Month: July 2022

Move Over Silicon, a New Semiconductor is in Town

Silicon has had a long run as the king of semiconductors, and why not? It’s plentiful and works well. However, working well and working ideally are two different things. In particular, electrons flow better than holes through the material. Silicon also is a poor heat conductor as we’ve all noticed when working with high-speed or

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How to Repair a Broke Mindset

It’s time to‌ ‌talk‌ ‌mindsets. You can have one of two different mindsets. You can either have a growth mindset or a broke mindset. I’ll give you an example of a broke ‌mindset. And, more importantly, how not to think. So a while back, I published this short where I shared that I took my

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Internal TikTok PR documents suggest responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, links to ByteDance, and “the China association” (Chris Stokel-Walker/Gizmodo)

Chris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo: Internal TikTok PR documents suggest responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, links to ByteDance, and “the China association”  —  Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn’t.  —  Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal …

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Unstoppable Domains, which offers NFT domains as a personal identifier across Web3 apps, raised a $65M Series A led by Pantera Capital at a $1B+ valuation (MK Manoylov/The Block)

MK Manoylov / The Block: Unstoppable Domains, which offers NFT domains as a personal identifier across Web3 apps, raised a $65M Series A led by Pantera Capital at a $1B+ valuation  —  – Unstoppable Domains announced Wednesday that it raised $65 million in a Series A funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation.

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Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP drops 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)

Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP drops 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs  —  Shopify Inc. slumped in premarket trading after the company kicked off earnings season for e-commerce firms with a result that missed analysts’

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Google Cloud revenue soars past $6 billion

Google parent company Alphabet posted strong second quarter results on Tuesday, buoyed by the momentum of its cloud business, that continued to grow by 35% year-on-year. The cloud unit surpassed $6 billion in quarterly cloud revenue for the first time, at $6.3 billion, driven by core infrastructure and platform services, along with its Google Workspace

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Better type checking and more in Deno 1.24

A recent upgrade to Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, improves performance for transpiling, type checking, and more, proponents say.  Prior to the Deno 1.24 release, Deno internally converted TypeScript code to JavaScript using the TypeScript compiler when the –check flag was specified; otherwise, it used swc, a Rust-based platform for

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Visualizing the Hacker News API with HCL and SQL

In the last episode we looked at a Steampipe dashboard that joins search results across diverse APIs. That metasearch dashboard is defined entirely in code that blends two languages: SQL to query the APIs, and HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) to flow results into a dashboard table. This dashboards-as-code approach leans into the infrastructure-as-code philosophy. We

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Build SBOMs with Microsoft’s internal tool

The compromise of SolarWinds’ system management tool raised a lot of interesting issues for anyone using a CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) build process for their software. How can we ensure that the software we distribute to our users is the software we intend to build? Are all the dependencies for our code the

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Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY  —  Spotify turned in strong numbers for the second quarter, beating expectations for total and paid subscriber adds and

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An illustrated look at the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Act’s impact on US tech giants, seeking to ban self-preferencing and improve competition (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: An illustrated look at the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Act’s impact on US tech giants, seeking to ban self-preferencing and improve competition  —  US lawmakers are eyeing votes before November’s midterm elections on legislation that marks the first major effort by Congress …

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Spotify says it has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Spotify says it has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues  —  Spotify’s push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears to be paying off …

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An IBM study of 550 global organizations finds the average cost of a data breach is $4.35M, up ~13% over the last two years, and 83% had more than one breach (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: An IBM study of 550 global organizations finds the average cost of a data breach is $4.35M, up ~13% over the last two years, and 83% had more than one breach  —  A new report from IBM Security today reveals that data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before.

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