|
March 30, 2022, 3:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Washington Post: |
Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory for a campaign to paint TikTok as a danger to the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
More:
Insider, Protocol, TechCrunch, The Verge, Variety, International Business Times, The Guardian, The Hill, Daily Mail, Dexerto, Forbes, Input, New York Post, The Week, Garbage Day, iMore, Engadget, Raw Story, Mashable, KnowTechie, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @willoremus, @drewharwell, @profcarroll, @blacknell, @taylorlorenz, @justinhendrix, @craigsilverman, @yaeleisenstat, @willoremus, @jackhevans, @tiffanycampbell, @brandyzadrozny, @subtooptimus, @leighalexander, @taylorlorenz, @genepark, @alexeheath, @mikerugnetta, @carolecadwalla, @jongraywb, @profcarroll, @jamesrbuk, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @kashhill, @serwewx, @nitashatiku, @karlbode, @tysonbrody, @alexweprin, @justinhendrix, @davidsirota, @hshaban, @nitashatiku, @ryanlcooper, @taylorlorenz, @jasonpjason, @drewharwell, @adamserwer, @joshelman, @larakate, @mayazi, @alyssafranke, @taylorlorenz, @washingtonpost, @mikerugnetta, @_shamgod, @stokel, @ryanlcooper, @stevekovach, @blmohr, @karlbode, @jeffsonstein, @jason_kint, @resnikoff, @adamblickstein, @johnmtaylor, @amaramarasingam, @joshconstine, @brianboland, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @ssdai, and @karlbode. Thanks:@aaronjschaffer
| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “fully committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players who lost funds and is “still working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants …
More:
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, CNET, Washington Post, The Hill, Livemint, CoinDesk, CoinJournal, CryptoPotato, and CoinDesk
| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple and Meta divulged customer data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests, after Discord confirmed fulfilling a forged EDR — Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials …
More:
MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, and Slashdot
Tweets: @alexstamos, @briankrebs, @sarahfrier, @evacide, @pathedger18, @incilin, @tonyromm, @josheidelson, @rhinosoros, @rayredacted, @josephfcox, and @michaelguimarin
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds more Markdown support to Docs on the web, letting users format documents using text shortcuts, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format …
More:
Google Workspace Updates, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Phandroid, Chrome Unboxed, 512 Pixels, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, and TechRadar
Tweets: @tomeraberbach, @pierce, @maguay, @anildash, @ow, and @triketora
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to expand its financial services by adding payment processing, lending risk assessment, credit checks, fraud analysis, and more — Apple Inc. is developing its own payment processing technology and infrastructure for future financial products …
More:
MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @somospostpc, @ldrogen, @markgurman, @charleyma, @bcheungz, @bdsams, and @lisaabramowicz1
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to use its ML model MUM to improve search results for users in a crisis, directing them to help for suicide, sexual assault, and domestic abuse — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
More:
Protocol, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Keyword, and MIT Technology Review
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it failed to control and audit for two years, to SoftBank, to speed up a New York IPO — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
More:
The Register, Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Benzinga, CNBC, and Reuters
Tweets: @paulmozur, @muradahmed, @dylan522p, and @jamesplloyd
| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows the company is working on a podcasts homepage with RSS feed ingestion, audio ads, analytics, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
More:
TechCrunch, 9to5Google, and TechRadar
Tweets: @davidtvrdon, @chrisphin, @misener, @stephenrobles, @mattnavarra, @matt, and @evoterra
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands its service area in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
More:
Waypoint, Bloomberg, Engadget, Associated Press, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Neowin, Reuters, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @waymo, @dmitri_dolgov, and @andyjayhawk
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send 7B voice messages daily on average and adds a waveform visualization, pause/resume, draft preview, out of chat playback, and more — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.
More:
WhatsApp.com, CNET, The Verge, Tech Advisor, The Economic Times, Thurrott, Engadget, and WABetaInfo
Tweets: @wcathcart and @wcathcart
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its $30B live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tightening content censorship — Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
More:
TechSpot, Benzinga, and Reuters
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @paulmozur, @mattnavarra, and @lizalinwsj
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds an Appointment Schedule to Calendar, letting users present available periods for a meeting and send a “booking page” URL for others to pick from — Calendar can now generate a webpage of available time slots for a user to pick from.
More:
Google Workspace Updates, 9to5Google, Protocol, TechRadar, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @werty, @chrismessina, @carnage4life, and @vaibhavsisinty
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
More:
Decrypt, CoinDesk, Light Reading, Stacey on IoT, and CryptoSlate
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the ECASH Act, which would direct the US Treasury to pilot digital dollars that would be stored on hardware and not on a distributed blockchain ledger — If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. — When you hear the phrase “digital cash,” what comes to mind?
