Journals

Rebecca Jennings / Vox: How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts  —  So you want to be an artist.  Do you have to start… Read More »How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts (Rebecca Jennings/Vox)

Danny Crichton / Securities: TechCrunch+’s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch’s ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters  —  January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally… Read More »TechCrunch+’s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch’s ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters (Danny Crichton/Securities)

Washington Post: Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs  —  Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers… Read More »Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs (Washington Post)

Nitish Pahwa / Slate: A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries  —  This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans… Read More »A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)

Hayden Field / CNBC: Investment in AI remained a dominant theme in tech earnings calls, with AI models that clients can customize according to their needs a key priority  —  – Artificial intelligence continues to be a dominant theme in… Read More »Investment in AI remained a dominant theme in tech earnings calls, with AI models that clients can customize according to their needs a key priority (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Financial Times: Rivals say Neuralink’s brain implant tech isn’t unique or novel, but acknowledge that Elon Musk’s attention grabbing has propelled the field closer to reality  —  Competitors shrug at the billionaire’s claims but acknowledge that the attention has helped… Read More »Rivals say Neuralink’s brain implant tech isn’t unique or novel, but acknowledge that Elon Musk’s attention grabbing has propelled the field closer to reality (Financial Times)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence  —  Board members have reaped hundreds of millions from stock awards and… Read More »Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence (Wall Street Journal)

Eric Roston / Bloomberg: Watershed, which provides software that helps companies track and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.8B valuation  —  The emissions-tracking startup, led by three former Stripe employees, is growing as… Read More »Watershed, which provides software that helps companies track and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.8B valuation (Eric Roston/Bloomberg)

Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: Apple Vision Pro teardown: not great repairability-wise, an unforgivable proprietary battery plug, and a lenticular lens layer that makes EyeSight look blurry  —  The strangest thing about the Vision Pro is also the thing that… Read More »Apple Vision Pro teardown: not great repairability-wise, an unforgivable proprietary battery plug, and a lenticular lens layer that makes EyeSight look blurry (Charlie Sorrel/iFixit News)

Pkl Blog: Apple open sources Pkl, a configuration-as-code language with rich validation and tooling, with Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin integration  —  We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for… Read More »Apple open sources Pkl, a configuration-as-code language with rich validation and tooling, with Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin integration (Pkl Blog)