|
July 14, 2022, 12:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| The Verge: |
Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022 — Microsoft will become Netflix's ‘global advertising technology and sales partner’ — Netflix is partnering …
More:
About Netflix, The Official Microsoft Blog, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, Appleosophy, Gizmodo, Variety, Australian Financial Review, OnMSFT.com, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Dive, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, The Streamable, Neowin, Thurrott, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconANGLE, Slashdot, Protocol, Hollywood Reporter, and Broadband TV News
Tweets: @satyanadella, @daveleeft, @jamesclayton5, @modestproposal1, @sherman4949, @aripap, @jfruh, @tsuvik, @azalben, @kelseymsutton, @fxshaw, @xandr, and @xpangler
| CNBC: |
Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, declaring assets and liabilities between $1B and $10B, plus $167M in cash on hand for operations — - Crypto company Celsius has started the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
More:
Business Wire, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, blog.celsius.network, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Blockworks, Protocol, Fortune, The Verge, Cointelegraph, Reuters, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @celsiusnetwork, @ben_mckenzie, @kr00ney, @caseynewton, @silvermanjacob, and @wublockchain
| Bloomberg: |
Celsius has repaid $900M+ in debt to DeFi platforms while its customer withdrawal freeze enters a full month, raising a legal debate on who should be paid first — As Celsius Network Ltd.'s customer withdrawal freeze enters a full month, the beleaguered crypto lender has paid back a string …
More:
Department of Financial …, PYMNTS.com, web3lunch, The Block, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, CryptoPotato, and Reuters
Tweets: @californiadfpi and @minuswells
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla Director of AI Andrej Karpathy announces he is leaving the company after about five years; Karpathy led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot — - Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company. — Karpathy worked for Elon Musk's …
More:
The Information, Benzinga, Insider, Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, TESLARATI, and Electrek
Tweets: @karpathy, @elonmusk, @karpathy, @quinnypig, @carnage4life, @benedictevans, @wholemarsblog, @wholemarsblog, and @caseynewton
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission by Ring owners, saying it makes “good-faith determination” in such cases — Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended …
More:
Politico, Vox, Senator Edward Markey …, Gizmodo, Reuters, The Daily Beast, Amazon, Engadget, The Guardian, Input, PCMag, International Business Times, The Hill, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @thomasfuchs, @docdre, @marshallproj, @senmarkey, @dellcam, @samfbiddle, and @edmarkey
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first line of Arm-based VMs powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each with up to 4GB of memory — It's been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances, and Azure, which also recently launched Arm VMs.
Source:
Google Cloud Blog and Ampere Computing. More:
SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, Reuters, InfoWorld, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and HPCwire. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the rise and fall of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, whose founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies bet everything on prices only going up — Days before Bitcoin fell decisively below $40,000, and two months before his hedge fund went bankrupt, Su Zhu sat down for an interview …
More:
Protos, CNBC, Bitcoin News, The Defiant, crypto.news, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, and Bloomberg
| Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: |
Uber is sued by 500+ women in the US over sexual assault by some drivers, alleging the company knew about sexual misconduct on rides, including rape, since 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc. is being sued by more than 500 women across the US who claim to have been assaulted by drivers on the platform.
More:
PR Newswire, CNET, Forbes, The Daily Beast, CNBC, New York Post, TechCrunch, BBC, and San Francisco Business Journal
Tweets: @moorehn and @stacyperman
| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: crypto startups received $6.76B in VC funding in Q2 2022, down 31% from a record $9.85B in Q1 2022 — Crypto startups finally felt the effects of an economic storm that has been cooling digital currencies, public stocks and venture capital all year.| Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, halting the bill's progress until the fall, amid Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
More:
Metro.co.uk, Politicalfiber.com, and BBC
| Shweta Sharma / CSO: |
Barracuda survey: 94% of 800 senior IT and security officers of industrial IoT or OT systems faced some form of attack on their systems in the past 12 months — A report commissioned by cloud security company Barracuda found that 94% of respondents have experienced some form of attack … | Rachel Cheung / VICE: |
A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site — She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian. — RC| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Qustodio analysis of 400K family profiles: by 2021's end, young users spent an average of 91 minutes on TikTok per day, surpassing 56 minutes spent on YouTube — Kids and teens are now spending more time watching videos on TikTok than on YouTube. — In fact, that's been the case since June 2020 …
Tweets: @chriskeall
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Uplevel, which uses data from software tools to help engineering teams analyze their effectiveness, has raised $20M led by Cota Capital — The news: Seattle startup Uplevel landed $20 million to fuel growth. The 5-year-old company helps engineering teams analyze the effectiveness …
More:
PRWeb, SiliconANGLE, Uplevel, Forbes, FinSMEs, and Seattle Business Journal. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
China's crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs in its tech sector, but some workers are relieved to quit the industry's “996” work culture — A government crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs, but some are relieved to exit the grueling ‘996’ work life.
Tweets: @vickiturk, @cengizyar, and @alvinfoo
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Unity plans to merge with app monetization service ironSource, valued at $4.4B in the all-stock deal; Silver Lake and Sequoia will invest $1B after the merger — Update: the companies have confirmed the news here. IronSource is being valued at $4.4 billion in the all-stock deal.
More:
Unity Blog, Forbes, Kotaku, Barron's Online, Mobile Dev Memo, Business Wire, TheGamer, Pocket Gamer.biz, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Game Developer, Stock Quest, San Francisco Business Journal, Geektime, and CTech
Tweets: @swodinsky, @unitygames, @sh4na, @eric_seufert, @iansherr, @bruceqburke, @rossdawson, @eric_seufert, @brkeogh, @roxaloxa, @dj_link, @joewintergreen, @eric_seufert, @eric_seufert, @ingridlunden, @richardcobbett, @amandafarough, @katie_roof, @eric_seufert, @futterish, @eric_seufert, @techcrunch, @eric_seufert, and @sserrano44
| Amanda Morris / New York Times: |
Blind users say websites using automated accessibility tools, which are popular due to advances in AI and new legal pressures on companies, make access harder — Companies say their A.I.-powered tools are the best way to fix accessibility problems online, but many blind people find they make websites harder to use.
More:
Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Merlin Labs, which develops an autonomous flight system for existing aircrafts, announces a $105M Series B and a partnership with the US Air Force — Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. The first company to crack it at scale stands … Sponsor Posts
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
F5:
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Zoho:
Zoho RPA named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research — Zoho RPA has been named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix, published by Nucleus Research …
Zoho RPA named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research — Zoho RPA has been named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix, published by Nucleus Research …
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
Lenny's Podcast:
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
SpaceX's IPO Triumph, Anthropic's Fable Fumble, OpenAI's Price War
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.
Access:
A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Hard Fork:
'Hard Fork' Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
TBC's Alex Ksendzovsky: The Neurosurgeon Using Brain Cells To Build Better AI
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI
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 12:10 AM ET, July 14, 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
Axios:Max Tani / Semafor:
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Erron Kelly / VentureBeat: |
More:
Twitter, VG247, Wccftech, Destructoid, Pocket Gamer.biz, Fossbytes, Social Media Today, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
TikTok, Gizmodo, ABC News, CNET, The Verge, Social Media Today, Variety, The Daily Beast, Dexerto, Digital Trends, ScreenRant, Ars Technica, Adweek, Pocket-lint, Mashable, NBC News, KnowTechie, CNN, 9to5Mac, Engadget, New York Post, MacRumors, and dot.LA. Tweets: @shakeelhashim
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
More:
Metaverse Post, MobileSyrup, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, and Coinspeaker
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
Insider, Fortune, PetaPixel, Gizchina, Newslit Daily, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @samdelouya, @glenngabe, @fraying, @mikeelgan, @leratomannya, @gerritd, @glenngabe, @shengokai, @liahaberman, @caseynewton, @adrisheares, @akinunver, @ohmdee, @anshelsag, @lanreadelowo, and @boomerdz
| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
More:
Garbage Day, Ev Williams, Fast Company, and Engadget
Tweets: @ev, @niemanlab, @mjgault, @benjamingoggin, @mulegirl, @goldman, @lanceulanoff, @joshelman, @jeffjarvis, @rafat, @anildash, @kerrymflynn, @kurtwagner8, @mgsiegler, @iankar_, and @caseynewton
| Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Protocol, Washington Post, The Verge, Coinmonks, Insider, Yahoo News, The Verge, The Guardian, Reuters, The Independent, and Washington Post