Episode Details

There’s another huge crypto hack and I’ll give you two guesses as to what folks think the culprit is. The Twitter/Elon trial is officially paused. Meta can’t get its own developers to use their metaverse products. Maybe my dream of Death Star style anklebots is over. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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• Wealthfront.com/techmeme

Links:

• Binance-linked blockchain hit by $570 million crypto hack (Reuters)
• The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th (The Verge)
• Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it, says exec in charge (The Verge)
• Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts (Bloomberg)
• Samsung Details GDDR7 and 1,000-Layer V-NAND Plans (Tom's Hardware)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere (Bloomberg)
• The Illustrated Stable Diffusion (Jay Alammar)
• Swiss Dropout Worth $14 Billion Moves Startup Away From Porn (Bloomberg)
• The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car (WSJ)
• How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022 (Planet of the Paul)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Wikipedia)

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