Twitter is no more, everything will now be X 🔐 #WEEKLY ~ April 16th

Musk buys loads of GPUs and founded X.AI. Discord at the center of the intelligence leak. Computers aren't wanted anymore. Respect apologizes. NPR leaves Twitter. EY is banned in Germany.

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Note: Tweets must now be included as screenshots. Elon Musk didn't appreciate Substack launching Notes, another potential Twitter competitor, and has been blocking embeds since April 7, as well as blocking any activity on tweets with links to Substack.

Twitter Becomes X Corp as Musk Advances ‘Everything App’ Hopes (Bloomberg, Apple Insider)

• Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore (Slate)

New details of the intelligence leak show that it had been circulating for weeks before the alert was issued. 🔀 The secret documents were first posted in January in a small group on a messaging channel with memes, jokes and racist language (WSJ)

• Leaked Pentagon documents reveal secrets about friends and foes (New York Times)

• Court docs: the FBI used Discord billing records to help identify Jack Teixeira (AP)

• Why Discord is at the heart of a major US intelligence leak (Polygon)

• Twitter Suspends User For Sharing Washington Post Story About Pentagon Docs Leaker (TechDirt)

Report: Discord admin who leaked military docs ID’d as National Guard airman Jack Teixeira (Ars Technica)

• How did 21-year-old low-ranking National Guardsman get his hands on top secret Pentagon documents? (Daily Mail)

They’re Selling Nudes of Imaginary Women on Reddit – and It’s Working. 🔀 And why it shouldn’t? (Rolling Stones).

Internet, webdesign

Warner Bros. Discovery will unveil a new streaming service Wednesday, 🔀 a motivating factor for the 2022 merger between entertainment giant WarnerMedia and reality-programming factory Discovery Inc. (WSJ)

Hardware

Google plans to end support for Dropcam and Nest Secure on April 8, 2024 🔀 It continues to drop products outside of Google Home. (The Verge)

Worldwide shipments of personal computers (PCs) fell 29% in the first quarter of 2023 (according to IDC) 🔀 due to weak demand (people bought a lot of new PCs in 2020 and 2021), excess inventories and a worsening macroeconomic climate. Apple took the biggest hit, 40.5%. Canalys reports a 34% decline for laptops, 29% for desktops and a 45.5% decline for Apple. Ironically, the drop may be due huge success of the new M1 processor/architecture again in 2020/2012. (Reuters, TechCrunch, ArsTechnica)

• Apple’s 40% Plunge in PC Shipments Is Steepest Among Major Computer Makers (Bloomberg)