|
September 18, 2020, 3:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Commerce Department announces that it will ban US downloads of and business transactions with TikTok and WeChat on Sunday — - The Commerce Department announced it will ban U.S. business transactions with China-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday.
More:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, Reuters, MIT Technology Review, Vox, Engadget, Wired, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, GeekWire, Popular Mechanics, PingWest, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, BBC, Axios, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Slate, The Verge, Decrypt, Protocol, International Business Times, Developer Tech News, Adweek, Pocketables, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Daily Dot, Reuters, Observer, Droid Life, CNET, Game Rant, PYMNTS.com, TalkAndroid.com, Computer Business Review, Gizmodo, WRAL TechWire, Pocket-lint, Tubefilter, Android Central, Neowin, SlashGear, Fortune, Tom's Guide, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Washington Post, MacRumors, NBC Bay Area, Deadline, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, Digital Trends, Politico, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, and TweakTown News
Tweets: @v_ness, @mosseri, @alexstamos, @levie, @pkafka, @paytm, @andrewrsorkin, @etnowlive, @pkafka, @stshank, @eric_seufert, @dylanbyers, @nxthompson, @elkmovie, @levie, @gruber, @alexstamos, @slpng_giants, @kurtwagner8, @alexstamos, @jeffjarvis, @anildash, @jason_kint, @meridithmcgraw, @repmarkgreen, @emilygorcenski, @okboost, @billweircnn, @commercegov, @secretaryross, @robpegoraro, @bgrueskin, @tysonhutchins_, @selinawangtv, @bklynactivemama, @indopac_info, @parkermolloy, @ibishblog, @danprimack, @davidakaye, @jeffjarvis, @kaitlancollins, @larrymadowo, @mattnavarra, @larrymadowo, @natsocold, @martinsfp, @tysonhutchins_, @cnbcnow, @pkafka, @andreakuszewski, @tonyromm, @bobbychesney, @advil, @beirutspring, @alexeheath, @rmac18, @sallyshin, @ezralevant, @wongmjane, @russellbrandom, @gerberkawasaki, @scottmonty, @dandrezner, @alexeheath, @hshaban, @mr_jsheffield, and @kellymakena
| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Banning TikTok from US app stores but allowing it to operate until Nov. 12 prevents TikTok from patching any security vulnerabilities found in the meantime — Any TikTok vulnerabilities patched by ByteDance will continue to persist for Americans and Americans only under Trump's new TikTok ban.
More:
New York Times, The Irish Times, AppleInsider, CNN, AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, Appleosophy, Techdirt, PCWorld, TechRepublic, GameSpot, Privacy News Online …, NBC News, 9to5Google, PaymentsSource, International Business Times, BuzzFeed News, Android Headlines, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @kateconger, @hypervisible, @mrjeremylevy, @willknight, @freedomofpress, @sixiaotang, @sinanaral, @nickconfessore, @selenalarson, @dylanbyers, @brianspegele, @comparativist, @sqiouyilu, @ewong, @torekelandpllc, @eanmeyer, @vice, @reckless, @josephfcox, @lorenzofb, @freedomofpress, @mikaelthalen, and @ryanaraine
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Steven Mnuchin is attempting to push through a TikTok deal enabling it to retain some Chinese ownership, despite security concerns from lawmakers — The deal would let the U.S. government approve the company's board and require TikTok to plan to go public
More:
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Axios, International Business Times, dot.LA, The Interface, Vanity Fair, South China Morning Post, and Newser. Tweets: @kantrowitz
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google pulls India's Paytm app from Play Store ahead of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament; sources say for repeatedly violating its gambling policies — Google has pulled Indian financial services app Paytm from the Play Store for repeatedly violating its policies.| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will open its online store in India on September 23 — Apple announced today that it plans to open its online store in India on September 23. The expansion will bring direct sales and an improved shopping experience to customers in the region for the first time.
More:
Apple, Apple, Engadget, Android Authority, MediaNama, Gizchina, Coinspeaker, and International Business Times
Tweets: @tim_cook, @keshav4005, @beingdogra, @praval, @rmantri, @jhaverinator, @kansaratva, @krishnapermi, @sub8u, @sruthijith, @r3dash, @neerajarora91, @pranavdixit, @byhimanshu, @_karan, and @michaelsteeber
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Epic says it will shut down Fortnite: Save the World on macOS on September 23rd — Epic and Apple's squabble will pull the plug on Mac support for this PvE version of ‘Fortnite.’ — Fortnite: Save the World — a castle building players-vs-zombies version of the game that preceded …
More:
Epic Games' Fortnite, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TechSpot, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iMore, MacRumors, Trusted Reviews, Micky, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @fortnitegame, @jcenters, @mjtsai, @jcenters, @stevestreza, @the_thing_doer, @reneritchie, @davezatz, @defaulting12, and @st_eppel
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
24 of 35 living American Turing award winners, including Alphabet chair John Hennessy, endorse Biden, citing the harm of Trump's immigration policies to tech — They said the administration's policies were driving away technology talent and could do long-term damage to their industry.
Tweets: @puiwingtam and @ylecun
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
CEO of fraud detection startup NS8 arrested by the FBI on charges of misleading investors who invested $123M in his company, a deal in which he earned $17M+ — The CEO of a startup that sold fraud prevention software is facing fraud charges after he was arrested Thursday by the FBI in Las Vegas.
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, CyberScoop, Forbes, and Crunchbase News
Tweets: @ocramius, @shanvav, @patrickmea_, @clearing_fog, @jasonlk, @bradmossesq, @alexrkonrad, and @quinnypig
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Neobank Chime raises $485M Series F at a $14.5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months — - Chime, the start-up that delivers banking services through mobile phones, has closed a fundraising that values the company at $14.5 billion, CNBC has learned exclusively.
More:
TechCrunch, TheStreet, and Finextra
Tweets: @hugh_son, @smarty, @callumburroughs, @joshelman, @homebrew, and @alex
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NBCU threatens to pull its TV Everywhere channels from Roku as early as this weekend amid Peacock negotiations — Late Thursday, Comcast-owned NBCUniversal notified Roku that the media company plans to force Roku to remove access to NBCU's TV Everywhere channels on the Roku platform, including the flagship NBC app.
More:
The Verge, CNET, Bloomberg, Light Reading, Android Headlines, Slashdot, Cord Cutters News, The Streamable, Deadline, and Adweek
| Bloomberg: |
EU is considering new rules that would likely require Apple to give competitors access to the NFC tech used for payments in its iPhones — - EU antitrust authorities are already investigating NFC access — Statement part of EU digital finance package to come next week| Bevin Fletcher / FierceWireless: |
Ericsson acquires Cradlepoint, a wireless wide area network gear maker, for $1.1B — Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson is acquiring U.S.-based Cradlepoint for $1.1 billion, as it looks to expand its presence and accelerate 5G adoption in the enterprise market.| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
It makes no sense for two large and powerful companies like Apple and Google to completely control software distribution on mobile phones and it must stop — I have written extensively on this blog over the last decade and a half about the significant negative consequences … | Rob Walker / Marker: |
Despite a shift to remote work amid COVID-19, Slack is having a hard time living up to its hype as layoffs/slowed hiring among its clients undercut its billings — In the war for the remote office, why isn't the hyped messaging app pulling a Zoom? — It's no secret that the arrival …
Tweets: @usmanbk77, @kozemoze, @mrkr, @appletwo78, @kosyoffice, @medium, and @gloria_oh
| Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: |
WarnerMedia's streaming service DC Universe to rebrand as DC Universe Infinite and become a comics hub, with its scripted original series moving to HBO Max — “Harley Quinn” renewed for Season 3 as DC Universe transitions into a comic-book subscription service| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Ilkka Paananen, CEO of mobile game maker Supercell, on Tencent's majority stake, attempting to create another hit franchise, and team building — Mobile games maker Supercell has been one of the great, understated, breakthroughs of the European startup world.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7, S7+ review: nice displays with snappy performance but DeX still feels unfinished and widescreen aspect ratio is bad for productivity work — Samsung's latest tablets are saddled by familiar problems — If you want to buy a tablet that can possibly replace your laptop …
More:
Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, The Indian Express, Android Central, Engadget, Android Central, and Neowin
Tweets: @andrewmartonik and @dcseifert
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
DOJ charges six people who allegedly bribed Amazon employees and contractors since at least 2017 in a scheme to benefit some third-party sellers — - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday charged six individuals who allegedly bribed Amazon employees and contractors … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Internet Archive says it is using Cloudflare's reconfigured Always On caching tools to improve its Wayback Machine archiving — The Internet Archive and the infrastructure company are teaming up to make sure sites never fully go down. — The web is decentralized and fluid by design … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: mobile game maker Scopely is in discussions to raise at least $200M at a valuation of around $3B, up from a valuation of $1.9B in March — - Valuation would be an increase from $1.9 billion this year — NewView and Wellington expected to lead the funding round
Tweets: @katie_roof
| Mark Gardiner / New York Times: |
US auto insurers are using AI to generate nearly instantaneous repair claims, using only photos of the damage, with COVID-19 spurring on adoption — Using algorithms, tech companies are helping insurers speed up the process after an accident, make it more accurate and keep estimators out of the field — a plus during a pandemic.
Tweets: @tractable_ai, @sub8u, and @nytimesbusiness
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
German media: a patient died after ransomware attack forced a hospital to send them elsewhere; hackers backed down after police told them target was a hospital — A person in a life-threatening condition passed away after being forced to go to a more distant hospital due to a ransomware attack.
More:
Ars Technica, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Associated Press, HackRead, and Graham Cluley
| R. Dallon Adams / TechRepublic: |
IBM launches Mayflower Autonomous Ship, an AI-powered research vessel off the coast of England, with a trans-Atlantic crossing scheduled in 2021 — The research vessel pushed off from Plymouth, England; a nod to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's historic trip.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.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Simplifying benefits management in Zoho People — Let's consider a new hire on their first day of orientation. They receive a brief introduction to the benefits plans, and almost immediately, questions start to surface …
Simplifying benefits management in Zoho People — Let's consider a new hire on their first day of orientation. They receive a brief introduction to the benefits plans, and almost immediately, questions start to surface …
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
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Sam Blond from Monaco
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Training Data:
Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars
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 Sales Framework Every Founder Needs | Mark Roberge
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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 3:10 PM ET, September 18, 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
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Bloomberg: |
More:
Ars Technica, Associated Press, Financial Times, The Verge, ABC News, Polygon, Game Rant, Gamasutra, CNN, South China Morning Post, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, PingWest, Micky, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @leojtravis10, @koush, @tommackenzietv, and @futterish
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
More:
The Keyword, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Google, Michael Tsai, Neowin, Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, Appleosophy, TechRadar, Input, TechSpot, and SlashGear
Tweets: @masterdevwi and @firt
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
More:
Laptop Mag, International Business Times, Thurrott, Softpedia News, Polygon, Micky, CCN.com, Gizchina, GameSpot, Game Rant, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @playstation and @playstation