|
August 21, 2023, 10:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
More: Benzinga, Insider, UPROXX, On my Om, and The Verge
Threads: @moskov. Mastodon: @JamesGleick@zirk.us, @MoiraEve@mastodon.world, @robpegoraro@journa.host, @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @markmetz@sfba.social, and @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social
Bluesky: @hadleysheley.bsky.social and @vasabjit.bsky.social
| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
More: Insider and UPROXX
Mastodon: @GaryRLundberg@newsie.social, @jayreding@mastodon.world, and @KimPerales@toad.social. Bluesky: @andimann.bsky.social
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X says it has fixed a bug which, over the weekend, prevented it from displaying many images from before 2014, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014 …
More: The Guardian, Techdirt, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Fortune, Insider, TechCrunch, GovTech, Business Today, Livemint, The Economic Times, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Gizchina, and PCMag
Forums: r/inthenews and r/AirlinerAbduction2014
| CNBC: |
Filing: SoftBank's Arm files to list on Nasdaq and reports $524M in net income on $2.68B in revenue in its fiscal 2023, with sales slightly down from 2022 — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during … | Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content — YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra's estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts …
More: YouTube Official Blog, Universal Music Group, The Verge, Social Media Today, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Android Police, Android Central, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Metaverse Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Journal, BGR, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, Tubefilter, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Google, Variety, Neowin, Engadget, Android Headlines, Forbes, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, Reuters, Music Ally, Deadline, and Billboard
Bluesky: @noahkeatonhawks.bsky.social. X: @lindseygamble_, @mortms, @lindseygamble_, @reneritchie, and @youtubeliaison. LinkedIn: Matt McLernon
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle as the companies shutter the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance and funding of USDC … | Reuters: |
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; the stock jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
More: iTnews, SiliconANGLE, CRN, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
More: The Block, Decrypt, Ethereum World News, Ethereum World News, BeInCrypto, The Week, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
X: @bantg, @friendtech, @bantg, @shazow, @poordart, @nikitabier, @dogetoshi, @blknoiz06, @liron, @jerallaire, @bantg, @tomkysar, @alexsmirnov__, @0xfoobar, and @dogetoshi
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
More: Apple Podcasts for Creators, 9to5Mac, The Information, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and MacStories. LinkedIn: Lars Ettrup
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Maine's attorney general says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing” — - Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Genesis Therapeutics, which uses AI to discover and develop small-molecule drugs, raised a $200M Series B co-led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $280M — Artificial intelligence and biotech are two of the sectors that have been able to buck the current sluggish pace of venture capital spending.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B surplus inventory marketplace with 1,000+ members, raised a $30M Series B led by Cathay Innovation and aims for Europe and Asia — Ghost, providing a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory, is back with fresh funds in the way of a $30 million Series B round.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M lifetime signups, but Apptopia estimates the app has had 73.2M downloads since its 2015 launch — TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question.Sponsor Posts
Google:
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI safety, robotics, stablecoins, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 50 topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Discover the top reporters on AI safety, robotics, stablecoins, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 50 topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Tuning response time psychology with an integrated solution — This is a guest post by Sharath Joji, Content Marketing Lead at Office24by7.Indecision and delays are often considered the parents of failure, and nowhere is this more true than in sales.
Tuning response time psychology with an integrated solution — This is a guest post by Sharath Joji, Content Marketing Lead at Office24by7.Indecision and delays are often considered the parents of failure, and nowhere is this more true than in sales.
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.
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.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
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:
The Big GPT-5 Debate, Sam Altman's AI Bubble, OnlyFans Chatbots
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.
Tech Brew Ride Home:
Has China Shut The Door On Nvidia?
Tech news headlines every day. 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
Subscribe to Tech Brew Ride Home.
The Social Radars:
Founder Mode: Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Hard Fork:
Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta's Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
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.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:25 PM ET, August 21, 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
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:Oliver Darcy / Status:
Brent Lang / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| AI Snake Oil: |
More: BBC. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @randomwalker@mastodon.social
X: @random_walker, @colin_fraser, @random_walker, @cbarrie, @emollick, and @simonw
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Earlier Picks
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
| Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: |
More: The Verge, Mashable, Technical.ly, Telecompetitor, and Light Reading
| Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: |
More: Adobe Press Releases, PCMag, Engadget, The Register, Newser, CNN, TweakTown, Associated Press, ITPro, MacDailyNews, mjtsai.com, PetaPixel, Silicon Valley Business …, ABC4 Utah, TechCircle, TidBITS, Cybernews.com, AppleInsider, Reuters, The Verge, Mercury News, and International Business Times
Mastodon: @misty@digipres.club and @harrymccracken@sfba.social. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com
X: @timsweeneyepic, @johnnie, @stevesi, @_danilo, @pbump, @affinitybyserif, @themoridwan, and @trengriffin
LinkedIn: Jayesh Patel, Tim Marklein, and Vish Mishra
Forums: r/technology and r/technews