Microsoft says it cannot wall off its OS due to a 2009 deal with the EC to give security software makers the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets
Global outage on Windows machines caused by CrowdStrike highlights Microsoft's security challengesMore:AppleInsider,The Register,Tom's Hardware,9to5Mac,Stratechery,Neowin,TechRadar,MSPoweruser,iThinkD...
How Humane's attempt to build its Ai Pin “The Apple Way” led to disastrous results, after taking six years to build it and raising $230M
The new A.I. Pin from Humane is, according to those who have used one, bad. Martin Peers / The Information : Goldman Sachs Sees Gold Mine in Financing AI John Gruber / Daring Fireball : ‘MKBHDs for Ev...
A review of digital advertising in 2022, which has shifted from a Google-Meta duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces
Reporters who cover the US military are alarmed by a lack of access right now. John Davidson / Australian Financial Review : Why Facebook's disastrous result could just be the start Robert / Transisto...
Cloudflare, which is already doing all of its computing on the edge, is uniquely suited to a world where politics matter more than economics
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — Matthew Prince, at the end of his prepared remarks after Cloudflare's recent earnings report, related a story from the company's earliest days: Tweets: @strat...
The controversies around Substack miss the point that it is just a tool for sovereign writers, who are in control as they are paid directly by subscribers
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week … Tweets: @mohamed , @nbj914 , @paulconstant , @grimmelm , @susie_c , @lorcand , @jesse...
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles … Tweets: @tomgara , @mathewi , @mattzeitlin , @seanrose , @...
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has not appeared in a public setting since a late October forum in Shanghai, where he was critical of China's regulatory system
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the most well-known papers … Danielle Ong / International Business Times : Jack Ma ‘Jail And Die’: Guo Wengui's 2019 Prediction About Alibaba CEO Resur...
Twitter blocking NY Post's story, driven by unfair blaming of tech for the media's 2016 mistakes, undermined its role as a facilitator for information sharing
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — On September 8, 2004, longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather presented four documents …
Forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news could lead to uncritical reporting on tech; better approaches would tackle roots of media woes, including ad markets
Exponent — as promised! — will be back tomorrow, talking about podcasting, Spotify, and working from home. — On to the update: Tweets: @raju , @jason_kint , @jarroddicker , @dkiesow , @mattyglesias ...
Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong
and this is exactly the kind of fallout we're preventing with our Privacy Sandbox proposal. https://stratechery.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This makes some fine points on the micro level. But ...