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May 24, 2022Tue. 05/24 – Does Apple REALLY Want You To Repair Your Own iPhone?
Google Research says to Open AI: “Hold my beer.” They’ve announced a new AI-based text-to-image generator to rival DALL-E 2. Is the shocking earnings warning from Snap a result of Apple’s ATT changes or is this indicative of the broader tech slowdown? Google’s street view turns 15 with some new bells and whistles. And does Apple REALLY want you to repair your own iPhone, or no?
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Links:
OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu (TechCrunch)
Zoom pops 16% on first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance (CNBC)
Snap plunges 30% after CEO warns company will miss revenue and earnings estimates, slow hiring (CNBC)
Google is testing a smaller, modular Street View camera system (Engadget)
APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY (The Verge)
18 min
May 23, 2022Mon. 05/23 – Big Tech Consolidation Coming?
Is a big mergers and acquisition wave about to hit the tech industry. I make the case from several different angles. AMD releases its next generation Ryzen chips. And a super interesting new startup in the Web 3 space. Is it game? Is it a fitness app? Can you earn money for moving? Yes.
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Links:
Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware (Bloomberg)
Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge (Kotaku)
Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them. (NYTimes)
AMD Ryzen 7000 Announced (AnandTech)
'Move-to-earn' Solana app StepN is latest crypto gaming craze (TechCrunch)
17 min
May 21, 2022 (TWTR SPC) - a16z's Chris Dixon (@cdixon) On The State Of Crypto And Web3
Friend of the show, Chris Dixon (@cdixon) of a16z's crypto and web3 investing initiatives comes on to talk about the recent report: 2022 State of Crypto. We got into all the things, using our favorite lens of tech history.
43 min
May 20, 2022Fri. 05/20 – The Apple Headset Has Been Demoed!
A new high end Snapdragon chip. The Apple AR/VR headset has been demoed, but only 9 people got to see it in action. A YC backed startup is facing lawsuits related to the whole UST blowup. The feds will no longer go after good faith, white hat hackers. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, for when flagship isn’t flagship enough (The Verge)
Apple Shows AR/VR Headset to Board in Sign of Progress on Key Project (Bloomberg)
Stablegains Faces Lawsuit After Losing $44M on UST (CryptoBriefing)
Coinbase Slashes Costs, Freezes Hiring Amid Crypto Crash (The Information)
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. (Insider)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Is Proceeding, Not ‘On Hold,’ Executives Tell Staff (Bloomberg)
DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Cyber Insurers Raise Rates Amid a Surge in Costly Hacks (WSJ)
The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over (Slate)
The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans (NYTimes Magazine)
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? (Quanta)
Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised (Vanity Fair)
19 min
May 19, 2022Thu. 05/19 – TikTok To Get Into Games?
A code red alert about vulnerabilities in VMware products. TikTok has a clever new program to crowdsource ad content from TikTok users. Oh, and they’re getting into games. FTX gets into regular old stock trading. The dreaded down rounds have arrived. And are there more Airbnb’s available in NYC right now, than there are apartments for rent?
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Links:
2 vulnerabilities with 9.8 severity ratings are under exploit. A 3rd looms (ArsTechnica)
TikTok’s new ad product gives creators a chance to partner with marketers on branded content (TechCrunch)
EXCLUSIVE TikTok plans big push into gaming, conducting tests in Vietnam -sources (Reuters)
FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading (The Block)
Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain (Financial Times)
SoftBank-Backed Fintech Giant Klarna Looks for New Funds at Lower Valuation (WSJ)
New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent (Curbed)

Link to tomorrow's twitter space with Chris Dixon
19 min
May 18, 2022Wed. 05/18 – Apple Takes A Covid Step Back
Apple is delaying its recent return to work policy indefinitely. If crypto mining is banned in China, how come it still the second biggest contributor to the global hashrate? Twitter’s board says it’s going to hold Elon’s feet to the fire. And the interesting raise for a startup looking to save encryption from quantum computing?
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Links:
Apple Delays Plan to Have Staff in Office Three Days a Week (Bloomberg)
Apple Executive Who Left Over Return-to-Office Policy Joins Google AI Unit (Bloomberg)
China Makes a Comeback in Bitcoin Mining Despite Government Ban (Bloomberg)
Netflix Hit By Layoffs; About 150 Mostly U.S.-Based Employees Affected (Deadline)
Acer Just Revealed External Monitors With Stereoscopic 3D, and I'm Dying to Try Them (Gizmodo)
As Musk Tweets, Advisers Labor to Keep Twitter Deal on Track (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
Cornami raises $68M to support quantum encryption (VentureBeat)
17 min
May 17, 2022Tue. 05/17 – Sigh… More Elon/Twitter Stuff
Now Elon says he can’t move forward with the deal until he gets solid answers from Twitter about the bot issue, even though, we have the paperwork of his original offer and there were no contingencies about bot numbers, and he totally could have written that into the deal. Will Apple use E Ink on their foldable device? Coinbase is slowing hiring, while Microsoft is boosting pay. And a big test of driver assist systems says they’re still not as reliable as we all hope they are.
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Links:
Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44 Billion Deal to Proceed (Bloomberg)
Apple ‘testing’ foldable with secondary E Ink display, says analyst (The Verge)
Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases (MacRumors)
Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk)
Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block)
Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire)
Report spotlights vast scale of adtech's 'biggest data breach' (TechCrunch)
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests (The Register)
19 min
May 16, 2022Mon. 05/16 – F It! Netflix Is Doin’ It Live! (Maybe)
Is Netflix about to experiment with actual live broadcasts? Where did all the bitcoin go in the whole Luna/UST backstop debacle? Spotify is testing NFTs. Uber Eats gets into the ankle robot delivery game. And the Texas law that has all of big social media platforms worried.
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Links:
Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials (Deadline)
LFG Reserves Dwindle to Just 313 Bitcoins From 80K After UST Crash (CoinDesk)
Exclusive: Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles (MusicAlly)
OpenSea is adding NFT copy detection and verification features (The Verge)
Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional (TechCrunch)
Tech groups ask Supreme Court to block Texas social media law (Washington Post)
Just How Incredibly Fucked Up Is Texas’ Social Media Content Moderation Law? (TechDirt)
18 min
May 14, 2022 (TWTR SPC) Techpocalypse Now! W/ @EricNewcomer @loganbartlett & @alexrkonrad
Techpocalypse Now! W/ @EricNewcomer @loganbartlett & @alexrkonrad
How bad is it? How bad can it get? How do we get out of this?
1 hr 18 min
May 13, 2022Fri. 05/13 – Elon Puts Twitter Bid On “Hold,” But Is “Still Committed”
Ok. Are you sitting down? Would you believe me if I told you Elon Musk is giving signals that the Twitter deal might be off? Could we fix the whole stablecoin mess if we just turn it off and turn it back on again? The refugees from Meta’s failed crypto project have a new startup to call home. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions™.
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Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘on hold’ after spam / fake account report (The Verge)
Terraform Again Halts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna (Bloomberg)
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launches Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z and Paradigm (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions™:
Terra: To the Moon and Back (Not Boring)
Why financial engineering has gone full circle with Terra (The Blind Spot)
Tech workers in Latin America want to make Spanish the primary language of programming (Rest of World)
The Thing That Makes It Work Means It Doesn’t (Garbage Day)
20 min