Microsoft is running deep layoffs across its Xbox division after Game Pass failed to deliver the subscription economics it bet on. Thompson uses the retreat to argue that the internet dissolves the bundles it once created, and that transaction, coordination, and sunk costs decide which businesses survive that dissolution.
After 25 years funded almost entirely out of Jeff Bezos's pocket, Blue Origin has signed a term sheet for its first outside round: roughly $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation.
A plain-language walkthrough of the EU's Chat Control proposals — the 1.0 voluntary scanning regime already in place and the 2.0 push toward mandatory client-side scanning of private messages before encryption. It lays out what each version actually mandates and where the legislative fight stands.
A QR-code graphic printed on a Uniqlo t-shirt turns out to encode an obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script served through Akamai's CDN. The author reverse-engineers what it decodes to and how the layers of evaluation work.