A set of pie charts done up by Sportico and based on Nielsen data illustrates how much the NFL has swallowed up the top 100 broadcasts list, like a blue Pac-Man gobbling up the dizzy, meandering ghost of what’s left of the old ways.
72 of the most-watched broadcasts were NFL games in 2020. By last year, that number had jumped to 93. (Number two was college football games, at three.)
At least according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal that claims that SpaceX and Tesla executives and board members are concerned about how Musk’s drug use could affect his health — and his businesses.
Musk, thanks to SpaceX, is deeply entangled with the US federal government, and his antics have cost him before, such as when the Pentagon investigated him after he smoked pot on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
In the subscriber edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today, Mark Gurman wrote that he believes the first generation of its Airtags Find My tracking devices was “clearly over-produced” and Apple retail stores and warehouses are stuffed full of them.
Echoing previous reports that new models won’t be mass-produced until late 2024, Gurman says they’ll probably hit the market the following year.
That’s according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter in Bloomberg.
Apple doesn’t participate in CES, of course, but Gurman writes that he still expects an announcement about Apple’s fancy AR / VR headset to come “in the next week or so” ahead of a February release.
Just kidding; it wasn’t all night. But according to Business Insider, when the recording artist and producer pulled up to Louis Vuitton, he struggled for about 10 minutes to get his chunky metal triangle car into a spot before giving up and letting a valet handle it.
Guess he just couldn’t find the right angle.
Daniel Stenberg, the Curl programming language’s lead developer, writes that AI is gumming up the works in bug reporting.
Stenberg says AI-prompted bug reports can seem legit, and take longer to disprove than normal false alarms. In one case, he asked the submitter for help reproducing the bug. The responses were all suspiciously chatbot-like.
After repeated questions and numerous hallucinations I realized this was not a genuine problem and on the afternoon that same day I closed the issue as not applicable. There was no buffer overflow.
[daniel.haxx.se]
The New York Times writes that Flight 1282 made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport 20 because a wall blew out. Thankfully, all 171 passengers survived.
In a statement yesterday, Alaska Airlines said it would inspect the 65 grounded planes over “the next few days.” Today, the airline updated the statement, saying it’s inspected over a quarter of the fleet and saw “no concerning findings.”
Variety reported on Thursday that the director said he was doing a Peloton workout when the trainer, Jenn Sherman, called his movie Tenet “a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!”
Yesterday, Deadline spotted that Sherman posted a video inviting Nolan to come workout in the Peloton studio with her, promising not to insult him this time (and saying she loved Oppenheimer).
In May, we wrote that New York City is sagging by about 1–2mm per year, per a US Geological Survey study. That’s not all.
The so-called subsidence rate of the whole East Coast is as high as 5mm a year, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus and cited by Ars Technica this morning.
Even the very levees meant to protect people from worsening storm surges and climate change-induced sea level rise are sinking, say the researchers.
