Tech Brew Ride Home8 Jun 2021

Tue. 06/08 – Fastly Takes Down The Internet

Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized. The US seized most of the bitcoins those hackers got from the Colonial Pipeline hack, highlighting how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable. Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on WWDC day, and I give you a wrap-up of the bits a pieces we missed from WWDC yesterday. Sponsors: Kraken.com/techmeme or search "Kraken" in the app store Cybereason.com Links: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch) U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal) Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge) EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters) Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge) iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac) Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet) Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac) Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge) Book Recommendation: Network Effect by Martha Wells

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(2419)

The Man Who Quit The AI Industry

Researcher Jacob Coxon said he quit Anthropic over fears the AI race is uncontrollable, Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on leave after a board dispute, Apple unveiled a health app with "Health Age" scor...

10 Sep 22min

The iPhone Duo

Apple unveiled its first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a new A20 Pro chip, AirPods 5 with 50% more noise cancellation, and Apple Watch Series 12 and Ult...

9 Sep 22min

Did AI Just Solve Math?

Bloomberg detailed Apple's decade-long path to a $2,000+ foldable iPhone, Gamers Nexus alleged LG smart TVs eavesdropped via built-in microphones and tracked nearby devices, and a mathematician accuse...

8 Sep 22min

Tim Cook Ain't Goin Anywhere

Tim Cook's new pay package signaled he'd stay deeply involved at Apple, Travis Kalanick's Atoms drew a $100M Uber investment for robotaxi tech, OpenAI's chief scientist called for industry-wide AI slo...

7 Sep 20min

Is Astra AGI?

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a leap toward AGI, while reports surfaced that rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki, Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith for local AI development, and Tesla...

4 Sep 22min

Nvidia Buys Hugging Face For A Rabbit?

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, betting on its $399 Microduck robot as a physical-AI data engine, Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 to rival Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Microsoft restruc...

3 Sep 21min

Hey, Want Some Models?

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-price cut, Google countered with Gemini 3.8 Flash, OpenAI teased Astra's public release, a judge spared Google's ad exchange from a sale,...

2 Sep 21min

An... AI Toothbrush??!!

Tim Cook sent Apple staff a farewell memo on his last day as CEO, the FTC sued Amazon over $20B in hidden ad surcharges, Starman Optical bought GoPro for $285M, Waymo hit three cities, and Dyson made ...

1 Sep 21min