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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences — In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.More:
Tweets:
Neal Stephenson / @nealstephenson: Since there seems to be growing confusion on this: I have nothing to do with anything that FB is up to involving the Metaverse, other than the obvious fact that they're using a term I coined in Snow Crash. There has been zero communication between me and FB & no biz relationship.
Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew: Balanced take from @GenePark - “Zuckerberg's Meta promises a ‘future’ these video games delivered years ago” - there's a reason why gaming, long a subordinated entertainment category (cue: absurd art debate) is now at the center of the next gen Internet https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ibogost: It's interesting that this had to be said. (Note too that Stephenson is “Chief Futurist” at hyperfunded, underproduced AR megafauna Magic Leap.) https://twitter.com/...
@dansodergren: So very true. Might be on @BBCRadioScot on Tuesday morning to discuss this all... But might not be as feel a bit poorly and looking after Mia as well. So depends on the timings. But a very interesting subject especially as @roblox is down at the monet. Has been for 23 hours. https://twitter.com/...
@xrandrew: “The revenue model — the way that the makers of the system make money — is more important than anything else because it drives the technical features.” https://www.axios.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: part of my passion in reporting about the metaverse stems from my genuine dread over how the media industry will (or won't) evolve. my instincts tell me that just as social media disrupted and tore apart journalism as a business, gaming and the metaverse may finish the job. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: Facebook is playing catchup to the metaverse, make no mistake, this is fact. Here are the gaming platforms and games that already offer much of Zuckerberg's “future.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Gene Park / @genepark: I give a shout out to Ubisoft's historical tours in the Assassins Creed series. As a geek for Egyptian history it was heaven to stand among marketplaces from 2,000 years ago and learn more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matthias Niessner / @mattniessner: The “Facebook -> Meta” rebranding is quite a big deal for computer vision & graphics research. It's a long-term commitment by a trillion dollar tech company to virtual 3D cyberspaces (aka metaverse), driven by virtual/augmented reality tech, which is great for our field!
Will Robbins / @whrobbins: Asimov wrote the Three Laws of Robotics in the 1940s Stephenson coined “Metaverse” in 1993 Is there any sci-fi written over the past 25 years that will be relevant in 2050? Or have we past the golden age of sci-fi? https://twitter.com/...
nic noooOOOoooyen / @nicnguyen: neal stephenson would like to be excluded from this narrative please and thank you https://twitter.com/...
Pete Haas / @dimeford: And even if Facebook wasn't behind on features, it's SO far behind these other companies on trust. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Scare-usi / @michaelcarusi: @GenePark The fact that people still treat gaming as a cute little kids' pastime will never cease to amaze me. Minecraft alone is one of the most successful entertainment properties probably in human history since that gets brought up a lot.
Gene Park / @genepark: so no. i do not believe the current media ecoysystem has infinite room for perspectives. i don't expect brian stelter or jim cramer to talk about the metaverse at length in any context outside of the facebook lens. if im wrong, i'll be glad for it. but its not happening now.
Gene Park / @genepark: thank you this is my overall point. this is just “games” so in the eyes of many editors, news directors, cable news anchors etc, it doesn't have anything to do with the future of the internet, when it always has. https://twitter.com/...
@xuelder: @MichaelCarusi @GenePark Pokemon, a gaming institution, is the biggest franchise in the world. Pikachu is a more valuable mouse mascot than Mickey.
Rose Jackson / @rosejackson3: Why I've been urging folks to take the gaming world more seriously. It is often the leading edge of tech and social tech innovation, that then becomes mainstreamed for the world. A lot gets baked in early on, in an industry that gets ignored by policymakers and mocked by others https://twitter.com/...
Anil Dash / @anildash: I'm old enough to remember that when Microsoft finally came under serious regulatory scrutiny in the 90s, they started making more and more vaporware “concept videos” with big promises about shit that they never shipped, hoping to distract from the legitimate criticism.
Heather Kelly / @heatherkelly: It looks like Mark Zuckerberg gave embargoed interviews to four white male reporters about Meta. Am I missing any others? Verge, Stratechery, The Information, that one that sounds like a bad word.
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
In 2018, Oculus' Jason Rubin sent a paper to Facebook executives laying the foundation for Meta's ambitions and detailing the need to own the VR market — - In 2018, an Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and some top execs.Tweets:
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: A truly terrifying document. And its author was promoted! https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Fink / @charliefink: In 2018, an #Oculus executive named Jason Rubin wrote a 50-page document headlined “The Metaverse” that he sent to a Facebook board member and top execs. #Facebook's #Meta mission was laid out in a 2018 paper declaring ‘The #Metaverse is ours to lose’ https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Trevor Shim / @sunguroku: not tryna be alarmist, as a technologist it's honestly commendable that a behemoth like FB is making such a bold move but so much of the narrative here is around owning, commoditizing, and “winning” the metaverse https://www.cnbc.com/...
K. Guillory / @kgpaints: I remember debating that FB/Meta wanted to own/combine virtual worlds for their control, and quotes were given to me proving they did not want that. Well? This new report says that's what the company initially planned to do. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Trey Titone / @treytitone: Glad to hear Facebook is embracing the concept of an open and interoperable metaverse. Sounds like they came to the realization in the last few years that a closed metaverse won't gain the same kind of traction. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Brian Hiatt / @hiattb: This is pure horror and should be avoided at all costs https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: Pretty amazing and expansive vision here - tip @Techmeme https://twitter.com/...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: “If delivering the Metaverse we set out to build doesn't scare the living hell out of us, then it is not the Metaverse we should be building, it is not what customers want, and it is, therefore, meaningless,” 2018 internal doc: https://www.cnbc.com/...
@jumanatag: So much to look forward to: “Priya can interact with others and use the metaverse currency to pay for her avatar's new hair style. Priya eventually meets another user who looks like a green and warty ogre. They end up getting married.” -jason rubin https://www.cnbc.com/...
@scobleizer: Mark Zuckerberg is a brilliant strategist. Who told me that? Salesforce's founder @Benioff while we sat next to each other at an early Facebook press conference. https://twitter.com/...
Brittain Ladd / @brittain_ladd: THIS IS WHAT FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE METAVERSE I began writing and speaking about Virtual Reality retail in 2013, and I continue to write articles on the topic. https://www.forbes.com/... There will be companies that exist... https://www.linkedin.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/...
Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an aging userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage — If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
Tweets: @facebook, @msense_app, @frankpasquale, @evleaks, @senwarren, @kenroth, @donal_okeeffe, @zackbornstein, @ozraeliavi, @jack, @babblingbrookea, @vancityreynolds, @bettemidler, @meta_pr1, @mayazi, @mayazi, @jeffjohnroberts, @mayazi, @adamnash, @sbyrnes, @kenmhaggerty, @matthewstoller, @dkthomp, @birdyword, @digiphile, @joannastern, @oliverdarcy, @jstn, @tablehopper, @docdre, @dkthomp, @edzitron, @mshannahmurphy, @harrymccracken, @snowden, @fvogelstein, @benedictevans, @jeffbercovici, @fmanjoo, @jordannovet, @snazzyq, @nytimes, @richardfausset, @nytimesbusiness, @davewiner, @ismaelnafria, @teddyschleifer, @gabrielsnyder, @senblumenthal, @sethabramson, and @scalzi
More:
Kara Swisher / New York Times: Facebook Gets a New Name
Mathew Olson / The Information: Mark Zuckerberg on Why He Won't Step Down as CEO and Facebook's New Name
Dylan Byers / Puck: Interview with Zuckerberg on Meta, his vision for the metaverse, managing Facebook's recent controversies, and what the internet will look like in a decade
Matt Stoller / BIG: Enough is Enough: The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg
Chandraveer Mathur / iPhone Hacks: Top Apple Stories of the Week: Facebook Renamed to Meta, iFixit Tears down MacBook Pro and Polishing Cloth, More
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider: Facebook's problem isn't its brand - it's Mark Zuckerberg
Sam Wolfson / The Guardian: Metaverse, Mars, meditation retreats: billionaires want to escape the world they ruined
Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: Facebook Announces Its Fantasy Benevolent World to Avoid Its Current Problems
Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta Plans to Reverse Controversial Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus Headsets
American Economic Liberties Project: We Demand Criminal Investigations Of Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, And Facebook
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@facebook: Announcing @Meta — the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitter.com/...
@msense_app: We are very honoured that @facebook felt inspired by the logo of our migraine app - maybe they'll get inspired by our data privacy procedures as well 👀 🤓 #dataprivacy #meta #facebook https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pasquale / @frankpasquale: “Had social networking emerged in the 1960s, it would have turned out very differently, because much of what Zuckerberg did - such as buying competitors to monopolize an industry - would have been considered illegal.” https://mattstoller.substack.com/ ...
