Adi Robertson

I’ve just finished lunch after the Department of Justice, a group of state attorneys general, and Google made their opening arguments in today’s antitrust trial.

Apple’s iMessage has been at least temporarily spared from the Digital Markets Act, but the results of an EU investigation could have a seismic impact on how messaging works — potentially creating a new market for smaller third-party apps but also raising security concerns. Jon Porter explained how last year.

The embattled Trump-backed social network got an additional twelve months to complete its SPAC merger, extending a deadline that was originally set for Friday. That means the SPAC can hang onto $300 million in investor funds... although with Trump himself back on the platform formerly known as Twitter, its future still seems uncertain.

I was going to ask if companies like Prada really gain much by storing certificates of authenticity (a concept that far predates the blockchain!) on a distributed ledger system rather than some basic, un-sexy centralized database. Then I learned there’s a much funnier issue here: you can’t even check the database yourself!