Journals

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: Sources: Google’s Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says it is premature to estimate the impact  —  Search Generative Experience could upend over 60% of publishers’ total… Read More »Sources: Google’s Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says it is premature to estimate the impact (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Chris Kornelis / New York Times: Gerald M. Levin, former Time Warner CEO who oversaw the merger with AOL, widely considered the worst corporate merger in US history, died on March 13 at age 84  —  He was called a… Read More »Gerald M. Levin, former Time Warner CEO who oversaw the merger with AOL, widely considered the worst corporate merger in US history, died on March 13 at age 84 (Chris Kornelis/New York Times)

Hugo Barra / Hugo’s Blog: A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta’s ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple’s hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more  —  Friends and colleagues have been… Read More »A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta’s ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple’s hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more (Hugo Barra/Hugo’s Blog)

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Kaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B  —  – Dogwifhat fans raises funds to put meme on… Read More »Kaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Tim Berners-Lee / World Wide Web Foundation: On the web’s 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data  —  Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web,… Read More »On the web’s 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data (Tim Berners-Lee/World Wide Web Foundation)

Wall Street Journal: The US Treasury is investigating ~$165M in crypto-linked transactions that may have helped finance Hamas before the group’s October 7 attack against Israel  —  Treasury Department investigates $165 million in digital transactions linked to the militant group

Emilia David / The Verge: Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller’s external website  —  Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product… Read More »Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller’s external website (Emilia David/The Verge)

Dashiell Wood / TechRadar: Lenovo plans to release the Legion Tab, an 8.8″ Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in EMEA and other Asian markets this month, starting at €599  —  It’s set to arrive in March  —  Technology… Read More »Lenovo plans to release the Legion Tab, an 8.8″ Android gaming tablet currently available in China, in EMEA and other Asian markets this month, starting at €599 (Dashiell Wood/TechRadar)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, tailored for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, saying it’s “the fastest and most affordable model” in its class  —  San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to… Read More »Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, tailored for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications, saying it’s “the fastest and most affordable model” in its class (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration  —  Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payment company, has released its… Read More »Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration (Emma Roth/The Verge)