|
October 13, 2021, 9:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Activision announces the Ricochet anti-cheating system for Call of Duty: Warzone, which uses a PC kernel-level driver and ML to examine player behavior — Activision is cracking down on Call of Duty cheaters — Activision and Raven Software are finally cracking down on cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone.
More:
Call of Duty, Activision Support, VICE, YouTube, PC Gamer, USA Today, GamesRadar, Comic Book, Neowin, Shacknews, Eurogamer.net, Den of Geek, GamingBolt, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Polygon, Game Rant, PC Gamer, Dot Esports, Engadget, GameSpot, SlashGear, TechSpot, and IGN
Tweets: @webjedi, @shgames, @lkarlslund, @pepverbsnouns, @charlieintel, @cloudthejoke, @recordscod, and @foxhoundfps
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook says it now counts activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures to help protect them and will remove sexual content targeting celebrities — Facebook said it will remove “severe sexualizing content” targeting public figures — including celebrities …
More:
About Facebook, Reuters, Associated Press, Forbes, The Wrap, TheBlaze, UNILAD, Newsbusters, Social Media Today, The Hill, Engadget, and The Verge
Tweets: @brian_armstrong, @noupside, @jilliancyork, @marielzatalks, @julieposetti, @julieposetti, @ggreenwald, @conspirator0, @caitoz, @jackposobiec, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @katestarbird, @davisantigone, @camillefrancois, @julieposetti, @noupside, @vishwanathsarng, @exavierpope, @mikeelgan, @markamesexiled, @zekuzelalem, @zekuzelalem, @alexvoica, @zekuzelalem, @lanceulanoff, and @alexthomp
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is exploring adding health-related features to AirPods, including for enhancing hearing, reading body temperature, and monitoring posture — Earbuds could be offered as hearing aids and include an in-ear thermometer and posture warnings — Apple Inc. is studying ways … | Reuters: |
Internal documents show Amazon's Indian arm ran a systematic campaign to create knockoff goods and boost them in search, starting in 2016 — A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results …
More:
The Verge, The Register, PYMNTS.com, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, CNBC, KnowTechie, Gizmodo, BetaNews, New York Post, Input, Protocol, Insider, and Engadget
Tweets: @nickconfessore, @adityakalra, @adityakalra, @mkumaramangalam, @vatsrishap, @adityakalra, @theomnizaddy, @ronmknox, @jbarro, @benedictevans, @adityakalra, @devjyotghoshal, @reuters, @rachelbovard, @sarthakgh, @adityakalra, @banditelli, @guptar, @matthewstoller, @jasonoverstreet, @praveendel, @abhinavagarwal, @danteatkins, @danpriceseattle, @mattyglesias, @akshayalladi, @jimseven, and @ronmknox
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Research: China's bitcoin hashrate share fell from 44% to 0% between May and July, as the US rose from 17% in April to 35% in August and Kazakhstan rose to 18% — Crackdown on digital currencies knocks country's share of crypto production to zero — The US overtook China as the world's biggest source … | Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Facebook sets some internal message boards to private, including discussions on platform safety and election integrity, limiting which employees have access — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it was making some of its internal online discussion groups private, in an effort to minimize leaks.
More:
Engadget and The Verge
Tweets: @dorocren, @getwired, @stevesi, @profcarroll, @gretchenspeters, @futureboy, @slpng_giants, @bengrosser, @ivohdaalder, @orientaljanedoe, @rmac18, and @yoda
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 7 review: bigger display, dust resistance, and multiple timers, but only one day battery life and no third-party watch faces or Qi charging — A bigger screen and faster charging are nice, but not reasons to upgrade — The most important questions to ask …
More:
Wall Street Journal, Rene Ritchie/YouTube, TechCrunch, MacRumors, MacRumors, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, YouTube, news.com.au, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, British GQ, CNBC, CNET, iJustine/YouTube, CNN, Above Avalon, The Independent, Daring Fireball, Input, Pocket-lint, inews.co.uk, MobileSyrup, Daily Express, TechRadar, Wccftech, AppleInsider, iMore, iPhone Hacks, Six Colors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and NextPit
| Tara Deschamps / Canadian Press: |
Up to 70% of Instacart couriers in the US and Canada could walk off the job this weekend, demanding at least a 10% default tip, commissions, and pay by order — Canadian and American Instacart workers plan to walk off the job this weekend in a bid to secure better pay and more benefits.
