Thu. 06/24 – New Windows!

Techmeme Ride Home

The new Windows is Windows 11. Google delays the Adpodcalypse. BuzzFeed finally to go public. Comcast is having issues with Peacock. Google and Jio’s cheap smartphone is announced. Is the biggest ever crypto crime story evolving right now in South Africa? And RIP John McAfee.

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Links:

• Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
• Google delays Chrome's cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years (Cnet)
• BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
• Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant (Wall Street Journal)
• Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next (Tech Crunch)
• South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
• John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (New York Times)

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