AT and T True Experience + more things

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AT and T True Experience

AT and T True Experience sprang out of the the mid-1990s. At that time AT&T was thinking about how they could own the customer as the internet superhighway became a reality.

David Hoffman

David Hoffman worked on promotional videos for AT&T at the time including a video showing a service based on General Magic internet appliances for business, personal use and telecommuting.

AT and T True Experience outlined in this video looked to be:

  • Customers relationship with the nascent web would be mediated through AT&T
  • AT&T also wanted to build an e-commerce shopping mall similar to what AOL later set up

AT and T True Experience went on to join similar services like Apple’s eWorld, CompuServe and AOL in irelevance as the first generation walled gardens fell away.

Business

Marvell Industry Analyst Day – by Doug O’Laughlin 

How World’s Top Shipping Company Became Hub for Drug Trafficking – Bloomberg – this seems crazy

The tech ‘nepo babies’ are coming | Financial TimesSEC research found that seven or more years after listing, companies with perpetual dual-class shares underperformed. Still, founders continue to push for them

How World’s Top Shipping Company Became Hub for Drug Trafficking – Bloomberg 

China

China’s Dangerous Decline | Foreign Affairs 

Refreshing our approach? Updating the Integrated Review – Foreign Affairs CommitteeChina ‘a significant threat to the UK on many different levels’ and dependency should be curbed, MPs warn. While supporting a potentially risky shift in using stronger language towards the economic and military giant, the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) argues it must be backed up by action rather than “empty rhetoric”.

COMAC’s challenge to Airbus and Boeing and the perils of forced technology transfer.

Energy

500kV Black Sea submarine cable to connect Georgia to the EU | EE Times 

Health

What are the ethics of AI reading animal X-rays? – Futurity 

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy gain popularity, effectiveness – The Washington Post

Global forecast: Pharma and healthcare brands shift their ad strategies | Advertising | Campaign Asia  

Media

Wall Street Journal on how financial companies are now buying up YouTuber back catalogue content in the same way that they have previously bought up music back catalogues

Online

Disinformation research – Disinformation Counter | Hijacking & Weaponizing the Narrative: Disinformation Amid Rising Repression in East Asia by Tess Bacalla 

The internet wants to be fragmented – by Noah Smith – this isn’t a new idea Forrester Research branded it the Splinternet and did a whole report on it back in 2010.

Security

China/US blacklist: chip designer Cambricon becomes tech war casualty | Financial Times 

Technology

Siemens ports Sokol Linux to RISC-V | EE Times – I think that there is a long slow pivot away from ARM processors