2024-12-31
BeyondTrust is another Francisco Partners company, which bought NSO Group
TechCrunch
Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of t...
2024-02-23
A lot of funny things about this, for one it's classic Chisrael with Tencent and Sam Altman, but another is that the money behind Condé Nast tastemaking is also behind Reddit culture, the lamest thing in existence.
CNBC
Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU
- Reddit on Thursday filed to go public. — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …
A lot of funny things about this, for one it's classic Chisrael with Tencent and Sam Altman, but another is that the money behind Condé Nast tastemaking is also behind Reddit culture, the lamest thing in existence.
The Hollywood Reporter
S-1: Sam Altman has an 8.7% stake in Reddit, making him the third-largest shareholder, behind Advance Magazine Publishers, with 30.1%, and Tencent, with 11%
This makes him the third-largest shareholder in Reddit, behind Advance (30 percent) and Chinese tech company Tencent (11 percent). … X: Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : Sam Altman is s...
2022-03-13
My takeaway from this is that Facebook is comparatively less censorious precisely because their government affairs and content decisions are routed through one person https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Profile of Joel Kaplan, who has built one of the most powerful lobbying operations in Washington DC, as he helps Meta navigate the Biden administration
2020-11-17
“They are making editorial choices” as President Obama says here, implies blanket Section 230 immunity shouldn't apply. https://twitter.com/...
The Atlantic
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.