Fri. 08/20 – OnlyFans Pulls A Tumblr

OnlyFans wants to get out of the porn business, which makes sense to nobody on the Internet. Elon Musk says Tesla is building a humanoid robot, and I love you Elon, but you’ve really opened the door to your critics with this one. Microsoft is raising prices, and of course, the weekend longread suggestions.

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Links:

• OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors (Axios)
• OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
• Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots (The Verge)
• Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet (Gizmodo)

The Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The FBI’s warning to Silicon Valley: China and Russia are trying to turn your employees into spies (Protocol)
• Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (Nature)
• Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (WSJ)
• Amazon Killed the Name Alexa (The Atlantic)
• Afghanistan - Part 1 (The Rest Is History Podcast)