An Unconventional Writing Process: The Making of Dune

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.

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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)

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