Journals

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release  —  Solana Mobile’s “chapter 2” smartphone could ship in early 2025.  — … Read More »Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Analysts estimate Microsoft Azure’s revenue, fueled in part by AI growth, is ~75% as big as AWS’, up from ~50% five years ago  —  – Microsoft’s cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of… Read More »Analysts estimate Microsoft Azure’s revenue, fueled in part by AI growth, is ~75% as big as AWS’, up from ~50% five years ago (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April’s Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half  —  The world’s largest crypto has now more than recovered since tumbling… Read More »Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April’s Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67  —  Apple’s Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact… Read More »Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

VideoCardz.com: Nvidia announces a new $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with up to 2x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of on-board memory, up from 12GB  —  NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA announced: AD107 GPU, 16GB VRAM… Read More »Nvidia announces a new $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with up to 2x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of on-board memory, up from 12GB (VideoCardz.com)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia debuts RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU for AI-accelerated design workloads  —  Nvidia Corp. is packing more powerful generative artificial intelligence processors into “compact workstations” with today’s launch of its new Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation… Read More »Nvidia debuts RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU for AI-accelerated design workloads (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with the US DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, the Google search monopolization and ad tech cases, media consolidation, the EU’s DMA, and more  —  The assistant attorney general says “the resonance these… Read More »Q&A with the US DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, the Google search monopolization and ad tech cases, media consolidation, the EU’s DMA, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Ireland, Germany, Singapore, China, Amsterdam, and others added restrictions on new data centers in recent years to comply with stringent environmental rules  —  Ireland, Germany, Singapore and China are imposing rules on building new server… Read More »Ireland, Germany, Singapore, China, Amsterdam, and others added restrictions on new data centers in recent years to comply with stringent environmental rules (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: Court documents: HP calculates its Autonomy losses at up to $4B, and says Autonomy’s ex-CEO and CFO must pay; Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is awaiting a US trial  —  – Mike Lynch and his CFO face… Read More »Court documents: HP calculates its Autonomy losses at up to $4B, and says Autonomy’s ex-CEO and CFO must pay; Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is awaiting a US trial (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which is fighting Sudan’s army, has been using Starlink since August 2023, during an internet blackout  —  – UN slams internet blackout in Sudan during humanitarian crisis  — Starlink devices have entered country… Read More »Sources: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which is fighting Sudan’s army, has been using Starlink since August 2023, during an internet blackout (Bloomberg)