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The new head of YouTube was on Decoder a while back.
Neal Mohan was the chief product officer back then — we’ll have to have him back now that he’s in charge as SVP.
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Okay, sometimes the vaporware cars might be preferable to reality.
Only 92 miles of range! Interior surfaces made of cork that easily stains! At least the pretend EVs are perfect in our minds.
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TSMC founder Morris Chang told Nancy Pelosi the United States couldn’t just buy its way into the chip supply chain.
Politico reports on a tense meal during Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan last year — the only on-the-record source in the story is Pelosi herself!
(For more on the complex global politics of TSMC and the CHIPS Act, check out this episode of Decoder with author Chris Miller.)
With Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, looking on, the billionaire entrepreneur pressed Pelosi with sobering questions about the CHIPS law — and whether the policy represented a genuine commitment to supporting advanced industry or an impulsive attempt by the United States to seize a piece of a lucrative global market.
Chang said he was pleased that his company could benefit from the subsidies; TSMC already had a major development project underway in Arizona. But did the United States really think it could buy itself a powerhouse chipmaking industry, just like that?
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Cloudflare says it stopped the largest-ever DDOS attack last weekend.
I mean, it’s a press release designed to scare you into buying Cloudflare’s services, but check out these numbers:
Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.
Some of the attacked websites included a popular gaming provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms. The attacks originated from numerous cloud providers, and we have been working with them to crack down on the botnet.
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
[The Cloudflare Blog]
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The GOP is not-so-quietly turning into the party of government speech regulations.
Adi’s written at length about how both sides in American politics appear to be kind of over the First Amendment, but the GOP in particular keeps talking about overturning NYT vs. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case that protects the media’s ability to criticize politicians and other public figures. Leading the charge? Ron DeSantis, who recently appeared on a panel dedicated to overturning the case. I will keep saying this over and over: government speech regulations are bad!
DeSantis, Aiming at a Favorite Foil, Wants to Roll Back Press Freedom
[The New York Times]
Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.
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“If you’re going to change the channel, why the hell are you changing it to watch this?”
A little insight into how Mr. and Mrs. Smith ended up in that Tubi Super Bowl commercial last night.
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Here I am on CNBC talking about Google’s very hard path ahead.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is an extremely smart and thoughtful guy, but think about how hard his set of choices is right now: he has to roll out chatbot AI search in order to make investors happy, but rolling that out will instantly cause legal, ethical, and regulatory chaos, all while simultaneously increasing the costs of search and reducing the profits of web advertising. Yikes!
(Also, to be clear, I meant the end of this era of Google. Forgive me, it was 8am and I was in a hotel room in Bellevue.)
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