Staying Current

At Snarful, we feel staying current with technology is more important now than ever before. So to help with that, we curate informative articles for our readers to have a single place to go to read up on the world of tech.

• Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake in Game Science, the creator of China's biggest PC game Black Myth: Wukong, which has sold 18M+ copies (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
• Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more (New York Times)
• A profile of Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai, who is reportedly still in Russia and is responsible for Telegram's encryption standard MTProto protocol (Eva Hartog/Politico)
• An investigation details the lack of enforcement of CA's Prop 22 about four years after the ballot initiative, backed by gig economy companies, became state law (Levi Sumagaysay/CalMatters)
• Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds of millions are struggling to compete against better-funded rivals and Big Tech companies (Bloomberg)