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Tech birthdays in 2024
TikTok: 8
OpenAI: 9
Lyft: 12
Snap: 13
Instagram: 14
Uber: 15
Bitcoin: 15
X: 18
Reddit: 19
YouTube: 19
Facebook: 20
Tesla: 21
Google: 26
Mozilla: 26
Netflix: 27
Amazon: 30
Qualcomm: 39
Apple: 47
Microsoft: 49
AMD: 55
Intel: 56
Sony: 78
HP: 85
Samsung: 86
IBM: 113
Nintendo: 135
My reactions in order:
1. YES! Excellent news!
2. Shit, please don't run for president
3. Oooh, Tucker should sue Fox, I'd watch that
Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25.
Microsoft's Digital Marketing Center users won't be able to access or manage their Twitter accounts.
In response, Elon Musk suggested Twitter will sue Microsoft.
There's no evidence he filed a lawsuit.
Microsoft now names hacking groups after weather events.
Some names will be easy to remember, like Typhoon for China, Blizzard for Russia, or that Flood refers to an influence operation.
Others, not so much.
It's telling that the US didn't get a name.
April 11: Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker
April 17: QuaDream is reportedly shutting down.
I bet it'll be renamed next week.
I'm looking forward to GPT-4.5
(ChatGPT launched on GPT-3.5)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman:
"An earlier version of the letter claimed that OpenAI is training GPT-5 right now. We are not and won’t for some time. But we are doing other things on top of GPT-4..."
