tech, startups, internet
Saudi Arabia’s women gamers want to be taken seriously
How cool! “No longer confined to the privacy of their rooms, Saudi women are creating their own culture.” | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
10 YCombinator companies
Alex Mitchell has been creating fantasy portfolios from each YC class since 2017. This years picks include multiple startups building local market versions of US companies like “Plaid for India” and “Checkr for Latin America.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Business model meta-models
The Diff by Byrne Hobart is quickly becoming one of my favorite newsletters. “[T]here are many ways to frame business models. Every one of them asks how a business reverses economic entropy and creates more value than it consumes… None of […]
tech, startups, internet
Palantir: on business, cults and politics
“Normally when a company files its S-1, we have the standard debates: is this a good business, or a bad one? Are they going public to get capital or provide liquidity to employees, or is it a money grab? Occasionally, […]
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Tesla was target of a foiled ransomware attack
A Russian criminal attempted to bribe an employee to introduce malware in the company’s network. Notable here is the bribe amount: $1 million. The employee informed the company and collaborated with the FBI in a sting operation. It makes me […]
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Amazon: a new kind of antitrust risk
I’m always on the lookout for things that might knock Amazon’s flywheel off balance. After all, it’s (pretty much) the only public company stock I own. Here’s a good one: “Amazon is the company most at risk from antitrust action, […]
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An AI just beat a human F-16 pilot in a dogfight – again
“In five rounds, an artificially-intelligent agent showed that it could outshoot other AI’s, and a human. So what happens next with AI in air combat?” | learn more
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Inside the courthouse break-in spree that landed two white hat hackers in jail
What an upsetting story! It’s a terrible look for the government officials of Iowa. “When two men were hired to break into Iowa judicial buildings, they thought it was just another physical security audit—until they were charged with burglary.” | learn more
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Deepfake music is so good it might be illegal
Here we go folks! Can’t put this toothpaste back in the tube. “This week, a programmer mimicked Jay-Z’s voice and cadence so effectively that his agency, Roc Nation, got SoundCloud to take the track down.” | learn more
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Can Uber ever deliver?
This is part 23 of Hubert Horan’s quest to highlight the bear case for Uber. “The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.” Reading this forced me to look up their most recent financials and […]