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Barry Dorrans

@blowdart.me
13 posts
2025-09-11
You'll never guess what we're calling the next version of Visual Studio
2025-09-11 View on X
The Register

Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since November 2021, with a new design and deeper AI integration

New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework  —  Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026 …

2025-08-13
And you thought Google owning chrome to try to kill advertising rivals was bad ...  [embedded post]
2025-08-13 View on X
Spyglass

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and maybe a signal to the judge in Google's antitrust case

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome  —  With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser …

And you thought Google owning chrome to try to kill advertising rivals was bad ...  [embedded post]
2025-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal

Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam ...

2025-08-12
And you thought Google owning chrome to try to kill advertising rivals was bad ...  [embedded post]
2025-08-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal

and getting new tools for spending it at home Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion Bluesky: Jake / @jake.sooscreek.productions ...

2025-07-23
How long before a police “backdoor” like ring? [embedded post]
2025-07-23 View on X
The Verge

Amazon acquires Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries

Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. … Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.

2025-05-24
Something good out of Oregon at last [embedded post]
2025-05-24 View on X
The Verge

X experienced a significant outage globally on Saturday morning, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday

Feeds aren't loading on X following a reported data center fire earlier in the week. … Elon Musk's X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage.

2025-03-25
1) a lot of you should be very busy this weekend  —  2) just add x-middleware-subrequest=true to a request and bingo?  Dear lord.
2025-03-25 View on X
CyberScoop

Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18

Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...

2024-08-27
Given that in France, under the “Law regarding Confidence in the Digital Economy” you have to declare if you're using cryptography to secure storage or transmission of data, using telegram which definitely doesn't except in DMs (where even then you have to turn it on) is quite apt.  [embedded post]
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.

2024-08-09
It's really hard to be sympathetic to Spotify given how hard they screw over artists.  [embedded post]
2024-08-09 View on X
TechCrunch

Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards” the DMA's “fundamental requirements”; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with a 15% junk fee

Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …

2024-05-17
Oh no, I don't want to take Sony's side in anything.  [embedded post]
2024-05-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sony Music sends letters to 700+ AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony's content in training AI

first make sure it doesn't sound like any Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : The same Sony that shipped CDs that installed rootkits on customer computers to combat piracy? Maybe sit this o...

2024-05-01
This will be more effective in getting them removed from the App Store than any legislation.  [embedded post]
2024-05-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Screenshots seem to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs

TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions.  According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app …

2024-04-16
I'm OK with this as hopefully it'd help destroy the “influencer” plague.  [embedded post]
2024-04-16 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice”

2024-03-08
So competing with Substack [embedded post]
2024-03-08 View on X
Engadget

X unveils Articles, a feature for writing and sharing long-form content in a basic text-editing interface, for verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers

Long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.  —  Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a new way to be exhausting on main.