Month: April 2023

Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies  —  Tech giant Tencent Holdings and Douyin, the short video app operated by ByteDance, have agreed a partnership deal …

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Pi Microcontroller Still Runs a Webserver

At first glance, the Raspberry Pi Pico might seem like a bit of a black sheep when compared to the other offerings from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. While most of the rest of their lineup can run Linux environments with full desktops, the Pico is largely limited to microcontroller duties in exchange for much smaller

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Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data

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Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data

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Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies  —  Tech giant Tencent Holdings and Douyin, the short video app operated by ByteDance, have agreed a partnership deal …

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Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs  —  Programmers’ high pay is just a sliver of the company’s multibillion-dollar metaverse investment

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Riding the Rails by Ebike

As most developed countries around the world continue to modernize their transportation infrastructure with passenger rail, countries in North America have been abandoning railroads for over a century now, assuming that just one more lane will finally solve their traffic problems. Essentially the only upside to the abandonment of railroads has been that it’s possible

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Riding the Rails by Ebike

As most developed countries around the world continue to modernize their transportation infrastructure with passenger rail, countries in North America have been abandoning railroads for over a century now, assuming that just one more lane will finally solve their traffic problems. Essentially the only upside to the abandonment of railroads has been that it’s possible

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Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand” (The Hindu)

The Hindu: Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”  —  The move is an apparent first, as Twitter generally takes down posts in response to government demands only in the country whose government demanded censorship

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One of Elon’s handpicked ‘Twitter Files’ writers quits Twitter over its Substack restrictions

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Matt Taibbi has announced that he’s leaving Twitter amid the company’s ongoing spat with newsletter platform Substack. If Taibbi’s name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, perhaps the phrase “Twitter Files” might. Using access granted by Twitter CEO and self-avowed free speech enthusiast Elon Musk, Taibbi and

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Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand” (The Hindu)

The Hindu: Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”  —  The move is an apparent first, as Twitter generally takes down posts in response to government demands only in the country whose government demanded censorship

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Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes (Matt Taibbi/Racket News)

Matt Taibbi / Racket News: Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes  —  On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess  —  Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.

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Photoplotting PCBs with a 3D Printer

Do you ever wonder why your PCB maker uses Gerber files? It doesn’t have to do with baby food. Gerber was the company that introduced photoplotting. Early machines used a xenon bulb to project shapes from an aperture to plot on a piece of film. You can then use that film for photolithography which has

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C rival Zig language cracks Tiobe index top 50

Zig, a general purpose programming language that interacts with C/C++ programs and promises to be a modern alternative to C, has made an appearance in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Zig entered the top 50 in the April edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, ranking 46th, albeit with a rating of just

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Anthropic’s Series C pitch deck shows the AI startup aims to raise ~$5B over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Anthropic’s Series C pitch deck shows the AI startup aims to raise ~$5B over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries  —  Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding  —  AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5

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