Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Taste...

Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ...  Show more

I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ...  Show more

TikTok will be banned in 5 days… but its replacement is Whatnot: It’s Instagram + eBay + MTV.Sonos is known for its fancy sounds systems… but the CEO just quit because of 1 big mistake.Nvidia chips have export restrictions… because in the AI arms race, chips are the new uranium.P ...  Show more

Did Zuck just zuck the Apple Store? Facebook reports earnings this afternoon, but we’re focused on its first ever FaceStore. Ford’s 1st electric pickup truck rolls off to customers today and it’s channeling Clint Eastwood’s feelings. And Bitcoin just had its most mainstream momen ...  Show more

0:00 DOWN, Linus! 0:10 It's a TikTok world 1:23 New RTX 2050 + more 2:26 Log4j patch has flaws 3:25 Build Redux 4:08 QUICK BITS 4:15 to NFT or not to NFT 5:13 New Nvidia laptop GPUs 5:36 Battlefield 2042 on sale 6:12 Halo Infinite co-op glitch 6:37 Hyunda ...  Show more