Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How JD.com is taking on China's food-delivery duopoly with viral stunts, low commissions, and deep discounts, prompting Meituan and Alibaba's Ele.me to respond (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now (Christine Wang/Axios)

Techmeme

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Sources: Foxconn plans to make iPhone enclosures in India and is looking to set up a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata is currently making enclosures in India (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)

Techmeme

A government-backed tech trial in Australia finds user age checks are technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s this year (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Milan-based Jet HR, which provides all-in-one payroll and HR services to SMBs, raised €25M led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to about €42M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Techmeme

Sources: Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence earlier this year; Zuckerberg moved to recruit SSI CEO Daniel Gross after Ilya Sutskever rebuffed the offer (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Techmeme

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’

Daring Fireball

Pokémon Go ‘Yamper’s Paw Prints’ event guide

Polygon - All

Miami-based Payabli, which provides software companies with an embedded payments platform, raised a $28M Series B led by Fika Ventures and QED Investors (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Techmeme

‘F1’ and Apple’s Movie Strategy

Daring Fireball

Testing the graceful handling of request cancellation in Go, 499s

Fragments — brandur.org

★ One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025

Daring Fireball

SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground

The Verge - All Posts

Fortnite’s new mode is perfect for iPhone and terrible for Apple

Polygon - All

All Monoco outfits in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and how to unlock them

Polygon - All

All Lune outfits in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and how to unlock them

Polygon - All

Sifu developer’s new game Rematch launches without crossplay, studio apologizes

Polygon - All

You Have to Invert

Accidental Tech Podcast

Adobe launches a new ‘computational photography’ camera app for iPhones

The Verge - All Posts