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OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's hardware company io - which has never shipped a product or even demonstrated a concept - for $6.5 billion. (The Verge)
"We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing," Ive and Altman said in a joint post.
OpenAI makes no physical products. OpenAI has never made a physical product.

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The Lobster programming language. (Strlen)

This doesn't appear to suck. What's the catch?
New bacteria have been discovered on the Chinese space station. (Wired)

Oh, good.
The SEC has charged crypto company Unicoin and three of its top executives directly with fraud. (Reuters)

The Biden administration was openly hostile to blockchain companies while being remarkably opaque about what the rules were. The Trump administration is friendlier, but does not seem to be turning a blind eye to abuse either.
Spotify and Netflix will soon be unavailable in Quebec. (CBC)

Unexpectedly.
The developer of popular Reddit app Apollo - who Reddit stabbed in both the front and the back with API restrictions and price increases - is joining former competitor Digg as an advisor. (Tech Crunch)

Digg used to be the place to be, and Reddit was very much an also-ran, until Digg implemented a massively unpopular UI updated and drove out its entire userbase.

Now Reddit is attempting a similar strategy.
Fortnite is available on iOS again after a federal judge ordered the Apple executives involved in denying it to appear personally in court. (9to5Mac)

I have little interest in Fortnite or in iOS, but this is satisfying.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: When possums overwhelm my role, give me cruise control.

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