|
April 6, 2017, 10:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Twitter sues the Trump administration after Customs and Border Protection tries to compel the social network to reveal the identity behind @alt_USCIS account — So remember how President Donald Trump (a.k.a. @realDonaldTrump) loves Twitter and credits it with helping him win the election?
More:
The Verge, ZDNet, The Intercept, Fox News, TechCrunch, Recode, CNNMoney, VentureBeat, Refinery29, CNET, Associated Press, Adweek, Quartz, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Nextgov, International Business Times, Fortune, TheStreet, Financial Times, Engadget, Reuters, Variety, Breitbart, Ars Technica, Forbes, and Techdirt
Tweets: @aclu, @alt_uscis, @alt_uscis, @danprimack, @jamiemccall, @reuterstech, @alleenbrown, @bcappelbaum, @rickhasen, @thelastword, @amish_drive_by, @tonyromm, @samfbiddle, @protestcards, @samfbiddle, @josephfcox, @tonyromm, @samfbiddle, @backlon, @mikeisaac, @digiphile, @nattgarun, and @bfriedmandc. Thanks:@kerrymflynn
| Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: |
Project Scorpio, which is at least six months away from release, shows impressive performance based on a game demo and detailed look at the tech inside the box — Digital Foundry has the specs, has seen it running, and has talked to the people who built it.| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
More:
Eurogamer.net, Digital Trends, Engadget, Tom's Guide, On MSFT, Polygon, destructoid, Tech Narratives, YouTube, Forbes, VG247, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @str8sixer
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will only allow channels with 10K lifetime views to monetize videos, to help make sure revenue flows only to those who play by the rules — The rule change is meant to weed out bad actors — Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone.
More:
YouTube Creator Blog, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, International Business Times, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, USA Today, Engadget, Business Insider, Tubefilter, Fortune, Marketing Land, SlashGear, CNET, Mashable, 9to5Google, GamesIndustry.biz, The Next Web, TechCrunch, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Ev Williams: |
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says he's selling up to 30% of his Twitter shares, so he can continue to invest in other causes and companies — A note for Twitter shareholders and employees — If you're not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things) …
More:
Business Insider, Forbes, Recode, The Register, Asia Stocks to Watch, Softpedia News, CNNMoney, Motley Fool, CNBC, Breitbart, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNET, and USA Today. Tweets: @stevetweedie
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Project Zero finds serious Broadcom WiFi chipset flaw that allows hacking of many Android devices; Google releasing patch this month; iOS was patched in 10.3.1 — Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. — A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger opens its M assistant to all US users, easing the process of sending money in chats, sharing locations, making plans, starting a poll — Starting on iOS and Android in the US — Facebook's AI assistant, known simply as M, will now pop into your Messenger chat windows …
More:
Facebook, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Engadget, Computerworld, CNNMoney, Digital Trends, USA Today, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Adweek, The Next Web, Tech Narratives, and Recode
Tweets: @joshconstine, @jake_k, and @thekenyeung
| Stefan Etienne / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia updates its Titan Xp GPU with 12GB GDDR5X, 3,840 CUDA cores, and adds Mac support for the first time, available for $1,200 — Nvidia updates its top-of-the-line Titan graphics card yearly, so it's only natural the Titan Xp got announced Thursday. The Titan Xp's new specs include 12GB …
More:
The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Next Web, Sebastiaan de With, 9to5Mac, CIO.com, BetaNews, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, TechConnect, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, The Verge, Yahoo! Finance, Ars Technica UK, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @dancounsell, @jeffbenjam, @stroughtonsmith, @danstapleton, and @whatthebit
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter aims to reset developer relations by streamlining its API platform around core features and debuting tiered API access for devs this year; pricing TBA — Twitter historically has had a rocky relationship with its developer community. — It once encouraged third-party apps …
More:
The Twitter Blog, Trello, The Twitter Blog, ZDNet, The Register, ProgrammableWeb.com, Adweek, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, Tech Narratives, and MacStories
Tweets: @twitterdev, @twitterdev, @jimray, @rrhoover, @davidbyttow, @karangoel, @bdsams, @whatthebit, @twitterdev, and @jack
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung forecasts $8.8B Q1 profit, an almost 50% jump YoY, expects sales of $44.2B, does not include Galaxy S8 sales which hit market April 21 — The South Korean giant's latest quarterly likely benefited from its business supplying chips, displays and other components.
