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Y Combinator President Garry Tan publishes a menacing tweet before deleting it

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Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors,...
Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the social platform X. On Friday night, the Y Combinator president, investor, and former entrepreneur, published a post that might have prompted some to wonder if his X ...
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Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'

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Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s...
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading apps, alternative app stores, browser choice, and more. On Friday, the streaming music company issued its response to Apple’s new DMA rules, calling the new fees im...
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Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its goodwill

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Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced by state entities...
Apple is on a roll when it comes to having its hand forced by state entities and governing bodies: Alternative payment methods, stripping features from existing hardware, allowing alternate app stores and genuine browser default competition – everywhere you turn it seems to be satisfying some reversal, owing either ...
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Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the Fediverse

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The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation:...
The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed u...
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23andMe admits it didn't detect cyberattacks for months

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In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe revealed that hackers started...
In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe revealed that hackers started breaking into customers’ accounts in April 2023 and continued through most of September. In other words, for around five months, 23andMe did not detect a series of cyberattacks where hackers were trying — a...
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Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes, releases internal report on pedestrian crash

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Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations...
Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations into the October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. The probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commissi...
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OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

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OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips....
OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips. Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens. OpenAI is reportedly considering a number of strate...
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China Pulls Draft Gaming Rules from Website

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Exxon throws a fit over shareholders exercising their rights

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It’s a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss, even the bosses. Top...
It’s a dirty little secret in business that everybody has a boss, even the bosses. Top executives report to the CEO, the CEO answers to the board, and the board serves at the whim of the shareholders. Exxon’s management has now decided that it doesn’t like what its bosses have to say. On Sunday evening, the oil supe...
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LoanDepot 16.6M customers 'sensitive personal' information stolen in cyberattack

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Only 150 apps have been designed specifically for Apple's Vision Pro, so far

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It’s not just Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube that don’t have apps for Apple’s Vision Pro at...
It’s not just Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube that don’t have apps for Apple’s Vision Pro at launch. New App Store data indicates the new mixed reality headset and Apple’s foray into virtual reality has so far seen only a tepid response from app developers. As of this weekend, the AR/VR device’s App Store has just 150...
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Sony tells Zee it's terminating the $10B India merger

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Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a...
Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the South Asian market. Sony said in a statement that it has sent a termination letter to Zee after the Indian firm failed to meet th...
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Lamborghini licenses MIT's new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech

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Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough....
Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough. They charge faster than ever before, but there’s still room for improvement. The materials they’re made of, particularly cobalt and nickel, are pricey and problematic. Researchers have been scrambling to find alternative mater...
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Hackers breached Microsoft to find out what Microsoft knows about them

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Wouldn’t you want to know what tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government...
Wouldn’t you want to know what tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government hackers want, too. On Friday, Microsoft disclosed that the hacking group it calls Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear — and widely believed to be sponsored by the Russian government — hacked some corpora...
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