|
August 2, 2019, 3:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple suspends Siri response grading, where contractors reviewed Siri queries without explicit user consent, promises update that will allow users to opt in — In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide.
More:
The Guardian, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Register, CNBC, VentureBeat, Washington Post, The Loop, Observer, Threatpost, RAIN News, BBC, Axios, Reuters, Macworld, CNET, Inquirer, TidBITS, CNN, Engadget, The Mac Observer, Android Authority, Telegraph, Pocket-lint, Fast Company, Firstpost Tech, Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Computerworld, International Business Times, Graham Cluley, Tom's Guide, BGR, Patently Apple, BetaNews, Seeking Alpha, Thurrott, iMore, MacStories, TechSpot, MIT Technology Review, Apple News aus Cupertino, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MacRumors, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Mashable, Newser, Cult of Mac, NBC News, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @panzer, @ibnkhalid_, @reckless, @paulashby, @a_bacci, @martinsfp, @backlon, @carnage4life, @rustyshelf, @markgurman, @panzer, @panzer, @malteengeler, @clry2, and @panzer
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction — Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
More:
The Keyword, Android, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, BBC, Reuters, Financial Times, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, TalkAndroid.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Android Central, Inquirer, and CNET
Tweets: @lutherlowe, @yegg, and @suka_hiroaki
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
FTC is looking into the Amazon/Apple deal that kicked many small resellers off Marketplace, has interviewed at least one reseller of refurbished MacBooks — Experts say the deal raises serious antitrust concerns — Last year, Amazon cut a deal with Apple to bring direct iPhone sales to its platform for the first time.
More:
iMore, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Seeking Alpha, and Cult of Mac
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
FTC asks that the 147M people affected by the Equifax breach take free credit monitoring as only $31M of the $575M+ Equifax settlement is allocated to consumers — After “overwhelming” public interest, the FTC now urges users to settle for free credit monitoring instead.
More:
Federal Trade Commission, CNN, The Verge, The Verge, CNBC, New York Times, MarketWatch, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Digital Trends, and Washington Post
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @jeremiahg, @viceland, @mattblaze, and @el33th4xor
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google to add an automated text-to-speech feature for emergency calls made via the Pixel Phone app to help relay location information to first responders — The new feature will automatically describe the kind of emergency and exact address to first responders
More:
The Keyword, ExtremeTech, VentureBeat, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, Thurrott, TechSpot, Phandroid, Firstpost Tech, Digital Trends, Slashdot, Droid Life, Engadget, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @richdemuro, @google, and @nycemswatch
| Mark Harris / The Guardian: |
FCC filing: Pentagon tests high-altitude balloons in Midwest for a “surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats” — Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods| New York Times: |
Records show the NYPD has uploaded arrest photos of juveniles into a facial recognition database since 2015, despite higher risk of false matches in young faces — With little oversight, the N.Y.P.D. has been using powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
More:
OneZero. Tweets: @chuckmodi1, @chrisgeidner, @nyclu, @kitastew, @fightfortheftr, @ericalg, and @elizabeth_joh
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Caviar, Square's food delivery business, for $410M in cash and preferred DoorDash stock — DoorDash has reached an agreement with Square to purchase on-demand food delivery and catering business Caviar . DoorDash has agreed to pay Square $410 million in cash and preferred DoorDash stock.
More:
Square, DoorDash Blog, Gizmodo, Eater SF, Forbes, The Startup, Silicon Republic, CNBC, Crunchbase News, Bloomberg, Anycoin.news, Agence France-Presse, MarketWatch, Eater, and New York Times
Tweets: @lindentreegroup, @levynews, @balajis, @ryanmcraver, @semil, @taps, @ericajoy, @caseynewton, @zamosta, @amir, @cjc, @mdudas, @ericnewcomer, @bizcarson, and @alexeheath
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
More:
TechCrunch, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, CryptoGlobe, InsideBitcoins.com, CoinDesk, and Engadget
| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers developed AI that learned chess not by playing but analyzing reactions of expert commentators in text form to evaluate the quality of the moves — Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently.
Tweets: @techreview, @bobehayes, and @kasparov63
| Rae Hodge / CNET: |
Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduces a bill that would give voters five rights, including the right to be notified when campaigns obtain their data — Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday introduced a bill prompted by Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook users' private data.
More:
MIT Technology Review, United States Senator …, ZDNet, Gizmodo, and The Hill
Tweets: @brad_laurie, @profcarroll, and @techreview
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC says ISPs must provide geospatial maps of where they provide service, instead of just listing census blocks, will let the public comment on their accuracy — ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas. — The Federal Communications Commission voted today … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Federal Reserve examined a Virginia Amazon cloud facility in spring, the first of what is expected to be ongoing oversight of big cloud providers — Visit was made in April to Amazon facility in Virginia — The Federal Reserve conducted a formal examination this spring …
More:
Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and Reuters
Tweets: @jennystrasburg, @quinnypig, @stevekopack, and @jasonzweigwsj
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google's Project Zero says 95.8% of the 1,585 security flaws it reported since July 2014 were fixed before its 90-day deadline for a public disclosure — Google Project Zero: Disclosing technical bug reports and PoCs help defenders more than attackers. — The Google Project Zero team … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Poshmark, an online clothes marketplace with 50M+ users, says some user info, including names and hashed passwords, was taken by an unauthorized third party — Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes, has reported a data breach. — The company said in a brief blog post …
More:
Poshmark, Gizmodo, SlashGear, VICE, Business Insider, Engadget, ZDNet, Fast Company, PYMNTS.com, and Poshmark
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Babylon Health raises $550M Series C at $2B+ valuation from Saudi Arabia's PIF, Kinnevik, and others to expand its AI-based health services to the US and Asia — Babylon Health, the UK-based startup that has developed a number of AI-based health services, including a chatbot used …
More:
Sky News, Forbes, Crunchbase News, EU-Startups, CNBC, Startups News, BusinessCloud.co.uk, Silicon Republic, BMJ, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @babylonhealth
| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's Ring says that it receives some real-time 911 call data, including addresses, from police, which helps it curate crime news posts for its Neighbors app — Amazon-owned home security company Ring is pursuing contracts with police departments that would grant it direct access to real …
More:
VICE, Government Technology News, Business Insider, Boing Boing, Engadget, Slashdot, and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @dellcam, @carolineha_, @hypervisible, @johnwilson, @matthewkeyslive, @0xdude, @sidneyfussell, @rmac18, @dellcam, @jonbernhardt, and @zackwhittaker
| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Hong Kong startup Tink Labs, which has raised $160M to provide free-to-use smartphones in hotel rooms, is shutting down in many markets, undergoing mass layoffs — Handy is a smartphone service operated by Tink Labs that equipped hotels globally with in-room handsets for guests Tink Labs informed employees …
More:
Financial Times, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
Sponsor Posts
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
F5:
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Zoho:
Zoho RPA named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research — Zoho RPA has been named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix, published by Nucleus Research …
Zoho RPA named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research — Zoho RPA has been named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix, published by Nucleus Research …
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
Big Technology Podcast:
SpaceX's IPO Triumph, Anthropic's Fable Fumble, OpenAI's Price War
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.
Access:
A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Hard Fork:
'Hard Fork' Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
TBC's Alex Ksendzovsky: The Neurosurgeon Using Brain Cells To Build Better 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.
BG2 Pod:
The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI
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 3:40 PM ET, August 2, 2019.
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
Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Erica Ryan / Reporters' Lab:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
More:
Facebook, Engadget, GitHub, Adweek, and The Next Web
Tweets: @facebookai, @guyro, @trawg, @brianfishman, and @caseynewton
Earlier Picks
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
More:
Financial Times and Financial Times
Tweets: @nytimes, @financialtimes, @lamonicabuzz, and @busvine
| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
More:
Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge, MarketWatch, Tech.co, Business Insider, BetaNews, Inquirer, Coinspeaker, TechHive, Android Central, TechSpot, Digital Trends, GeekWire, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @anildash. Thanks:@benfoxrubin
| Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico: |
More:
Washington Post, TechCrunch, BBC, cloudpro.co.uk, Inquirer, Engadget, diginomica, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, The Register, ZDNet, and GeekWire
Tweets: @weberwest, @karaswisher, @jstrauss, @jimsciutto, @adegrandpre, @politico, and @ddiamond
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
More:
Forbes, Tubefilter, Polygon, OnMSFT.com, NBC News, TechCrunch, Coinspeaker, WinBuzzer, Telegraph, Windows Central, TMZ.com, Silicon Republic, YouTube, Variety, GameSpot, Slate, and New York Times
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
More:
Macworld, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, AnandTech, iDownloadBlog.com, SemiAccurate, ExtremeTech, and PC Gamer
| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
More:
Reuters, Facebook, The Next Web, and The Verge
Tweets: @ryp__, @donie, @msuiche, @tparsi, @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk, @bellingcat, @swodinsky, @dnvolz, @bellingcat, @bellingcat, @alexemmons, and @anthony