For Good Reason, Apache Foundation Says ‘Goodbye’ to Iconic Feather Logo
[Christine Hall at FOSS Force]"The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago."This is an...
View ArticleElon Musk says 'woke mind virus' 'killed' estranged trans daughter
[Anthony Robledo at USA Today]"Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his estranged transgender daughter was "killed" by the "woke mind virus" after he was tricked into agreeing to gender-affirming care...
View ArticleThe moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
[Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge]"Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to Donald Trump in their customary fashion: talking about money on a...
View ArticleRunway Ripped Off YouTube Creators
[Samantha Cole at 404 Media]"A highly-praised AI video generation tool made by multi-billion dollar company Runway was secretly trained by scraping thousands of videos from popular YouTube creators...
View ArticleElon Musk’s transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, speaks in first interview
[David Ingram at NBC News]"Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as a child for being queer...
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What I want to see from every product team
Here’s what I want to see from every technology-driven product team:Do you know your user? Not “this is the industry we’re targeting” or “this is for everyone!”, but who, specifically, are you...
View ArticleFlipboard Brings Local News to the Fediverse
[Carl Sullivan at Flipboard]"Flipboard has worked with local papers and websites since its inception. Now, as part of the gradual federation of our platform, we’re bringing some of those publications...
View ArticleModerate drinking not better for health than abstaining, analysis suggests
[Ian Sample in The Guardian]"England’s former chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has said there is no safe level of alcohol intake. A major study published in 2018 supported the view. It found...
View ArticleHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon?
[Kate Conger at the New York Times]""Time and again, Ms. Yaccarino has faced similar situations, as Mr. Musk is always one whim away from undoing her work. Ms. Yaccarino’s task of repairing and...
View ArticleGaining Steam: Far-Right Radicalisation on Gaming Platforms
[Shiraz Shaikh on Global Network on Extremism & Technology]"Video games and their associated platforms are vastly becoming hubs of radicalisation, extremism and recruitment by far-right extremist...
View ArticleMail, Mirror, Express and Independent roll out 'consent or pay' walls
[Bron Maher at PressGazette]"Mail Online, The Independent and the websites of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express have begun requiring readers to pay for access if they do not consent to third-party...
View ArticlePerplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations
[Kylie Robison at The Verge]"Perplexity’s “Publishers’ Program” has recruited its first batch of partners, including prominent names like Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune,...
View ArticleTrump Media Made Deal Involving GOP Donor James E. Davison
[Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi and Alex Mierjeski at ProPublica]The majority of Donald Trump's net worth is wrapped up in Truth Social's parent company Trump Media & Technology Group. If he's...
View ArticleCoinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million...
[Molly White]"With $45.5 million in corporate contributions, American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is the largest donor to Fairshake: a newly-minted super PAC focused solely on installing...
View ArticleFewer digital news outlets launched last year
[Nieman Journalism Lab]"The number of digital news startup launches has been slowing since 2022 in Europe, Latin America, and North America, according to the new Global Project Oasis report. Global...
View ArticleExistential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue
[Jason Snell at Six Colors]"In the most recent financial quarter, Apple generated $24.4 billion in revenue from Services. The Mac, iPad, and wearables categories together generated just $22.3 billion....
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Call for startups
I don’t invest any more, but here are some areas I’d be interested to see startups explore:The hallway track for remote and hybrid teams. One reason many companies are enacting return to office...
View ArticleChildren of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight,...
[Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn at Reuters]"A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children...
View ArticleA course correction
Over time — and really, over the last few years — this personal space really has evolved to become more about tech and society and less about me. I’m going to add more “me” back. This is my space.
View ArticleRebasing to reality
Somehow, I need to deal with my sadness.Do we all?It’s like it sits just under the surface, ready to spring up. Is every adult like this? I think it must be more common than anyone talks about. It’s...
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