Elizabeth Warren / @senwarren: Facebook changing their corporate name to Meta isn't going to change the underlying facts. They're a monopoly. They crush competition. And they refuse to control the spread of misinformation and harmful content on their site. We need to break up Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: “A metaverse strategy...could finally get Facebook out from under Apple's and Google's thumbs” so “it doesn't need to worry about getting kicked out of the app store for snooping on users' activity or aiding the illegal trafficking of domestic workers.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@donal_okeeffe: I think this is the best description of Facebook I've seen in ages: “a Boomer-dominated sludge pit filled with cute animal videos and hyperpartisan garbage”. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zack Bornstein / @zackbornstein: That face when you just wanted a faster way to rank girls by looks and ended up enabling a fascist coup in the richest country on earth https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Reynolds / @vancityreynolds: If Facebook can rebrand as Meta without asking me, then I get to rebrand myself as Birthday Reminders, no questions asked. Happy Birthday @AndyRichter.
@bettemidler: Facebook is changing its name to Meta. “Knock knock!” “Who's there?” “Meta!” “Meta who?” “Meta whistleblower & instead of improving the way we do business, we're gonna pretend to be a new business!”
@meta_pr1: Rebranding from #Facebook to #Meta is not an attempt to remove negative associations around Facebook from the internet. We've already paid Google a bunch of money to do that for us.
Maya Zehavi / @mayazi: - Amazon's marketplace includes the same surveillance but also owns the cloud for other application. The market is their business, all sides of it - Apple sells the best package & experience tailored according to their rules, their payment rail, App Store, identity & security
Maya Zehavi / @mayazi: Notice Apple, Amazon & Google are after the same thing, only the difference between the FAANG is what biz model they use to monetize. - Google owns Android, search & mail which is enough to monetize selling user data & surveillance, but the Android distribution is . advantage
Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts: @mayazi Smart thread. But isn't hardware FB's achilles heel? Remember the facebook phone a few years back... I agree Zuck is trying to wrest control from Apple et al, but pulling it off is going to be a tough task
Maya Zehavi / @mayazi: The underrated Zuck move: FB realized that the only sustainable biz model in the stack is one that requires them to own the the OS & hardware. The move to Meta is about to be followed by a shift to more FB owned devices other than the new watch & Occulus (VR headset)
Adam Nash / @adamnash: @sbyrnes The consumer demand for VR is inevitable, more of a question of who will end up developing the platform(s) for it. Very hard to see a world where VR doesn't happen, more of an inevitable outcome of technology improvement. Timing, of course, does matter...
@sbyrnes: This is the problem with the “metaverse” strategy. Facebook is pursuing it because it's good for Facebook, not because there is real consumer demand. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ken M. Haggerty / @kenmhaggerty: @kevinroose I really think everyone is overthinking the “3D chess” behind this. It's just what Mark Zuckerberg thinks is the cool new thing, and he wants to be the person & company to do it. I really don't think it's much more thought out than that.
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: I've had it with endless Facebook scandals. The only way to change behavior is a criminal investigation of Zuckerberg and fellow FB insiders, and there's a strong case for the DOJ to pursue one. https://mattstoller.substack.com/ ...
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: @edzitron you're either saying the same thing as Kevin, or missing his point: the fact that the Metaverse doesn't exist in any way is exactly why it's a useful escape hatch! “Mark, we'd like to talk about current disinfor-” “May I interest you in this unfalsifiable tech dream?”
Mike Bird / @birdyword: Zuckerberg saying “Never surprise people” and Clegg replying “Right, and that means being transparent” simply has to be a UK political in-joke that someone was paid to include.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “The metaverse isn't about building perfect virtual escape hatches—it's about holding a mirror to our own broken, shared world. @Facebook's promised metaverse is about distracting us from the world it's helped break.”-@ethanz https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: I just watched @boztank's AMA on Instagram and it's by far the best summary and Q+A of what Meta is trying to do, especially with Facebook logins, Quest and more. For those with questions I suggest watching.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “This isn't a vanity stunt for Mr. Zuckerberg,” @kevinroose writes. “In the metaverse, he has found what may be an escape hatch — a way to eject himself from Facebook's messy, troubled present and break ground on a new, untainted frontier.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Justin Ouellette / @jstn: for context: john carmack is a game dev god and the ‘consulting’ CTO of oculus, the hardware lynchpin of fb's metaverse https://twitter.com/...
Marcia Gagliardi / @tablehopper: “The bleakest version of what Facebook might become in the next few years [...] — a Boomer-dominated sludge pit filled with cute animal videos and hyperpartisan garbage — is clearly not the kind of thing the company wants as its flagship product.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Thot Leedurr / @docdre: here we go with this technophilic rhetoric: “untainted” and “frontier” *sigh* https://twitter.com/...
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: This is a great frame from @kevinroose FB faces - aging risk - platform risk - regulatory risk - reputation risk Meta - skews young w VR/AR - vertically integrates hardware + software - is pre-regulation - is a reputationally unsettled tech frontier https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed Dead Redemption / @edzitron: Somehow this misses that they don't really have any kind of metaverse product https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy: As Zuck pushes Meta, academics call for metaverse regulation “Meta treats the world as free digital real estate, a resource for corporate extraction, surveillance, commercialisation. This speculation must be preceded by state permit, licence, fee, or tax” https://www.ft.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: And now for some praise of Facebook's rebrand. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Facebook is Facebook. Don't write about the name, write about what they do, because that's what matters. Paperwork doesn't change the nature of a thing.
Fred Vogelstein / @fvogelstein: Remember when FB went down a few weeks back?A compelling theory on why from friend Chris @SpotOnPolitics “They were migrating (internal systems/web pages/DNS) to Meta. Someone fucked up.Small DNS transfers are hairy. Imagine doing it across millions of servers around the world.”
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: Looking again at how Apple demos Smart Home stuff while rewatching Facebook's VR demos from yesterday. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici: Zuckerberg “was presented with research showing that associating any of the company's products with the Facebook brand caused trust to drop,” but kept slapping it on stuff anyway before yesterday's reversal, reports @sal19 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: the meta logo is so bad. The thumbs up was a good logo! Directly tied to the product, sunny and whimsical. smushed infinity is inoffensive anodyne corporate nothingburber.
Jordan Novet / @jordannovet: fun scoopage from @sal19 on forcing the ‘from Facebook’ name into Instagram and other company products https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq: This is sad. Oculus name has a lot of legacy. “Meta Quest” sounds like a bad 90s sitcom. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: The “metaverse” isn't a vanity stunt for Mark Zuckerberg, @kevinroose writes. “He has found what may be an escape hatch — a way to eject himself from Facebook's messy, troubled present and break ground on a new, untainted frontier.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Richard Fausset / @richardfausset: “a Boomer-dominated sludge pit filled with cute animal videos and hyperpartisan garbage...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: Facebook's vision for an immersive virtual environment it calls the metaverse could help solve at least four big, thorny problems it faces here in the terrestrial world. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dave Winer / @davewiner: Journalism writes about their version of reality, which is different from actual reality. Here's a link to the story (no paywall). https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ismael Nafría / @ismaelnafria: The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg's Escape Hatch If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems. Buen análisis @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: Some Meta news — “Meta” used to be a brand owned by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's philanthropy. Meta, for unrelated reasons, is sunsetting. And so Facebook and CZI “entered an agreement to transfer those brand assets to Facebook.” Full news. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder: in light of the hellscape that Facebook constructed in social media, this description of the metaverse it wants to now build reads like pure sci-fi dystopia https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: You can run, but you can't hide, @Facebook. A new nom de plume may confuse & distract, but won't erase years of devious practices & disregard for privacy, kids' wellbeing, spreading hate, & genocide. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: I'm with John—I'm pretty pissed about this. First you have Trump trying to seize the word “truth” by declaring all posts on his new social media platform will be called “truths,” and now Mark Zuckerberg is stealing the prefix “meta.” Screw these rich schmucks and their bullshit. https://twitter.com/...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: Oh, for fuck's sake. One, everyone who uses the term “meta” for anything can expect this asshole's lawyers to get all up in their business, which will be JUST GREAT, THANKS; Two, a racist authoritarian-leaning tech company by any other name still sucks. https://gizmodo.com/...
| Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic: |
More:
Tweets:
Ethan Nagel / @eanagel: @Moonalice ... ...an open, standards-based metaverse is really the best chance we have for something less destructive to society than facebooks vision.
