Wed. 05/29 – Did The Secret Sauce Of Google Search Just Leak?

Elon Musk speaks to his soon to be employees for the first time at Twitter. Snap is testing a new subscription Snapchat. Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals. Klarna is thinking about raising a massively down round. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off DragonballZ Kakarot Links: Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg) SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes) Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge) Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet) Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every) ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian) A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg) Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (Wired) What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum) The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners (FiveBooks.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Kesä 202217min

Google says YouTube Shorts is keeping pace with TikTok. Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok in order to keep pace themselves. That new Sonos Voice Control assistant sounds pretty good to me. Why a bunch of folks are going to string internet cables under the shrinking polar ice. And why the Japanese are freaked out about Internet Explorer going away. Sponsors: HubSpot.com Kolide.com/ride Links: YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ) FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge) Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge) SONOS VOICE CONTROL REVIEW: A SPEEDY, PRIVATE, MUSIC-FOCUSED ASSISTANT (The Verge) A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ) Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches 'for months' (NikkeiAsia) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Kesä 202216min

Is a major crypto hedge fund about to blow up? How the Celsius network got in such hot water. YouTube lets you make corrections. Why Apple’s deal for Major League Soccer is such a big deal. And pour one out, definitively, for Internet Explorer. Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/techmeme LCX.com/ride Links: After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital's future is uncertain (The Block) Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ) Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT) YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge) Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early (The Verge) Exclusive: New entry-level iPad to pack A14 chip, 5G, and USB-C connectivity (9to5Mac) Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games (WSJ) Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Kesä 202216min

Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium. Massive and controversial layoffs at Coinbase. Firefox is blocking stuff by default now. Meta announces more tools to make the Metaverse safe from trolls and worse. And why those pro features in iPadOS are only for iPads with M1 chips and above. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge) Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge) Firefox enables its anti-tracking feature by default (Engadget) Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch) Apple Lets You Move WhatsApp Chats From Android to iPhone (CNET) Apple resized the iPad's workflow with Stage Manager (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Kesä 202215min

All the crypt is down bad. Is DeFi lending platform Celsius to blame? More importantly, are margin calls coming for big Bitcoin bag holders, including Tesla? Jack Dorsey’s plan to leapfrog to Web5. Leaked images of the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Is your smart TV committing ad fraud? And why I’m pretty sure that Google AI bot did NOT become sentient. Sponsors: Dragon Ball Z Kakarot! AltoIRA.com/techmeme Links: Celsius Tanks 70% in 1 Hour After Company Pauses Withdrawals to 'Stabilize Liquidity' (Decrypt) Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD unveils proposal for decentralized Web platform (The Block) Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5 (CoinDesk) Galaxy Z Flip 4 leaks in real-life shots with much smaller display crease (9to5Google) Apple Goes Deeper Into Finance With Buy Now, Pay Later Offering (WSJ) Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds (WSJ) The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Washington Post) Nonsense on Stilts (Gary Marcus) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Kesä 202217min

WWDC wrap up, @chrismaddern on @floornfts, and Brian talks about his Mac Studio experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Kesä 20221h 23min

Time to refresh those Yao Ming and Verne Troyer Powerbook ads from the early ‘aughts. Could Meta not release its big metaverse hardware play for years? The NHTSA’s investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot seems to be getting serious. Speaking of Austin Powers actors, Seth Green ransomed his Ape. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride Links: 14-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in Early 2023 (MacRumors) Apple Plans 15-Inch MacBook Air for 2023 and New 12-Inch Laptop (Bloomberg) Meta Scales Back AR Glasses Plan Amid Reality Labs Shakeup (The Information) AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture (AnandTech) The federal government’s Tesla Autopilot investigation is moving into a new phase (The Verge) Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home (BuzzFeed News) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: These Drones Could Bring You 5G Networking After a Hurricane (CNET) Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes) The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge (New Yorker) Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story (Kotaku) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Kesä 202217min

Who needs a gaming console? Not Xbox, not anymore. Twitter is gonna give Elon the firehose treatment. Dell unveils some new XPS goodness. Apple does its own banking. More signs of the NFT market cooling off. And a popular developer tool is riding off into the sunset. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride Work Check Links: Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (The Verge) The Xbox game streaming TV app feels almost like the real thing (The Verge) Xbox Project Moorcroft will bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass (The Verge) In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post) Dell unveils a slimmer XPS 13 and a detachable 2-in-1 (Engadget) Apple Will Handle Lending Itself With New Pay Later Service (Bloomberg) Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt) ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg) The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch) GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Kesä 202216min