Twitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move
Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting accounts that don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue so that they could see only 600 posts per day. Once you hit the quota, almost any act
Read moreMax Q: Virgin Galactic’s triumphant first commercial flight
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: What the future holds for Virgin Galactic News from NASA, and more Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight brings payloads and passengers to edge of space Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial flight, sending 13 scientific payloads and four humans —
Read moreEV maker Arrival’s second SPAC is now a dead SPAC
Troubled commercial EV maker Arrival has just ended a deal to merge — for the second time in less than three years — with a special purpose acquisition company. Arrival initially went public in March 2021 via a merger with special purpose acquisition company CIIG Merger Corp. in a deal
Read moreTwitter is going to force TweetDeck users to switch over to the ‘new’ version
Image: Twitter Twitter is going to force everyone who uses TweetDeck to switch over to the “new” version to help mitigate some of the issues TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. I used quotes around “new” because the experience has been in preview for nearly two years, but according to a
Read moreMolly Alter leaving Index Ventures for Northzone
There’s been quite a bit of movement lately among venture capitalists moving to new firms or going out on their own, while others are getting into VC. NEA partner Pete Sonsini and Kleiner Perkins’ Wen Hsieh were reportedly leaving their respective firms to start their own firms. David Cahn left
Read morePornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws
Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went into effect in Louisiana at the start of the year. To comply, Pornhub required visitors to verify their age with the LA Wallet
Read moreAs Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users
While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its TweetDeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign — Google’s design language for
Read moreApple reportedly slashes Vision Pro production, pushes back cheaper model
What would success look like for the Vision Pro? It’s still an open question — or, perhaps, a series of interrelated questions. First is how many Apple expects to sell, and what industry analysts are forecasting. Second is who, precisely, is buying. The third is timeline, as in: how slow
Read moreStop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics which it found breach the bloc’s privacy rulebook owing to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance. It has also warned other companies against use of Google’s tool. The fines
Read moreGoogle’s Gradient backs YC alum Infisical to solve secret sprawl
Secret sprawl, where companies store authentication credentials and similar sensitive data across multiple locations, is a real and growing problem for any company wanting to avert a security breach. Companies might have hundreds of secrets — such as API keys, passwords, or database access tokens — spread across their infrastructure,
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