|
May 27, 2018, 5:20 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volume declines, at least for the short term — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation's enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin.
More:
The Irish Times. Tweets: @carnage4life, @stevesi, @vakibs, @kdnuggets, @jeffjarvis, @profcarroll, @carnage4life, and @harper
| BBC: |
More:
BloombergQuint, Android Central, CNET, The Merkle, Fortune, Gizmodo, Pocketables, Nieman Lab, MSPoweruser, New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Mashable, BetaNews, Wired, reddit.com, and GDPR Hall of Shame
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
More:
Digital Trends, American Prospect, The Parallax, VentureBeat, Fortune, The Hill, TechCrunch, and Recode
Tweets: @ddayen and @carnage4life
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
More:
512tech, None Of Your Business, Financial Times, CNET, eWeek, Adweek, Silicon Valley Business …, Fast Company, Android Police, Digital Trends, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, Washington Post, Fox News, AdExchanger, The Register, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, New York Magazine, and New York Times
Tweets: @canthardywait and @aflyttet
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple to give some developers more access to iPhone NFC chip for Apple Pay-like contactless interactions like opening doors or replacing transit cards — The Information reports that Apple will be taking a big leap in iOS 12, giving some third-party developers full access … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FBI and DOJ ask users to restart routers and NAS devices to disrupt VPNFilter malware and help identify infected devices, which Cisco estimates is 500K+ devices — Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. — The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers …
More:
IC3.gov News, The Hill, HackRead, Snopes.com, SC Media UK, HotHardware, Wccftech, Fortune, Popular Mechanics, CNET, Cord Cutters News, NDTV.com, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, US-CERT, and Digital Trends
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Trump tweets that ZTE will have to pay $1.3B fine, give high-level security guarantees, and change its management and board to have US sanctions lifted — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told lawmakers it had reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive …
More:
Washington Post, CNET, BetaNews, Android Authority, Politico, TechCrunch, Android Police, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Engadget, Pocketnow, Investor's Business Daily, Associated Press, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @paulkrugman, @chrisvanhollen, and @damianpaletta
| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base — In previous installments (2017, 2018) of Follow the CAPEX™ (merch store opening soon!), we've looked at the capital expenditures behind …
Tweets: @timsneath, @jonathansorum, @charlesfitz, @jaypipes, @timoreilly, and @marypcbuk
| Reuters: |
In a final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for one month over the 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that denigrates Prophet Mohammad — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked training documents show how Facebook classifies hate speech groups, allowing praise for white nationalism and white separatism but not white supremacy — After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators …
More:
Motherboard, Quartz, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @jeffbercovici, @josephfcox, @egavactip, @nkjemisin, @spacekatgal, @ashleyfeinberg, @heerjeet, and @propublica
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Apple to start reporting government requests to remove apps from App Store, satisfied 79% of ~30K government requests for info on devices from July to Dec. 2017 — Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account takedown requests …
More:
Axios, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Reuters, BetaNews, Gizmodo, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, TechCrunch, and MacDailyNews
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Behind Amazon's approach to identifying factors limiting its growth, and how Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram can benefit from adopting a similar strategy — My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @billsweet, @rezendi, and @caseynewton
| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Interview with nine members of the Facebook team tasked with fighting misinformation on how recent product changes affect the way the News Feed works — On Monday, I sat down with nine members of the team at Facebook fighting fake news: Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia, John Hegeman … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Chinese authorities have prosecuted 98 people for the alleged $2B OneCoin crypto investment scheme that involved up to 2M victims across 20+ provinces in China — Prosecutors in China have charged a final four suspects of almost 100 that were said to be involved in an alleged $2 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.
More:
Coingeek
| Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Studios band media arms together, offering deals for TV, film, and shortform video to talent in order to compete with Netflix's deep pockets — With deep-pocketed Netflix poaching hitmakers Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy with nine-figure paydays, rivals are “going bats— crazy” …
Tweets: @thrmattbelloni and @natjarv
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.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Introducing Zoho AgentInbox: Email infrastructure built for AI agents — Most AI agents doing real work eventually need to send or receive email. The default move is to hand them access to someone's existing inbox …
Introducing Zoho AgentInbox: Email infrastructure built for AI agents — Most AI agents doing real work eventually need to send or receive email. The default move is to hand them access to someone's existing inbox …
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
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
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.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We're Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It
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.
Sources:
Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Invest Like the Best:
Gabe Stengel - Building Investing Superintelligence
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:20 AM ET, May 27, 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
Reuters:Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
More:
Refinery29, The Verge, The FADER, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Billboard, iMore, TechCrunch, Engadget, and The Guardian
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |