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Ernie Smith

@ernie.tedium.co
49 posts
2026-02-14
This is a significant win for critics of Flock.  That terrible Super Bowl ad really did a number on them.  Heh.  —  www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
2026-02-14 View on X
The Verge

Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash

2026-02-13
This is a significant win for critics of Flock.  That terrible Super Bowl ad really did a number on them.  Heh.  —  www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
2026-02-13 View on X
The Verge

Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash

After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial surveillance company.

2026-02-03
Adobe will now kill the last vestiges of Flash. techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/a...
2026-02-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Adobe says it will discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprises will receive support until March 2029 and others will until March 2027

2025-12-06
Ted Sarandos is many things, but he's ultimately not as stupid as Zaslav.  I'm not like bullish on this deal but better them than Ellison I say.  —  www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
2025-12-06 View on X
Financial Times

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks ...

Ted Sarandos is many things, but he's ultimately not as stupid as Zaslav.  I'm not like bullish on this deal but better them than Ellison I say.  —  www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
2025-12-06 View on X
Game Developer

WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business

A Warner Bros. spokesperson has confirmed the video game division will be acquired by Netflix alongside its wider streaming and television business.

2025-12-05
Ted Sarandos is many things, but he's ultimately not as stupid as Zaslav.  I'm not like bullish on this deal but better them than Ellison I say.  —  www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
2025-12-05 View on X
Financial Times

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood  —  Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …

2025-09-24
Kind of mad that they're only distributing photos of this in postcard size.  I want to zoom in!  —  www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/ rel...  [image]
2025-09-24 View on X
Bloomberg

The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom net...

2025-09-23
Kind of mad that they're only distributing photos of this in postcard size.  I want to zoom in!  —  www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/ rel...  [image]
2025-09-23 View on X
Bloomberg

The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly

Federal agents dismantled a network of devices in the New York area that was used to threaten senior US government officials …

2025-09-03
Initial take here: This feels to me like the best solution to the mess with Google—make the search a bit more like a standard, but leave Chrome alone, because there was a real risk selling Chrome would have caused bigger problems than it resolved  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
2025-09-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple

which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. @signulll : jesus christ cupertino is probably celebrating harder than mountain view right now. if you're tim cook,...

Initial take here: This feels to me like the best solution to the mess with Google—make the search a bit more like a standard, but leave Chrome alone, because there was a real risk selling Chrome would have caused bigger problems than it resolved  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
2025-09-03 View on X
CNBC

US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 8%+

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.

2025-08-28
NGL, I feel like they could have handled this a lot better.  It's been online for 22 years! everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/ 08...
2025-08-28 View on X
Everything Typepad

Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then

We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025.  What Does This Mean for You?

2025-08-24
“A small tug at heartstrings can do a lot of damage.” tedium.co/2025/08/23/b...
2025-08-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification

Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mis...

A quick piece considering what's next for Bluesky in the wake of the evening's news about Mississippi.  —  It was the right call on Bluesky's part.  It still hurts.  —  tedium.co/2025/08/23/b...  new @tedium.co (featuring a cameo from @quillmatiq.com)
2025-08-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification

Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mis...

2025-08-12
AI scrapers ruining things, Internet Archive edition  —  www.theverge.com/news/757538/ ...
2025-08-12 View on X
The Verge

Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine

it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Ma...

2025-07-25
Stop shoving AI into places folks don't want it.  [embedded post]
2025-07-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query

and Appease Critics Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Google Search is learning how you think and results won't look the same anymore Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Google ...

2025-07-19
It does sound like they got access to a phone in a pretty sketchy way that goes beyond that one might expect of a traditional journalist.  But this is just one side of it.  [image]
2025-07-19 View on X
MacRumors

Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claim

here's what to expect from Apple's next big iPhone update The Economic Times : Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks Jose Enrico / Tech Times : Apple Sues YouTuber Jon ...

I read through the Prosser suit.  If the situation occurred as is reported, Ethan Lipnick should sue too.  He was taken advantage of by someone he thought was his friend.  —  It was probably a matter of time before a situation like this happened again.  —  s3.documentcloud.org/documents/ 26... …
2025-07-19 View on X
MacRumors

Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claim

here's what to expect from Apple's next big iPhone update The Economic Times : Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks Jose Enrico / Tech Times : Apple Sues YouTuber Jon ...

2025-07-16
Never has such a happy logo been associated with something so creepy
2025-07-16 View on X
404 Media

Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform

I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got...

2025-07-01
Interesting.  I sort of struggle to see why Apple would want to ruin the separation between the M series and the A series but it would allow them to keep the price high on the M series while leaning into the M1 MacBook Air's goldilocks status.  —  9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/c...
2025-07-01 View on X
9to5Mac

Kuo: Apple plans to launch a cheaper, ~13" MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, expected to enter mass production in late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026

9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/f...  [embedded post] Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Interesting.  I sort of struggle to see why Apple would want to ruin the separation between the M seri...

Looks like there's already evidence of this low-end Mac in MacOS.  Fascinating.  —  9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/f...  [embedded post]
2025-07-01 View on X
9to5Mac

Kuo: Apple plans to launch a cheaper, ~13" MacBook powered by iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, expected to enter mass production in late Q4 2025 or early Q1 2026

9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/f...  [embedded post] Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Interesting.  I sort of struggle to see why Apple would want to ruin the separation between the M seri...