Journals

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend  —  No wireless.  Less space than a nomad.  Lame.  —… Read More »Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network, launched on iOS in February 2023, is now open to the public, has 3M+ users, and plans to add developers tools  —  The upstart social network has… Read More »Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the social network, launched on iOS in February 2023, is now open to the public, has 3M+ users, and plans to add developers tools (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share  —  CEO Neal Mohan also says more than 3 million… Read More »YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Reuters: SMIC reports unaudited Q4 revenue rose 3.5% YoY to $1.68B, below est., and $902.5M net income, down from $1.82B YoY; 2023 capex was up 17.6% YoY to $7.47B  —  China’s largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) (0981.HK) on… Read More »SMIC reports unaudited Q4 revenue rose 3.5% YoY to $1.68B, below est., and $902.5M net income, down from $1.82B YoY; 2023 capex was up 17.6% YoY to $7.47B (Reuters)

Mehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: Texas-based NinjaOne, which helps automate IT processes, raised a $231.5M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a $1.9B valuation and counts Nvidia among its users  —  NinjaOne raised fresh capital in a Series C funding… Read More »Texas-based NinjaOne, which helps automate IT processes, raised a $231.5M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a $1.9B valuation and counts Nvidia among its users (Mehnaz Yasmin/Reuters)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads  —  The social network wants to promote standardized labels… Read More »Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: On Meta’s Q4 call, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s next step in AI is “learning” from user data, and the dataset is larger than Common Crawl, raising privacy fears  —  Perhaps we shouldn’t trust a billionaire who’s… Read More »On Meta’s Q4 call, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s next step in AI is “learning” from user data, and the dataset is larger than Common Crawl, raising privacy fears (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

James Hunt / The Block: Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023  —  – Solana has confirmed an outage on its… Read More »Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023 (James Hunt/The Block)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Google agrees to pay $350M to settle a lawsuit over a Google+ security lapse that exposed personal data; people who bought stock in 2018-2019 can get a share  —  Individual Google shareholders may be… Read More »Google agrees to pay $350M to settle a lawsuit over a Google+ security lapse that exposed personal data; people who bought stock in 2018-2019 can get a share (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Google’s TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware  —  The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite… Read More »Google’s TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)