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WhatsApp rolls out privacy features. The battery icon returns to the iPhone. China is growing restless over its silicon industry. HBOMax will stop getting Warner Movies automatically. The really rugged smartwatch from Garmin. And the real reason Amazon is buying One Medical and iRobot. Sponsors: Ramp.com/techmeme KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: WhatsApp’s new update makes it easier to avoid your friends (The Verge) WhatsApp now lets users delete messages up to two days after they were sent (9to5Mac) iOS 16 beta 5 finally adds the battery percentage to the status bar (9to5Mac) China Graft Probes Stem From Anger Over Failed Chip Plans (Bloomberg) Warner Bros. Movies Are No Longer Guaranteed To Arrive On HBO Max After A 45-Day Theatrical Window: Source (Decider) Garmin adds another bright spot to its line of multisport watches (Android Authority) What Amazon's Roomba and One Medical Deals Have in Common (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Masa Son takes another one on the chin, another record loss. The US Treasury is sanctioning a major crypto mixing service. Netflix Gaming is off to a good start or a terrible one, I can’t tell. One of the streaming services is biting the dust. And since we’re aware of the car industry data tracking issue, how much data is Tesla already tracking about your driving? Sponsors: Gusto.com/ride CyberSecurityInside.com/ride Links: SoftBank plans Vision Fund job cuts after record net loss (Reuters) US Treasury sanctions cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash (The Block) Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies (TechCrunch) Nvidia warns on second-quarter revenue, shares dip (CNBC) Netflix is expanding its push into video games, but few subscribers are playing along (CNBC) HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting in Summer 2023 (Variety) The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard (IEEE Spectrum) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Our friend Alex Kantrowitz returns to my kitchen table for a crossover episode with Big Technology Podcast (subscribe here) to discuss whether or not Meta is going to see its promise land Metaverse? And are we in a recession or just a tech recession? Oh. And tips to survive plane travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amazon wants to acquire the company that makes the Roomba robot, or as it’s known in my family, Vrrrrooom. We finally know the legal arguments both sides are making in the Elon/Twitter case. Does crashing semiconductor demand prove we’re in a recession or not? And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B (TechCrunch) Twitter slams Elon Musk's response to its lawsuit (Axios) Cooling Semiconductor Sales Heighten Fears of a Global Recession (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The endless search for a crypto use case (Networked substack) It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art (TechCrunch) CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications (CNN) THE UNSUNG INVENTOR WHO CHASED THE LED RAINBOW (ieee Spectrum) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple is delaying releasing iPadOS 16 just because it’s trying to make Stage Manager not suck. I wasn’t imagining it… the majority of the crypto hacks this year have been because of bridges. Would you pay $50k to be a guest on this show? The new OnePlus smartphone. And I’m gonna let you guess what Google did. Again. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Apple Plans to Delay Launch of iPadOS 16 Update by About a Month (Bloomberg) Solana Hack Blamed on Slope Mobile Wallet Exploit (Decrypt) Vulnerabilities in Cross-chain Bridge Protocols Emerge as Top Security Risk (Chainalysis) Twitter to revamp Spaces, tests themed stations and a daily digest (TechCrunch) Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows (Bloomberg) OnePlus 10T review: Speed above all (Engadget) Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn’t going into Meet (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now the hackers are stealing crypto from individual wallets at scale. Robinhood makes a massive layoff announcement. Y Combinator is shrinking its summer cohort. I’ve found an actual use case for NFT’s and it is college textbooks. And, you know, an actual flying car you could buy right now. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack (Decrypt) Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff as Retail Investors Fade From Platform (WSJ) Michael Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO, shift to executive chairman role (The Block) Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment (TechCrunch) UK regulator makes U-turn on Avast-Norton cyber security deal (Financial Times) Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs (The Guardian) Samson Switchblade flying car is finally ready for takeoff (New Atlas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seriously, what is it with crypto bridges? Why are they seemingly so easy to hack? New York cracks down on Robinhood. A bunch of Silicon Valley boldfaced names are going to be swept up into the Twitter/Elon trial. And if Chromebooks and gaming are suffering post-Covid hangovers, is Uber a post-covid Phoenix? Sponsors: Babbel.com/ride for 60% off go.factor75.com/techmeme130 and code techmeme130 to get $130 off Links: Nomad token bridge drained of $190M in funds in security exploit (CoinTelegraph) Robinhood’s Crypto Unit Fined $30 Million by New York’s Top Financial Regulator (WSJ) Twitter is probing Elon Musk’s social circle in broad legal requests (Washington Post) As worldwide tablet shipments grow, Chromebooks face a different reality (ZDNet) Activision Blizzard Sales Fall on Weak Call of Duty Release (Bloomberg) The Morning After: Did Microsoft just neg Activision Blizzard? (Engadget) Uber reports another big loss but beats on revenue, shares pop 14% (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple opens up Apple Pay a tiny bit. But again, from pressure from the Europeans. Meta is accused of abetting sectarian violence in another developing nation. A deep dive into the seeming demise of the entire e-scooter industry. How much good will the CHIPS Act actually do? And a review of the new Dell XPS 13 Plus. