|
February 8, 2023, 2:55 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
Google's Bard announcement tweet included a GIF of the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope; GOOG drops 7%+ — Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
More:
9to5Google, Forbes, PCMag, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, ZDNet, Reuters, CNN, Financial Times, Insider, Gizmodo, Engadget, New Scientist, CNBC, Dexerto, Pocketables, Bitcoinist.com, WRAL TechWire, KnowTechie, Search Engine Land, PetaPixel, Neowin, Mashable, ZDNet, Appuals.com, Insider, Digital Trends, and Tech Startups
Mastodon: @andybaio@xoxo.zone, @ernie@writing.exchange, and @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
Tweets: @google, @jjaron, @hankgreen, @suka_hiroaki, @edludlow, @parmy, @pkafka, @mikeisaac, @baykenney, @pythiar, @kevinschawinski, @buccocapital, @zerohedge, @martinjbcoulter, @leokelion, @andyswan, @riptari, @dee_bosa, @thestalwart, @samro, @leokelion, @googleeurope, @neptunemoon, @unusual_whales, @chris_ciaccia, and @fxshaw
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Immersive View for Maps in London, LA, NYC, San Francisco, and Tokyo and plans to roll out “glanceable directions” globally in the coming months — Google is launching new updates for Maps that are part of its plan to make the navigation app more immersive … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google shares AI updates across its services: expanding multisearch globally on mobile, Maps features for EV drivers, Lens AR translation, and Translate context — Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its Google presents: Live from Paris event on Wednesday.
More:
The Keyword, The Keyword, Engadget, Google on YouTube, Thurrott, Android Central, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Phandroid, Semafor, CNN, CNET, VentureBeat, OnMSFT.com, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, Neowin, CNBC, Appuals.com, 9to5Google, Search Engine Journal, The Keyword, NextPit, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, and SlashGear. Mastodon: @searchliaison@mastodon.social
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA finds Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition would harm competition in the UK's gaming market, suggests and asks Microsoft for remedies — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market …
More:
GOV.UK, Video Games Chronicle, UK Competition & Markets Authority, The Register, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, Forbes, Tech Monitor, BBC, Euractiv, TweakTown, WinBuzzer, CNBC, Engadget, PC Gamer, GamingBolt, Game Rant, Press Association, OnMSFT.com, Barron's Online, TheGamer, IGN, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Neowin, FOSS Patents, Thurrott, Tech Xplore, MarketWatch, Dot Esports, MSPoweruser, Financial Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gameranx, Game Developer, PCMag, KitGuru, GameSpot, and The Verge
| Financial Times: |
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the UK could lose out on thousands of jobs by blocking Microsoft's acquisition and accuses Sony of “trying to sabotage” the bid — Bobby Kotick appeals to ‘fragile’ government as video game maker awaits decision on $75bn sale
More:
HotHardware, Fortune, Bloomberg, Associated Press, CNN, CNET, CNBC Television on YouTube, TheGamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Gameranx, Silicon Republic, Dot Esports, and TrueAchievements
Tweets: @deeketweak, @nicholashirst_, @rayminehane, and @postup_bbb
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's AI demo in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft's “new Bing” event, highlighting why Google needs to widely release its ChatGPT rival service Bard — Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale in comparison … | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google and Microsoft's race to add AI chatbots to search results will be messy and risky; Bing shows AI results in a sidebar with citations, which Google lacks — Here's something you don't see everyday: Microsoft Corp. is serving up a snazzy web search tool.
More:
Metaverse Post, Associated Press, Insider, USA Today, New York Times, CNET, PC Gamer, CNBC, PCWorld, TechNewsWorld, Fast Company, Phandroid, and TechRadar
Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @markuskarlsson, @hchuaeoan, @jbenton, @herbgreenberg, @allisonlcarter, and @parmy
| Washington Post: |
A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with ex-Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, James Baker, and Yoel Roth on Hunter Biden laptop “censorship” — A congressional hearing Wednesday represents a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
More:
Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed News, GOP Oversight on YouTube, Livemint, Axios, New York Post, The Hill, Washington Post, United States House Committee …, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, CNBC, The Guardian, Fox News, NBC News, The Guardian, CNBC Television on YouTube, Associated Press, C-SPAN.org, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Financial Times, Politico, New York Post, CNN, and Washington Post
Mastodon: @alex@cybervillains.com, @alex@cybervillains.com, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @alex@cybervillains.com, @willoremus@mastodon.social, and @mimsical@mastodon.social
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
NetBlocks: Turkish ISPs limit Twitter access two days after a major earthquake; Turkish police detain 18 people for sharing “provocative posts” on social media — Access to Twitter has been restricted in Turkey, according to reports by an internet monitoring company …
More:
NetBlocks, Bloomberg, The Record, Ars Technica, Engadget, New York Times, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Middle East Eye, The Daily Beast, and Semafor
Tweets: @netblocks, @zeynep, @netblocks, @netblocks, @kornelij, @ragipsoylu, @etemelkuran, @zidanism, @zeynep, @sfrantzman, and @humeyra_pamuk
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft plans to embed Adobe's Acrobat PDF tech in Edge for Windows 10 and Windows 11 starting in March 2023 and remove Edge's legacy PDF engine in March 2024 — Microsoft announced today that it is partnering with Adobe to bring Acrobat PDF capabilities to the Microsoft Edge web browser on Windows.
More:
Adobe Blog, The Verge, Microsoft Tech Community, Windows Central, XDA Developers, BleepingComputer, BetaNews, Neowin, Petri IT Knowledgebase, OnMSFT.com, Forbes, and BigTechWire
Tweets: @acrobat, @msedgedev, @unixterminal, and @epro
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Mozilla says the company is doing “exploratory work” for a Gecko-based browser on iOS in case Apple drops its WebKit requirement, after a similar move by Google — Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again — UPDATED Mozilla is planning for the day when Apple …
More:
Computerworld, BetaNews, Macworld, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, and Thurrott
Tweets: @openwebadvocacy and @brucel
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $30.7B, MAUs up 11% YoY to 131M, and customer trips up 19% YoY to a record 2.1B — The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from the same period a year ago.
More:
Gizmodo, The Information, Tech Xplore, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Uber, Financial Times, and Fast Company
Tweets: @thetranscript_, @bigbullcap, @joincommonstock, @thetranscript_, and @polgoide
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
At the State of the Union, Biden called for Congress to strengthen data privacy protections and antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing — President Joe Biden threw his support behind tougher rules regulating Silicon Valley during his Second State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
More:
The White House, Wired, Gizmodo, TIME, AppleInsider, The Hill, and New York Times
Tweets: @brianstelter, @swiftstories, @c_barraud, @garyshapiro, @time, @charliekirk11, @whitehouse, @morningconsult, and @marialangholz
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches its Blue subscription in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, Blue costs ~$10.90/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.80/month on the web — Twitter has rolled out its subscription service, Twitter Blue, to users in India, Brazil and Indonesia, it said on Wednesday … | Bloomberg: |
Masayoshi Son now owes SoftBank ~$5.1B on side deals he set up to boost his compensation, after his unrealized losses grew by ~$400M from three months prior — Masayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.1 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensation …
Tweets: @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @iamsamirarora
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor — For the past few years, Google's AR and VR efforts have been led by Clay Bavor. The longtime executive is now set to leave the company next month.| Reuters: |
Alibaba confirms the company is developing a ChatGPT-style AI tool, currently in internal testing, after Baidu's announcement of its Ernie chatbot on February 6 — China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Wednesday said it is developing a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) tool and that it was currently in internal testing.
More:
CNBC, Barron's Online, Engadget, PingWest, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Tech Startups
| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance Asia-Pacific Head Leon Foong says a full audit will take “a longer time” as accountants are still learning about crypto, after Mazars pulled its report — Binance Holdings Ltd., operator of the world's largest digital-asset exchange, indicated a full audit of its assets … | Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter reinstates Republican Senator Steve Daines, banned over a hunting photo flagged for “graphic violence”, after Elon Musk amended a rule for showing blood — Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, says his account was blocked over a picture flagged for ‘graphic violence’
More:
Senator Steve Daines, Fortune, Gizmodo, and The Hill
Tweets: @elonmusk, @stevedaines, and @mattmackowiak
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
The Bank of England issues two papers on a digital pound, seeming to favor a centralized database over a blockchain and limiting personal holdings to £10K-£20K — The Bank of England has set out technical features of its central bank digital currency, which officials have said is likely to be needed.
More:
Bank of England, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, Fortune, CNN, Reuters, Crypto Daily, diginomica, and Bitcoinist.com
| Pallabi Munsi / CNN: |
How pro-military Telegram channels in Myanmar share hundreds of abusive sexual videos and images of women and dox them, often for their pro-democracy views — Editor's Note: This story is part of ‘Systems Error’, a series by CNN As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online.
Tweets: @pallabimunsi, @pvamplify, @chuckbaggett, @michaeljstern1, @sis2sismm, @rvawonk, @akilagjc, @wiczipedia, @myanmarwitness, @rwpusa, and @nimaelbagir
| Politico: |
UK PM Rishi Sunak creates the standalone Department of Science, Innovation & Technology, led by Michelle Donelan, stripping the DCMS of its digital oversight — LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is creating a standalone science, innovation and technology department as part …
More:
GOV.UK, The Register, PublicTechnology.net, and Nature
Tweets: @alexwickham, @michelledonelan, @triketora, and @pippacrerar
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!
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:
Start Your Agentic AI Journey Today — This is the fourth and final part of the agentic data infrastructure series.You now know why AI agents need a data foundation, what that foundation looks like …
Start Your Agentic AI Journey Today — This is the fourth and final part of the agentic data infrastructure series.You now know why AI agents need a data foundation, what that foundation looks like …
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
The Upstarts Podcast:
Blitzy's Brian Elliott: Cursor And Claude Code Are Looking At Your Enterprise Code 'Through A Straw'
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.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
Re-Release: The Death of Hollywood? W/ Allan Loeb
Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo, and Paul Kedrosky pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future rushing toward us, all with healthy dose of irreverence.
Subscribe to The Nick, Dick and Paul Show.
Great Chat:
Maybe Twitter isn't real life
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Plan To Merge Chat And Agents — With Greg Brockman
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:
Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain
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.
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 2:55 PM ET, February 8, 2023.
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
Associated Press:Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal on YouTube, PCWorld, CNN, ExtremeTech, Insider, Forbes, and The Week
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @tomwarren, @djtgallagher, @carnage4life, @john_p_d, @jennylayfluffy, @smashdawg, @daveleeft, and @geoffreyfowler
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More:
Zoom Blog, NPR, Moneycontrol, Thurrott, Wall Street Journal, TechRadar, City A.M., OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Tech.co, Micky, Total Telecom, and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @ericsyuan