Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Site News
Techmeme
January 12, 2018, 12:15 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Sponsor Events Newsletter

Top News

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …
More: Facebook, Wired, Slate, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Bloomberg, ZDNet, TechCrunch, BGR, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Reuters, VentureBeat, Axios, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Marketing Land, The Guardian, Nieman Lab, NewCo Shift, Vanity Fair, VentureBeat, New York Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, USA Today, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Roundtable, Neowin, Quartz, BetaNews, The Next Web, Jon Loomer Digital, MediaNama, Search Engine Journal, International Business Times, BleepingComputer.com, Digital Trends, BuzzFeed, Digiday, BuzzFeed, Fortune, CNNMoney, Social Media Today, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, CNET, The Verge, Newser, Engadget, Boing Boing, Refinery29, Recode, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, TIME, Associated Press, Seeking Alpha, BuzzMachine, Financial Times, Axios, and Recode
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @kantrowitz, @tristanwalker, @caseynewton, @jeanhodges, @danprimack, @bethashton, @nytimesbusiness, @davewiner, @alexhern, @wblau, @jonrussell, @mosseri, @mikeisaac, @misterpatches, @lookner, @byrosenberg, @caseynewton, @paul_shetler, @juddlegum, @sanasaeed, @craigsilverman, @nycjim, @zeynep, @dskok, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @carnage4life, @mathewi, @alkapdc, @johnbattelle, @mathewi, @johnbattelle, @johnbattelle, @johnbattelle, @johnbattelle, @rsingel, @johnbattelle, @claire_phipps, @lukeoneil47, @petersterne, @johnbattelle, @johnbattelle, @jason_kint, @mathewi, and @bmorrissey
See also Mediagazer
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing  —  Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the New York Times that the social network will revamp its news feed to emphasize …
Reuters:
Intel says some data center customers using Broadwell and Haswell processors are reporting more system reboots after applying patch for Meltdown and Spectre  —  (Reuters) - Intel Corp on Thursday said that recently issued patches for flaws in its chips could cause computers using its older Broadwell …
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Intel releases breakdown of performance slowdown on Windows 10 after Spectre and Meltdown patches: ~6% for 8th-gen CPUs, ~7% for 7th-gen, ~8% for 6th-gen
Tom Warren / The Verge:
AMD says it is making firmware updates available for Ryzen and EPYC processors this week to fix Spectre flaws, updating older processors “over the coming weeks”  —  Zero risk, but not zero impact  —  AMD's initial response to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws made it clear “there is a near zero risk to AMD processors.”
Jake Smith / ZDNet:
IDC: PC shipments in Q4 2017 grew by 0.7% YoY to 70.6M units but declined by 0.2% to 259.5M units in full year 2017; HP and Apple saw 8.3% and 7.3% growth in Q4  —  Research firm IDC said PC market most stable since 2011, led by HP.  —  The PC market is beginning to show some signs of stabling …
Erin Griffith / Wired:
Steve Jurvetson, who left DFJ in Nov., held event described as a “sex party” in new book Brotopia; Elon Musk, who attended, calls excerpt “salacious nonsense”  —  EARLIER THIS MONTH, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties.
Cody Toombs / Android Police:
Google updates Duo, lets users call some Android contacts who don't have the app installed; provides prompt to install at end of call  —  Google recently began rolling out a slightly updated look to the contact list on the Duo video calling app.  Alongside this fun rearrangement of pixels …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Sources: Google to vet videos in the Google Preferred ad program with human moderators and AI, after concerns from marketers over videos including Logan Paul's  —  Google is planning a new push to vet top-tier YouTube videos that it bundles for major advertisers, people familiar with the plan said.
Dan Primack / Axios:
First Alert, maker of safety products like fire and smoke alarms, buys WiFi system maker Luma; Luma has raised $22M in VC funding from Accel, Amazon, others  —  First Alert, a subsidiary of Newell Brands, has quietly acquired Luma, a home WiFi system maker that had raised $22 million …

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Prospect:
A running list of the best startups to join  —  We've analyzed thousands of startups using the same data VCs use and distilled our list down to the top 2%.  Discover and join the next Stripe, Airbnb, or Coinbase today.
Zoho:
From orders to alerts with Zoho Inventory and Zoho Cliq integration  —  Running a business is challenging, especially when it comes to managing incoming orders from online sales channels.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Sponsor Techmeme
The Kevin Rose Show:
 Carolina Reis Oliveira & Alessandra Zonari | OneSkin: Aging Myths, Senescent Cells, and How to Age Slower (#56)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Techmeme Ride Home:
 Wed. 05/08 - Bethesda Bloodbath
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
Sponsor this podcast
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:15 PM ET, January 12, 2018.

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

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery plans more cost-cutting to hit financial targets for next year, including raising Max prices and the possibility of more layoffs

Austin Fuller / Current:
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a US House committee hearing on May 8 looking at alleged NPR bias due to a schedule conflict, but offers to appear later

More News

Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters:
Sources: Peter Thiel joins other bidders in making an offer in bankruptcy court for Gawker's remaining assets, including domains and 200K+ articles

Earlier Picks

James Vincent / The Verge:
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations”
New York Times:
House votes 256 to 164 to extend Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes; bill now proceeds to the Senate
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Sponsor Events Newsletter