A new image for Mark Zuckerberg, the Microsoft Activision deal is going to go forward, and

actors in Hollywood are going on strike and warning whether machines will replace them.

All that and more coming up on this life edition of Big Technology podcast right after this.

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Welcome to Big Technology Podcasts, Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional

cool-headed format. We have so much to talk about. Ranjan Roy is here. Ron John, I know you have a lot of

thoughts about threads. We've been talking about threads a lot on this show, but we're going to talk a

little bit about where it leaves Mark Zuckerberg and what's going to happen in the battle between

threads and Twitter going forward.

That's our A block. And from there, we're going to move on to Microsoft Activision and plenty more.

Ranjan, welcome.

It's good to be back. I've missed you, Alex.

There's definitely, there's been a hole in my heart, especially as this thread story has unfolded and myself, and we've had people on threads writing me saying

we'd love to hear what Ranjan has to say about this. So today we'll finally get our chance,

but let's start with the revitalization of Mark Zuckerberg's image. So this is coming from the Wall

Street Journal. It says Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable. He has helped revive Mark Zuckerberg's Silicon Valley Mojo.

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