Congrats. You may want to consider dropping the "reverse engineer" language though, since most every application's ToS is clear on that being prohibited. Perhaps just "replay any application" or similar.
If working in this space interests you, I recommend checking out Magnet Forensics. They make the best tools for end users tasked with taking those recovered hard drives full of CSAM and performing the analysis. Great company to consider working for (I have no affiliation, just a longstanding respect for them).
Important callout beyond the headline: "Last year, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 4,700 reports of generated AI child porn, with some criminals even using generative AI to make deepfakes of real children to extort them."
"We’ve decided to end-of-life (EOL) Twilio Programmable Video as a standalone product. Given it’s such a niche area and a relatively small part of our portfolio, we believe partnering with video industry leaders is the best way to ensure long-term product innovation for our customers. Removing Programmable Video from our portfolio will also allow Communications to more effectively focus on our pillar products - Messaging, Voice, and Email."
While I usually withhold personal comments here, I love this article because the Hogfish is the only main species here in Florida that for whatever reason I can't catch (while all my mates have). They even bought me a Hogfish cutting board to remind me each day of my "white whale." I'm so glad to read of their camouflage abilities to use that as an excuse!
They don't appear to artificially, no. But like any auction, when it's a good deal, a lot of people may watch and wait until fairly near the end. I've used them before and had a very positive experience.
The most useful thing about software patents IMO is what you uncover during the patent writing process. When you’re sitting there writing the equivalent of a 10-20 page college essay on the problem background, operating environment, then all the present and future uses of something novel (the provisional stage), it forces you to think in a way that no typical product management process does. There are few (any?) other forcing mechanisms I’ve seen that produce the same results.
Ask to be put on frontline email/phone customer support for your product a few times a year.
Hearing problems/complaints directly from the voice of the customer, then having to explain a sometimes cumbersome workaround to solve them, is invaluable. Plus you buy goodwill with your support team for walking a day in their shoes.
A $30,000 car today often has a far better screen/user experience than a $300,000 boat. iPad/tablet apps for boaters attached to mounts are common, though lack communication with the boat's sensors (without something like Signal K), and are hard to see in full sun. Compound that with the Coast Guard being a defense agency where getting new data typres in and out is "a process."
Shameless but relevant plug -- I was annoyed hearing radio traffic of boaters trying to share their location with the Coast Guard, so I built a free tool for them (i911) that allows USCG to text the boater a link to share their location. The vast majority of distress calls are made within cell phone range (<15 miles from shore), so tapping that link isn't as much of an issue as you would think it is. It was the fastest tech to graduate from their R&D site to nationwide sector adoption.