Techmeme: German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News

May 26, 2023, 9:00 PM

Top News

Reuters:

Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act — OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law

More: OpenAI, Reuters, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, TechCircle, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge

LinkedIn: Shashay Tadesse. Tweets: @openai, @mustafasuleymn, @marshallk, @alliekmiller, @darrenpjones, @stefanfschubert, @ourielohayon, @sama, @tristanharris, @punk6529, @gdb, @chloe21e8, @metaviv, and @glenweyl

The Verge:

A California jury finds Google's products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold — Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company's smart speaker patent.

More: Law360, Reuters, Engadget, and United States District Court, Northern District of California

Mastodon: @jank0@sfba.social and @jank0@sfba.social

Tweets: @yasiejko and @chriswelch

Emma Roth / The Verge:

German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues — A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …

More: Ars Technica, Wired, The Guardian, Fortune, Jalopnik, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Quartz, The Information, Tech Monitor, SlashGear, PCMag, Dark Reading, Redmond Pie, gHacks Technology News, Electrek, and Barron's Online

Tweets: @karaswisher, @parismarx, @resnikoff, @andreworlowski, @garymarcus, and @benshooter

CNBC:

Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety …

More: Neowin. LinkedIn: Hayden Field. Tweets: @chris_bittle, @jason_kint, @greglinden, @criticalai, @justinhendrix, @jesselehrich, @omgno2trump, @emmakinery, @brianstelter, @mattrosoff, and @haydenfield

See also Mediagazer

Scott J. Shapiro / IEEE Spectrum:

How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters — First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.

Tweets: @ieeespectrum and @scottjshapiro

Reuters:

Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing — Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) …

Karissa Bell / Engadget:

Bluesky rolls out a “custom feeds” feature that lets users subscribe to different algorithms and make their own for others to use; most are not chronological — A future update will allow users to create their own within the app. — Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized …

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, and TestingCatalog

FinSMEs:

Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M — Sastrify, a Cologne, Germany-based provider of a platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised $32M in Series B funding.

More: Sastrify, Sifted, IBS Intelligence, Tech Funding News, PYMNTS.com, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals

Vignesh R. / Silicon Canals:

Paris-based Sekoia, a platform for the real-time detection of cyberattacks, raised a $35M Series A from Banque des Territoires, Bright Pixel, and BNP Paribas — Paris-based Sekoia.io, a cybersecurity SaaS company, announced on Wednesday, May 24, that it has raised €35M from Banque des Territoires …

More: FinSMEs, Sekoia.io, FinTech Global, and SecurityWeek

Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: the US SEC's record $279M whistleblower award in May 2023 stemmed from Ericsson pleading guilty to breaching a $1.1B settlement in a 2019 bribery case — The largest-ever award in the SEC's cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson's bribery case

More: DatacenterDynamics and Reuters

Tweets: @clancyreports, @davidmwessel, and @swrighteconomy

Bloomberg:

France's CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day — Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.

More: BigTechWire and Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés. Tweets: @cnil_en

Wired:

An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.

Tweets: @laurengoode and @wired

Sponsor Posts

Google:

Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life

Shopify:

Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.

Zoho:

Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Grit:

How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader

Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff

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:

OpenAI's Potential, Google's Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence

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.

Hard Fork:

Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin' Xmas Song

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.

Access:

Betting on reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour

A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.

Subscribe to Access.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:00 PM ET, May 26, 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

Sara Fischer / Axios:

60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Ali Watkins / New York Times:

Channel 4 says Jimmy Kimmel will share a message on Christmas Day as part of its Alternative Christmas Message show, emphasizing the importance of free speech

Reuters:

Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its armed forces

Upcoming Tech Events

Jan 4

Samsung "The First Look" media event

Game Developers Conference

More News

Reuters:

The UK CMA says Meta offered to limit use of other businesses' ad data for Facebook Marketplace, which the regulator thinks addresses its competition concerns

More: GOV.UK, GOV.UK, The Register, GOV.UK, TechCrunch, Neowin, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters

Tweets: @senninsage, @senninsage, @tweets_sachin1, and @fosspatents

Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center:

A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% tried the tool themselves; 74% say ChatGPT is extremely, very, or somewhat useful

More: The New Consumer. LinkedIn: Alicia Aebersold. Mastodon: @HilliTech@techhub.social. Tweets: @stevesi, @dorialexander, @lutherlowe, @scottmaustin, @benbajarin, @wwwojtekk, @gregmushen, @dhtoomey, @joshuaogundu, @profjasonpotts, @jai_bhavnani, @alber_romgar, and @emollick

Bloomberg:

3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal plan to merge in an all-stock deal valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in combined revenue in 2025

More: Reuters, The Motley Fool, Stratasys and Desktop Metal, The Voice of 3D Printing, Tech Startups, and Globes Online

Bloomberg:

DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading service TradeBlock on May 31, 2023, citing the “crypto winter” and challenging US regulatory environment

Akriti Sharma / Reuters:

Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to conduct its first in-human clinical trial of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

YouTube plans to shut down Stories on June 26, 2023, as the company focuses on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, live videos, and its usual content

More: YouTube Community, The Verge, Thurrott, PCMag, Search Engine Journal, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, Phandroid, gHacks Technology News, Android Police, GSMArena.com, Techlusive, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Neowin, Social Media Today, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, BGR, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Lifewire, 9to5Google, Mashable, Digital Trends, and Slashdot

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Tweets: @ibxtoycat and @mukund

Earlier Picks

Stan Schroeder / Mashable:

OpenAI expands its free ChatGPT iOS app, which launched in the US last week, to 11 more countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Nigeria, and South Korea

More: 9to5Mac, Voicebot.ai, MobileSyrup, Gizchina, Wccftech, Coinspeaker, Inc42 Media, Metaverse Post, MacRumors, Livemint, BGR, Techlusive, TechCrunch, methodshop, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, gHacks Technology News, and iMore. Tweets: @openai

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:

Fahrenheit, bidders led by Arrington Capital, wins an auction for Celsius Network's assets, including loans, investments, and $500M in “liquid cryptocurrency”

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

TikTok is testing its chatbot, Tako, in select markets; from the right side of the app, the bot helps users discover new content and ask questions about a video

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:

A profile of Microsoft President Brad Smith, a DC veteran testing his well-worn playbook to shape AI regulation, such as by endorsing the creation of an agency

More: New York Times, Bloomberg, Microsoft On the Issues, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, OnMSFT.com, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Engadget, Silicon Republic, CyberScoop, Decrypt, BigTechWire, CNN, iTnews, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, Neowin, GeekWire, The Hill, CNBC, Livemint, and Slashdot

LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Frank X. Shaw, Eric Horvitz, Jon Adams, and Hector de Rivoire

Tweets: @bradsmi, @alexplitsas, @stevesi, @cat_zakrzewski, @dcallahan2, @wavesblog, @erichorvitz, @satyanadella, @dinabass, @dinabass, @adamthierer, and @wavesblog

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:

Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman to build Worldcoin, raised a $115M Series C led by Blockchain Capital, aiming to scan everyone's eyes to create IDs