|
August 14, 2019, 12:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
More:
vpnMentor, Forbes, Inquirer, ZDNet, BBC, Dark Reading, The Register, Mashable, Engadget, ComputerWeekly.com, Apple Must, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Computer Business Review, SlashGear, IT PRO, Tech.co, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @briankrebs, @lessin, @zackwhittaker, @tomsamaki, @kylerankin, @axbom, and @michaelgmadden
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019 — WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
More:
VentureBeat, Business Insider, Vox, New York Times, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Business Insider, Crunchbase News, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, CNBC, and CNBC
Tweets: @pkafka, @kifleswing, @ranimolla, @rstephens, @djtgallagher, @seldo, @annawiener, @kateclarktweets, @ericnewcomer, @zerohedge, @anthony, @tculpan, and @zerohedge
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.| Ursula Perano / Axios: |
More:
Techdirt, Matt Mullenweg, The Daily Dot, Crunchbase News, and CBS New York
Tweets: @danprimack, @danprimack, @davidkarp, @broderick, @thehat2, @meyerweb, and @reckless
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents — Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls — AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services for their subscribers. That means the companies will now be able notify …
More:
T-Mobile, TechCrunch, Android Police, CNET, The Verge, TalkAndroid.com, Cult of Mac, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Android Central, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @johnlegere
| Bloomberg: |
FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes — - FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
More:
Computerworld, iMore, Business Insider, EASA, 9to5Mac, NPR, The Register, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Lifehacker, The Verge, Inquirer, TechSpot, The Points Guy, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Firstpost Tech, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Patently Apple, Fast Company, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, Macworld, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Fast Company, The Mac Observer, Neowin, MacRumors, and CNET
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @snazzyq, @markgurman, @anildash, and @tomwarren
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI — A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
More:
Axios, Inquirer, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Firstpost Tech, Telegraph, iMore, Engadget, and SlashGear
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Engineer.ai, which claims to offer human-assisted AI to automate app development, doesn't use AI, and instead relies on human engineers in India — SoftBank-backed startup offers ‘human-assisted’ artificial-intelligence; current, former employees say company inflates its tech expertise| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction — Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
More:
Microsoft Security …, Ars Technica, CNN, Wired, Naked Security, Security Boulevard, The Next Web, Neowin, IT PRO, The Hacker News, Computer Business Review, ZDNet, Security Affairs, WinBuzzer, BleepingComputer, OpenSecurity.global, ZDNet, and Qualys Blog
Tweets: @msftsecresponse, @daveaitel, @metr0, @arstechnica, @n0x08, @briankrebs, @goretsky, @thezdi, @dangoodin001, and @campuscodi
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe user audio; FB says it's stopped the work, which affected users who wanted voice chats transcribed — - Social network says it paused human review of conversations — Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
More:
Axios, Threatpost, Silicon Republic, USA Today, VICE, MIT Technology Review, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Voicebot, CoinGeek, BBC, Politico, Bloomberg, CNET, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Inquirer, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, news.com.au, The Register, TechSpot, The Overspill, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Slate, The Verge, Adweek, CCN Markets, and Neowin
| Ed Targett / Computer Business Review: |
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect — Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
More:
CNBC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., CNET, Engadget, VICE, The Next Web, CBS News, and Boing Boing
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Misfit's Vapor X smartwatch with Wear OS, a 1.19-inch AMOLED display, and a Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, goes on sale today for an initial price of $200 — Thanks to more RAM and newer chipsets, things are finally looking up for Wear OS in the performance department.
More:
TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, Android Police, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, and TechRadar.com
| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field — Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company …
Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Boatsetter, a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, raises $10M Series A extension round led by WestCap Group and Valor Equity, bringing total raised to $31M — Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique than car ownership - which makes it maybe …
More:
PYMNTS.com
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash — The most prestigious banking relationship in crypto has ended. — Barclays, the London-based global bank, is no longer working …
More:
CoinGeek, The Next Web, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, CryptoGlobe, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @cryptosqueeze, @murphsicles, @icodrops, and @jswihart
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Shopify launches a web chat feature called Shopify Chat to let customers talk to merchants, says it plans to expand it to SMS and Android in the future — Shopify's cohort of more than 800,000 merchants and small businesses have a new way to speak to customers today with the introduction of Shopify Chat.
More:
Shopify's pressreleases, ZDNet, Engadget, and Seeking Alpha
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation — Slack is making it easier for administrators to limit how employees talk to each other with notification channels that form a new kind of Slack chat space.
Tweets: @sameerpatel
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
How a scammer ran a decade-long crowdfunding operation that raised ~$6M on Indiegogo and from other investors to build an ambitious phone/tablet/laptop device — The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam — In 2014, Jeffrey Tschiltsch opened an email from Indiegogo and saw the future of computing.
Tweets: @verge, @thedextriarchy, @tayvano_, @chetfaliszek, and @ron_miller
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks — Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million …
More:
PYMNTS.com, Disrupt Africa, and Ventureburn
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Course Kit, its toolkit for teachers launched last year, will now be called Assignments and be able to detect plagiarism — Google is introducing a handful of updates to its Google for Education program today — including a new tool that helps teachers check students' work for possible plagiarism.
| Jordan Davis / Facebook: |
Facebook simplifies Groups' privacy settings, to public and private; “secret” Groups are now private and hidden, and “closed” Groups are now private and visible — As Mark Zuckerberg laid out earlier this year, social networks can serve as the digital equivalent of a town square or a living room.
More:
CNET and TechCrunch
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:50 PM ET, August 14, 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
New York Times:David Ingram / NBC News:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
More:
Android Authority. Tweets: @richardjnieva, @cnet, @jeskillings, @techledes, @cnet, @hypervisible, @kentgerman, @rogerwcheng, @darakerr, and @stshank
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
ZDNet, NVIDIA Newsroom, Inquirer, and NVIDIA Developer Blog
Tweets: @stanfordnlp, @piotrczapla, @ctnzr, and @sanhestpasmoi
| Kaya Yurieff / CNN: |
More:
Social Media Today. Tweets: @mariosundar, @tomemrich, @taylrn, @apocsnap, @andrewmendez19, @basche42, @cnnbusiness, and @kyurieff
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
More:
Vogue, Engadget, Snap Inc., Fast Company, Social Media Today, and Memeburn
Tweets: @elwhale, @business, @alyssabereznak, @kurtwagner8, @dannysullivan, @nattgarun, @db, @dcseifert, @davegershgorn, @shiraovide, and @ow