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Alasdair Allan

@aallan
28 posts
2025-02-19
The only shocking thing here is that the dead carcass of the company was worth $116 million. https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-02-19 View on X
Bloomberg

HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division

- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch  — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices

2024-04-04
Feels very much like one of those deliberate leaks from a government minister trying to figure out whether the public outcry around a policy will be too much to handle. But I think in this case they'll find nobody cares about AI-powered search. https://www.ft.com/...
2024-04-04 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Google considers adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already offer access to Gemini in Gmail and Docs

Proposals would mark first time any of the software group's core product falls behind a paywall

2023-09-29
Good morning, and say “Hello!” to Raspberry Pi 5! The #Pi5 is ×2-3 faster, has PCIe support, a new RTC, and our own silicon designed in‑house here in Cambridge The everything computer. Optimised, https://raspberrypi.com/5. More at https://www.raspberrypi.com/ .... #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi5 [image]
2023-09-29 View on X
The Verge

Raspberry Pi 5 launches with a 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 chip, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for a 4GB model

The Raspberry Pi 5 has an entirely new image processing pipeline with improved image quality, and of course makes use of libcamera to expose this new functionality. X: Luke Weston ...

2023-07-04
Don't be ridiculous. Nobody below the age of 50 uses Facebook. Even us Gen X'ers have abandoned it for other platforms. It's somewhere you go to keep in touch with your Boomer relatives. Tik Tok will be the main benefactor. We're finally shifting to video! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-07-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads

With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues ...

Don't be ridiculous. Nobody below the age of 50 uses Facebook. Even us Gen X'ers have abandoned it for other platforms. It's somewhere you go to keep in touch with your Boomer relatives. Tik Tok will be the main benefactor. We're finally shifting to video! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-07-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads …

2023-01-26
For all the reasons we spun up the @Raspberry_Pi #Mastodon instance as single-user only just for the brand account, the @FT instance is shuttering. The are a bunch of reasons, but it's more-or-less down to; compliance, security, and reputational risk. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
Financial Times

FT Alphaville closes its Mastodon server and reflects on why running a social media site is a bad idea, including due to reputational, legal, and security risks

2022-10-29
There's always a winner. It just might not be the person you think it is? https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-29 View on X
CNBC

General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”

A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.  - General Motors will create 4,000 new jobs …

2022-04-25
If I never have to subject myself to another online conference again, it'll be too soon. One shot panels seem to work okay, but an entire event, hours (days) of video? No. I quickly stopped speaking at them, and not long afterwards stopped attending. I got no value out of them. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-25 View on X
Financial Times

UK virtual events startup Hopin, which raised $1B+ and reached a $7.8B valuation, is now struggling; its Explore page has <500 events listed, down from 15K+

British group gained $7.8bn valuation in pandemic, but lay-offs and slump in secondary market trades have followed

2021-05-10
That didn't take long... #AppleAirTag https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-10 View on X
9to5Mac

A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL

The Apple AirTag has been released almost ten days ago.  Since then, we have seen a user rebuilding an AirTag as a thinner card that fits into wallets …

2021-01-22
There is a new thing in the world! Today @Raspberry_Pi is introducing our first microcontroller, welcome to Raspberry Pi Pico! Built around our own silicon, designed by us here in the UK. Pico can be found today on the cover of @HackSpaceMag. https://www.raspberrypi.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip

16MB of flash is great for storing models and buffering data, and WiFi/BT is super helpful for collecting data during development. Thoughtful product design 💙 https://twitter.com/....

2020-12-09
If you're not using 1.1.1.1 for your upstream DNS the question really has to be “why?” at this point. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-09 View on X
TechCrunch

Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :

2020-11-03
For everyone that has ever looked at the @Raspberry_Pi keyboard and thought, I wonder if a Raspberry Pi would fit inside? For everyone that grew up with the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC464, or Spectrum. Say “Hello!” to the #RaspberryPi400. More at https://www.raspberrypi.org/ .... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-03 View on X
The Verge

Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70

the under-$100 desktop PC you didn't know you needed Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC : Raspberry Pi 400: A computer for the coronavirus age? Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Raspberry Pi 400...

2020-11-02
For everyone that has ever looked at the @Raspberry_Pi keyboard and thought, I wonder if a Raspberry Pi would fit inside? For everyone that grew up with the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC464, or Spectrum. Say “Hello!” to the #RaspberryPi400. More at https://www.raspberrypi.org/ .... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-02 View on X
The Verge

Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70

Just add a screen and you've got yourself a PC  —  The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in.

2020-08-26
“The auditors asked the bank employees to hold their IDs to the camera... some senior EY employees now suspect that actors might have been posing as bank employees during the video call, possibly in a mock-up bank branch.” The #Wirecard fraud got weird. https://www.ft.com/...
2020-08-26 View on X
Financial Times

Interviews and documents reveal Wirecard's desperate effort to cover up fraud, hoodwink its auditors, and a plan to take over Deutsche Bank in its final months

Executives at the German payments group hatched a plan to buy Deutsche Bank while desperately trying to cover their tracks Tweets: @lionelbarber , @aallan , @sub8u , @speraltalisbo...

2020-08-24
The damage that Apple are doing to their developer community will depend on how many developers working on Macs are Mac and iOS developers, and how many are developers that own Macs because it's UNIX. I used to be in the first group, but I've been in the second for a decade now. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-24 View on X
The Verge

Apple says it won't require IAP in WordPress app “since the developer removed the display of their service payment options”, apologizes for confusion caused

Sean Hollister / The Verge :

2020-08-23
The damage that Apple are doing to their developer community will depend on how many developers working on Macs are Mac and iOS developers, and how many are developers that own Macs because it's UNIX. I used to be in the first group, but I've been in the second for a decade now. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-23 View on X
The Verge

Apple says it won't require IAP in WordPress app “since the developer removed the display of their service payment options”, apologizes for confusion caused

“We [...] apologize for any confusion that we have caused”  —  On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn …

The damage that Apple are doing to their developer community will depend on how many developers working on Macs are Mac and iOS developers, and how many are developers that own Macs because it's UNIX. I used to be in the first group, but I've been in the second for a decade now. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-23 View on X
The Verge

Matt Mullenweg says Automattic will add IAP for WordPress.com plans to WordPress iOS app after Apple froze app updates and demanded the addition

❗ Punctuation matters Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Apple's At It Again, This Time With WordPress Joe Wituschek / iMore : WordPress says Apple has blocked it from updating its iOS app...

2020-08-09
...roll on the lawsuits. I think both Apple and Google will contest this one in the courts, and it'll get held up till after the US election. Whoever wins that will get to decide. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft

Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations  —  Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …

...roll on the lawsuits. I think both Apple and Google will contest this one in the courts, and it'll get held up till after the US election. Whoever wins that will get to decide. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-09 View on X
Washington Post

Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office

Trump advisers Mnuchin and Navarro fought over TikTok as Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to Trump

2020-05-22
This is an intriguing ruling from the Netherlands🇳🇱 affecting how the #GDPR is applicable to individual actions, rather than just to corporations. Certainly will set a precedent for future cases. #privacy https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
2020-05-22 View on X
BBC

Court in Netherlands rules that, under GDPR, a woman must delete photos of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook without their parents' permission

Because GDPR Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Court Tells Grandma To Delete Photos Of Grandkids On Facebook For Violating The GDPR James Rogers / Fox News : Netherlands court orders grand...