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December 21, 2020Mon. 12/21 – Big Day For Real Estate Tech
Huge day for Real Estate tech with Opendoor going public to a soaring valuation and RealPage getting bought for a ton of money. Microsoft might design its own custom silicon, cause, why not (to quote Vincent Hanna)? Is the first under the display selfie camera basically a fail? And could we actually see the Apple Car debut as soon as next year?
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Opendoor Rides SPAC Deal to Lofty $18 Billion Valuation at Market Debut (The Information)
Real estate software and data analytics company RealPage to be acquired for $10.2 billion (VentureBeat)
Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning (Wired)
Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs (Bloomberg)
U.S. States Weighs New Google Suit Over App Store Fees (Bloomberg)
THE WORLD’S FIRST UNDER-DISPLAY SELFIE CAMERA ISN’T VERY GOOD (The Verge)
Sketchy Report Says Apple Car is Years Ahead of Schedule, Will Debut Next Year (MacRumors)
18 min
December 18, 2020Fri. 12/18 – Chinese Drone Maker DJI Blacklisted By The US
Drone maker DJI is blacklisted by the commerce department. Group video comes to Echo devices. Twitter launches Spaces. Sony offers refunds for Cyberpunk 2077. Coinbase files to go public. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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US government adds DJI to Commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government (The Verge)
Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices (The Verge)
Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing (TechCrunch)
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and offering full refunds (The Verge)
Source Code newsletter
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response (Microsoft Blog)
Coinbase announces IPO in a milestone for the crypto industry (Fortune)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Where Tech Workers Are Moving: New LinkedIn Data vs. the Narrative (Big Technology Newsletter)
Why I Decided to Leave Substack (A Media Operator Newsletter)
New WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar is moving to shake up Hollywood. Insiders are questioning if he has what it takes to turn around the entertainment giant without destroying it. (Business Insider)
Can’t get a PlayStation 5? Meet the Grinch bots snapping up the holidays’ hottest gift. (Washington Post)
How AltaVista, our first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (Tedium)
My $200,000 Sushi Dinner (NYTimes)

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22 min
December 17, 2020Thu. 12/17 – The Apple-Facebook Cold War Is Getting Hot
Mommy and Daddy are fighting. This time it’s Apple and Facebook and it’s getting pretty heated. The EU okays Google’s acquisition of Fitbit. Substack has resurrected Google Reader, in spirit at least. And why the new antitrust lawsuit against Google is maybe the most serious yet, because we’re talking about actual felonies here. Potentially. Allegedly.
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Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem (CNBC)
Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads (Bloomberg)
Apple Responds to Facebook's Anti-Tracking Criticism, Says Users Deserve Control and Transparency (MacRumors)
Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple (WSJ)
Facebook criticizes Apple as it welcomes Europe’s new tech rules (CNBC)
EU approves Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, subject to conditions (CNBC)
HBO Max Is Launching on Roku, After Device Maker and WarnerMedia Finally Bury the Hatchet (Variety)
Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy (Wired)
Substack launches an RSS reader to organize all your newsletter subscriptions (The Verge)
18 min
December 16, 2020Wed. 12/16 – Google’s Stadia Arrives on iOS and iPadOS In Beta
Day three of the SolarWinds hack fallout sees major investors unloading stock at a suspicious time. M1 chip support comes to some major apps. Periscope joins the Deadpool. Bitcoin crosses $20k. An AirPods Max review. And what if you could make a digital platform for board games?
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Stadia comes to the iPhone and iPad with new iOS beta (The Verge)
Investors in breached software firm SolarWinds traded $280 million in stock days before hack was revealed (The Washington Post)
Microsoft starts rolling out native Microsoft 365 for Mac apps for Macs with M1 (ZDNet)
Firefox Updated With Native Support for M1 Macs, Mozilla Touts 'Dramatic Performance Improvements' (MacRumors)
Exclusive: States close to filing new Google antitrust suit (Politico)
Bitcoin Hits Record Above $20K as Analysts Remain Confident of Future (Coindesk)
APPLE AIRPODS MAX REVIEW: LUXURIOUS SOUND FOR A LUXURY PRICE (The Verge)
I’m so excited about this board games console I just peed a little (TNW)
20 min
December 15, 2020Tue. 12/15 – Europe’s Big New Rules for Big Tech
Europe’s big new regulatory regime for big tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get their data. A ‘faraday fabric’ that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves. An interesting raise to make exoskeletons. And a review of the new all electric Ford Mustang.
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Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines (WSJ)
FTC orders Amazon, Facebook and others to explain how they collect and use personal data (CNBC)
U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack (Reuters)
Experimental "Faraday fabric" blocks almost all electromagnetic waves (New Atlas)
German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor (TechCrunch)
Ford’s New Mustang Mach-E Owes a Lot to Tesla (Debugger)
18 min
December 14, 2020Mon. 12/14 – The “10-out-of-10” US Treasury/SolarWinds Hack
Hackers attack the US Treasury in an attack so severe one person called it a 10 out of 10. Pornhub has removed millions of videos. Amazon’s Zoox has a robo electric taxi. Are the recent IPO pops sign of a bubble? And could Jony Ive’s next job be as the head of luxury automaker Ferrari?
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Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails - sources (Reuters)
U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign Linked to Russia (WSJ)
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform (Vice)
Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service (Bloomberg)
Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ (NYTimes)
Sizzling Tech IPO Market Leaves Investors Befuddled (WSJ)
Jony Ive is reportedly in the running to take the driver’s seat at Ferrari (Cult of Mac)
Ferrari's Camilleri will be a hard act to follow (Reuters)
18 min
December 12, 2020(Bonus) - The Future of Video With A16Z's Connie Chan
Connie Chan, from Andreessen Horowitz, talking about: Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video
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34 min
December 11, 2020Fri. 12/11 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit More Expensive
Disney+ is about to get a bit more expensive, but you’re also gonna get a lot more stuff to watch. Are we in a tech IPO bubble? X64 emulation comes to Windows. Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 (The Verge)
‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming (NYTimes)
Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion (CNBC)
x64 emulation has come to Windows on ARM (The Verge)
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Social Strikes Back (A16Z)
“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica)
7 Rejections (Brian Chesky)
Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (NYTimes)
Inside the Human Science of Spotify’s New Music Friday Playlist (Variety)
How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside)
19 min
December 10, 2020Thu. 12/10 – The Big Facebook Antitrust Cases, Explained
I try to give you the outlines of the Facebook antitrust thing, and what it might mean for tech. Airbnb makes its market debut. Crunchyroll finds a safe home away from AT&T. I bet folks at HBO are jealous. Boston Dynamics finds a new guardian as well, that hopefully can find something useful for it to do. And it really is, finally, the end of the road for Flash.
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The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp (The Verge)
Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History (Facebook Newsroom)
Airbnb shares set to double in IPO — likely to be worth nearly $93 billion (CNBC)
Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion (Polygon)
Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion (Gizmodo)
Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)

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19 min
December 09, 2020Wed. 12/09 – FireEye Says It Got Hacked By A Nation State
FireEye says it got hacked by a nation state. Microsoft’s cloud gaming is coming to iOS in the spring. Samsung’s unpacked event is coming in about a month, and we already got plenty of leaks about the phones we expect to see. Is Apple’s self-driving project still on track? And if you feel like you’ve been getting more spam calls this year, while rents in San Francisco have been plummeting, I’m here to tell you, neither of those trends seem to be imaginary.
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U.S. Cyber Firm FireEye Says It Was Breached by Nation-State Hackers (WSJ)
Microsoft confirms Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in spring 2021 (9to5Mac)
Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public (9to5Google)
Here are the official Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra teasers (Android Police)
DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share (CNBC)
Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit to AI Chief (Bloomberg)
The state of European tech 2020: 20 things you should know (Sifted)
Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely (TechCrunch)
Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic (TechCrunch)
San Francisco's 35% Plunge in Rents Shows Effects of Tech Fleeing City (Bloomberg)
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