More:
Samsung Global Newsroom, Bloomberg, Yonhap News Agency, Engadget, Associated Press, Reuters, TalkAndroid.com, and Asia Stocks to Watch. Tweets: @samkimasia
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple Clips hands-on: a fun, lightweight app for mobile video editing that can be complicated to use but creates nice looking videos, available now — Not a social network, but a fun video app … When I opened up Apple's new Clips app yesterday, as I've been doing for the past few days …
More:
App Store, Macworld, MacRumors, CNET, International Business Times, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, New York Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, iMore, Redmond Pie, PhoneDog.com, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, AppAdvice.com, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @michaelsteeber, @ashleyrcarman, @pamelalamela, @appleedu, @theapplepost, and @neilcybart
| Patrick Traughber / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter rolling out Twitter Lite, a new mobile web version optimized for slower connections and minimal data usage — Every day, millions of people around the world use Twitter to see what's happening right now. However, there are several barriers to using Twitter, including slow mobile networks …
More:
Twitter, Tech Times, InvestorPlace, Android and Me, TalkAndroid.com, ValueWalk, Adweek, TechDroider, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Digital Trends, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, International Business Times, CNNMoney, TECHSEEN, PhoneDog.com, Tech Narratives, SlashGear, and Marketing Land
| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Sources: Lyft raises $500M at a $6.9B valuation, a 50% increase over its January 2016 valuation — Read next … Lyft has raised more than $500m at a valuation of $6.9bn, according to three people familiar with the matter, as investors back the Uber rival's continued expansion across the United States.
More:
Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, The Verge, Recode, Reuters, Quartz, CNET, VentureBeat, Fortune, Business Insider, Axios, Mashable, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @film_girl, @amir, @amir, and @lesliehook
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase raises $18M led by Mayfield, debuts Enterprise business intelligence service, and plans to add complementary data from third parties — Crunchbase — the database spun out from TechCrunch that charts startups, other tech companies, the people who work for them, and those who fund them …
More:
Business Wire, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, PE Hub Blog, The Diversity Blog, and The Tech Portal. Thanks:@stephandenise
| Andy Weir / Neowin: |
Spotify app for Windows phones will no longer get new features, has been placed in “maintenance mode” and will only receive critical security updates — Spotify has ended development on its app for Windows phones, and said that it will no longer be updating the app with new features or improvements.| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Renaud Laplanche, founder of Lending Club, launches a rival, Upgrade, and raises $60M from Union Square Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and others — Renaud Laplanche was the quintessential Silicon Valley success story, until he wasn't. — Mr. Laplanche, a French-born entrepreneur …
More:
TechCrunch, Reuters, Dealbreaker, and Fortune
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook will roll out a new guide tomorrow at the top of its News Feed to help users spot “false news” in 14 countries, including US, UK, and Germany — What the new educational tool will look like in News Feed. — In its latest move to help blunt the flow of misinformation on its platform …
More:
Facebook, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Financial Times, Facebook, Adweek, Engadget, Naked Security, Tech Narratives, The Next Web, and Co.Design
Tweets: @lisatozzi and @jayrosen_nyu
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Zoho Notebook: The free iPad note-taking app every student needs — If you're a student with an iPad, you already have one of the best note-taking devices in your hands. The question is, does your app actually do it justice?
Zoho Notebook: The free iPad note-taking app every student needs — If you're a student with an iPad, you already have one of the best note-taking devices in your hands. The question is, does your app actually do it justice?
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Training Data:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:45 PM ET, April 6, 2017.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Associated Press:Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Rafia Shaikh / Wccftech: |
More:
MacRumors, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Silicon UK, BGR, International Business Times, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @seamusphan and @roothawg
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Softpedia News, The Verge, and CNET
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Recode, Engadget, Bloomberg, International Business Times, hypebot, SiliconBeat, and Tech Narratives
Tweets: @asharma and @eringriffith