Magic Leap tells customers the Magic Leap 1 AR headset, which launched in August 2018, and its apps will "cease to function" from December 31, 2024 (David Heaney/UploadVR) Main LinkTechmeme Permalink

London-based telehealth startup Babylon Health, once valued at ~$2B after being backed by DeepMind and others, is being sold for parts after going bankrupt (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) Main LinkTechmeme Permalink

Feels like this is the core issue of society today.

Hey everyone, I could really use 1 day / week of tech contracting to fund my aid work right now. We're kinda at a pivotal moment, but donations are still catching up. I'm good at: - web dev - domain modeling - project management - IRL ops - networking - startups Techies plz share <3

Wow. Conservative activist behind US affirmative action cases sues venture capital fund.

Conservative activist behind US affirmative action cases sues venture capital fund

A group founded by the conservative activist instrumental in the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision rejecting affirmative action in collegiate admissions on Wednesday sued an Atlanta-based venture cap...

Is there a place/agency/person to report accelerators or startup competitions that have ties to #China or other adversarial nations of special concern? #natsec #trustedcapital

Cyber security against nation-state threats and criminal enterprises should be a public benefit. This for-profit security model isn't working. There. I said it. For profit-security for national-scale problems always a bad idea (i.e. fire depts in the 1800s). #natsec

doesn't understand the product he's in charge of but that's the least of his problems

MBmattbinder.bsky.socialJun 16, 2023 8:29pm

i thought Reddit CEO Steve Huffman came off bad in his interview with The Verge this new one with NBC News is disqualifying Reddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (like not paying bills) at Twitter. insane.

A professor has tracked the colleges of Fortune 500 CEOs for 20 years. He was stunned to learn Ivy Leagues don’t matter that much. https://fortune.com/2023/06/14/fortune-500-ceo-colleges-ivy-league/

A professor has tracked the colleges of Fortune 500 CEOs for 20 years. He was stunned to learn Ivy L...

“Like everyone else,” David Kang assumed the Ivy Leagues would dominate, “but the largest place they had gone was to no college at all.”

US chipping away at semiconductor supply chains https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/us-chipping-away-at-semiconductor-supply-chains/

US chipping away at semiconductor supply chains

On October 7, 2022, the US Bureau of Industry and Security issued new regulations on exports of semiconductors and certain semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The rules attempt to block Chinese …