Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
An overview of Ethereum's proof-of-stake upgrade, The Merge, which is expected to cut the crypto platform's energy use by 99%+, and some of the risks involved
A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. Tweets: @timbray Tweets: Tim Bray / @timbray : News from the Merge front...
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic will add IAP for WordPress.com plans to WordPress iOS app after Apple froze app updates and demanded the addition
❗ Punctuation matters Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Apple's At It Again, This Time With WordPress Joe Wituschek / iMore : WordPress says Apple has blocked it from updating its iOS app Surur / MSPoweruser...
Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp — Toshiba has made laptops since 1985 and claims to have been the first to make a mass-market computer … Tweets: @film_girl , @timbray , and @ben...
Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimaurici...
Google's Project Fi is no longer invite-only, and Google is selling Project Fi-activated Nexus 5X phones for $199 over the next few months
service now open to anyone in USA Jason Cross / PCWorld : Project Fi drops invite system, offers limited-time deal on Nexus 5X Brad Reed / BGR : Google's daring Project Fi is ready for prime time Ron ...