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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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▸ • Amazon drops $11.5B to acquire Globalstar, taking over Apple's iPhone satellite connectivity deal.
▸ • Snap cuts 16% of its workforce and scraps a $400M Perplexity deal to chase AI profitability.
▸ • AI data center startup Fluidstack eyes an $18B valuation after securing a massive Anthropic deal.
Amazon is acquiring Globalstar to expand its low Earth orbit satellite network. The move effectively makes Amazon the primary satellite provider for Apple's iPhone emergency SOS features, challenging Starlink's smartphone ambitions.
Snap is laying off roughly 1,000 employees in a bid to improve profitability and lean harder into AI. The company also reportedly pulled the plug on a planned $400 million integration with Perplexity AI.
AI data center startup Fluidstack is reportedly in talks with Jane Street for a $1B funding round at a staggering $18B valuation. This comes hot on the heels of a massive $50B deal to build data centers for Anthropic.
Because everything old is new again, Spotify is now selling printed books to users in the US and UK. The Bookshop.org integration is live on Android, proving that even the biggest streaming giants eventually just become bookstores.
With OpenAI's recent funding round requiring an assumed IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion to make sense, some investors are getting cold feet. Suddenly, Anthropic's $380 billion valuation is looking like a relative bargain in the high-stakes AI arms race.
Microsoft's controversial AI-powered screenshot tool, Windows Recall, is facing fresh security concerns. Despite a year-long delay to redesign and secure the feature after it was labeled a 'privacy nightmare,' it seems Redmond still hasn't quite nailed the execution.
A fascinating look back at the Direct Win32 API and the era of non-rectangular, weirdly shaped application windows. It's a nostalgic deep dive into why developers used to build them and why modern OS design eventually killed them off.
Cloudflare introduced Mesh, providing secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can grant agents scoped access to private databases without manual tunnels.
GitHub launched a free, open-source game to help developers build agentic AI security skills. It features five progressive challenges designed to teach you how to find and exploit real-world vulnerabilities in AI agents.
Google is rolling out 'Skills' in Chrome, allowing developers to turn their best AI prompts into reusable, one-click workflows. It's a neat way to discover, save, and remix AI tasks directly in the browser.
In a surprising twist for the extraction shooter genre, players in the upcoming game Arc Raiders have started putting down their weapons to negotiate and chat. It turns out, sometimes people just want a little connection in the digital wasteland.
The first teaser for Godzilla Minus Zero is here, continuing the grounded, terrifying tone of 2023's Minus One. The big guy is heading to New York, and we are absolutely here for the destruction.