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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? Sponsors: Policygenius.com Superside.com/techmeme 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 Mai 202218min

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? Sponsors: LiveOuter.com/techmeme LCX.com/ride 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Mai 202216min

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. Sponsors: LCX.com/ride 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Mai 202218min

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. Sponsors: AltoIRA.com/techmeme Superside.com/techmeme 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Mai 202217min

Techpocalypse Now! W/ @EricNewcomer @loganbartlett & @alexrkonrad How bad is it? How bad can it get? How do we get out of this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Mai 20221h 17min

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™. Sponsors: Superside.com/techmeme Masterworks.io/ride Sponsors: 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Mai 202219min

Other algorithmic stablecoins are teetering. Meta is cutting back, even when it comes to the Metaverse. Could an Instacart IPO lead us out of this darkness? Disney’s streaming business is holding up. For now. And the AR demo that was the most exciting thing from the I/O keynote yesterday. Sponsors: Ortto.com Links: Terra Crunch Shakes Foundations of Crypto Stablecoin Complex (Bloomberg) Exclusive: Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks (Reuters) SoftBank Reports Its Biggest-Ever Full-Year Loss (WSJ) Instacart Files Confidentially for an IPO That Could Happen This Year (Bloomberg) Senate confirms Bedoya to FTC, establishing Democratic majority (The Verge) Disney+ Hits 137.7M Subscribers, Beating Wall Street Expectations in Streaming (The Hollywood Reporter) Google releases Android 13 beta 2 with finer privacy controls and improved Material You (Neowin) Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 Mai 202217min

All the headlines from Google’s I/O keynote this afternoon. The stablecoin fiasco has gotten rapidly worse. More carnage in tech stocks. Is Apple shifting to USB C for the iPhone at long last? And pour one out for the iPod, the product and brand that very much kicked off our modern era of gadgetry. Sponsors: Superside.com/techmeme HubSpot.com Links: Google Maps bringing a new ‘immersive view’ of select cities, Live View’s AR for other apps (9to5Google) Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future (TechCrunch) Google will let you talk to Assistant on the Nest Hub Max just by looking at the screen (The Verge) Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449 (9to5Google) Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7 (Android Police) Google unveils the Pixel Buds Pro (9to5Google) Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7  (9to5Google) Google will release a Pixel Tablet… in 2023 (TechCrunch) As Luna holders watch the token slide, many won’t be able to cash out for weeks (The Block) Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides (CryptoWorld) Kuo: iPhone 15 to Switch From Lightning to USB-C in 2023 (MacRumors) The iPod is dead (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Mai 202219min