Cisco owns Splunk, Android 14 turns phone into USB webcam, NSW govt cuts game & Powerhouse museum funding, YouTube tests AI suggestions for creators, WSJ looks at why Apple can't drop Qualcomm

• Splunk isn't a household name, but Cisco is and they just spent US$28b to buy Splunk. According to Wikipedia they "produce software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a web-style interface".
• Android 14 (coming early October) will allow a smartphone to act as a USB Video Class device that can plug into a computer via USB and act as a classic webcam. The instructions to do this don't seem very user friendly, but it's a thing.
• The NSW state government cut $190m from arts and game development programs in its 2023-2024 budget. This also includes halving the budget for redeveloping the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo from $500m to $250m.
• YouTube's testing "a new generative AI-powered tool in YouTube Studio that suggests video topics, making the brainstorming process easier for content creators". Here's a suggestion - if you can't think of something to create, don't create anything.
• The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the pain Apple has gone through to detach itself from Qualcomm (that Gruber reckons is a "planted narrative from Qualcomm") and make its own LTE/5G radio chip.