|
April 5, 2024, 8:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Samsung estimates Q1 operating profit of $4.9B, up 931% YoY, and sales of $52.68B, up 11.4% YoY, as memory chip prices surge, hinting end of the chip downturn — World's biggest maker of memory chips beats expectations with strong first-quarter guidance — Samsung Electronics expects …
More: Samsung Newsroom, CNBC, ZDNet, Barron's Online, Reuters, Silicon Republic, Reuters, PhoneArena, Benzinga, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, SamMobile, Bloomberg, Cryptopolitan, TradingView, The Chosun Daily, Reuters, KED Global, Korea Joongang Daily, Nikkei Asia, BBC, and GSMArena.com. Forums: r/korea
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's display and car research teams were reportedly based — The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
More: 9to5Mac, CNBC, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, Barron's Online, Silicon Republic, Forbes, iMore, Silicon UK, Wall Street Journal, Tech.co, Associated Press, TechCentral.ie, 24/7 Wall St., Display Daily, The Mac Observer, BBC, City A.M., AppleInsider, Supercharged, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Business Today, Hindustan Times, PhoneArena, Benzinga, Neowin, Business Post, Inc.com, NewsBytes, and The Verge
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @9to5mac, @vadimyuryev, and @whatthebit
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.
More: CNBC, The Verge, Engadget, Silicon Republic, The Sun, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, CityAM, Variety, Proactive, TechRadar, BetaNews, T3, Ghacks, CNET, Livemint, Business Today, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, CBC News, Dow Jones Newswires, Business Insider, CNBC, Lifewire, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, Forbes, PCMag, BGR, Neowin, GameSpot, MacDailyNews, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @stufflistings and @1alokjoshi
Forums: r/cordcutters, r/Piracy, and r/technology
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea, and India this year with AI-generated content after making a dry run in Taiwan — Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
More: Microsoft On the Issues, Silicon Republic, Hindustan Times, MSPoweruser, Interesting Engineering, AI News, Cryptopolitan, and CyberScoop. Forums: r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini — The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI's text-to-video generator would be a infraction of the platform's terms of service …
More: MIT Technology Review, Engadget, MSPoweruser, MediaNama, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, BGR, NewsBytes, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Fortune, The Decoder, Mashable, WebProNews, and The Verge
Threads: @crumbler. X: @pbannist, @mfrankdude, @thezedwards, @brij, @robleathern, @giano, @amuse, @bilawalsidhu, @aifray, @emostaque, @emilychangtv, @modestproposal1, @rustybrick, @emostaque, and @emostaque
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/ArtistHate
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown — Coinbase has been granted a registration license in Canada, the company told CNBC, allowing it to make deeper inroads abroad … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops — Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs from Binance by May 18. — Trading volume for NFTs is at multi-year lows.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use — Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”
More: PiunikaWeb and NewsBytes
Mastodon: @JMarkOckerbloom …, @CyberpunkLibrarian …, @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social, @alex@dair-community.social, @josephcox@infosec.exchange, and @samleecole@journa.host
LinkedIn: Christopher Rice and Alex Hanna, Ph.D.
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
How a TikTok whistleblower may have driven congressional concerns about the app despite working at TikTok for just six months and making improbable claims — Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable.| The Economic Times: |
India's IT minister says the country is looking to frame a “balanced” AI law that will protect news publishers and content creators while minimizing user harm — Global AI regulation discussions intensify as companies seek fair compensation for AI data training from publishers.
More: MediaNama and Business Today
| Platformer: |
A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week — Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn't ready
More: Business Insider. Threads: @kylie.robison, @reporterzoe, @kylie.robison, and @crumbler. LinkedIn: Enrique Munoz Torres
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to more than double its total chip investment in Taylor, Texas to ~$44B, a significant breakthrough for US' chip manufacturing plans — South Korean firm plans to add a second semiconductor factory and advanced-packaging facility at its new hub outside Austin
More: Bloomberg, The Verge, and Sammy Fans
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
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.
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.
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.
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
BG2 Pod:
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Great Chat:
The stories we told ourselves in 2025
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.
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.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:35 AM ET, April 5, 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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Niamh Rowe / Fortune: |
More: FinTech Global, Ellipsis Labs, crypto.news, The Block, New.blicio.us, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, and NFTgators
Earlier Picks
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: OpenAI, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Hill, Voicebot.ai, The Verge, The Crypto Times, The Decoder, and VentureBeat
X: @altryne, @shyamalanadkat, @therealadamg, @stevenheidel, @weights_biases, @asenkut, @kvibhor, @openaidevs, @gdb, @openai, @danielgross, and @slessans. LinkedIn: Felix Wunderlich
| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
More: Tech Xplore and New York Times
Mastodon: @clairegiordano@hachyderm.io, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @doctormo@floss.social
X: @davidgerard, @iethics, @emanuelmaiberg, @samleecole, @iethics, @jbhall56, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, and r/Android
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
More: Ripple, Finbold, CNBC, Bankless Times, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Insider, PYMNTS.com, CoinGape, Milk Road, ZyCrypto, The Daily Hodl, CCN.com, Crypto Briefing, NFTgators, The Verge, and CryptoPotato
Bluesky: @robert.hill.cx. X: @bgarlinghouse, @ripple, @borissimo_, @joelkatz, @monicalongsf, @ddisparte, @vet_x0, @panosmek, @dizer_ym, @seanmcbride16, @x__anderson, @aakaashyadav, @haider, and @moonlamboio
| Reuters: |
More: TechCrunch, CNBC, New York Times, NewsBytes, New.blicio.us, The Information, Bloomberg, Fresno Bee, The Daily Upside, SiliconANGLE, Outlook India, PYMNTS.com, Android Headlines, Reuters, Quartz, International Business Times, Silicon UK, Kiplinger.com, Search Engine Land, Irish Examiner, CRN, MSPoweruser, and MediaPost
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
More: Context by Cohere, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Maginative, Towards Data Science, The Crypto Times, BetaKit, and MSPoweruser
X: @aidangomez, @sullyomarr, @simonw, @cohere, @aidangomez, @max_nlp, @cohere, @aidangomez, and @aidangomez
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
More: CNBC, Finextra, Business Insider, Ars Technica, TalkAndroid.com, CCN.com, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, US District Court, Southern District of New York, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptonews, Entrepreneur, News.ng, The Record, Wccftech, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Invezz, BeInCrypto, Protos, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, Coinspeaker, Quartz, and crypto.news
X: @kent_walker, @joemerante, and @vidushi_law
LinkedIn: Kent Walker and Halimah DeLaine Prado
Forums: r/Scams and r/ethtrader
| The Guardian: |
More: CNN, Al Jazeera, Caitlin Johnstone, BGR, The Verge, Fortune, Telegraph, +972 Magazine, Gizmodo, FRANCE 24 English on YouTube, The Sun, The Times of Israel, Firstpost, and Daily Kos
Mastodon: @JapanProf@mastodon.social, @ErikJonker@mastodon.social, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @shentonfreude@mastodon.online, @65dBnoise@mastodon.social, @Khrys@mamot.fr, @Khrys@mamot.fr, @yanone@typo.social, @anilmc@hachyderm.io, @bpettis@mastodon …, @makingarecord@friend.camp, @left_adjoint@tilde.zone, @seriouslyjeff@social.jeffl.es, @risottobias@tech.lgbt, @jesopo@chaos.social, @reedmideke@mastodon.social, and @reedmideke@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @saddestrobots.bsky.social
X: @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @kunktation, @mer__edith, @tomgara, @rafaelshimunov, @docmattmoudi, @alonso_gd, @tomgara, @lana_tatour, @jehadabusalim, @peterharling, @heerjeet, @sturgeons_law, @nickkristof, @psychicyogamat, @mehdirhasan, @btselem, @paulbernaluk, @dirkmoses, @spectrathegame, @pixelatedboat, @mitchprothero, @bonzerbarry, @ugarles, @hamzamsyed, @provisionalidea, @masadfrost, @bcmerchant, @arictoler, @brian_castner, @heidykhlaaf, @evanhill, @evanhill, @mrjoncryer, @thegreenebj, @madamajab, @jeremiahdjohns, @hermit_hwarang, @mer__edith, @rohantalbot, @schock, @charlie533080, @arictoler, @arictoler, @jakegodin, @adhaque110, @yanisvaroufakis, @yuval_abraham, @bcmerchant, @robertdownen_, @ggreenwald, @elivalley, @evanhill, @rosen_br, @rnaudbertrand, @evkontorovich, @tksshawa, @rnaudbertrand, and @972mag. LinkedIn: Ana Brandusescu
Forums: Hacker News, r/Cyberpunk, r/LabourUK, r/theworldnews, r/Palestine, r/tech, r/LateStageColonialism, r/ABoringDystopia, r/technews, r/jewishleft, r/Foodforthought, r/PrepperIntel, r/Israel_Palestine, r/DemocraticSocialism, r/boringdystopia, r/OrphanCrushingMachine, r/worldevents, r/internationalpolitics, r/technology, r/metalgearsolid, r/PLTR, and r/stupidpol