Eva Wolfangel / @evawolfangel: But that's not the (only) problem with Zuckerberg's #metaverse. “The problem is that it's boring. The futures it imagines have been imagined a thousand times before, and usually better.” #meta https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Martin Tisn / @martintisne: “How will a company that can block only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content deal with dangerous speech when it's worn on an avatar's T-shirt or revealed at the end of a virtual fireworks display?” @EthanZ on “meta's verse” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Phil Wainewright / @philww: The more I read about Zuck's Meta keynote, the more I'm reminded of the scene in Big when the Tom Hanks character makes his big product presentation. “Let's be Frank about this: Facebook's metaverse sucks” writes @EthanZ https://www.techmeme.com/...
Carl Heath / @carlheath: Show Crash. The holodeck. Second Life. Insightful reflection on the old dystopian dream of the metaverse as a means to leave our physical scarred world behind. https://twitter.com/...
@ibogost: Two important things @EthanZ gets right here: Those of us who have been around a while know that all these replacement world ideas turned out to be dumb; and Facebook is scared to death of Apple. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@johnquiggin: The Metaverse looks like a reinvention of Second Life which was a rehash of earlier failures https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Flick Ruby / @flickrubicon: “Let's be frank about this: Facebook's metaverse sucks...The graphics are a little better—though frankly, not that much better. ..But that's not the problem with Zuckerberg's metaverse. The problem is that it's boring.” Fantastic and entertaining article https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Roland Meyer / @bildoperationen: »From the first images in which legless torsos sit around a conference room, staring at a Zoom-like videoconferencing screen, to Zuckerberg's tour of his virtual closet .., Zuck's metaverse looks pretty much like we imagined one would look like in 1994.« https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
David Weinberger. Blm / @dweinberger: .@Ethanz delivers a brilliant, acerbic history of failed metaverses to explain the pathetic blindness of Zuckerberg's vision. #meta https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Chris Heilmann / @codepo8: “The metaverse isn't about building perfect virtual escape hatches—it's about holding a mirror to our own broken, shared world. Facebook's promised metaverse is about distracting us from the world it's helped break.” Excellent article by Ethan Zuckerman https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Lilian Edwards / @lilianedwards: You don't need to read any more about FBs metaverse after this : it has all. And my what peak nostalgia time for Second Life among the oldies. I remember when every London law firm got itself a 2L island - I dont know if they had virtual orgies there tho https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Kat / @chipswoon: “The problem is that it's boring. The futures it imagines have been imagined a thousand times before, and usually better.” @EthanZ has nailed my feelings on the Metaverse. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@theatlantic: “Facebook can claim originality in at least one thing,” @EthanZ writes. “Its combination of scale and irresponsibility has unleashed a set of diverse and fascinating sociopolitical challenges that it will take ... at least a generation to fix.” https://on.theatln.tc/z9GzZ9P
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: “The metaverse Zuckerberg shows off in his video doesn't have to solve those problems. He's promising future technologies that are five to 10 years off. But it still looks like junk.” — @EthanZ: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ben Tarnoff / @bentarnoff: A lot of the commentary on Facebook announcement boils down, “it looks like shit.” But I mean, so did the internet in the 80s. Takes a lot of patient funding for technologies to achieve liftoff, which is historically been DARPA's role
Ethan Nagel / @eanagel: @Moonalice ... Interesting read be he seems to miss that timing is everything. Yes 26 years ago, metaverse was going to fail. And 10 and 5. Because the technology wasn't there. But an immersive VR experience is coming. Facebook is the last company that should be building it...
Srijith Nair / @srijith: @EthanZ's article on Metaverse building details some of the pertinent issues in the second half of the article. However, the biggest issue is left mostly unexplored - who is building it and how it will be built. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD / @marechalphd: @EthanZ nails it. The Metaverse was boring before Facebook. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: “There is not a single person in existence who has scanned Facebook's News Feed and said: Yes, immerse me in this reality. I want to feel my uncle's meme about Hot Pockets on my face.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: .@EthanZ is always must read, but this essay is a delicious stew of history lesson, snark, and serious analysis. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ben Tarnoff / @bentarnoff: It's true that metaverse-ish stuff has existed before: VR, SecondLife, etc. But Facebook is essentially a state, with state-like resources at its disposal. If DARPA could summon the internet into existence, why can't Facebook do it with the metaverse? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@aslavitt: Meta accomplishes only one thing. It allows Mark Zuckerberg to say he's not the CEO of Facebook. He will now do less controversial things like build a new virtual universe where he can be king. While running Facebook.
Gene Munster / @munster_gene: This is a bigger deal than when Google changed its name to the ambiguous Alphabet. Facebooks name change is more important because it underlines a shift in strategy. It's the same thing when Apple changed its name.
Prof Michael E. Mann / @michaelemann: Mark Zuckerberg: please please go live in the Metaverse! https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: In an interview with @stratechery, Mark Zuckerberg seems to suggest that, by enabling furtive, discourteous distraction, Meta will get us closer to “a deep sense of presence.” https://stratechery.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sar_meta_web3: Incredible articulation of how FB thinks about metaverse biz opportunity https://stratechery.com/... Only a founder CEO can say this with such clarity https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Absolutely insane that Zuckerberg thinks this is a *good* thing and worth promoting or even saying out loud. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: Zuckerberg is so completely bankrupt of imagination that the only thing he can imagine using VR or AR for is just... conference calls and slack messages. Pokémon Go, Minecraft SMPs, viral TikTok meetups. The metaverse is already here and it's not texting with your smart glasses. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: I actually think it's cool that Zuckerberg is investing lots of $$$ in virtual reality and augmented reality. That doesn't mitigate any of his actions or the harms Facebook has caused.
Yoni Appelbaum / @yappelbaum: “There is not a single person in existence who has scanned Facebook's News Feed and said: 'Yes, immerse me in this reality. I want to feel my uncle's meme about Hot Pockets on my face.'” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jessica González / @jgo4justice: We're still just calling it Facebook, right? As in: Facebook ignored racial justice & civil society groups calling for it to stop hate- & lie-profiteering. Or: Facebook knew it was undermining democracy & aiding mass atrocities but instead of fixing problems it covered them up.
Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer: Facebook is one of the least liked, least trusted companies on the planet. They are in the middle of a massive scandal about their involvement in genocide, human trafficking, and disinformation. And their next move is to say: “What if you could live inside Facebook?”
Drew Breunig / @dbreunig: “The fact that Facebook is uniquely held responsible for the societal problems engendered by the Internet does, I suspect, stem from the fact that Zuckerberg is an obvious target.” Great point about bias here, by @benthompson https://stratechery.com/...
Nathan Taylor / @ntaylor963: Of the big 5 tech companies, Facebook is “unique in that it is the only one of the five that is still founder-led.” Ben Thompson on point that Facebook going Meta is the kind of thing only a tech founder could attempt. Whether it works..., remains TBD. https://stratechery.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@adl: Philip Morris changed to Altria Group, but they still sold cancer in a stick. Facebook changes to Meta, but they still spread hate and misinformation. We don't want a name change, we want you to #StopHateForProfit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John Fugelsang / @johnfugelsang: Facebook changing its name to Meta is so exciting I've already forgotten that we just learned they knew women were being sex trafficked on the platform and did nothing! https://twitter.com/...
Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith: Outlets are already using ‘Meta’ instead of ‘Facebook’ in headlines, which of course is entirely the point when virtually all news about the company is negative and it wants to disassociate from it. You fell for it 😑
@ign: Facebook's parent company's name is now called Meta. Its social media services, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will fall under the Meta umbrella. https://www.ign.com/... https://twitter.com/...
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Roblox has been down since about 7PM ET on October 28, with some speculating the outage may be related to a Chipotle promotion, but the company denies a link — Roblox is having some major server issues — Roblox has been down for more than two days, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players.More:
Daniel Bader / Android Police: Roblox is recovering from a two-day outage, says it will be ‘back up and running ASAP’
J. Kim Murphy / Variety: Roblox Has Been Down for Over 24 Hours … Roblox and its related website have been offline for more than 24 hours.
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: Roblox Has Been Down For Over 35 Hours And It's Probably Not Chipotle's Fault
Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: Roblox has been down for over 24 hours - and parents are panicking
Issy van der Velde / NME: Roblox' suffers day long outage, costing young developers real money
Rachael Davies / Scotsman: Is Roblox down? Why Roblox isn't working and when it will be back up
Shikhar Mehrotra / Republic World: When Is Roblox Coming Back Online? When Will Maintenance End? Everything We Know So Far
Glenn McConnell / Stuff.co.nz: Roblox, a hugely popular online world, has been down for half a day
Laura Sanders / LADbible: Why Is Roblox Not Working? — Thousands of Roblox players are experiencing problems …
Shabana Arif / The US Sun: FAST FOOD FRACAS Inside Roblox's online crash as fans fume over Chipotle's free burrito offer
Gaming Ideology: Roblox DOWN: Thousands of Players Affected by Server Issues as Developer Searches for a Solution
George Foster / thegamer.com: Roblox Is Still Down After 24 Hours, Devs Say It Isn't Chipotle's Fault
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Roblox is down - a game played by the majority of US kids
George Foster / thegamer.com: Roblox Is Down Due To An Internal Systems Issue, Developers “Working Hard” To Get It Back Up
Rory Young / Game Rant: Roblox is Down and People are Blaming Chipotle
Logan Plant / IGN: Roblox's Servers Are Down And Fans Are Blaming Chipotle
Tweets:
@roblox: We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience.
@nationalsliker: My daughter is extremely miffed at her inability to play Adopt Me. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: Roblox has issued a statement to The Verge on its nearly 48-hour outage, confirming its platform isn't down due to an “external intrusion.” Roblox says it's working “around the clock” to get Roblox back online. Details: https://www.theverge.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: Roblox has been down for nearly two days now, after first experiencing server issues on Thursday. @Roblox hasn't provided a status update for 20+ hours now, with millions of players left wondering what's going on https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Reed / @andrew__reed: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Neo / @neogamespark: I know parents are probably pissed cause they kids don't know what to do https://twitter.com/...
Frank Catalano / @frankcatalano: Roblox is down: “Roblox is very popular, especially with kids — more than 50 percent of Roblox players are under the age of 13.” Roblox says “the root cause [of the outage is an] internal system issue,” not free burritos. #edtech https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Who among us hasn't gone down for 36 hours after a Chipotle promotion https://twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: Roblox has been down for more than 30 hours now, in a mysterious outage that is affecting millions of players. Roblox claims it's not related to a Chipotle promotion, but it's not clear what's causing the issues. Details: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paul Tassi / @paultassi: It's pretty remarkable how little they're saying about this https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer C. Martin / @notreallyjcm: laughing maniacally in parent https://www.theverge.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: Need a Vox eplainer https://twitter.com/...
@thinkwert: The biggest news event in the world right now (according to my 10-year-old) https://www.theverge.com/...
| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Beijing-based Huice, a SaaS provider that helps e-commerce businesses manage orders and more, raises a $312M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Huice, which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to enable smart retail, has raised $312 million in a Series D round led by SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund 2.| Delia Cai / Vanity Fair: |
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more — After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world.Tweets:
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Editors, be like @reckless. https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Chalmers / @profchalmers: Remember that period on Twitter where we all spent our time looking at video of fish being shot through a cannon for some reason? https://twitter.com/...
Martha Smith / @mostlymartha: A million years ago, I wrote for a lifestyle site that made us do a certain number of stories per day that combined any two Yahoo Buzzwords. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Kung / @briankung: This might be my favorite offbeat piece of news this year https://twitter.com/...
@kevinmnye1: Sometimes it's a nice break from feeling like we live in a tragedy, to feel like we live in an absurdist comedy https://twitter.com/...
Dave Bulmer / @demontomatodave: Every single online content creator who sees this tweet, read the excerpt in the picture https://twitter.com/...
Rakshtashi Robinson / @tasharobinson: Now I'm a little bummed that I got hired at @Verge too late for Fish Fridays. I could have written about BIG FISH, and A FISH CALLED WANDA, and PASSION FISH, and THE FISHER KING, and a bunch of Laurence Fishburne movies... https://twitter.com/...
@whitneyarner: my old job did a bunch of ridiculous things chasing the yahoo clicks (like redesigning our whole homepage to fit their preferred image specs) but none were as funny as this https://twitter.com/...
Catholic Democrats / @catholicdems: In Catholic households, this is just called “Friday.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Koerber / @bkurbs: i can confirm that mashable had a similar deal with yahoo and would ALWAYS pick up stories about fish https://twitter.com/...
Dawn Xiana Moon / @dawnxianamoon: “The algorithm loves stories about fish.” The computer manipulated a group of humans into spending hours making content about what it wants to see. When it's fish, it's hilarious. But it's also Facebook, Google, et al in a nutshell, which often has less amusing impacts. https://twitter.com/...
Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg: Look! @reckless is being interviewed in @VanityFair! It's well worth a read! https://www.vanityfair.com/...
David Pierce / @pierce: I have always believed in @reckless' view of good gadget reviews as something much more than just buying advice, and still think he's dead right about it https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Yup. We have deliberately never shared traffic info with anyone who writes for us (even one contributor who begged for the info). Hell, I barely check our traffic myself (it's been at least 4 months since I last looked). https://twitter.com/...
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Apple's $19 Polishing Cloth has become its most back-ordered new product with shipments delayed until January; source: the company isn't surprised by the demand — It's a $19 cloth. — OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers …
Tweets: @campuscodi, @parikpatelcfa, @ijustine, @kyweise, @detroitborg, @philiped, @cwarzel, @counternotions, @kevinroose, @daiwaka, @mims, @adrianweckler, @stevemoser, and @neilcybart
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Sam Goldheart / iFixit News: 2021 MacBook Pro Teardown: A Glimpse at a Better Timeline
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Apple Expected to Report Results That Mark a Record Year With iPhone 12
Usama Jawad / Neowin: Apple's $19 Polishing Cloth is backordered into 2022 due to immense popularity
Kate Gibson / CBS News: Apple's must-have new product is a $19 cloth
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: MacBook Pro 2021 teardown shows Apple gave repair at least some thought, iFixit says
Victoria Song / Gizmodo: The Apple Polishing Cloth Is Everything Wrong With Society
Enrico Frahn / Notebookcheck.net: iFixit's teardown video shows the internals of Apple's new 2021 MacBook Pro and confirms its improved repairability
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: iFixit actually tore down Apple's backordered $19 screen cloth
Jack Williams / New York Post: Facebook's new Meta watch to rival Apple is leaked online
Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent: Apple ‘not surprised’ by high demand for its $19 Polishing Cloth - Report
Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie: Apple Isn't Surprised Its $19 Polishing Cloth Is Popular
Tweets:
Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi: I don't get it. It's just a piece of cloth. What's wrong with people? https://twitter.com/...
@parikpatelcfa: Microsoft has just overtaken Apple to become the largest company in the world by market cap. This makes sense because Microsoft is researching DNA to revolutionize data storage while Apple's idea of innovation is a $20 white cloth.
@ijustine: Oh and yeah of course I did an unboxing of the Apple $20 cloth: https://www.youtube.com/...
Karen Weise / @kyweise: OMG, @daiwaka. “An Apple official said in an interview, based on the condition that The New York Times not quote or identify her, that the company was not surprised by the demand for the Polishing Cloth.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Kukielka / @detroitborg: Apple says it's ‘not surprised’ by strong demand for its $19 Polishing Cloth, now backordered to 2022 https://9to5mac.com/...
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / @philiped: Comic relief: iFixit tears down and iJustine unboxes the Apple Polishing Cloth (video) https://youtube.com/... https://www.ped30.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: truly feel like i've made it after clicking on an NYT story about an expensive Apple polishing cloth and getting served an ad to buy a jet. https://twitter.com/...
Kontra / @counternotions: You know what's great about the tech business? If you don't like Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy Fold, Amazon Echo or Apple Polishing Cloth, you don't have to buy it. For (mostly) successful supply/demand pricing, it's good to remember $AAPL doesn't leave money on the table.
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Apple is Supreme for nerds. (To be clear, I want the cloth.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka: It's that time of year. Apple has new iPhones, iPads, watches, AirPods, etc. But an unexpected and unheralded new product has the longest wait times for customers: a $19 cloth for wiping smudges and fingerprints off screens https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christopher Mims / @mims: Very excited for the analyst note asserting that if Apple's Polishing Cloth were a standalone business, it would be a Fortune 500 company https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler: Apple sales: $1bn per day. Apple profit: $2bn per week. https://www.apple.com/...
| Foreign Affairs: |
How the rhetoric surrounding techno-globalism has shifted, from countries advocating for a free, open internet to imposing limits to protect national interests — Two key words were missing from the statements that followed the inaugural in-person summit in September of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue … Tweets:
Chad P. Bown / @chadbown: Cyber-utopians once dreamed of liberation spreading from an Ethernet cable. Now Washington must ensure that its companies don't spread exploitation and insecurity instead. Responsible techno-globalism starts at home. By @gwbstr & @jshermcyber https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Idea of an open & global internet is no longer in favor even among democratic countries like USA & India. The internet & social media allow people to come together & challenge power. Now every major government wants to assert control. The people are losing https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Graham Webster / @gwbstr: Latest @ForeignAffairs: Over the last few years, the US and other governments have dropped “global” from their vision for technology, substituting democratic vs. authoritarian blocs. @jshermcyber and I argue for a newer, better techno-globalism. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... 1/
@charlesmok: If the open internet fails, it will count as a win for democracy's adversaries. The Fall and Rise of Techno-Globalism Democracies Should Not Let the Dream of the Open Internet Die https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
@foreignaffairs: The world's democracies must not abandon their long-standing support for an open global Internet, warn @gwbstr and @jshermcyber. A permanent technological divide is not just impractical—it would increase the risk of conflict. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Raquel Carretero / @raquelinacj: “A stark technological divide is not just unrealistic but also undesirable. Embracing a trend toward politically delineated technological ecosystems will undermine the open ethos that fuels and benefits freer societies” via @ForeignAffairs https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
@foreignaffairs: “The democratic countries where techno-globalists were once unrestrained in their advocacy of an open Internet now have become preoccupied with technology's risks.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Justin Sherman / @jshermcyber: NEW: @gwbstr and I in @ForeignAffairs — why democracies shouldn't abandon the ideal of a global internet, as some are doing right now https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
@foreignaffairs: Efforts to piece together an international, democratic, rights-respecting coalition on technology governance will fail if they do not acknowledge that such a project is inherently a global one, argue @gwbstr and @jshermcyber. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Jason Pielemeier / @pielemeier: Spot on ⬇️ from @gwbstr & @justins: “Embracing a trend toward politically delineated technological ecosystems will undermine the open ethos that fuels and benefits freer societies—and bolster the top-down, controlling ethos favored by repressive regimes.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
| Bloomberg: |
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain — The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online.Tweets:
@talkpoverty: When education went online, surveillance followed. The scope of that surveillance was incredibly wide. But low-income people are used to surrendering their privacy to access benefits and services. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@bw: Big Teacher is watching. An app called GoGuardian tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Michelle Throatbama / @gawkgawkthwack: One day we're gonna have to acknowledge, confront & dismantle the secret chokehold big data has on us https://twitter.com/...
Illinois Families / @il_fps: “No matter where kids are, Hinderliter watches GoGuardian closely every day. During the pandemic, she watched bills get paid and unemployment forms get filled out on student laptops, knowing her kids' Chromebooks were often the only computers at home.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Priya Anand / @priyasideas: Since the pandemic, schools have become surveillance hubs. NYC schools and entire states use GoGuardian, which tracks & analyzes the online activity of 23 million+ students across the country story for @BW with @mhbergen https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson: “They pretty much know that they're being monitored 24/7...” https://www.bloomberg.com/... @BW From the dream team: A @Priyasideas & @mhbergen collab
Tom Giles / @tsgiles: Some of the stuff teachers see students searching for: guitar tutorials, faming simulation games, “sugar daddy dating” https://twitter.com/...
@privacydigest: How GoGuardian AI Spyware Took Over Schools, Student Devices During Covid - Bloomberg The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta acquires Within, the company behind VR fitness game Supernatural; Within will continue working on the game and help Meta improve future VR hardware — The company already owns Beat Saber — Meta has announced that the studio behind VR workout game Supernatural will be joining the company …
Tweets: @boztank, @caffar3cristina, @cixliv, @alexeheath, @mikeisaac, @cixliv, @bartronpolygon, @alexstlouis10, @cixliv, @andreelijah, @tacolamp, @russellholly, @russellholly, @russellholly, @caseynewton, @futterish, @slhamlet, @hmltn, @mikeisaac, @mkarolian, @sar_meta_web3, @jetscott, @vishalshahis, @kevinroose, @scobleizer, @alexeheath, @benedictevans, @matthewstoller, and @scobleizer
More:
Scott Stein / CNET: Meta acquires VR fitness subscription service Supernatural
Jason Rubin / Oculus Blog: Within to Join Meta
Emanuel Ortiz / Game Rant: Facebook Acquires VR Fitness App Supernatural
Nathaniel Mott / PCMag: Meta's Acquiring a VR Fitness App Maker Called Within
Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: Meta Acquires Quest-Exclusive Fitness Service Supernatural
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Meta (Facebook) is buying Within, creators of the ‘Supernatural’ VR fitness app
Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Meta buys VR fitness service Supernatural
Tweets:
Boz / @boztank: Fitness in VR has brought people together over a renewed sense of joy in movement. We look forward to partnering with Within to grow and accelerate their vision for fitness experiences and explore other areas centered around social, community, and beyond: https://www.oculus.com/...
Cristina Caffarra / @caffar3cristina: So FB buys an app that tracks fitness data. To further plans for connected smartwatch+smart glasses+"neural input accessories". Merger control can't touch it & if it did, wld at most say “okay, maybe don't use data for digital advertising"#antitrust_fail https://www.cnet.com/...
CIX.eth / @cixliv: So, remember what I said about VR Fitness? @FBRealityLabs “Meta” just acquired @getsupernatural Looks like the data was showing I was right. https://www.cnet.com/...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: Facebo.. er Meta keeps buying up the best VR studios. Will seem insignificant to most until it's not. https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: Faceb— .......meta acquires VR fitness app makers “Within” https://www.cnet.com/...
CIX.eth / @cixliv: @BartronPolygon ... Cross ecosystem doesn't matter if there is no other ecosystem That's what zuck wants
Bart Trzynadlowski / @bartronpolygon: @tacolamp ... MR devices will be far more restrictive than any other computing platforms — including phones. That's the sad reality. All the big use cases will be dominated by BigTech. But one lever that still might exist is cross-ecosystem support.
Alex St. Louis / @alexstlouis10: @tacolamp They want to own it all, so expect acquisitions of social apps like VRChat or RecRoom, heck they might even go all out and acquire Capcom to get the Resident Evil IP permanently under their wing for that AAA game content in the metaverse.
CIX.eth / @cixliv: @EricPresidentVR ... Yo Facebook doesn't have any vision except getting out from under Apple This vision is just them watching data trends from usage on their platform, that's it They don't have any ethos, the leaks prove that Ffs I promised I'd take a break from Twitter
@andreelijah: Uhmmm hey @boztank - feel free to acquire me ANY time, I've got bills to pay! https://twitter.com/...
Brielle Garcia / @tacolamp: @boztank Stop acquiring every company that gains any traction in this space! A healthy industry can't grow if they just get consumed by the the largest player in the space. Unless controlling the entire space is the point. I think the answer to that is pretty clear by your actions.
Russell Holly / @russellholly: Supernatural is $19/month, and in VR scale has a fairly significant audience. There are very few successful monthly subscription services in VR, and only one at this price point.
Russell Holly / @russellholly: Back in April of 2020, when Supernatural first started getting some buzz, the Facebook-owned Beat Saber released the track Fitbeat in response. It was super clear this single track was released as a reaction to Supernatural, but it was not enough to detract from this success.
Russell Holly / @russellholly: Whether because of the pandemic or because it's genuinely a great platform, Supernatural continued to grow despite being the most expensive monthly fitness service by a considerable margin. Facebook couldn't compete with this, so it acquired Supernatural instead.
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: I've spent more time in Supernatural than any other VR app. And because ... Meta owns the Oculus Store, it has perfect data on time spent + revenue. It's their new Onavo. So it's not too surprising that Supernatural belongs to Meta now https://www.theverge.com/...
Mike Futter / @futterish: I love Supernatural. I think the team is amazing. I think this is going to be great for the owners. I really don't love this news, though. Supernatural has been instrumental in my fitness journey. And now Facebook is going to own my workout data. https://twitter.com/...
Wagner James Au / @slhamlet: @jank0 @MikeIsaac If top-selling Beat Saber which is really fun, a great cardio workout, and keeps adding new content, can't sustain its peak (and still relatively small) CCU, why does Facebook think they can do better? https://nwn.blogs.com/...
Ian Hamilton / @hmltn: This marks the first time I've been able to use two relevant quotes recorded in separate interviews inside virtual reality. https://twitter.com/...
@mkarolian: @MikeIsaac Supernatural is actually a ton of fun and the only thing I've found that I actually like to do in VR.
Sar Haribhakti / @sar_meta_web3: Excited to see the likes of Lina Khan declare these acquisitions illegal ten years from now Zuck gives no fucks https://www.cnet.com/...
Scott Stein / @jetscott: Facebook (Meta) just bought another game company. But this is a fitness company, subscription workouts, that pair with Apple Watch heart rate https://www.cnet.com/...
