Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Elon Musk appears to have won a contest with Indian telecom tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal over the awarding of satellite spectrum in India (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Elon Musk appears to have won a contest with Indian telecom tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal over the awarding of satellite spectrum in India  —  Limited time offer  —  Save 40% on Standard Digital  —  $468 $279 for your first year, equivalent to $23.25 per month.  Make up your own mind.



An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses (The Citizen Lab)

The Citizen Lab:
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses  —  Key contributions  — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS …



Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, Techmeme being the place "to just see globally what's happening in tech", and more (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge:
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, Techmeme being the place “to just see globally what's happening in tech”, and more  —  a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.



ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall  —  - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says  — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...