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August 03, 2022Wed. 08/03 – An Actual Use Case For NFTs And An Actual Flying Car
Now the hackers are stealing crypto from individual wallets at scale. Robinhood makes a massive layoff announcement. Y Combinator is shrinking its summer cohort. I’ve found an actual use case for NFT’s and it is college textbooks. And, you know, an actual flying car you could buy right now.
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Links:
Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack (Decrypt)
Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff as Retail Investors Fade From Platform (WSJ)
Michael Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO, shift to executive chairman role (The Block)
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment (TechCrunch)
UK regulator makes U-turn on Avast-Norton cyber security deal (Financial Times)
Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs (The Guardian)
Samson Switchblade flying car is finally ready for takeoff (New Atlas)
20 min
August 02, 2022Tue. 08/02 – What Is It With Bridges?
Seriously, what is it with crypto bridges? Why are they seemingly so easy to hack? New York cracks down on Robinhood. A bunch of Silicon Valley boldfaced names are going to be swept up into the Twitter/Elon trial. And if Chromebooks and gaming are suffering post-Covid hangovers, is Uber a post-covid Phoenix?
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Links:
Nomad token bridge drained of $190M in funds in security exploit (CoinTelegraph)
Robinhood’s Crypto Unit Fined $30 Million by New York’s Top Financial Regulator (WSJ)
Twitter is probing Elon Musk’s social circle in broad legal requests (Washington Post)
As worldwide tablet shipments grow, Chromebooks face a different reality (ZDNet)
Activision Blizzard Sales Fall on Weak Call of Duty Release (Bloomberg)
The Morning After: Did Microsoft just neg Activision Blizzard? (Engadget)
Uber reports another big loss but beats on revenue, shares pop 14% (CNBC)
18 min
August 01, 2022Mon. 08/01 – Silicon Valley’s Great Scooter Ride Is Over
Apple opens up Apple Pay a tiny bit. But again, from pressure from the Europeans. Meta is accused of abetting sectarian violence in another developing nation. A deep dive into the seeming demise of the entire e-scooter industry. How much good will the CHIPS Act actually do? And a review of the new Dell XPS 13 Plus.
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Links:
Apple Pay may finally work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16 (The Verge)
Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya (Washington Post)
Bolt Mobility has vanished, leaving e-bikes, unanswered calls behind in several US cities (TechCrunch)
Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production (NikkeiAsia)
Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support (Financial Times)
DELL XPS 13 PLUS REVIEW: XPS PLUS, BATTERY MINUS (The Verge)

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18 min
July 31, 2022 (Portfolio Profile) Cognitive Talent Solutions
Check out Cognitive Talent Solutions here, or get in touch with me to put you in touch with them.
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42 min
July 30, 2022 (TWTR SPC) Mathew Ball On The Metaverse And Jason Del Rey On Amazon After Bezos
Matthew Ball comes on to talk about his new book: The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything. Then, Jason Del Rey @DelRey talks to us about how Amazon has been faring in the post-Jeff Bezos era.
1 hr 18 min
July 29, 2022Fri. 07/29 – Instagram Listens To The Kardashians
Even a weak earnings report from Apple can still break records. Instagram’s been in a stare down with the Kardashians, and Adam Mosseri just blinked. Congress just passed a ton of money to jump start domestic chip production. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Links:
Apple iPhone Sales Remain Resilient as Company Reports 11% Decline in Profit (WSJ)
Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer)
CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The Buy Now, Pay Later Juggernaut Is About to Be Tested (Bloomberg)
F.T.C. Chair Upends Antitrust Standards With Meta Lawsuit (NYTimes)
Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? (The Markup)
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker)
RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me to be a ruthless capitalist (Polygon)
18 min
July 28, 2022Thu. 07/28 – Meta Goes Backwards For The First Time Ever
Meta has reported its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline. The FTC has moved to block a Meta acquisition, the first big regulatory move of the Lina Khan era. Google delays it’s cookie cleanup. Again. You’re not seeing things. There’s been a Gmail redesign. And DeepMind has solved one of the oldest problems in biology.
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Links:
Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ)
F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech (NYTimes)
Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group (WSJ)
Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google)
Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
DeepMind's protein-folding AI cracks biology's biggest problem (NewScientist)
16 min
July 27, 2022Wed. 07/27 – Inflation Hits The Metaverse
I’ll wrap up the earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, Spotify and Shopify. Proof that the cost of a data breach for companies is skyrocketing. What ever happened to the legislative crackdown on Big Tech? Inflation comes to the Metaverse as Meta is jacking up the prices on Quest headsets. And a big update to Google Maps.
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Links:
Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today)
IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before (SiliconAngle)
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us (ArsTechnica)
Senate’s Antitrust Crackdown Sputters as Schumer Signals Doubts (Bloomberg)
Quest 2 Price Jumps To $399 As Meta Costs Rise (UploadVR)
Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch)
18 min
July 26, 2022Tue. 07/26 – Why Big Tech Hates The Leap Second
Is the SEC about to crack down on Coinbase? Why is Kylie Jenner mad at Instagram? Why are all the big tech companies mad at the leap second, of all things? And a deep dive look at what Amazon probably wants to do with its big healthcare acquisition.
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Links:
Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)
Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to 'stop trying to be TikTok,' which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)
Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)
Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ)
Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)
The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket)
18 min
July 25, 2022Mon. 07/25 – NFL+
NFL+ arrives, and at the end of the show, we’ll take a deep dive into sports rights as the great free radical in the streaming wars and the evolution in sports in general. In between that, people accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of lowballing them. More details on the so-called Apple Watch Pro. And if I told you there’s a global shortage of fiber optic cable, would you be surprised?
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Links:
NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter)
Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register)
Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT)
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes)
18 min