Vishal Shah / @vishalshahis: I'm a huge fan of Supernatural personally, and the community they've built around fitness in VR is truly inspiring. I'm looking forward to having them join us and bring more joyful experiences to the metaverse. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: If I was an antitrust regulator, I'd be less concerned about emails Mark Zuckerberg wrote in 2013 and more concerned that Facebook is acquiring every VR start-up with a pulse. https://www.oculus.com/...
@scobleizer: @alexeheath ... Apple is working on a fitness service that is way way way better. Shit, Apple Fitness already is way better. And I love Supernatural and have used it many hours. The founder @milk was the first to show me modern-day VR too. Great sale. Got out at the right time.
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: @benedictevans @MsHannahMurphy Not for all of them, but Supernatural was absolutely making money and growing faster than Peleton based on what I've heard
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: @alexeheath @MsHannahMurphy Is there a viable independent business for them? I get the impression there was a lot of experimental budget around a few years ago but that's all dried up now, and the actual use base is still small.
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
BackBox, which provides companies with network automation, security, and management software, raises $32M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners — BackBox, a network automation, security, and management service provider, today announced that it raised $32 million in a series A round led by venture firm Elsewhere Partners.| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Profile of barbershop booking app Squire, which is on track to triple its revenue to $12M in 2021 after raising $60M at a $750M valuation in July — Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant left their desks behind to create booking software for the nation's 109,000 barbershops.Sponsor Posts
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@jcelpub: Check out the new DMCA ruling, including an exception that lets libraries break TPM on DVDs for preservation. Thanks to @smcclesk, Giselle Tanasse (Berkeley), James Steffen (Emory), @BandJonathan https://www.copyright.gov/...
Kendra Albert / @kendraserra: As we pointed out in our reply briefing, even if a game does get re-released or re-mastered, it is actually not a substitute for studying the original. See page 19. https://www.copyright.gov/...
@bc_butler: Big big news in software preservation today, the new DMCA exemptions are out! And I have to say, on my first quick read, it's a big win for preservation. The rules have been expanded to permit remote access to preserved software (downside: not games). https://www.copyright.gov/...
@ifixit: We're glad the Register of Copyrights finally agreed that copyright law shouldn't keep you from fixing your stuff—regardless of what type of device it is. Read the Copyright Office's new 1201 ruling here: https://www.copyright.gov/...
@internetarchive: TODAY: @librarycongress alters the #DMCA again permitting the blind to access e-texts. Advocates ask: Shouldn't this be the law not an exemption? “As the mainstream has embraced ebooks, accessibility has gotten lost,” says @Riccobono, Pres. of @NFB_voice. https://www.wired.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: And they deserve our sympathy, because the Copyright Office managed to kick them in the teeth even as it grudgingly granted this exemption. As @dlberes writes for @wired, the Copyright Office denied a petition to make the exemption permanent. https://www.wired.com/... 37/
Prof. Meta-Spice / @blakereid: Fantastic writeup on this exemption and the unfortunate need to renew it every three years from @dlberes @wired https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@wired: 32 years after the invention of the World Wide Web, people with print disabilities—the inability to read printed text due to blindness or other impairments—are still waiting for the promise to be fulfilled. https://www.wired.com/...
@library_futures: Promoting accessibility in digital content is one of the reasons we were formed! Important article in @WIRED 👇🏾 “As the mainstream has embraced ebooks, accessibility has gotten lost...It's an afterthought.” https://www.wired.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Advocates for the blind are fighting an endless battle to access ebooks that sighted people take for granted, working against copyright law that gives significant protections to corporate powers and publishers who don't cater to their needs. https://www.wired.com/...
Thanks:@dlberes
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YourStory.com: [Funding alert] Purplle closes Rs 555 Cr round led by Kedaara; crosses Rs 4,660 Cr valuation
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Saritha Rai / @saritharai: Goldman Sachs-backed Purplle raises $75 million, valued at $630 million. Its founders, three IIT-trained engineers want to reach affordable makeup and personal care products to middle class Indians in the smallest cities https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology @business
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tweets:
Nick Clegg / @nickclegg: I think most reasonable people would acknowledge that social media is being held responsible for issues that run much deeper in society. If Facebook didn't exist, these issues wouldn't magically disappear. More thoughts on what we should do here: https://www.wsj.com/...
Ari Ezra Waldman / @ariezrawaldman: Really good thread noting the logical fallacy at the core of Clegg's disdainful argument. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Fraser / @arfness: Ffs. That is completely mis-stating the issue, and is a complete strawman. Nobody is blaming Social Media companies for causing the issues. They're being blamed for amplifying the bad stuff and profiting from it. https://twitter.com/...
Alison McCauley / @unblockedfuture: “There are quite a lot of online hubs where strangers talk all day long in a very civil fashion ... smallness makes all the difference. These groups have a sense of cohesion.” @pomeranian99 in: https://www.wsj.com/...
@mckra1g: This is claptrap. Social media was used to identify & amplify wedge issues, using weighted algorithmic mechanisms designed to generate outsized & extreme divisions for the purpose of generating revenue for Facebook. #Meta #Metaverse https://twitter.com/...
Chris Stokel-Walker / @stokel: The bit you haven't said is how social media is making those issues that run deeper in society *worse* https://twitter.com/...
Andy Burrows / @_andyburrows: I'd love to have the chance to explain our @NSPCC assessment of how Facebook design choices contribute to preventable abuse and grooming pathways. Civil society wants to work with all reasonable people to address it. Up for the discussion, Sir Nick? https://twitter.com/...
Gary Rosen / @garyrosenwsj: Nicholas Carr: “If we're to solve today's problems with social media, we first need to acknowledge that companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter are not technology companies, as they like to present themselves. They're broadcasters.” https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Damian Collins / @damiancollins: Once again @nickclegg asks the wrong question. It's not whether Facebook is the cause of societies problems or just reflects them. It's that by amplifying hate for profit Facebook is making things much worse. Their failure to confront this is why we need independent regulation. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: “Reasonable people” would acknowledge your position is a scarecrow. Hardly anyone believes social media is the prime cause for society's issues. What “reasonable people” object to is your company knowingly making things worse and making billions while at it. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: I'm honored to participate in the @WSJopinion symposium on “fixing” social media. Government intervention is the wrong answer. “How many tech panics must we endure before we understand that the problem is less our technology than our flawed humanity?” https://www.wsj.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: A truly epic thread by @justinhendrix in response to dishonest framing by Nick Clegg. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Riley / @rachelrileyrr: This is embarrassing. I've been in meetings with Facebook where they're happy to leave up Nazi-level content, inside groups whose members compete to post more and more rabid material. You can literally track their entire radicalisation on the platform. What a crock. @CCDHate https://twitter.com/...
Brian McCullough / @brianmcc: What's this now? Ok. The Eternals have assembled. Super. https://www.techmeme.com/...
@daraghobrien: Issues can exist which are then amplified and pushed to their most extreme through algorithmic filter bubbles and a corporate ethos that puts bottom line before the line in the sand. A reasonable person would acknowledge that victim-blaming is never a good look. https://twitter.com/...
Joe / @why0hy: The saddest thing is that I *know* @nickclegg is too clever to believe any of this and it is pure sophistry. #facebook. https://twitter.com/...
@richardgomer: This is such a disingenuous take. I think most reasonable people realise that Facebook and other social media must take some responsibility for design decisions, which have - inadvertently - become drivers of radicalisation and misinformation. https://twitter.com/...
@wsj: Twelve leading figures from tech, government and academia—including Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Sherry Turkle and Jaron Lanier—discuss how to deal with the problems posed by the biggest social-media sites https://www.wsj.com/...
Kate Bevan / @katebevan: If Facebook didn't exist, I suspect January 6 might not have happened. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Smith / @redpeter99: How ex senior politicians use their influence and contacts speaks volumes for their character. Clegg and Cameron may be very rich but they are hollow. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: The worst part of this is that Facebook's own researchers are “Reasonable people.” “Reasonable people” produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse. https://www.wsj.com/...
Tom McSlay / @thetomzone: I think most reasonable people would acknowledge that the Italian American community is being held responsible for conduct that runs much deeper in society. If this thing of ours didn't exist, these crimes wouldn't magically disappear. More thoughts on what we should do here. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: [Clegg: “I think most reasonable people would acknowledge that social media is being held responsible for issues that run much deeper in society."] Obviously we're being unreasonable and it's not that your platform elevates far right voices, except it does
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: @nickclegg Social media *isn't* being held responsible for these things. *FACEBOOK* is being held responsible for some of these things because *FACEBOOK* has not done enough to counter them!
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: @nickclegg I believe your outline of what kind of new regulation should be introduced is important but there is no need to change 230 to get this done. Also, antitrust, data protection and harmful content regulation should be dealt with in separate regulations that solve for each issue.
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: @nickclegg It's very easy to start blaming the whole category to try and distract from the fact that Facebook has about one content moderator for every 100,000 users! That Facebook doesn't have moderators that speak the languages of much of the world and so hate speech is unchecked!
Marco Rogers / @polotek: Facebook is now *asking* to be regulated. I take 2 things from this. 1. They see the writing on the wall. They're shifting to “how do we control what the laws say?” 2. This validates what we already knew. The only way to stop them is regulation. They will not stop themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Liam Ketley / @kiamletley: @nickclegg Mate if there's a fire and I pour two billion litres of gasoline on it I don't get away with it cos it was already there to begin with.
Anton Ferdinand / @anton_ferdinand: @nickclegg What type of nonsense is this? When talking about discrimination on ur platform, which I assume u mean when using the term issues how about we see some accountability & get rid of it on ur platform. You can protect society from it if you want to! The question I'm asking is do u??
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: @nickclegg I'm here for the ratio
Mike Duckett / @duckett_mike: @nickclegg Oh how you've changed. Back in 2010 I actually believed you wanted a better, fairer world. Now you defend a company that amplifies hate for add money. Yes the issues exist in society, but Facebook lights a rocket under them and makes them thousands of times worse.
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: @nickclegg Boy seeks human connection in the world's worst possible way. Boy destroys all human connection. Boy becomes very “connected” recluse. Blames the world
BobbyThorne / @bobbythorne7: @nickclegg Ah, the old 'guns don't murder people, people do' argument. Doesn't wash, I'm afraid Nick, sometimes you need to remove the weapon.
Jo Maugham / @jolyonmaugham: @nickclegg Do you have any evidential basis for asserting what ‘most reasonable people’ would acknowledge? Or are you, true to form, spreading fake news?
@slpng_giants: @nickclegg The reasonable people at the UN concluded that your company touched off a genocide, Nick. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: While we're at it, Nick Clegg should know better then to say that private companies don't have a responsibility to behave ethically unless government legislates to force them to do so!
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: It's particularly ridiculous for Facebook to say that they need the government to tell them what's acceptable in the US when the government is *literally constitutionally forbidden from doing so*.
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Social media isn't being held responsible for these things, *Facebook* is being held responsible because *Facebook* has over and over again chosen to turn a blind eye to their negative externalities in order to maximize income! https://twitter.com/...
David C Lowery / @davidclowery: Not naming names. But a couple of the authors were markedly pro-tech just a few years ago. Wish I could be that shameless. https://www.wsj.com/...
| New York Times: |
Tweets:
Buzz Andersen / @buzz: “Draft legislation A16Z is circulating would give the companies it has invested in a leg up by exempting related entities from certain tax reporting, consumer protection and anti-money-laundering requirements.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jack⚡️ / @jack: damn https://twitter.com/...
Economic / @economictimes: In first three quarters of 2021, venture capitalists poured a record $21.4 billion into cryptocurrency and blockchain-related companies, in 1,196 deals, according to Pitchbook, a market data provider. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ ...
Buzz Andersen / @buzz: Um...that's, like, literally the definition of lobbying? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@antoniogm: This is such rank propaganda: @a16z trying to educate Congress and guide legislation around a new, tricky area where it has market-leading expertise, and it reads like the Protocols of the Elders of Crypto. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zack Kanter / @zackkanter: Great example of how NYT uses subtle language to drive a narrative: draft legislation a16z is ""circulating"" is actually a blog post on a16z's blog. Perfect word to suggest back room dealings without being factually inaccurate. NYT is god mode propaganda. https://a16z.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Dixon / @cdixon: Here's our actual proposal. Doesn't say anything like that. Highly recommend reading primary sources :) https://a16z.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Arbed_out / @arbedout: it's bizarre that a16z went the ‘hire Beltway insiders to draft preferential legislation’ route for their web3 bags and not, say, biotech, or AR, or literally any other sector besides the one where the stated goal was to avoid this exact turn of events https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: DOMINATING CRYPTO: Andreessen Horowitz, the largest crypto investor, is hiring a bevy of ex-officials (including one from the crypto regulator @CFTC) in an effort to both control the digital currency world & help write the rules for how it will operate. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christopher Cadelago / @ccadelago: The White House and lawmakers declined to discuss their meetings with the firm's representatives in detail, but companies in the industry said Andreessen Horowitz's efforts in Washington were part of what made it an attractive investment partner. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kfury: Sorry but if there's one thing major VCs don't want to democratize it's finance. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Lipton / @ericliptonnyt: ADDED BONUS: A NYT EXPLAINER. Just what is A16Z investing its billions in, re crypto? Take a look at the crazy array of startups they are putting money into. Companies that hope to blow up everything from telecom to banking & social media. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ephrat Livni / @el72champs: Crypto VCs have weird plans for our future. Come see. @ericlipton https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hailey Lennon / @haileylennonbtc: How VCs thing crypto will reshape commerce 🔥 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Lipton / @ericliptonnyt: NYT EXPLAINER: Crypto is about a lot more than just Bitcoin. Venture capitalists are pouring billions into companies trying to blow up the worlds of banking, telecommunications, music and social media. Here's a look at some of these startups. @el72champs https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachael Horwitz / @rachaelrad: “crypto” is so much bigger than most realize. Right now talented teams are building the next evolution of the web or “web3.” The message is getting out: it's a generational opportunity to have a conversation about the role tech should play in society. https://www.nytimes.com/...
McCoy / @chrisamccoy: All tier 1 crypto VCs should be doing this for their portfolio https://twitter.com/...
CryptoLaw / @cryptolawus: 🚨A new exposé by @EricLiptonNYT portrays Andreessen Horowitz going all out to write rules for crypto where THEY pick the winners and losers. They aim to be a crypto “monopoly”, and hired William Hinman & friends to achieve it 👇🏻 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Lipton / @ericliptonnyt: The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—aka A16Z—has bet billions on world fueled by crypto, saying it will disrupt industries dominated by entrenched middlemen and is good for everyone. But they need new rules for this decentralized future. https://www.nytimes.com/...
| The Verge: |
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Brenda Stolyar / Wired: Apple's New MacBook Pro Is a Notch Above the Rest
Stephen Warwick / iMore: Poll: Did you buy any of Apple's new products this week?
Alan Martin / Tom's Guide: MacBook Pro 2021 could be perfect with a touchscreen — here's why Apple says no
Austin Mann: First look at the new MacBook Pro M1 Max for photographers: speed is impressive but the battery life blew my mind
Tweets:
@bayumurti94: @Techmeme @JoannaStern iPhone: Touch ID Mac: Face ID But actually I'm OK with Mac not having Face ID since I use Apple Watch to unlock most of the time. I press the keyboard/touchpad just before sitting down and it will be unlocked just after
@om: Sometimes a polishing cloth is not just a polishing cloth. https://www.ifixit.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance: Apparently, you're gonna need a cloth for your cloth https://www.ifixit.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Grebenyuk / @a_grebenyuk: “But the M1 Max has a whole bunch of extra GPU cores to power, and that drains the battery faster. I asked Apple, and the company confirmed the M1 Max uses more power both when idle and when active.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Neil Shah / @neiltwitz: I prefer both solutions for laptops. Though, @Windows Hello is flawless, snappy and secure, one of the best case for facial recognition on laptops removes serious cognitive load. . Fingerprint is a good fallback option. #biometrics #unlocking #laptops https://twitter.com/...
Wesley Miller / @getwired: @elkmovie ... I have to wonder if High Power Mode was on... because Tom's Hardware shows 15+ for a 16 Pro Max. https://www.tomsguide.com/...
Dylan / @dylandkt: As tempting as these new MacBook Pros are, 😅 I won't be upgrading. Professional work with software development and graphic design on my M1 MacBook Air has been a fantastic experience.
Vadim Yuryev / @vadimyuryev: People are saying that the MUCH faster SSDs on the new M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros don't really matter or give you any real-world benefits.. WRONG! They're forgetting about SSD caching ;) Hint: You guys will be blown away in our 16 vs 32GB RAM video.
