|
October 15, 2023, 3:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a cheaper Vision Pro may not have EyeSight and M3-based MacBook Pros could come in early or spring 2024 — Still, it's losing a top hardware executive. Also: There are fresh details on efforts to lower the price of the Vision Pro …
More: Supercharged, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget, UploadVR, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, and Forbes
X: @sdw, @heaney555, @caro_milanesi, and @markgurman
Forums: r/VisionPro, r/ipad, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How social media is inducing a fog of war surpassing previous clashes between Israel and Hamas, shaping the views of panicked citizens and a global public — The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.
More: CNN. Mastodon: @Zeb_Larson@zirk.us, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @katestarbird@mstdn.social
X: @digiphile, @kareemrifai, @colincrowell, @shayan86, and @lizzadwoskin
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Some AI image detectors are labeling real photographs from the Israel-Hamas war as fake, creating what an expert calls a “second level of disinformation” — Content warning: This story contains graphic images of violence. — A free AI image detector that's been covered …
More: PCMag and Forbes
X: @ourielohayon, @jason_koebler, @iethics, @lessin, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephfcox
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ a year to close the Activision deal — Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| New York Times: |
The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed — With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
More: Thurrott, Neowin, New York Post, GameSpot, The Verge, and Digital Trends
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft, Gizchina, Gameranx, BBC, ComingSoon.net, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, and Game Rant
X: @charlieintel and @tomwarren
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
GPT-4V, which lets users upload images as part of conversations with GPT-4, enables new vectors for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images — GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations. It's absolutely brilliant.
More: The Decoder. Mastodon: @north_easton@mastodon.social and @xris@ecoevo.social
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can bypass safety efforts aiming to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content — OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ‘20 cents’ of API tickling — The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models …
More: arXiv.org, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost, Forbes, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang and Pamal Sharma
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning the chip race — Founder adds Japan and Singapore are well-positioned to win as industry evolves — TSMC founder Morris Chang attends a sports day event in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 14.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Eradicating the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which hackers exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching virtually every web server globally — Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
More: Ars Technica, The Cloudflare Blog, and CVE
X: @googlecloud, @programmingart, @cisacyber, @jbhall56, @aselipsky, and @backchnnl
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ Hotstar reclaims the global on-demand video streaming record with 35M concurrent viewers of the India-Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup match on October 14 — In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered …
More: The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg, and What's On Disney Plus
LinkedIn: Hassan A., Mukund Acharya, Lalith Srinivas, Aaron LaBerge, Abhijit Karode, Saunak Ghosh, Mukund Acharya, and Lalith Srinivas
| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects have raised ~$600M in Q3 2023, down 38% QoQ, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised in all of 2022 — While the gaming industry continues to be plagued by mass layoffs, crypto gaming is still seeing many millions invested each quarter.
Source: DappRadar. More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, The Daily Hodl, and crypto.news
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
A look at Obsidian, an indie, Electron-based note-taking app that has developed a cult following on Discord and Reddit; Obsidian estimates its app has ~1M users — The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software. And its strategy is working.
More: MacStories. Mastodon: @Bodling@deacon.social. X: @kepano, @chrisalbon, @kepano, @vivanvatsa, @spikedoanz, @kepano, @choldgraf, @omeruzvn, @mjpost, @twofifteenam, @generativist, @harrymccracken, @nickmilo, @moderndosh, and @fastcotech
LinkedIn: Judi Sohn, Steph Ango, Dustin Miller, and Alfonso R. Reyes
Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
We can build it. Can we judge it? — As agentic AI shortens the path from idea to shipped code, journey evaluation becomes a critical design skill.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
App Spotlight: Map My Client Location for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
App Spotlight: Map My Client Location for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
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
Big Technology Podcast:
Google's Potential, AI Money Spigot Shutting?, PHP Bug & Cybersecurity's "Black October"
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.
Machine Gods:
Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out + We Look Inside Pandora's Box
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The Parking Startup That Swallowed A 100-Year-Old Giant | Metropolis CEO Alex Israel
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.
Great Chat:
AI's Spooky Season
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.
Sources:
Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Netflix in Turmoil + Derek Thompson on AI & The Antisocial Century
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:00 PM ET, October 15, 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 Shepardson / Reuters:Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Esther Addley / The Guardian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
More: Gizmodo. Mastodon: @rikefranke@bagarrosphere.fr and @KimPerales@toad.social
X: @brendanbordelon, @tonyajoriley, @jason_kint, @angie_rasmussen, @superwuster, @_kramki, @xriskology, and @basedbeffjezos
LinkedIn: Harry Stendhal, Peter Hense 🇺 …, Jonathan Martineau, Mike Butcher, Kevin Vaught, Silke Hahn, Philippe Beaudoin, Stephan A. Schwartz, Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, and Ana Brandusescu
Forums: r/singularity and r/neoliberal
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
More: Dot Esports. X: @zhugeex, @cecianasta, @firstadopter, and @acvalens
LinkedIn: Caitilin Doherty and Gaude Lydia Paez
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Guardian, PCMag, Singularity Hub, ExtremeTech, Fierce Wireless, and Pocket-lint
LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang and Peter Linder
Earlier Picks
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
More: CNBC, Axios, Engadget, The Verge, Cryptopolitan, Insider, and Reuters
Forums: Hacker News, r/elonmusk, and r/law
| New York Times: |
More: DL News, Cryptopolitan, Finbold, Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
X: @780thc. LinkedIn: Hamlet Yousef, Denis Rusinovich, Ben Joelson, Alex Berke, Marcus Schuler, Michael Zarrilli, Sue Ghosh Stricklett, Bill D., Nino Marcantonio, Isaac Harris, Matt Sabo, M.S., Jimmy Berg, Keith Thompson, Joseph S., and Mike Forsythe. Forums: Slashdot
| Jo Marchant / Nature: |
More: Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, Decrypt, New Scientist, PCMag, Luke Farritor on Google Docs, The Messenger, Gizmodo, and Cryptopolitan
X: @natfriedman, @natfriedman, @lukefarritor, @lukefarritor, @jomarchant, @omar4ur, @wallaceme, @kseniase_, @steve_sailer, @tim_zaman, @natfriedman, @youssef_m_nader, @natfriedman, @natfriedman, and @optimoprincipi
LinkedIn: Stephen Clarke BA …, Stephen Clarke BA, Emanuele C., Michael Robbins, Craig Bennett, Shawn Beck, Daniel Holgate, Niall Ogilvy, and Allison Lewis
Forums: r/Nebraska, r/Futurology, and r/technews
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
More: Engadget, NVIDIA Support, Neowin, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, The Verge, and Cloudy.Games