Interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert as it marks 20 years, on importance of user experience, open source, API first approach, JavaScript bloat, and more Source

Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year Source

1Password acquires secrets management service SecretHub and launches Secrets Automation, a tool for companies to safeguard enterprise credentials  —  Password-management platform 1Password is expanding into the “secrets management” space, helping developer teams across the enterprise safeguard. Source

Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey’s inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick’s weakness in managing company culture  —  A conversation with Chris Sacca about climate investing — and Travis Kalanick.  —  Chris Sacca apologized for joining our Zoom call a few minutes late. Source

An interview with a16z’s Jonathan Lai on Games Fund One, the VC firm’s new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and consumer apps  —  Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games.  The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games. Source

FCC chair notified Congress that US service providers have requested ~$5.6B for removing and replacing network equipment and services provided by Huawei and ZTE  —  WASHINGTON Today, Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel notified Congress that providers have initially requested approximately $5.6 billion. Source

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia’s most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM architecture  —  The UK government added 63 Russian entities to its sanction list on Wednesday.  Among them are Baikal Electronics and MCST (Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies), the two most important chip makers in Russia….

Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS stack for domestic and foreign transactions  —  Use the digital rupee to facilitate domestic commerce and crypto protocols to attract international investment. Source

Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more  —  Under CEO Fred Chesnais, Atari is a company with just 28 employees.  That’s pretty small for the oldest brand in video games. Source

A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets  —  Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry?  —  n 2018, William Frederick Keck. Source