Luke Miani / @lukemiani: The new MagSafe connector is soooo thin, but feels just as strong as on older MacBooks! I suspect the thin-ness is to do with future much thinner MacBooks with the M2 chip 😈
Michael Love / @elkmovie: I'm skeptical, but if M1 Max really means a 40% drop in battery life, it wouldn't bother me much personally but seems liable to be a major scandal and maybe even produce a class-action lawsuit or two. (Apple's marketing makes no mention of this gap) https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: @getwired ... It was not on, and also Apple confirmed to me that high power mode only does one thing: allows the fans to spin faster
Anshel Sag / @anshelsag: This logic only works for phones, facial recognition is 100% the correct solution for a laptop or desktop. I cannot remember the last time I actually typed my password into a desktop or laptop to log in outside of initial setup. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Jalkut / @danielpunkass: The most remarkable thing about the M1 Macs is how much stuff “just works”. A testament to the 3rd party developers who adapted quickly to the new architecture, and to Apple's Rosetta 2 team, among others. What a great experience as a Mac user and developer.
Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin: @joshjagdfeld When Apple inevitably puts FaceID on M1/2 Macs next year it will be nearly unnoticeable. That's how fast it will log you in.
Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl: Stealing this Slack comment from @SamiFathi_ this morning but it really does feel like there was a “second embargo” on MacBook Pro reviews today with videos from The Verge, WSJ, and Snazzy Labs.
Steve H.McFly / @onleaks: Shocking and shameful @apple!🤣 “The new #Apple Polishing Cloth earns a 0 out of 10 on our repairability scale” (@iFixit) -> https://fr.ifixit.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Kukielka / @detroitborg: You have to appreciate the design of these even more from the inside. MacBook Pro 2021 Teardown: Easier to Repair, Harder to Score... https://www.youtube.com/... via @YouTube
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 review: return to form https://www.theverge.com/... “Absurd RAM pricing” is being sensational (at best) since it does not account for an entirely different RAM model. While $800 for 16->64, a Dell (base=8GB) is $400 excl. discrete GPU you'd add and upgrade.
Nilay Patel / @reckless: I came very close to giving the 16-inch M1 Pro a 10, but... a $3099 computer needs to be absolutely perfect, and it's not perfect. It's also expensive, with a ridiculous $400 upcharge if you want 32GB of RAM. So 9.5 it is.
David Ruddock / @rdrv3: oh man, this is a laaaaame answer. We all know the real one: Apple won't make a laptop lid thick enough to house all the components. I'm guessing they're waiting for the tech to downsize enough to make it happen, they're CLEARLY preparing people with that notch. https://twitter.com/...
Abhishek Baxi / @baxiabhishek: Ummm... nope. It's opposite actually. My phone is in my palm and a finger can move to a fingerprint sensor without much travel. On a laptop, my hand is either on the edge of the lid whole opening or on trackpad/keyboard far from the fingerprint sensor. https://twitter.com/...
Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq: The New MacBook Pro Is Even Better Than I Expected! https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ray Wong / @raywongy: “We make the world's best touch computer on an iPad. It's totally optimized for that. And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven't really felt a reason to change that.” Apple's “explanation-not-an-explanation” GJ @JoannaStern tho! https://www.wsj.com/...
@ccieby30: Really it's because you can unlock the Mac with your watch but they won't admit that 😂😂 https://twitter.com/...
Ben / @bencsin: I'd argue the the other way: Face ID makes sense on laptops over Touch ID, while for phones Touch ID makes more sense than Face. On a phone for SURE your thumb is already near screen. On laptop my fingers aren't always near upper right corner of keyboard https://twitter.com/...
Laura Calabazas / @freezydorito: man what i really hate about using my laptop is opening it up every day and then picking my face and having to put it in front of it https://twitter.com/...
Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith: Apple *finally* has laptops with incredible PC-class GPUs that could run the latest games... ...but almost no games developers have followed Apple to ARM, and w/ the 32-bit cutoff and deprecation of OpenGL, Apple has burned a lot of bridges; a lot of trust needs to be earned back
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: I've been working non-stop on the MacBook and continue to be amazed at the entire package. It is weird not to ever hear a fan, especially more noticeable because the speakers are so good. I'm using a Razer dock and the lack of “futzing” adding/removing is impressive. 💯
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: But I'll say this. The battery life on these are great but the fine print is bonkers. Settings to get to 21 hours: - M1 Pro chip - Brightness at 50% - Wi-Fi off - True Tone off - Ambient light sensor off - Keyboard backlight off - Downloaded video in Apple TV app
Nat Bullard / @natbullard: “We have escaped from Dongletown” is one of the better product review lines I've read @reckless @mcsquared96 https://www.theverge.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: I just checked the wordcount on the review and it's over 4000 words that's a lot of ... MacBook Prose https://www.theverge.com/...
Christopher Mims / @mims: This video review of the new Macbook Pro looks absolutely gorgeous on my 16" laptop that cost 20% as much https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Apple claims 21 hours of battery life on the new 16-inch MacBook Pros. Someone had to test it. My video review: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Now that the new MacBook Pros are nearly perfect and fix pretty much everything we've complained about, what do the future of the MacBook look like? Touchscreens? Water resistance? I asked Apple. My review of the new MacBook Pros: https://www.wsj.com/...
Monica Chin / @mcsquared96: Our MacBook Pro review is here! Check out our video to see me nerd about benchmarks for several minutes and stare concernedly at laptop screens https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Our review of the new MacBook Pros are here! - M1 Max 16 is the fastest laptop we've ever tested in creative tasks - M1 Pro 16 went *16 hours* during a normal workday on battery - Extra GPUs on the Max not worth the battery hit if you don't need them https://www.theverge.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: our MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch reviews are live. “The 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro ran for 16 hours on its battery during continuous use, making it the longest-lasting laptop we've ever tested.” Sixteen Hours 16 hours 🤯 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Tweets: @janlemnitzer, @fborgesius, @europol, @sophoslabs, @howelloneill, @itsreallynick, @mariegmoe, @gossithedog, @kennwhite, @joetidy, and @campuscodi
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Ravie Lakshmanan / The Hacker News: Police Arrest Suspected Ransomware Hackers Behind 1,800 Attacks Worldwide
DataBreaches.net: Europol targets 12 suspects in ransomware cases affecting 1,800 victims and critical infrastructure
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: The Week in Ransomware - October 29th 2021 - Making arrests
Tweets:
Jan Lemnitzer / @janlemnitzer: @thegrugq ... The leak might also be linked to the end of the operation below. The odd one out of the named partners is the police office of a small town outside Stuttgart, which is the capital of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where state criminal police found the REvil guy. https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius / @fborgesius: Europol: ‘A total of 12 individuals wreaking havoc across the world with ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure have been targeted as the result of a law enforcement and judicial operation involving eight countries.’ https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
@europol: 12️ suspects have been targeted in 🇺🇦🇨🇭 for carrying out aggressive #ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure. 🌐1800 high-stake victims in 71 countries 🚔 6 #Europol specialists deployed to Ukraine to assist @CyberpoliceUA 👉 https://ow.ly/... #EMPACT https://twitter.com/...
@sophoslabs: Two years later, law enforcement is taking down the threat actors behind ransomware attacks involving Dharma, Megacortex, and LockerGoga. Our initial coverage of Megacortex from May, 2019: https://news.sophos.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Howell O'Neill / @howelloneill: The math of 12 suspects to 1,800 victims in 71 countries may not be the whole picture but it's still a pretty wild illustration of impact https://twitter.com/...
Nick Carr / @itsreallynick: 12 suspects interrogated & assets seized in an 8 country @Europol operation. Threat actors were running Cobalt Strike / Empire C2 - deploying LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Dharma ransomware deployment - and mixing/laundering cryptocurrency. https://twitter.com/...
Marie Moe / @mariegmoe: Kudos to the Norwegian National Cybercrime Center (NC3) that participated in this investigation including the ransomware attack against Norsk Hydro 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog: A reminder (again) that not all ransomware operators are in Russia. https://twitter.com/...
Kenn White / @kennwhite: “Suspects are considered high-value targets...The group would spend months probing for weaknesses in order to move laterally...[deploying] malware such as TrickBot, or post-exploitation frameworks such as Cobalt Strike or PowerShell Empire, to stay undetected & gain further access” https://twitter.com/...
Joe Tidy / @joetidy: Europol tells me the 12 individuals are in custody in Ukraine and Switzerland. Sounds like they are affiliates of multiple ransomware gangs. Some allegedly used LockerGoga - famously the strain of ransomware that brought Norsk Hydro to its knees in 2019: https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi: Breaking: Europol detained 12 suspects behind more than 1,800 ransomware attacks on large companies across 71 countries -Europol said they used ransomware strains such as LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Dharma -Group was linked to the Norsk Hydro 2019 attack https://therecord.media/... https://twitter.com/...