: @rsarver , @sacca , @billsimmons and @codinghorror . Thanks: @cauchon . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ryan Sarver / @rsarver : Horrible title, but great feature ...
Facebook's urging of users to register to vote in UK's EU referendum correlates with online signup spike to 186K in a day, over twice what it was in days before
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic :