Seagate and other HDD makers bet on tech like heat-assisted magnetic recording to stay competitive; IDC expects data center HDD spending to hit $22B by 2028
John Keilman / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @wsj.com . Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca Bluesky: @wsj.com : The fate of an industry is riding on a laser smaller than a grain of salt Mastodon: Tim Bra...
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads
But Says No to Tokens Kris Holt / Engadget : Bluesky's upcoming premium plan won't give paid users special treatment Matt Novak / Gizmodo : Bluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode A...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.chat , @timbray@cosoci...
A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic
An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio. — The White House wants big AI companies … Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca , @esnyder@mastodon.social , and @tim...
Google Cloud turns profitable for the first time on record, with a $191M operating income on $7.45B revenue in Q1 2023, vs. a $706M loss on $5.82B in Q1 2022
There are a few debates currently brewing within … TechRadar : Google Cloud has finally made a profit for the first time Simon Sharwood / The Register : Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years a...
An overview of Ethereum's proof-of-stake upgrade, The Merge, which is expected to cut the crypto platform's energy use by 99%+, and some of the risks involved
A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. Tweets: @timbray Tweets: Tim Bray / @timbray : News from the Merge front...
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain
Translate this page; This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Liam Wyatt / Diff : Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Wikipedia Will Star...
Thursday's OCSP service-related issues highlight the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run, along with the users' unencrypted IP, to Apple
Security researcher Jeffrey Paul, writes in a blog post … Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Deeper look at Apple's recent server outage reveals potential Mac privacy concerns Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : iOS ...
Cloud development lacks integration between different tools, resulting in developers having to borrow time from writing code to managing environments
When the iPhone was first introduced in January of 2007, it took the world by storm. The first device to compress - successfully … Tweets: @monadic , @timbray , @aneel , @bryanl , @mikeloukides , @le...