More:
Congressman Stephen Lynch, The Verge, TechRadar, and Payments Dive
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @raulacarrillo, @giladedelman, @repstephenlynch, and @repstephenlynch
| New York Times: |
Sources detail the internal confusion among Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce rapidly shifting content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine — The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion.
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @satariano, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @jhdearen, and @rmac18
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK's FCA extends a key deadline, set for Thursday, for approving crypto companies; the FCA has so far approved 33 companies — The U.K.'s financial regulator is extending a Thursday deadline for its approval of crypto operations, giving a dozen firms more time to get their applications or affairs in order.
More:
Bloomberg, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Finextra, CoinDesk, CoinGape, CoinDesk, and The Times
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle
| Malique Morris / The Information: |
Sources: Stripe-backed one-click checkout service Fast generated just ~$600K in 2021 revenue; source says Fast tried raising a $100M Series C in late 2021 — Several startups have been racing to sell software known as one-click checkout to retailers such as The Honest Company and Forever 21 …
More:
TechCrunch. Tweets: @carnage4life, @amir, @lauramandaro, @nikmilanovic, @carnage4life, @bobbyallyn, and @buccocapital
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
As Netflix cracks down on password sharing, a survey of 4,400 US consumers shows 33% of subscribers share their password — About one-third of U.S. subscribers to Netflix share their login credentials with others, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group.
More:
Leichtman Research Group, TechSpot, TIME, Light Reading, BGR, PCMag, iMore, Pop Culture Brain Daily, and MobileSyrup
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations — Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher
More:
Engadget, Newslit Daily, ConcernedDeepMinder, and City A.M.
Tweets: @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @georginaclee, @madhumita29, @mikarv, @alphabetworkers, @orientaljanedoe, and @sam_l_shead
| TechCrunch: |
A brief overview of Y Combinator's Demo Day for the Winter 2022 batch, with 414 companies in total and the first batch to receive YC's new standard deal — The TechCrunch team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present.
Source:
Y Combinator Blog. More:
TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Vancouver Tech Journal, San Francisco Business Journal, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @marshallk and @joonian
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FedEx partners with Elroy Air to trial the Chaparral C1 autonomous drone, which can carry up to 500 pounds of packages, in Texas next year — FedEx plans to test a different method of moving goods between depots starting next year, which could speed up the delivery process.
More:
TechSpot, PCMag, Barron's Online, Forbes, and Mashable
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
IT and software consultancy firm Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant stock down 12%+ — Just days after police in the U.K. arrested seven people over suspected connections to the now-infamous hacking and extortion group, Lapsus$ is claiming its latest victim.
More:
BleepingComputer, Threatpost, VentureBeat, Seek Reinvention, Tech Monitor, The Verge, AppleInsider, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @alvierid
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Q&A with 2021 Turing Award winner Jack Dongarra, an expert in linear algebra algorithms at the University of Tennessee, on hyperscale cloud computing and more — Even Jack Dongarra has a hard time wrapping his head around the number used to represent “exascale” computing: 1018.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites that help create or set up user accounts, once the developer is granted access to the appropriate app entitlement — Apple today informed developers of “reader” apps that they are able to sign up for access to an “External Link Account Entitlement” …
More:
9to5Mac, Apple Developer, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @mekentosj, @reneritchie, @reneritchie, and @reneritchie
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dagger, a new DevOps service co-founded by Docker's Solomon Hykes, launches in public beta and announces a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — It's been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution.
More:
InfoWorld and SiliconANGLE
| Reuters: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Google bundling Maps with its other software illegally stifles competition — The U.S. Justice Department has breathed new life into an investigation of Google Maps to determine if bundling the service together with other Google software illegally …
Tweets: @leah_nylen
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands Blend, which lets two friends merge their tastes in a playlist, to up to 10 users and selected artists, including BTS and Charli XCX — Spotify's popular playlist creation tool, Blend, is getting its biggest update since its offiical launch last year.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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
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:
Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
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:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
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.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
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.
Training Data:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
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:
Matthew Smith — Natural Gas: The Next Bottleneck
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
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 3:30 PM ET, March 30, 2022.
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Berber Jin / The Information: |
More:
Bloomberg and Technical.ly
Tweets: @berber_jin1, @patrickmoorhead, @benfischersbj, @chandrarsrikant, @zachtratar, and @ckrewson
| Michail / GSMArena.com: |
More:
Ars Technica, Counterpoint Research, ZDNet, Android Police, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Gizchina, Notebookcheck.net, TechSpot, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @mklaehne, @ldignan, @shiraovide, and @yevp
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |