Microsoft is being called out for a ‘repeated pattern of negligent cybersecurity practices’, Apple sees its longest sales slowdown since 2016, and Microsoft is killing Cortana…
Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber has an article up about the “Local-first” software movement. Local-first has become popular in the developer community, along with the slogan “There is no cloud. There is just someone else’s computer.”
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe
We get to the bottom of why it’s called Fahrenheit 4-5-1 and which songs get stuck in our heads when we hear “Aes Sedai.” We finish up our thoughts on Planetfall by Emma Newman and kick off Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
Mario and Zelda helped make it a good quarter for Nintendo, Kenya stops sign-ups of Sam Altman’s Worldcoin and Reddit won’t be forced to hand over user information.
Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh to customers without a Prime subscription in a dozen US cities.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe
Twitter lets you hide your blue check of shame. TweetDeck is now XPro (in most places.) Google pulls AI Test Kitchen apps (but you can still access it on the web).
We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for the Nintendo’s next console have been delivered to key game studios.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, Roger Chang, Joe