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Apple Pay may finally work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16 (The Verge) Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya (Washington Post) Bolt Mobility has vanished, leaving e-bikes, unanswered calls behind in several US cities (TechCrunch) Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production (NikkeiAsia) Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support (Financial Times) DELL XPS 13 PLUS REVIEW: XPS PLUS, BATTERY MINUS (The Verge) Join the Mutant Podcast Army Fantasy League: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/i8t2k1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Matthew Ball comes on to talk about his new book: The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything. Then, Jason Del Rey @DelRey talks to us about how Amazon has been faring in the post-Jeff Bezos era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even a weak earnings report from Apple can still break records. Instagram’s been in a stare down with the Kardashians, and Adam Mosseri just blinked. Congress just passed a ton of money to jump start domestic chip production. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Kolide.com/ride Links: Apple iPhone Sales Remain Resilient as Company Reports 11% Decline in Profit (WSJ) Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer) CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Buy Now, Pay Later Juggernaut Is About to Be Tested (Bloomberg) F.T.C. Chair Upends Antitrust Standards With Meta Lawsuit (NYTimes) Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? (The Markup) TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker) RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me to be a ruthless capitalist (Polygon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meta has reported its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline. The FTC has moved to block a Meta acquisition, the first big regulatory move of the Lina Khan era. Google delays it’s cookie cleanup. Again. You’re not seeing things. There’s been a Gmail redesign. And DeepMind has solved one of the oldest problems in biology. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ) F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech (NYTimes) Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group (WSJ) Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google) Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge) DeepMind's protein-folding AI cracks biology's biggest problem (NewScientist) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’ll wrap up the earnings from Microsoft, Alphabet, Spotify and Shopify. Proof that the cost of a data breach for companies is skyrocketing. What ever happened to the legislative crackdown on Big Tech? Inflation comes to the Metaverse as Meta is jacking up the prices on Quest headsets. And a big update to Google Maps. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today) IBM Security report finds data breaches are costlier than ever before (SiliconAngle) Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us (ArsTechnica) Senate’s Antitrust Crackdown Sputters as Schumer Signals Doubts (Bloomberg) Quest 2 Price Jumps To $399 As Meta Costs Rise (UploadVR) Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the SEC about to crack down on Coinbase? Why is Kylie Jenner mad at Instagram? Why are all the big tech companies mad at the leap second, of all things? And a deep dive look at what Amazon probably wants to do with its big healthcare acquisition. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Cybersecurityinside.com/RIDE Links: Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg) Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to 'stop trying to be TikTok,' which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider) Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch) Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ) Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET) The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NFL+ arrives, and at the end of the show, we’ll take a deep dive into sports rights as the great free radical in the streaming wars and the evolution in sports in general. In between that, people accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of lowballing them. More details on the so-called Apple Watch Pro. And if I told you there’s a global shortage of fiber optic cable, would you be surprised? Sponsors: Ramp.com/techmeme ZocDoc.com/techmeme Links: NFL+ Enters Sports Streaming Wars As League Launches New Service (The Hollywood Reporter) Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg) Apple Begins to Show Rare Vulnerability Ahead of Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg) Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer (The Register) Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth (FT) Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saoud Kalifah of FakeSpot.com joins us to discuss what I guess we could call, the fake review economy. Chris made a compelling case for the new Browser Company browser Arc. I try to find my way to a Brian’s Unified Theory of what makes new social networks succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, things weren’t so rosy with Twitter earnings, and downright abysmal over at Snap. The Feds bring the first ever case for insider trading in the crypto space. Your next smart lock might draw its power from your phone as you use it. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Work Check podcast Links: Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid (CNBC) Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC) Ex-Coinbase Manager Arrested in US Crypto Insider-Trading Case (Bloomberg) Your next smart lock could ditch the battery by harvesting energy from your phone (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Chiplets helped save AMD. They might also help save Moore’s law and head off an energy crisis. (Protocol) Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’ (Protocol) Amazon C.E.O. Andy Jassy Breaks From the Bezos Way (NYTimes) The Great Fiction of AI (The Verge) The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent (Skift) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch) Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge) Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon) Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg) Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information) Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt) @CryptoKaleo Tweet TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch) OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix reported earnings that weren’t as bad as even they had been telegraphing. So that’s something. The court case is already going against how Elon Musk hoped it would go. What’s up with everyone leaving Neuralink? And a deep-dive look at BeReal. Is it the next big thing or just the latest fad? Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome AthleticGreens.com/ride Links: Netflix loses fewer subscribers than expected and says cheaper ad tier is coming in early 2023 (CNBC) Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay (CNBC) A Neuralink cofounder left Elon Musk's brain-chip company, leaving it with just 2 of its 8 founding members (Insider) Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses (CNET) Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now (FastCompany) Why BeReal is breaking out (Platformer) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews. Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing. Slack is raising prices. ESPN+ is raising prices. But one streaming service is actually LOWERING prices? And mark your calendars, cause the Fall product launch season is upon us. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews (TechCrunch) Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing (Bloomberg) Apple Sued Over Apple Pay, Accused of Antitrust Violations (Bloomberg) Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch) ESPN+ Monthly Subscription to Rise $3 as Disney Strives for Streaming Profits (Variety) Crunchyroll is lowering monthly subscription fees in almost 100 regions (Engadget) Samsung confirms August 10th Unpacked event date with ‘cryptic’ puzzle (The Verge) WD begins shipping 22TB Red Pro, Purple Pro and Gold HDDs (Club386) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything we cover is in a full vibe shift of… pulling back. Coinbase sent some eyebrows up over the weekend, but insolvency is off the table. Right? Right? Adam Newmann’s crypto startup is hitting the pause button. All the rapid delivery startups that flooded New York City last year seem to be done. Poof. And is Silicon Valley itself definitively shrinking? Sponsors: Zapier.com/ride Gusto.com/ride Links: Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app's core features to desktop (TechCrunch) Leaked emails: Crypto exchange Coinbase is 'temporarily shutting down' its US affiliate-marketing program (Insider) Coinbase stirs rumors of liquidity woes as it halts affiliate-marketing program (Insider Bitcoins) Crypto Crash Stalls WeWork Founder Adam Neumann’s Climate Venture (WSJ) The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups (Wired) Tiger Global-backed Missfresh faces fight for survival (FT) 71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now the haircuts have come for Stripe, but they took theirs voluntarily. Who’s responsible for the big hole on Celsius’ balance sheet? Twitter wants to let devs make their own timelines. Will Amazon voluntarily exit the white label business. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Manscaped.com code RIDE for 20% off Kolide.com/ride Links: Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ) Celsius Discloses $1.19 Billion Deficit in Bankruptcy Filing (Bloomberg) Twitter is testing custom timelines, and first one is about The Bachelorette (TechCrunch) Amazon Has Been Slashing Private-Label Selection Amid Weak Sales (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion (Bloomberg) The Standards Innovation Paradox (Michael Mignano Medium) Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. (NYTimes) Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production (NYTimes) How the Webb sends its hundred-megapixel images a million miles back to Earth (TechCrunch) The Webb Space Telescope’s Profound Data Challenges (iee Spectrum) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celsius files for bankruptcy. Tesla loses a key Autopilot exec. Netflix chooses Microsoft for it’s ads partnership. Could TikTok be a long-term problem for Google Search? And the reviews are in for the new Macbook Airs with M2 chips. Sponsors: Ahead Of Its Time podcast WorkCheck Podcast Links: Embattled crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy protection (CNBC) Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt (Financial Times) Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he’s leaving the company (CNBC) Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its new ad-supported tier (The Verge) Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs (TechCrunch) Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps (TechCrunch) APPLE’S NEW MACBOOK AIR M2 IS THE START OF A WHOLE NEW AIR-A (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twitter officially sues Elon Musk and by the sound of things, has decided to go to the mattresses. Has Apple officially cut ties with Jony Ive? Here come the tech mergers and acquisitions. How streaming has officially killed traditional tv by at least one measure. And an interesting new gadget. Nothing. I’ll explain. Sponsors: StoryBlok.com/ridehome KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal (NYTimes) 15 Revelations in Twitter’s Suit Against Elon Musk (Intelligencer) Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader (NYTimes) Unity is merging with Ironsource in an all-stock deal valuing Ironsource at $4.4B in a big consolidation play for gaming (TechCrunch) Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown (The Verge) Nothing officially announces flashy Phone 1, starting at £399 (The Verge) HBO & HBO Max Smash Past Netflix In Total Emmy Nominations As Hulu & Apple Score Strong Showings (Deadline) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liquidators say they can't find the Three Arrows Capital founders. The FTC will crack down on data-anonymization claims. Another smart home company decides to brick some of the hardware that people paid good money for. Hopin is the latest highflyer to fall to earth with layoffs. And what it’s like to work at Twitter right now. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Three Arrows Founders’ Whereabouts Unknown, Liquidators Say (Bloomberg) FTC to Crack Down on Sites That Claim Your Data Is 'Anonymized' When It's Not (PCMag) Hive’s abandoned smart home devices will cease operation starting in 2023 (The Verge) Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.8 billion, is laying off 29% of staff in its second wave of job cuts in 2022 (Insider) Twitter Lawyers Call Musk’s Deal Termination ‘Wrongful’ (Bloomberg) As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in Charge (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The famous stock market player Bernard Baruch once said, paraphrasing: Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four. The main purpose of the market is to make fools of as many people as possible. Today, stories of this lesson being learned by both major VC firms and Elon Musk. Oh, and how North Korean hackers infiltrate companies. Sponsors: OurCrowd.com/ride Cybersecurityinside.com/RIDE Links: Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (The Guradian) Here’s how North Korean operatives are trying to infiltrate US crypto firms (CNN) Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Go Bargain Hunting for Beaten-Down Tech Stocks (The Information) Elon’s Out (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) Tweet Storm #1 Tweet Storm #2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of the eBay story from the Internet History podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple has a new lockdown mode to triage a whole range of cyberattacks. Also, Mark Gurman has some details on that new, expected, “rugged” Apple Watch. Twitter is testing co-tweets. More details on the new version of Meta’s VR headset. And the weekend longreads suggestions. I’ll explain. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off Work Check podcast Links: Apple Announces New Lockdown Mode on iOS 16 With 'Extreme' Level of Security (MacRumors) Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch With Larger Screen, Metal Case (Bloomberg) Heads of FBI, MI5 Issue Joint Warning on Chinese Spying (WSJ) Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace (TechCrunch) Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet (The Verge) Meta Plans to Call New Virtual Reality Headset the ‘Quest Pro’ (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Keeping Phones Running in Wartime Pushes Kyivstar to the Limit (Bloomberg) The Metaverse in 2040 (Pew Research Center) Not Just a Tennis Podcast, but Rather ‘The’ Tennis Podcast (NYTimes) Inside a Superfan's Secret Friendship With Eddie Van Halen (Rolling Stone) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will regulators wreck the great gaming consolidation? Can the US bully it’s way to blocking China’s chip development? Are Dilithium crystals the key to saving crypto from quantum computing? And why the crypto crash has been a footnote for Wall Street. At least, so far. Sponsors: AthleticGreens.com/ride Links: Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover faces competition probe in the UK (CNBC) US Wants Dutch Supplier to Stop Selling Chipmaking Gear to China (Bloomberg) NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new ‘quantum-proof’ cryptography standards (SC Media) Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with big Grubhub investment and partnership (TechCrunch) Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis (CoinDesk) Crypto Mining Giant Dumped Most of Its Bitcoin Holdings in June (Bloomberg) How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crypto Crash goes ever onward. Klarna is going on a realty tv show called, Now That’s what I Call A Haircut! The hackers have come for the Chinese surveillance state. The World Cup is going to have the robots call offsides. And Steve Jobs is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sponsors: StoryBlok.com/ridehome KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawls, trading and deposits amid financial challenges. (TechCrunch) Number Three (Entrepreneurs Handbook) Meta to Shut Down Novi Service in September in Crypto Winter (Bloomberg) Klarna in Talks to Raise Fresh Cash at Slashed $6.5 Billion Valuation (WSJ) Hackers Claim Theft of Police Info in China’s Largest Data Leak (Bloomberg) AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (The Guardian) Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer) President Biden to award Steve Jobs with posthumous Medal of Freedom (9to5Mac) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From my original Internet History Podcast, the first of my two episodes outlining the story of eBay, in-depth, as I make the strong case that it was maybe the most important and overlooked startup of the Web 1.0 era. Part 2 of this story coming on Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time for some deep analysis of the podcast industry. Is Spotify gonna take over all of audio? Is the blockchain useful for podcasting? What is the great Michael Mignano doing next, after leaving Spotify and Anchor? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While I'm away briefly for vacation, here's a talk I gave at Google in December 2018 around the time my book came out. Just a condensed dose of my entire thesis of the technology industry's history from 1994-2006. Nothing much new if you've read my book, but if you want the cliff's notes version, here it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One good thing about the crypto crash is you can get affordable graphics cards again. Layoffs come to the Metaverse. Samsung is producing the first 3nm chips. Apple wants you to pay for your gas without getting out of your car. Though, you’d still have to get out to pump, I suppose. And, bit of a surprise, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Kolide.com/ride KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources (CoinDesk) Nvidia Game Card Prices Fall Along With Crypto Mining Demand (Bloomberg) Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers [Update] (Kotaku) Samsung Electronics starts 3-nanometer chip production ahead of TSMC (TechCrunch) Fuel Purchases Directly Within Apple CarPlay to Be Available This Fall (MacRumors) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Did Razzlekhan and Dutch Pull Off History’s Biggest Crypto Heist? (Bloomberg) Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock (Bloomberg) The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube (NYTimes Magazine) HOW ONE OF GAMING’S MOST INTIMIDATING GENRES SPAWNED A LEGION OF HITS (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I joke its Groundhog Day, but if you’re a crypto billionaire, you probably want the repetition to end as much as anyone. Wait, is TikTok suddenly in trouble with the US government again? A new line of chips from Arm. Sony wants to play to PC gamers. And why Netflix doling out Stranger Things in portions is one of the biggest experiments being run in Hollywood right now. Links: Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’ (NYTimes) Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests (Reuters) U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores (CNBC) Ray tracing and 64-bit only: What you should know about Arm's 2023 CPUs and GPUs (Android Authority) Sony targets PC gamers with new hardware brand, Inzone (Washington Post) Here’s why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why there’s a HUGE tech angle to the whole Roe V. Wade controversy. Google’s shutting down one of their chat apps, but even I can’t be bothered to figure out which one or why. Airbnb is permanently putting the kibosh on parties. And will StarlinkRV allow all of us to take off into the wild and still do our work? Sponsors: ZocDoc.com/techmeme Links: Without Roe, data will become a company headache and a user nightmare (Axios) Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight (TechCrunch) Google Hangouts is shutting down in November (The Verge) Elon Musk Has Twitter’s Data, but Getting Answers on Spam Accounts May Be Tougher (WSJ) Amazon plans two Prime shopping events this year, with second one in Q4 (CNBC) Airbnb’s party ban is now permanent (The Verge) STARLINK RV REVIEW: THE DAWN OF SPACE INTERNET TO GO (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we in for the biggest deluge in new Apple products, maybe ever? Why, though, are the new MacBook Pros with M2 chips sporting slower SSD drives? Is your phone plan about to get more expensive? Is VC activity actually going down? How much should we worry about Tether? And something something, are DAO’s really that decentralized? Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Gusto.com/ride Links: Apple Readies iPhone 14 and HomePod Upgrade in Flood of New Products (Bloomberg) Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds (MacRumors) AT&T, Verizon Raise Prices and Test Consumer Budgets (WSJ) Venture Funding Set to Hit Lowest Level Since 2020 (Bloomberg) More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down (WSJ) Dissecting the DAO: Web3 Ownership is Surprisingly Concentrated (Chainalysis) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No guest this week (though the great @EvanKirstel does show up at one point) but we covered a wide range of topic, mostly ones that have been under-discussed lately on the show... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fire sale on tech companies has begun. More big important hacks to be aware of. Another crypto bridge has been compromised. Amazon wants you to know about their AI coding tool. TikTok turns on the money spigot. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Setapp Playlists on Spotify KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Zendesk to be acquired by investor group for $10.2 billion (CNBC) Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware (TechCrunch) CISA, US Coast Guard warn of Log4Shell attacks after 130GB data breach in May (The Record) Breaking: Harmony’s Horizon Bridge hacked for $100M (CoinTelegraph) Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool (TechCrunch) TikTok Turns On the Money Machine (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Web3 Use Cases: Today (Not Boring) Where are all the crypto use cases? (Evan Conrad) How Russia’s vaunted cyber capabilities were frustrated in Ukraine (Washington Post) Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready? (WSJ) How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making (Game Developer) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you want my voice to be the voice of your Alexa? An interesting raise that can change people’s vocal accents in real time. Instagram rolls out a comprehensive system to check ages on their platform. And is that new Brave search engine becoming a contender? Sponsors: HubSpot.com WorkCheck Podcast Links: Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma (TechCrunch) That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France (TechCrunch) Cerebras Slays GPUs, Breaks Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device (Tom's Hardware) Instagram Tests Child Age Verification, but Falls Short of Full ID Checks (WSJ) Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year (Bleeping Computer) NBCUniversal, Google Compete to Help Netflix Develop Ad-Backed Tier (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News is new again, after Google does a size-able redesign. Copilot AI is available on GitHub, but is it worth paying for? Amazon unveiled some new warehouse robots, but is this partially because they fear running out of workers? The new Twitter Notes feature and why it’s increasingly likely that you’ll buy your next car online, even if you don’t buy it from Telsa. Sponsors: Linkedin.com/ride Athleticgreens.com/ride Links: Google News gets desktop redesign with focus on customization (9to5Google) GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month (The Verge) Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (TechCrunch) Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot (The Verge) Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire (Recode/Vox) Why You Might Buy Your Next Car Online (NYTimes) Announcing StackHawk’s $20.7 Million in Series B Funding to Drive Developer-First Security (StackHawk) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did something happen while I was away? Sort of like everything crashing in crypto? Apple wants to kill the CAPTCHA for you. The first Apple Store has unionized. Is it fair that G Suite is no longer free? And is the Microsoft Surface Duo 2 actually… good now? Sponsors: Zapier.com/ride Links: Crypto lender Babel Finance announces steps to improve its liquidity situation (The Block) New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account (The Block) iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites (MacRumors) Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S. (NYTimes) Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up (NYTimes) MICROSOFT’S WEIRD SURFACE DUO 2 HAS SURPRISINGLY BECOME MY FAVORITE DEVICE OF THE YEAR (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Juna (heyjuna.com) replaces awkward lab visits with at-home STI testing and treatment. Another proud investment of the RideHomeFund. As ever, get in touch with Brian if you'd like to work with Juna directly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some thoughts on what startup workers can do with their stock options (in this economy!?). DALL·E blows our collective minds. Considering the legacy of Internet Explorer. Thanks to @adam_keesling and @jnack. What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? manual.withcompound.com New podcast: DALL•E & You & Me Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/techmeme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk speaks to his soon to be employees for the first time at Twitter. Snap is testing a new subscription Snapchat. Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals. Klarna is thinking about raising a massively down round. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off DragonballZ Kakarot Links: Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg) SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes) Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge) Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet) Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every) ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian) A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg) Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (Wired) What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum) The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners (FiveBooks.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google says YouTube Shorts is keeping pace with TikTok. Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok in order to keep pace themselves. That new Sonos Voice Control assistant sounds pretty good to me. Why a bunch of folks are going to string internet cables under the shrinking polar ice. And why the Japanese are freaked out about Internet Explorer going away. Sponsors: HubSpot.com Kolide.com/ride Links: YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ) FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge) Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge) SONOS VOICE CONTROL REVIEW: A SPEEDY, PRIVATE, MUSIC-FOCUSED ASSISTANT (The Verge) A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ) Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches 'for months' (NikkeiAsia) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is a major crypto hedge fund about to blow up? How the Celsius network got in such hot water. YouTube lets you make corrections. Why Apple’s deal for Major League Soccer is such a big deal. And pour one out, definitively, for Internet Explorer. Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/techmeme LCX.com/ride Links: After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital's future is uncertain (The Block) Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ) Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT) YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge) Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early (The Verge) Exclusive: New entry-level iPad to pack A14 chip, 5G, and USB-C connectivity (9to5Mac) Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games (WSJ) Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adobe and Photoshop are leaning into freemium. Massive and controversial layoffs at Coinbase. Firefox is blocking stuff by default now. Meta announces more tools to make the Metaverse safe from trolls and worse. And why those pro features in iPadOS are only for iPads with M1 chips and above. Sponsors: KeeperSecurity.com/techmeme Links: Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge) Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge) Firefox enables its anti-tracking feature by default (Engadget) Meta adds voice controls for Horizon Worlds, which defaults to live chat with strangers (TechCrunch) Apple Lets You Move WhatsApp Chats From Android to iPhone (CNET) Apple resized the iPad's workflow with Stage Manager (TechCrunch) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices