TWiT 886: The Barn Has Left the Horse - CHIPS Act, earnings week, FTC sues Meta, Twitter Blue price hike

• CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
• Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022.
• Intel Kills Optane Memory Business Entirely.
• Apple's $83B quarter by the numbers.
• FY22 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft.
• Amazon (AMZN) Q2 2022 earnings.
• Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
• Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
• Collect and Trade NFL Highlights As NFTs.
• Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money.
• Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals.
• FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal.
• Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
• Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
• Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed.
• Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
• Twitter v. Elon Musk trial date set to start October 17th.
• FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
• Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
• T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history.
• Tim Hortons offers free coffee to settle mobile app class action lawsuits.
• Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours.
• Details from FBI Raid of U.S. Private Vaults Being Kept from Public.
• Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
• HBO Max will begin streaming 'Game of Thrones' in 4K HDR next month.
• Ultiworld on Twitter: "Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) with the MASSIVE sky for @PrideofNY at the World Ultimate Club Championships"
• NASA on Twitter: "We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible."

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