Good morning! Think you’ve had a rough week? Spare a thought for Sony’s legal team who used a sharpie to redact highly sensitive info in a court hearing, but subsequently didn’t realize that all the redacted text was clearly legible after scanning the docs … 🤦

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

DoorDash launched a “guaranteed hourly minimum rate” feature for its delivery workers. Dashers can now choose to “Earn Per Offer”, aka the status quo, or to “Earn by Time”, whereby Dashers receive a minimum hourly rate as well as 100% of tips on top 🚚

Anything resembling hourly pay is a major shift in how DoorDash comps workers, aligning much more with a traditional employee model.

Coming just a few weeks after NYC announced a $18 delivery worker minimum wage, I read this as a defensive play designed to future-proof the business against similar legislation in other geographies 🌍

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Google rolls out an Android TV tab for buying & renting movies

• Google refreshes its designs for the core Android logo

• Twitter lets Blue subscribers post 25k character tweets

• PayPal launches support for tap-to-pay on Android

• TikTok kills its BeReal competitor, TikTok Now

General and early-stage

• Unity launches an AI-software marketplace

• Spire announces a fleet of wildfire-monitoring satellites

• Databricks ships a suite of features for unified data governance

• Proton launches a password manager product

• Otter announces an AI chatbot specifically focused on meetings

🔍 Other good finds

• Trust vaults. How to manage an ultra passionate userbase

• Life v2. People trust AI generated tweets more than human tweets

• Spy pups. US govt explores robot dog patrols for southern border

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol