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Telegram's battle of the ban continues, and AWS and Google Cloud become targets. Reddit is growing like crazy, which worries us a bit, and Microsoft loses their multi-year legal fight with the US Government.

And why autonomous boats might be here much sooner than self-driving cars.

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  • And now there's ~20 million or so AWS/Google Cloud addresses blocked in Russia.
— More on Russia v Telegram v The Cloud in today's briefing: - Russia demands Telegram encryption keys, they refuse - Russia blocks Telegram - Telegram uses AWS + Google Cloud - Russia blocks the cloud
  • Twitch is reportedly blocked in Russia right now
  • — Twitch is reportedly blocked in Russia after the country’s state communications regulator announced it was blocking specific IP addresses owned by Amazon and Google.
  • Telegram plays down Russian block — claiming no ‘significant’ impact yet | TechCrunch
  • — A court in Russia ordered a block of messaging app Telegram this week but founder Pavel Durov has shrugged off the impact of the ban 24 hours in — claiming the app hasn’t seen “a significant drop in user engagement so far.”
  • Regulatory filings indicate a flurry of new iPhone (SE?) models launching soon
  • — Devices typically appear in this database about a month before the products ship. These iPhone references were posted yesterday, suggesting a new iPhone launch will be debuting in early May/June.
  • Amazon’s new ‘Alexa Blueprints’ let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses | TechCrunch
  • — Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code.
  • Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars
  • — Startups and major firms like Rolls Royce are now looking to automate the seas and help maritime companies ease navigation, save fuel, improve safety, increase tonnage, and make more money.
  • Self-driving boats | Amherst | Buffalo Automation
  • Reddit now has more active users than Twitter
  • — That’s an increase of more than 30 percent in less than 6 months, and puts the platform in equal 11th place in our new global social media platform ranking (see chart above).
  • I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place
  • — A conversation with former Reddit product head Dan McComas on the problems of growth as a metric and what Twitter is doing wrong.
  • Supreme Court Tosses Out Microsoft Case on Digital Data Abroad - The New York Times
  • — The dispute arose from a federal drug investigation in which prosecutors sought the emails of a suspect stored in a Microsoft data center in Dublin.
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