Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, January 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Twitter acquires a sub-stack competitor.

It's also iterating product in terms of

Check's notes content moderation.

The black hats are targeting the white hats in Infosec,

Interesting Executive Shuffle at Apple. targeting the white hats in Infosec,

interesting executive shuffle at Apple,

a $2,500 smartphone from Sony that might really

be a pro device.

And would you let me put a 5G gearbox in your front lawn?

You might not have a choice.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Twitter has acquired the newsletter publishing company review, a five-year-old Dutch company

with just six employees. The total amount of money that review has raised to date was around $300,000. The deal marks Twitter's first step into

date was around $300,000.

Quoting Axios.

The deal marks Twitter's first step into building out

long-form content experiences on Twitter and its first foray into up into require review offers free and paid newsletter options. The free version lets

writers send newsletters to up to 50 people. The paid version lets them email

up to 40,000 people. Review takes a 6% cut of paid newsletter revenues as a part of its transaction

fee. Twitter says it will be lowering that cut to 5%. Twitter says it welcomes all creators to join the platform including experts

curators journalists publishers and more it plans to create new features that will

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