Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
November 10, 2023, 8:50 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Maine's government says that MOVEit hackers may have accessed the personal information of ~1.3M individuals, which is close to the state's entire population  —  The State of Maine has announced that its systems were breached after threat actors exploited a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says the Clop ransomware group is exploiting a zero-day in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop  —  Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access …
Financial Times:
The Chinese foreign ministry says ICBC is trying to minimize losses after the ransomware attack, which a source says is “limited in impact and almost resolved”  —  New York arm of ICBC forced to use a USB stick to transmit data after its systems were compromised
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:
LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand
NBC News:
Sources: the FBI suspended briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence campaigns, due to the GOP's attacks on info sharing  —  The FBI put a pause on briefings with tech companies due to an ongoing lawsuit, adding to a broader breakdown in a system meant …
Decrypt:
Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole $126M+ worth of crypto assets and that the company is working with other exchanges to recover the funds  —  Poloniex, a crypto exchange owned by Tron founder Justin Sun, has seen more than $126 million worth of crypto assets exit …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
After critics pan Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, sources blame a rushed 16-month development cycle, vs. three years for past CoD titles  —  Game is the first in the series after Microsoft's big acquisition.  —  The latest entry in Activision Blizzard's popular Call …
Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11  —  Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators.  A legal settlement took it down.
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Apple's spatial videos: easy to record on an iPhone 15 Pro and viewing on a Vision Pro is an impressive experience with compellingly realistic 3D  —  I tried the new iPhone 15 Pro camera feature on Apple's upcoming AR-VR headset.  The 3D is undeniably vivid.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to file an EU DMA challenge, disputing the EU putting all of the App Store on the DMA list and arguing that the DMA doesn't cover iMessage  —  - EU's Digital Markets Act lays out dos and dont's for Big Tech  — Apple's focus on how App Store and iMessage are impacted
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more  —  This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr's workforce to other areas …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach its goals for a new audience and plans to focus on the website's “core functionality” in 2024
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph:
Binance plans to stop accepting deposits in Russian rubles on November 15, 2023, and withdrawals on January 31, 2024  —  Binance Russia users will have slightly more than two months to withdraw their rubles from the exchange or until Jan. 31, 2024.  —  Total views  —  Join us on social networks
Diana Britton / Wealth Management:
Arch, which provides operations and reporting services for private investments, raised a $20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $25M+  —  New York-based Arch, which aims to solve for the workflow and data problems behind alternative investments …
Rolling Stone:
SAG-AFTRA's deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them  —  The union's national board voted Friday to accept the new deal with Hollywood studios
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Qualcomm ends its Iridium partnership to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, started in January 2023, after low adoption by smartphone manufacturers  —  However, Iridium says it's now free to talk with other smartphone and chip vendors on enabling another satellite connectivity deal.

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work  —  Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Command Line:
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference  —  Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
Zoho:
Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069  —  Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
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.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
 Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge
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:
 OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI
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 Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad
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.
Cheeky Pint:
 Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Great Chat:
 The case for AI optimism
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:
 Tobi Lütke on the AI agent revolution and future of Shopify
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.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:50 PM ET, November 10, 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

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Gavin Blair / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Association of Japanese Animations: Japan's anime industry revenue grew 15.8% YoY to a record ~$28.5B in 2025, with overseas revenue reaching ~$16B

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

More News

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The UK's NHS is using the National Liver Offering Scheme, a predictive scoring algorithm found to have a fatal error, to help decide who gets a liver transplant
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Epic v. Google: internal documents show that Google offered to only take a 10% cut of Netflix's in-app payments on Android in 2017; Netflix didn't take the deal
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta strikes a preliminary deal with Tencent to sell a new, lower-priced VR headset in China in late 2024, 15 years after the country shut out Facebook

Earlier Picks

Om Malik / On my Om:
Q&A with Humane President Imran Chaudhri on lessons learned at Apple, keeping a positive tech outlook, Ai Pin privacy concerns, platform transitions, and more
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ's claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over citizens and green card holders for some jobs
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Unity reports Q3 revenue up 69% YoY to $544.2M, missing $553.7M est. partly due to the fallout from new rules on video games in China, and a $124.1M net loss
Soma Biswas / Wall Street Journal:
A bankruptcy court lets Celsius Network end its bankruptcy case, return most of its deposits back to users, and form a new company focused on mining and staking
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
A review of Valve's $549 Steam Deck OLED: a great screen, a longer battery life, and better ergonomics, but refresh rate issues and the platform is not stable
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google stops selling Fitbit products in 29 countries, including those where the company doesn't offer Pixel alternatives, to “align” its hardware portfolio
Taras Buria / Neowin:
Microsoft says OneDrive users won't be asked for feedback when quitting the app on Windows and that this type of feedback helps teams improve the product
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter