Jacob Kastrenakes

so I wouldn’t put too much stock in Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s declaration that Fortnite will be back on iOS in 2023.

Sherlock Holmes, Metropolis, and other 1927 titles entered public domain in the US yesterday, opening them up for anyone to remix, remake, or republish.

Daniel Alegre will be CEO of Yuga Labs starting sometime in the first half of 2023. Alegre isn’t a huge name in the gaming space — he’s only been at Activision Blizzard since 2020; before that he was at Google for over a decade.

I asked ChatGPT to write a few bullet points summarizing today’s top tech news for me, but in good news for my ongoing job prospects, the AI bot told me it isn’t able to “keep up with current events.”

In what can only be bad news for Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual-reality dreams, the publisher behind Oxford English Dictionary announced the results of its word of the year poll. In a three-way matchup between “metaverse,” “goblin mode,” and “#istandwith,” metaverse took home just 4 percent of the vote.

The LA Times caught up with Daniel Mac, TikTok’s legendary interviewer of people with extremely expensive cars. I’ve always wondered how staged the videos are, but it turns out, there’s just a lot of standing around and waiting.

Musk tweeted that he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, and we are told Apple employees saw the pair walking around. No details on what they discussed, but Musk sounds a lot kinder toward Apple for now.

In a lengthy tweet thread this morning, Daniel Ek criticized Apple’s App Store policies as a “threat to the future of the internet” — and he welcome Elon Musk to the fight.