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FTX
Two really great articles that tell you what exactly went down at FTX. Fascinating read!
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Feds likely to challenge Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover
Josh Sisco for Politico: The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard, maker of the hit games Call of Duty and Candy Crush, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. A lawsuit
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Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Yes, Apple HomePods are expensive. Well, hardware is expensive and you can’t sell devices at a loss for a decade. Let that sink in.
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Fastly Subdomain Takeover $2000
Today, I am going to share how I found Fastly subdomain takeover vulnerability and earn my first four digits bounty. Let’s get started. What a fascinating read. Alexander Thangavel walk through the subdomain takeover vulnerability. This was an edge case scenario and only exploited when specific conditions were met.
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Inside Matter!
Inside of Apple Watch vs. Pixel Watch pic.twitter.com/AQjo6OPeGz — Joseph Cohen (@josephcohen) November 3, 2022 cool.
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Apple is building an Ad (Services) Empire
The highlight for me during the entire earnings call was that Services now account for 33% of Apple’s gross profit and the fastest-growing segment in FY22 - up 14% YoY.
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Apple (still) exploring iPads with larger screens
In my humble opinion, merging the two platforms would simply be a disaster. There is continuity now between your Mac and iPad; and it works amazingly well! That's blurry enough for me.
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GitHub hits $1 Billion ARR
Frederic Lardionis writing for TechCrunch: “We kept GitHub GitHub and it remains this independent entity within Microsoft similar to LinkedIn,” he told me. “I think we did a fantastic job with doing this and kept GitHub in its original form. You don’t see more Microsoft in GitHub.com than
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Moonwalkers: New options for the commuter
Moonwalkers are show attachments with motorized wheels - like Heelys that you see kids wearing around. But these are for adults and according to the company behind moonwalkers - they boast that it can increase the wearer's walking speeds by 250%. I have lived in Princeton and worked
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Elon Musk's open letter to Advertisers
Dear Twitter Advertisers pic.twitter.com/GMwHmInPAS — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 I also very much believe that advertising, when done right, can delight, entertain and inform you; it can show you a service or product or medical treatment that you never knew existed, but is right for you.
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User Experience (UX) Metrics for Product Managers using RUM
RUM has been around ever since I started my first job (well over 20 years I recon) and the issue I fell is that people still don’t realize how best to utilize RUM.
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The new iCloud experience is here (Public Beta)
It's fast and looks great! Needs more widgets :) https://beta.icloud.com