Can one surgical strike accomplish anything? The one that Twitter dropped on the federal government sure seemed to do the trick. A day after the company sued the Trump administration, “a federal agency has dropped its demand that Twitter turn over information about an anti-Trump account.”

+ “‘It’s a PR problem, with the media piling on. And PR can fix it. Let Uber be Uber…’ ‘Let’s not, shall we?'” Kara Swisher: Dear Tech Bros: It’s not a PR problem at Uber.

+ John Gruber on Walt Mossberg’s retirement announcement. (Walt once gave a positive review for a site I ran called Rollyo. It was a big day.)