As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with big budget Hollywood movies losing them bucket loads of money?

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Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)
Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)
How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes)
Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong (PC Gamer)
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch)
Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses (NYTimes)

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35: The West Ham Way Podcast - 28th October 2020