Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscriber video engagement (Jessica Testa/New York Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Go read Peter Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers April 28, 2025 by appcompact
German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China (Financial Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) April 28, 2025 by appcompact
Reversing the Fossilization of Computer Science Conferences – Communications of the ACM April 28, 2025 by appcompact