More:
The Markup, MobileSyrup, and Gig Workers Collective
Tweets: @clairekelloway, @darakerr, and @gigwc
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to commission an independent human rights review of its law enforcement and government contracts, in response to a shareholder proposal — After shareholder proposal, Microsoft to commission independent report on company's contracts. — Microsoft Corp. …
More:
Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, Open MIC, and GeekWire
Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @carnage4life, and @openmicmedia
| Cathy Gellis / Techdirt: |
An overview of possible Section 230 reforms and why each proposed change might as well be an outright repeal, given each one's practical effect — Some lawmakers are candid about their desire to repeal Section 230 entirely. Others, however, express more of an interest to try to split this baby …
| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
TikTok now lets LIVE creators mute specific viewers for up to an entire livestream, and says it removed 81M+ videos that violated its TOS in Q2 — As it looks to evolve the use of its live-streaming option into eCommerce, as part of its broader monetization push, TikTok is adding …
More:
TikTok, MobileSyrup, Communicate Online, Adweek, TechCrunch, and Engadget
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and Sony are planning a semiconductor factory in Japan, opening in 2024 and costing ~$7B, half of which will come from the Japanese government — Toyota group parts maker Denso considers signing up — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker …
More:
Reuters, 9to5Mac, Telecoms.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @dnystedt, @mit_obe, @kennedycsis, @pareekhjain, @debjani_ghosh_, @dnystedt, and @dnystedt
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Mindbody acquires ClassPass, a subscription-based fitness marketplace recently valued at $1B, in an all-stock deal and raises $500M led by Sixth Street — ClassPass, the subscription-based fitness marketplace most recently valued at $1 billion, is today announcing that it has been acquired by Mindbody.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Weights & Biases, which builds tools for machine learning researchers, raises a $135M Series C at a ~$1B valuation from Felicis and others — Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake! — What do you call AI these days?| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
More:
CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, ZDNet, TechRepublic, Wccftech, Forbes, and Engadget
Tweets: @gregjoz, @dylandkt, @dsccross, @markgurman, @dsccross, @iphonedo, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @backlon
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
More:
Bloomberg, The Register, MacRumors, MobileSyrup, Fortune, Barron's Online, FierceWireless, Reuters, KnowTechie, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Gamereactor UK, iMore, Benzinga, Coinspeaker, and Apple Must. Tweets: @philiped
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: competitors are gaining on Huawei and Apple in the 5G equipment and handset markets; US is catching up fast to China in 5G subscriptions per capita — The competition among equipment makers, countries and cellphone companies is heated. Here are the leaders in each of those races.
Tweets: @meghanbobrowsky, @atbwebb, and @chinarealtime
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Payment processing and automation company AvidXchange closed flat in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at ~$4.9B, after raising $660M in an IPO — - Fintech firm raised $660 million in IPO priced at top of range — CEO sees ‘massive white-space opportunity’ in middle market| PYMNTS.com: |
GRIN, which helps brands manage influencer marketing campaigns, raises $110M Series B led by Lone Pine Capital — Creator management platform GRIN has closed a $110 million Series B funding round, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 13) announcement. — The fundraising effort, led by Lone Pine Capital …
More:
PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Sacramento Business Journal
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Matik, which offers businesses data-driven and automated tools for making personalized PowerPoint presentations for customers, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — Matik, which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations …
More:
Andreessen Horowitz. Tweets: @kshenster, @nik_mijic, @menloventures, @npilosof, and @bayareawriter
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:
Zoho Sign takes a bite of Apple's latest: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate — It's September, and you know the drill. Apple just handed us a fresh batch of releases, and there's plenty to look forward …
Zoho Sign takes a bite of Apple's latest: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate — It's September, and you know the drill. Apple just handed us a fresh batch of releases, and there's plenty to look forward …
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:
A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares
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:
AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Sources:
Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI
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.
Training Data:
Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Andrew Feldman from Cerebras
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:10 PM ET, October 13, 2021.
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
TMZ.com:Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
More:
CNET, PCWorld, ZDNet, PR Newswire, Engadget, SlashGear, Engadget, techadvisor.com, Laptop Mag, 9to5Google, Laptop Mag, CNET, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Windows Blog, XDA Developers, Liliputing, Ars Technica, Techaeris, and AndroidPolice. Tweets: @mattk
Earlier Picks
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
More:
NBC News, The White House, Washington Post, Reuters, The Hill, CNET, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @martinmatishak, @ericgeller, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
More:
PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Bankless Times, Bitcoinist.com, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @gponcin, @collision, @brian_armstrong, @passy, @pinboard, and @stefdelev