Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
March 22, 2024, 2:55 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ says “Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract” to serve its interests  —  The U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple Thursday over monopolistic practices.  The complaint accuses Apple of moulding …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay  —  Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
Wall Street Journal:
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, New York Times, The Verge, US Department of Justice, Computerworld, CNBC, United States District Court, The Independent, TechCrunch, Platformer, Mashable, New York Times, MobileSyrup, Business Insider, Al Jazeera, 404 Media, CNN, ExtremeTech, RCR Wireless News, Billboard, Axios, NTD, Associated Press, Raleigh News & Observer, MediaPost, Finbold, iMore, Tom's Guide, BGR, T3, Sammy Fans, New York Daily News, The Hacker News, Neowin, Android Headlines, Why Evolution Is True, Business Times, Gizchina, MediaNama, TechCentral.ie, CNBC, Android Authority, Redmond Pie, BBC, Investor's Business Daily, Lowyat.NET, Daring Fireball, NBC News, Washington Post, The Verge, Forbes, Semafor, Benzinga, Android Headlines, Freelance Informer, Pocketables, TechCrunch, Pocket Gamer.biz, 404 Media, Proactive, Laptop Mag, MSPoweruser, and London Evening Standard
Threads: @daviddoesfuji, @daviddoesfuji, @crumbler, @mossbergwalt, @mossbergwalt, @benedictevans, @nexusben, @film_girl, @pkedrosky, @benedictevans, @pkedrosky, @ianbetteridge, @bzamayo, @hexinab0x, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @technicallymims, @crumbler, and @alexhcranz
Mastodon: @siracusa@mastodon.social, @film_girl@mastodon.social, and @bigzaphod@mastodon.social
X: @pelositracker_, @markgurman, @getpeid, @senwarren, @gergelyorosz, @sdw, @stevesi, @ericjackson, @stevesi, @stevesi, @stevesi, @stevesi, @stevesi, @lutherlowe, @amyklobuchar, @jason_kint, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @skinclasshero, @joellthayer, @munster_gene, @ericjackson, @charlesarthur, @ingridlunden, @stevesi, @lexnfx, @jonfortt, @markgurman, @carnage4life, @gergelyorosz, @modestproposal1, @benthompson, @caro_milanesi, @vadimyuryev, @bzamayo, @nexusben, @castrotech, @ggreenwald, @brij, @ccianet, @jason_koebler, @mediamorphis, @pat_hedger, @pat_hedger, @eric_seufert, @s8mb, @s8mb, @tomgara, @netchoice, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @thejusticedept, @megangra, @thejusticedept, @thejusticedept, @amandalws, @adamkovac, @jolingkent, @thejusticedept, @thejusticedept, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, @swiftonsecurity, @ericmigi, @ashleygjovik, @sytaylor, @jose_pagliery, @barstoolnate, @amandalws, @benthompson, @mikebutcher, @garrytan, @pdmcleod, @pdmcleod, @igorletina, @jolingkent, @carnage4life, @pythiar, @garrettventry, @marceloplima, @ericmigi, @ericmigi, @adamkovac, @bzamayo, @stevesi, @jonfortt, @ericmigi, @ericmigi, @garrytan, @rakeshlobster, @stevesi, @film_girl, @richontech, @kantrowitz, @mgsiegler, @joannastern, @matthewstoller, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @film_girl, @lauren_feiner, @richontech, @papscun, @joannastern, @matthewstoller, @mrddmia, @jeiting, @jwsherrod, @dhh, @florian4gamers, and @steipete
LinkedIn: Noah Gift, Langley Steinert, Caroline Giegerich, and Cole Dansie
Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/moderatepolitics, r/politics, r/Destiny, and Slashdot
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is winding down an in-house effort to create microLED displays and is eliminating several dozen display engineering roles in the US and Asia  —  - Project would have been its first push into homegrown screens  — Move involves cutting several dozen engineering roles
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple held talks to use Baidu's AI tech in its devices in China, as part of looking for a local provider to comply with China's AI model requirements  —  iPhone maker may need a partner in the country to navigate regulatory hurdles  —  SINGAPORE—Apple has held preliminary talks …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers reveal a hotel keycard hacking technique that can let a hacker almost instantly open RFID-based Saflok locks used in 3M doors across 13K properties  —  The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
On Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 Day 1, contestants earned $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 for demoing 19 zero-days in Windows 11, Tesla cars, Ubuntu, and other products  —  On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux zero-day vulnerabilities …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail an unpatchable vulnerability in Apple's M-series of chips that lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs during cryptographic operations  —  Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.  —  A newly discovered vulnerability baked …
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is meeting with Hollywood studios, media executives, and others to form partnerships to encourage filmmakers to integrate Sora into their work  —  - Startup pitching its new AI video generation tool, Sora  — CEO Altman attended LA parties during Oscars weekend
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
The UK CMA launches a formal Phase 2 investigation into Vodafone and Three UK's planned $19B merger, after finding competition and pricing concerns in Phase 1  —  The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it's launching a formal “phase 2” investigation into the planned merger between Vodafone and Three UK.
David McCabe / New York Times:
A profile of DOJ's Jonathan Kanter, as he takes the biggest swing in his decades-long effort to fight the concentration of power in corporate America  —  Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday by accusing Apple of antitrust violations.
More: Axios
Dan Primack / Axios:
Donald Trump's Truth Social is going public via a SPAC merger after DWAC shareholders approved the move; TMTG will be listed on the Nasdaq as early as next week  —  - As Axios reported earlier today, this ends a multiyear saga that's included civil lawsuits, criminal lawsuits, closing extensions and vote postponements.

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: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26  —  Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Zoho:
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control  —  Picture this: It's Monday morning.  You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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

Big Technology Podcast:
 OpenAI's 2026 Priority, Disney's AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
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:
 Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
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:
 Why the next AI frontier is phone calls, with Beside CEO Maxime Germain
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Great Chat:
 So what happens after AGI?
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.
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He's a Must-Read Media Gossip.
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.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:55 PM ET, March 22, 2024.

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

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
MediaTek introduced Dimensity Auto Cockpit, its automotive-focused SoCs, this week, becoming the first third-party company to use Nvidia's GPU IP in its chips
Axios:
Some senators who received a classified briefing about TikTok say China's government can use the app to spy on US users and push propaganda at alarming levels

Earlier Picks

David Ingram / NBC News:
Changing its policy, X bans posting the real names of people behind anonymous accounts, after suspending accounts that unmasked a suspected neo-Nazi cartoonist
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until January 2025 to track election misinformation globally
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI, encouraging countries to protect personal data, monitor AI for risks, and safeguard human rights
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
DoorDash taps Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries in the US, starting in Christiansburg, Virginia; DoorDash uses Wing drones in Australia for 60+ merchants
Bloomberg:
Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter