|
April 25, 2023, 2:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK announces legislation to tackle the “excessive dominance” of Big Tech by empowering the CMA's Digital Markets Unit, expected to become law in 2024 — Global companies like Google, Apple and Amazon could have to pay penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover as government gives competition watchdog more power
More:
GOV.UK, GOV.UK, Computerworld, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, PCMag, Tech Xplore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, ITPro, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNBC, Politico, Neowin, and City A.M.
Tweets:
@cmagovuk, @brucel, @biztradegovuk, @whichuk, @zach_cer, @fsb_policy, @zach_cer, @iealondon, @s8mb, @kevinhollinrake, @loumariehsd, and @owenmeredithnma
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
Elon Musk seems to have revealed a burner Twitter account, @ErmnMusk, created in November 2022 and featuring bizarre tweets like “Do you like Japanese girls?” — Musk tweeted a screenshot on Monday evening which appeared to show him signed into a second account.
More:
Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Toronto Star, Gamereactor UK, and Insider
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations — The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …
More:
Coinbase, Gizmodo, The Information, Crypto Daily, The Block, Cointelegraph, Tech Startups, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, CoinGape, Inside Bitcoins, ZyCrypto, CNBC, Fortune, Coinspeaker, PYMNTS.com, CoinGeek, Unchained Crypto, Blockworks, crypto.news, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoPotato, Silicon Republic, CoinJournal, Bitcoin News, AltFi, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Finextra, TechCrunch, Watcher Guru, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Coinpedia Fintech News, Barron's Online, Reuters, CoinDesk, Forkast, Slashdot, and Micky
LinkedIn:
Elchin Bayramov and Kevin Ehrlich
Tweets:
@iampaulgrewal, @coinbase, @brian_armstrong, @attorneyjeremy1, @johnedeaton1, @iampaulgrewal, @collins_belton, @tphillips, @belisarius2020, @iampaulgrewal, @zachlight16, @brian_armstrong, @joecarlasare, @belisarius2020, @iampaulgrewal, @ohaiom, @tphillips, @0xethlaw, @wmougayar, @cryptocarc, and @autismcapital
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €3B, ad revenue up 17% YoY to €329M, MAUs up 22% YoY to 515M, Premium Subscribers up 15% YoY to 210M, and a €225M loss — Audio streaming giant posted lower-than-expected revenue gains as ad spending cooled Spotify Technology SA reported …
More:
Spotify, The Verge, Thurrott, AppleInsider, City A.M., Digital Music News, SlashGear, TechSpot, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, Variety, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, Axios, gHacks Technology News, Tech Startups, The Hollywood Reporter, Investor's Business Daily, and Techlusive
LinkedIn:
Divyan Mistry. Tweets:
@eldsjal, @spotifynews, @fundiescapital, @thetranscript_, and @spotifynews
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company's models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months — OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company's models.
More:
OpenAI, Engadget, Reuters, TechCrunch, BigTechWire, Gizchina, Insider Intelligence, and Insider
| Alex Thompson / Axios: |
Following Biden's reelection campaign announcement, the Republican National Committee publishes an attack ad featuring AI-generated images, some including Biden — - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party …
More:
The Verge, Gizmodo, The Hill, GOP on YouTube, The Daily Wire, and New York Post
Tweets:
@alexthomp, @gop, @samcornale, @adamgreen, @wavesblog, @ianbremmer, and @axios
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp expands its multi-device feature to let the same account be used across multiple smartphones, a long-requested feature — WhatsApp users are no longer restricted to using their account on just a single phone. Today, the Meta-owned messaging service is announcing that its multi-device feature … | Bloomberg: |
South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far — South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022 — The best thing about Slack's new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It's like Google Docs but inside of Slack.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise says it is now operating its “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco 24/7, expanding to daylight hours; the unit lost $561M in the Q1 — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors, is now operating a “small” fleet of driverless robotaxis …
More:
TechCrunch, Engadget, The Robot Report, Electrek, and Washington Post
Tweets:
@kvogt, @wholemarsblog, and @thatguyintech
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Data.ai: Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky has had 245K downloads on iOS, of which more than half came in April 2023, after starting its waitlist — Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia open sources NeMo Guardrails, a developer toolkit designed to help make text-based generative AI apps more “accurate, appropriate, on topic, and secure” — For all the fanfare, text-generating AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 make a lot of mistakes — some of them harmful.
More:
NVIDIA Technical Blog, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Digital Trends, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, Neowin, and CNBC
| Matt O'brien / Associated Press: |
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, LLM regulation, AI risks, GPT-5's development, the response to ChatGPT, and more — OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn't a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
AMD announces the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm CPUs aimed at handheld gaming PCs; Z1 Extreme offers eight Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores — But the company's now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it's officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme …
More:
AMD, PCMag, Windows Central, Ars Technica, Club386, XDA Developers, HotHardware, Engadget, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, 9to5Toys, Gizchina, BigTechWire, Neowin, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, Wccftech, Gizmodo, TechPowerUp, and KitGuru
Tweets:
@tomwarren and @wario64
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says its IDE has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in December 2021 — Replit, the fast-growing service that combines artificial intelligence with software development, closed a $97.4 million fundraising round … Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:10 PM ET, April 25, 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
David Ingram / NBC News:New York Times:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
More:
PCWorld, TechCrunch, gHacks Technology News, Opera Desktop, Cointelegraph, Neowin, TechPowerUp, Thurrott, PCMag, TechRadar, TechSpot, and Windows Report
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
More:
CNET, 9to5Google, Liliputing, TalkAndroid.com, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, Droid Life, India Today, Stuff, and GSMArena.com
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
More:
The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Euractiv, Bloomberg, and CNBC
Tweets:
@prestonjbyrne, @politicoeurope, @ugambini, @clothildegouj, @clothildegouj, and @clothildegouj
Earlier Picks
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
More:
Wired and Digiday
LinkedIn:
Daniel Roth. Tweets:
@jawtry, @akarl_smith, @cooperx86, @prisus, @rafat, @mediaevan, @maxwelltani, and @semafor
| Xerox Newsroom: |
More:
9to5Mac, The Register, SRI International, San Francisco Business Journal, Barron's Online, and Slashdot
LinkedIn:
Steven Bandrowczak. Tweets:
@sgblank, @bznotes, @parcinc, @erratarob, @emax, and @sri_intl
| James Hercher / AdExchanger: |
| Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop: |
More:
CSO, Forbes, SecurityWeek, Cybersecurity Dive, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn:
Matt Morris. Mastodon:
@metacurity@infosec.exchange. Tweets:
@ericgeller, @metacurity, and @thecybersechub
| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
More:
Google Cloud Blog, SC Media, Infosecurity, TechRadar, TechCircle, ITPro, Petri IT Knowledgebase, gHacks Technology News, Silicon Republic, The Hacker News, The Register, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn:
Eric Doerr and Phil Venables
Tweets:
@philvenables, @rseroter, @googlecloud, @imposecost, and @rustybrick
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More:
Google Online Security Blog, Android Police, Wired, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, HotHardware, The Verge, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Sam Lover, MacRumors, Phandroid, Security Affairs, Bitcoinist.com, BGR, TechSpot, GreenBot, TechCircle, TechRadar, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, Mashable, SamNews 24, Sammy Fans, Techlusive, The Economic Times, TweakTown, MSPoweruser, The Hacker News, GSMArena.com, PhoneArena, The Apple Post, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, Droid Life, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Android Central, BigTechWire, AppleInsider, and XDA Developers
Tweets:
@runasand, @agektmr, @tomwarren, @lorenzofb, @thorsheim, and @christiaanbrand