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Wed. 10/06 – ALL Of Twitch Leaked? Oct 06, 2021

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The entirety of Twitch has allegedly been leaked. Like, everything from the source code to a creator payout spreadsheet. Snap gears up in the creator economy platform wars. Some AirPods gain Find My Support. The SEC says it has no plans to ban crypto. But worrying stories of alleged fraud have started trickling out of the NFT space.

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The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle)
Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac)
EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters)
SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk)
Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)

Tue. 10/05 – The Great Facebook Outage Oct 05, 2021

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About that Facebook outage yesterday… A Google moonshot project has a surprise profit. But only because its propping up other Alphabet bets. And then, it’s review day. What you can expect if you download Android 12. What you can expect if you download Windows 11. And what you’ll get if you buy one of those Microsoft Surface Laptop Studios.

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PSA: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp went down for 6+ hours; here’s why [U] (9to5Mac)
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (Financial Times)
ANDROID 12 REVIEW: IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT THE LOOKS (The Verge)
WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED (The Verge)
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio Does It All (Gizmodo)

Mon. 10/04 – Facebook Whistleblower On 60 Minutes Oct 04, 2021

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The Facebook whistleblower reveals her identity on 60 Minutes. You can preorder the Apple Watch Series 7 this week. New MacBook Pros could still be coming “this month.” Apple is actually the biggest force in the gaming industry, by far. And signs of a product shipping renaissance at YouTube.

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(Bonus) World Cup Of Entrepreneurs Part 2 Oct 02, 2021

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Who wins? Jobs? Gates? Musk? Bezos? Collison, even? The grand finale of our #WorldCupOfEntreprenurs.

Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together Oct 01, 2021

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TikTok has joined the NFT craze, so the singularity must be nigh. USB-C tries to clear up its customer confusion problem. Zoom abandons a huge acquisition. And a crypto developer is begging users to give $90 million dollars in tokens back, after an all-time screw up.

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TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion (Apple Insider)
Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

How EA got into mobile — and figured out the future of gaming (Protocol)
Toast built a $30 billion business by defying Silicon Valley and surviving a ‘suicide mission’ (CNBC)
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (The Pragmatic Engineer)
APPLE’S FORTRESS OF SECRECY IS CRUMBLING FROM THE INSIDE (The Verge)
Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity (TechDirt)

Thu. 09/30 – Facebook: Who You Gonna Trust? Us? Or Your Lying Eyes? Sep 30, 2021

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Facebook finally releases the controversial slides to let them speak for themselves, but doesn’t actually let them speak for themselves. A 4K Nintendo Switch was apparently coming, but now is it never coming? Nreal has some AR glasses for binge watching. And Fairphone has released a smartphone that they want you to think of as your “forever phone.” At least, as far as these things go.

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Facebook Downplays Internal Research Released on Eve of Hearing (NYTimes)
Developers Are Making Games for a Nintendo 4K Console That Doesn’t Exist (Bloomberg)
GM’s new software platform will enable over-the-air updates, in-car subscriptions, and maybe facial recognition (The Verge)
Researchers find Apple Pay, Visa contactless hack (BBC News)
Nreal’s new AR sunglasses are made for binge watching TV (The Verge)
Fairphone’s latest sustainable smartphone comes with a five-year warranty (The Verge)

Wed. 09/29 – Is Amazon’s Astro Robot… Ready? Sep 29, 2021

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Amazon’s Astro Robot apparently has a tendency to throw itself down stairs. Netflix acquires its first game studio. The interesting company that acquired Genius and now Imgur. Explaining Facebook’s interest in the Tween audience. And Angellist wants to offer founders startup foundation as a service.

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Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do (Motherboard)
Netflix acquires its first game studio in deal with Oxenfree creator Night School Studio (VentureBeat/GamesBeat)
Imgur has been bought by the owner of Kik, Genius, and WorldStarHipHop (The Verge)
Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores (The Verge)
Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (WSJ)
AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist (TechCrunch)

Tue. 09/28 – The Amazon Hardware Event Sep 28, 2021

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As many headlines from the Amazon hardware event as I can manage to squeeze in. Facebook defines the Metaverse as it sees it. Cloudflare wants to be the 4th big player in the cloud. And Satya Nadella himself dishes on that time Microsoft almost bought Tik Tok. His words, the “strangest thing I’ve ever sort of worked on.”

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Mon. 09/27 – Instagram Kids On “Pause” Sep 27, 2021

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Adam Mosseri pumps the breaks on Instagram Kids but still says it’s a good idea. Tesla is letting people into the “full self-driving” beta, and some folks think that’s a bad idea. Apple knows about that Apple Watch bug. What if the factories are the next worries in China. And Cloudflare wants to tackle email now.

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