Techmeme
June 24, 2013, 8:50 AM

Top News

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Aims to Become Newspaper for Mobile Devices  —  Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices.  —  The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Update: As Microsoft Restructuring Nears, Top Execs Fret Over Their Fate  —  According to sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely unveil his plans to restructure the tech giant to a larger group of senior execs by July 1.  —  That prospect has many top managers …
Jon Matonis / Forbes:
Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California  —  Directly following last month's Bitcoin 2013 conference event in San Jose, CA that brought good revenue into the state, California's Department of Financial Institutions decided to issue a cease and desist warning …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Duck Duck Go's Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search  —  Look out, Google!  Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days.  Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows …
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You  —  SAN FRANCISCO — They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin.  But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché …
Tracey Lien / Polygon:
The Apple obstacle for serious games  —  Making a serious game for iOS devices is not as easy as you'd think  —  When the iPhone launched in 2007, it changed the video game landscape in a way that no one could have predicted.  Where gaming was once confined to PCs and consoles …
More: 9to5Mac
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown  —  Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find.  —  The RIAA is one of the most active senders and has asked Google to remove over 23 million links to copyrighted content.
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch)  —  Things didn't go exactly as I'd expected at WWDC.  I spent the week before the show at Computex, talking to PC OEMs, who had all just launched their Haswell ULT based Ultrabooks.  With a couple of exceptions however, the bulk of Haswell ULT systems …
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Aided by WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong to seek asylum in Ecuador  —  PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong, according to an announcement from the Hong Kong government made Sunday afternoon.  With assistance from WikiLeaks, Snowden is said to be seeking asylum in Ecuador.

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning  —  SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds.  Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything.  Cape doesn't.  —  Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more.  Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Control before consequence: Governing enterprise email with Zoho Mail rules  —  At 9:17 AM, the CFO receives an email.It looks legitimate.It references an ongoing vendor payment.It uses the correct company logo …
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.

Featured Podcasts

Training Data:
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'What's in Louie's Wallet', With Louie Mantia
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Big Technology Podcast:
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft's Best Day
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:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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 8:50 AM ET, June 24, 2013.

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.

More News

Earlier Picks