Tech Industry News Tidbits

[Sushubh]

Tiger Global: Why Indian Supreme Court ruling on 2018 Flipkart sale is rattling investors

Investors are spooked by an order on a 2018 stake sale and fear it could open up old transactions to tax scrutiny.

www.bbc.com

 

[Sushubh]

Modi ally proposes social media ban for India's teens as global debate grows | Reuters

 

[Sushubh]

Ubuntu's response to California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043)

How will AB1043 affect booting into a live session without account setup? One can still install software (albeit temporarily)?

discourse.ubuntu.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

Downdetector and Speedtest will soon be under new ownership.

www.theverge.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Internet Speed Test - Measure Network Performance | Cloudflare

Test your Internet connection. Check your network performance with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare's global edge network.

speed.cloudflare.com

Seems to be much better.

 

[sloj]

I wouldn't say cloudflare's speedtest is better than ookla's speedtest. Ookla has got multiple speedtest servers located at different places around the country whereas Cloudflare just tests to their own specific server locations.

 

[Sushubh]

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade

aftermath.site

 

[Sushubh]

none of the archive.today urls are working for me this week. i saw a tweet saying that fbi has managed to shutdown the network. sad if true.

 

[Sushubh]

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43

Leo Radvinsky became a billionaire after investing in the site, known for its pornographic content.

www.bbc.com

he was younger than me. crazy times.

 

[Sushubh]

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial

The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.

www.bbc.com