It’s widely acknowledged in the security community that if a hacker has physical access to the computer then eventually they will hack it.
This also applies when the hacker is a vehicle owner and the computer is a Tesla that has features gated behind software checks.
Where is this bottomless pit of money when its time to pay rent, former employee’s severance or their Google cloud bill? 🤷🏾♂️
nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k Playing a devil's advocate here.
What if there are other factors? After all, Chinese regulations ARE draconian, yet China can have quite a few "very large online platforms".
What do China and USA have in common? Large population, with common language and common context.
Can it be a factor that makes it easier to accumulate critical mass?
(Example: you can find a lot of Americans willing to discuss political issues but do Spaniards care about Dutch elections?)
nostr:npub1a5m7q8phn8gvrmln0pu7387pvz3k2cxxka0j2qwrczqthjze735qektdee A key reason the EU exists is to create an economic zone that has similar benefits of the large potential customer base and universality of rules that the US and China enjoy. It however has not been executed well.
In May 2023, Bud Light lost its position as the top-selling beer in the United States to Modelo Especial, a spot it held for 20 years. A stark reminder to corporate America that transphobia trumps racism.
The Financial Times is on the case.
After the success of Liquid Death, I shouldn’t be surprised at any attempt to sprinkle toxic masculinity branding on a mundane consumer product to target “real men” but I still laughed at this.
nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k Is there any introspection as to why one’s regulatory system is failing to produce healthy companies in your own backyard?
nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe Lots of American companies on the list 🤷🏾♂️
I wonder what it’s like being an European regulator drafting punitive regulation targeting “very large online platforms” and noticing that out of almost twenty of these companies only two are European.
Is there any introspection as to why one’s regulatory system is failing to produce successful companies in your own backyard? https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-vlops
Elon Musk when the Twitter finance team told him how much they’d have to pay Twitter users who signed up for the ad revenue sharing program.
Bram Moolenaar, creator of the text editor that was my nemesis in college, vim, has passed away.
Rest in Peace.
Zoom asking employees to return to office is definitely a sign post to end of the remote first era in big tech.
I'm in this photo and i don't like it
“We’ve really raised the ceiling on what can be built in Horizon in terms of visual complexity, interactivity and fun gameplay,” - Meta’s metaverse head Vishal Shah
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This is what I’ve spent the last year working on and it isn’t an understatement when I say this is just the beginning of what we plan to deliver to people as part of Meta’s Metaverse vision.
https://www.theverge.com/23820366/super-rumble-meta-quest-metaverse-horizon-worlds
Payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023.
Even though I lived through it, it’s still mind blowing to me that trading receipts saying you own a JPEG was generating a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue per month for sellers of said JPEGs.
There are lots of industries and micro-industries that will be decimated by generative AI. This is the nature of technological progress.
Making beautiful paper maps was obsoleted by the iPhone and GPS being commonplace. Similarly charging $10,000 for a well designed YouTube thumbnail is doomed when one can use Midjourney or Stable Diffusion for free.
Black entrepreneurs get less than 2% of venture capital funding. This number is too high for some conservatives as a lawsuit has been filed against a fund that funds Black women entrepreneurs because it racially discriminates against white & Asian entrepreneurs.
All of these “race blind” lawsuits by conservatives are all blatant attempts to undo the tiny progress made against systemic racism in the US. And sadly, so far it’s working.
The tech bubble that people have been expecting to pop since the dotcom crash finally popped this year. The list of startups getting acquired for pennies on the dollar, doing down rounds or simply running out of cash grows every day.
The sad truth about any economic situation is that if it looks too good to be true then it is. This crash was harder than expected since even profitable big techs laid of tens of thousands.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-unicorn-fire-sales-ahead
Reading the list of changes that TikTok is making to comply with the EU’s digital services act (DSA), I did find it interesting these are mostly things that Meta’s services already do.
It goes to show how much Facebook Derangement Syndrome exists in the press that TikTok is the #1 social app for young people in the US and was missing so many privacy & safety capabilities with little, if any, media coverage.
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-eu/fulfilling-commitments-dsa-update
Twitter/X has failed to send out payments to people who signed up for ad revenue sharing because the number of people who signed up “exceeded their expectations.”
This was the most predictable outcome of this misadventure. Elon who has failed to pay Twitter’s rent, employee severance or Google Cloud bill would suddenly have lots of money to pay users for tweeting? Yeah, right.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk