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Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions. The audacious hacker that managed to send fake emails from the FBI’s own servers. The story behind the big Taproot update to Bitcoin. And the DAO of crypto enthusiasts looking to buy a copy of the US Constitution. Sponsors: Betterhelp.com/ridehome HeyLaika.com/techmeme Links: Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue (Fortune) Samsung releases Android 12-powered One UI 4 for Galaxy S21 phones (The Verge) Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions (Bloomberg) FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks (Bleeping Computer) Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website (KrebsOnSecurity) A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know (CNBC Make It) A crypto group has raised nearly $3 million in Ether to bid on

Coming at the Metaverse from a different angle. If you're a dev or even just an enthusiast, how, from a technological perspective, will the Metaverse be built? Sponsors: FirstRepublic.com Streak.com/techmeme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beware a watering hole, zero day attack that affected macOS. Spotify is getting into the audiobook game. MoviePass looks like it might be coming back from the dead, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Detectify.com/techmeme FirstRepublic.com Links: Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users (Vice/Motherboard) Amazon will let you easily share clips from its Prime Video content (The Verge) Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (TechCrunch) MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch (Insider) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution (Wired) The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noahpinion) Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players (NYTimes) The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol With Grant Wahl) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discord floats the idea of incorporating crypto, but backs down after a vicious backlash. Apple wants to manage IT for small and medium businesses. YouTube is starting to hide the dislike option. Disney+ growth is suddenly anemic. And say hello to an NFT band. Like, literally, a Bored Ape Band. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash (TechCrunch) Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price (9to5Mac) US sues Uber over 'wait time' fees for disabled passengers (Protocol) YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts (The Verge) Disney+ Subscriber Growth Slows, Company Misses Wall Street Expectations (The Hollywood Reporter) The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No word on if Andy Serkis is part of the package. And Twitter Blue is finally live. A reminder of what that actually is. Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Oracle.com/ride Links: Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay (The Verge) Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion EU Shopping-Ads Fine (WSJ) Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces try to make it easier to get apps ready for augmented reality (The Verge) Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (TechCrunch) Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes) Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes a page out of the TikTok playbook. And whole bunch of announces about new DRAM chips, new AMD chips, new custom voicebot toolkits from Nvidia, and Niantic doesn’t want to get left behind in the Metaverse race it arguably helped set off. Sponsors: Enterprise.Spectrum.com/techmeme Napjitsu.com/techmeme Links: Robinhood says millions of customer names and email addresses taken in data breach (TechCrunch) US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack (CNN) Netflix to Roll Out TikTok-Like Short Clip Feature Aimed at Kids (Bloomberg) Samsung’s new LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3x faster and consumes 20% less power than LPDDR5 DRAM (XDA Developers) AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11% (Reuters) Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI (VentureBeat) Niantic

McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously complicate your tax bill. The latest installment of Today In Elon Musk, and since we’re hitting old features today, let’s check in with how Masa Son is doing. Sponsors: OurCrowd.com/ride Overland.com/techmeme Links: McAfee to Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt (Bloomberg) House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President (CoinDesk) NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol) Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale (WSJ) A Drone Tried to Disrupt the Power Grid. It Won't Be the Last (Wired) SoftBank Vision Fund Posts a Record Loss on Coupang’s Plunge (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy. Simon Owen's Media Newsletter Zealous.app The Charlie Warzel leaving substack essay we discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Meta going to open actual physical retail stores to try to sell folks on the promise of the Metaverse? More tangible signs Apple’s silicon is leaving everyone, but especially Intel in the dust. The new Mavic 3 drone from DJI. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: GoTeleport.com/techmeme Links: To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores (NYTimes) Apple’s Road Map for Mac Chips Shows Likely Advantage Over Intel (The Information) DJI Launches New Mavic 3 Drone With Longer Flight Time, Improved Cameras and New Safety Features (MacRumors) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade (TechnologyReview.com) The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes (Motherboard) Farewell Offshoring, Outsourcing. Pandemic Rewrites CEO Playbook. (WSJ) Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine (Fast Company) The Metaverse Takes Manhattan (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad ch

Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South Korean law is actively cracking open the App Stores in that country. Google might be back in the defense contract business. And why it MIGHT be worth paying $30 for a keyboard with only 3 keys. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch) Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge) Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t. (Recode) Google Allows Alternate In-App Payment Options in South Korea, Though Familiar Fees Remain (WSJ) Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes) STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray into games officially launches widely. And Microsoft says hey Zuckerberg, if you think the Metaverse is going to be about work meetings with cartoonish avatars and virtual whiteboards? Hold our beer! Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (NYTimes) Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters (GeekWire) CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, orders agencies to patch (The Record) Netflix games are coming to all members on Android, starting this week (TechCrunch) Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge) Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega

Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stablecoins. Zoom is going to start showing you ads unless you pay up. Zillow misjudged the housing market. And a security flaw has been found, inside, of all things: Unicode. Sponsors: BoxOfAwesome.com code "techmeme" for 20% off your first box Arm Viewpoints Podcast Links: Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia) Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia) Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk) Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge) ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity) Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg) Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone

How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But new iOS devices might have crash detection built in. Why was Roblox down for so long? And why Hollywood thinks there’s money in their old banana stands after all. Sponsors: HeyLaika.com/techmeme Links: Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (Financial Times) The Chip Shortage Slams Into Apple at the Worst Possible Time (Bloomberg) Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ) Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 (WSJ) Roblox Servers Are Turning Back On (Slowly) After 60+ Hour Outage (Kotaku) 5D data storage technology offers 10,000 times the density of Blu-ray (New Atlas) Snapchat Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Use Audio From ‘SNL,’ ‘The Office’ and More (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Amazon. Very important detail from the reviews of the new MacBook Pros involving battery life. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Leaked Photo Shows Meta’s Planned Competitor to Apple Watch (Bloomberg) Meta (Stratechery) The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes) APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14 AND 16 REVIEW: RETURN TO FORM (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: MARK ZUCKERBERG ON WHY FACEBOOK IS REBRANDING TO META (The Verge) What the metaverse will (and won’t) be, according to 28 experts (Fast Company) Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google (WSJ) Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions (Intelligencer/NYMag) Life in the FAST Lane: Free Streaming, Big Money (Vulture/NYMag) A Very Big Little Country (Afar) Learn more abou

Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device. And how to handle the notch on the MacBook Pro if its driving you crazy. Sponsors: Wealthfront.com/techmeme Dataiku.com Links: Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat) Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch) Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget) Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes) Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios) The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired) Apple Reveals 'Scale to Fi

Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, you can be wounded by them too. Will the Facebook Files force some sort of FTC action? AWS goes after Google’s tensor processing units. And do you think I could produce this show on MS-DOS? Probably not, but Dune was written on it. Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Tovala.com/ride Links: Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC) Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC) FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control (ArsTechnica) Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures (WSJ) Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip (VentureBeat) Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC (The Verge) The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Motherboard/Vice) Learn more about your ad choices.

Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, joining the Quantum Computing race, and lending Project Kuiper to Verizon. And the big review of Apple’s new chips calls their performance "downright absurd." Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Stripe.com Links: Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet) Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge) Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge) Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge) Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center (The Washington Post) Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge) Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge) Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoC's Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights (Ana

Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla rolls back Full Self Driving, Microsoft keeps its eye on the ransomware gangs and a listener gives us an explainer on why Worldcoin wants to scan your eyeball. Sponsors: Betterhelp.com/ridehome enterprise.spectrum.com/techmeme Links: Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol) The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post) PayPal Says It’s Currently Not Pursuing Pinterest Deal (Bloomberg) Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs (The Verge) Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2 billion (The Verge) Microsoft: Russian SVR hacked at least 14 IT supply chain firms since May (BleepingComputer) Privacy by Design (WorldCoin) How the Launch Works (Worldcoin) Learn more about your ad choic

F*** it! We did it live! Chris and me and @Kantrowitz around my kitchen table! Are we in for the biggest week of Facebook's life? Check out Big Technology! Sponsors: VPLS.com/goit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snap’s earnings suggest Apple’s ATT bite is having an impact, and what might that mean for others like Facebook? Google lowers Play Store fees and piles pressure on Apple. Did law enforcement give REvil a taste of its own medicine? What the heck is Worldcoin, I still can’t figure it out. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Dataiku.com RealVision.com/techmeme Links: Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC) Google lowers Play Store fees for subscriptions and music streaming apps (The Verge) Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses (CNBC) Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (Reuters) Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions The Metaverse Is Bad (The Atlantic) DeFi Is Like Nothing Regulators Have Seen Before. How Should They Tackle It? (CoinDesk) Inside Wheel of Time, Amazon’s Huge Gamble