This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. (With apologies to Jonathan Larson, a version of his Rent classic “Seasons of Love” in honor of Melvin Capital throwing in the towel on its short bets against Gamestop. You […]
Google security researchers are warning people to be on the lookout for a squad of sly hackers believed to be North Korean agents. Like last year’s Twitter VIP account takeovers, the newly discovered hacking campaign, unveiled Monday, shows the effectiveness of so-called social engineering—or good old-fashioned trickery. In this case, the hackers lured victims by […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. If you Google “Aaron Pressman arrested,” the results are pretty boring, mainly stories that I have written as a reporter about some crime or other, although one of those enticing […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Fortune’s quarterly investment package came out this week and it’s filled with stories about tech. That’s probably not surprising given that tech stocks have been surging for a while now. […]
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were officially sworn into office on Wednesday, setting into motion another less ceremonious transfer of power: the handover of the official Twitter handles. Biden’s administration now controls the Twitter handles @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, @WhiteHouse, and @PressSec, along with two new accounts @WHCOS for the White House chief […]
In the early days of Netflix, co-CEO Ted Sarandos used to buck up his team responsible for filling the service with content by looking to the future. “I used to try to get the team to wrap their head around the potential scale of the business by saying things like, someday we’ll be so big, […]
If you’ve visited social media lately—and surely you haven’t because we’re all keeping good on our New Year’s resolutions—you’ve probably encountered a sea shanty. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, a quick recap. The sea shanty arose midway through the last millennium as a breed of work-song for sailors to […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Remember Tim Ferriss’s best-selling advice book The 4-Hour Workweek from about 10 years ago? Ferriss tried to make the case that people would be much happier if they opted out […]
Tech companies are taking vastly different approaches to managing the threat of future violence following the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week. On Wednesday, Airbnb announced that it is cancelling and blocking reservations within the Washington, D.C., area during the week of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s CEO, tweeted the news saying […]
Tech companies are taking vastly different approaches to managing the threat of future violence following the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week. On Wednesday, Airbnb announced that it is cancelling and blocking reservations within the Washington, D.C., area during the week of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s CEO, tweeted the news saying […]