|
July 2, 2020, 12:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Police infiltrated Encrochat, an encrypted phone network used by organized crime, and read millions of messages for months, leading to international arrests — Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
More:
National Crime Agency, BBC, BleepingComputer, Engadget, and Neowin
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough” — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott …
More:
BBC, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Wccftech, and Seeking Alpha
| Reuters: |
More:
The Guardian, About Facebook, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, Financial Times, Fortune, Ad Age, CNET, Financial Times, Politico, Vox, CNN, Facebook, TheStreet, Android Headlines, Digiday, The Overspill, Beyond Search, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Music Ally, MarketWatch, Engadget, Social Media Today, Search Engine Land, Business Insider Australia, Neowin, Business Insider, and The Hill
Tweets: @nick_clegg, @rmac18, @carlquintanilla, @amahnke, @euanphilipps, @instyle, @jbenton, @daniel_sugarman, @zeynep, @scientits, @justinhendrix, @jayrosen_nyu, @paulbernaluk, @alexthomas, @homelanddems, @obrien, @arrington, @jason_kint, @mikeisaac, @rmac18, @mr_mcfly, @jesselehrich, @oliverdarcy, @ericboehlert, @tonyromm, @nxthompson, @b_fung, @thetimes, @jayrosen_nyu, @juddlegum, and @mikeisaac
| CNN: |
More:
The Verge, Washington Post, GamesIndustry.biz, LinkedIn, The Hill, and Reclaim The Net
Tweets: @cnn, @ritholtz, @jamesrhine, @jangles, @steveguest, @repjimbanks, @chrisstrub, @kerrymflynn, @dylanbyers, @b_fung, @b_fung, and @kyurieff
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs — Apple CEO Tim Cook, the last chief executive of four big tech companies targeted in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust probe …
Source:
@karaswisher. More:
New York Times, New York Times, CNBC, Silicon Valley Business …, CCN.com, NBC News, Wccftech, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Engadget, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, news.com.au, Axios, Reuters, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook says it continued sharing data of inactive users with around 5,000 developers even after their apps' 90-day cut-off date expired; issue is now fixed — A Facebook privacy mechanism blocks apps from receiving user data if users didn't use an app for 90 days.
More:
About Facebook, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Android Headlines, BetaNews, and BGR India
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10 — Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Facebook said.
More:
The Verge, Variety, Telegraph, Tubefilter, PCMag, Neowin, Mashable, Business Insider, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @kerrymflynn, @joshconstine, @refsrc, @kerrymflynn, @mattnavarra, @turnernovak, @sidharthajha, @ingridlunden, and @wongmjane
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Twitter removed a picture from a Trump tweet after receiving a DMCA complaint from the NYT, which owns the rights to the photo taken in 2015 — Twitter has removed a picture from a tweet by President Trump on Tuesday after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) …
More:
CNET, CNBC, TorrentFreak, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Reuters, Reclaim The Net, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @ilvestoomas, @judiciarygop, @kylegriffin1, @jackposobiec, @stclairashley, and @neerajka
| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double spending users' funds — A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found.| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: India's additional scrutiny of imports from China is causing delays in operations at plants owned by Foxconn and impacting other companies like Dell — Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's additional scrutiny of imports from China has disrupted operations …
More:
AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
As part of UK antitrust investigation of Google, the CMA says Safari's use of Google as its default search engine is “a significant barrier to entry” for rivals — (Reuters) - The payments by Alphabet Inc's Google to Apple Inc to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create …
More:
The Verge, ZDNet, Protocol, iMore, Digital Trends, Neowin, Android Police, iPhone Hacks, Trusted Reviews, MacRumors, BBC, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dhh, @glenngabe, @charlesarthur, @gartenberg, and @benedictevans
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A look at “Prison TikTok”, a subgenre where inmates use contraband cellphones to share dance videos, funny skits, and broadcast their living conditions — The lives of incarcerated people are usually hidden from society. On prison TikTok, they're going viral.
Tweets: @ramulous, @lmatsakis, @wired, @godfatherrach, @vtitunik, and @lmatsakis
| Joseph Tsidulko / CRN: |
VMware to acquire Datrium, which provides disaster recovery services for hybrid cloud environments, for an undisclosed sum; Datrium had previously raised $170M — The deal for the hyper-converged infrastructure startup looks to advance VMware's hybrid cloud standing with a cost-optimized solution for backing up data in the cloud.| Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal: |
A mystery shopper who irked online merchants by abandoning thousands of shopping carts carrying only one item was a Google bot scraping pricing information — Merchants have seen a lot of browsing by John Smith, who picks up items, then leaves without buying; ‘it started getting out of hand’
More:
The Verge, Search Engine Roundtable, and Search Engine Land
Tweets: @akumar, @michaelcbender, and @aexm
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google says it has discontinued the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, with remaining stock only available through 3rd parties; Google has yet to announce a rumored successor — In a statement provided to Android Police, Google has confirmed that its Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones are now discontinued.
More:
ZDNet, Gizmodo, Gizchina, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Wccftech, Android Central, Android Authority, The Next Web, XDA Developers, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, BGR India, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, Engadget, Droid Life, SlashGear, Neowin, 9to5Google, and Mashable. Thanks:@rdrv3
| Tali Arbel / Associated Press: |
California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination because he is a Dalit, the lowest caste in the Indian caste system — NEW YORK (AP) — California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters because he is a Dalit Indian.
More:
Reuters
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Analysis of 1B+ leaked credentials: “123456” accounts for one out of every 142 passwords, making it the most commonly reused password over the last five years — The ‘123456’ password was spotted 7 million times across a data trove of one billion leaked credentials …
Tweets: @spencerchen
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:
App Spotlight: Google Sheets Magic Lookup for Zoho CRM — Our App Spotlight brings you hand-picked apps to enhance the power of your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all apps, integrations …
App Spotlight: Google Sheets Magic Lookup for Zoho CRM — Our App Spotlight brings you hand-picked apps to enhance the power of your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all apps, integrations …
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:
Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
The Atlantic's CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
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.
Sources:
Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Meta's biggest AI bet yet
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.
Lenny's Podcast:
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Invest Like the Best:
Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning
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:
The AI Race Has a Leaderboard | Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos
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 12:10 PM ET, July 2, 2020.
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
Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Brett LoGiurato / Status:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, TechCrunch, Business Wire, PhoneArena, Dish, Engadget, Telecompetitor, Gizmodo, FierceWireless, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Android Police, Neowin, Android Central, Android Authority, and Light Reading
Tweets: @karlbode, @jake_k, and @proffionasm
Earlier Picks
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More:
9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, and CNET
Tweets: @ericlin, @markmobility, @susanlitv, @michaelsteeber, @kifleswing, @chancehmiller, and @michaelsteeber
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |