Journals

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: Reddit tests Reddit Pro, a free suite of tools to let businesses improve their engagement, including the ability to see which subreddits are mentioning a brand  —  Reddit is piloting a free suite of… Read More »Reddit tests Reddit Pro, a free suite of tools to let businesses improve their engagement, including the ability to see which subreddits are mentioning a brand (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack  —  Microsoft revealed earlier this year that Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on… Read More »Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg: TikTok’s US popularity is not just a national security issue but also highlights the failure of the US tech industry to come up with an equally addictive app  —  Beijing won’t say yes to a TikTok… Read More »TikTok’s US popularity is not just a national security issue but also highlights the failure of the US tech industry to come up with an equally addictive app (Karishma Vaswani/Bloomberg)

Phil Serafino / Bloomberg: Filing: chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, plans to raise as much as $534M in its US IPO  —  Astera is selling 14.79 million shares, while existing investors are offering another 3.01… Read More »Filing: chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, plans to raise as much as $534M in its US IPO (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg)

Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Trump comes out in support of TikTok, saying a ban will help “Facebook and Zuckerschmuck” double their business and Facebook is the “true enemy of the people”  —  – Congress members were inundated with calls from… Read More »Trump comes out in support of TikTok, saying a ban will help “Facebook and Zuckerschmuck” double their business and Facebook is the “true enemy of the people” (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Florian Mueller / games fray: Apple’s handling of Epic’s account closure turned a US contract dispute into a DMA enforcement priority due to the appearance of a gatekeeper silencing critics  —  Context: Apple terminated an app developer account obtained by… Read More »Apple’s handling of Epic’s account closure turned a US contract dispute into a DMA enforcement priority due to the appearance of a gatekeeper silencing critics (Florian Mueller/games fray)

Bloomberg: Sources: China is in the process of raising $27B+ for its largest chip fund ever to counter US curbs, with most of the capital expected from local governments  —  – Local government, SDIC may join China’s biggest-ever chip fund … Read More »Sources: China is in the process of raising $27B+ for its largest chip fund ever to counter US curbs, with most of the capital expected from local governments (Bloomberg)

Addie Morfoot / Variety: How Netflix’s stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians’ reach  —  Netflix, COVID and social media have been game changers for the comedy business, with… Read More »How Netflix’s stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians’ reach (Addie Morfoot/Variety)

Evan Halper / Washington Post: US data center demand for AI and crypto mining are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up  —  AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing… Read More »US data center demand for AI and crypto mining are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

Bloomberg: Tests show GPT 3.5 systematically produces biases that disadvantage protected groups based on their names alone when screening and ranking candidates for jobs  —  Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job… Read More »Tests show GPT 3.5 systematically produces biases that disadvantage protected groups based on their names alone when screening and ranking candidates for jobs (Bloomberg)