Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
September 16, 2014, 9:45 AM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:
Apple confirms iPhone 6 NFC chip is restricted to Apple Pay  —  Apple finally added NFC to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but if you were hoping the company's new NFC chip will allow you to pair speakers or integrated NFC tags into your favorite apps, however you won't be able to do any of the when …
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
Paypal attacks Apple Pay security with full-page ad in NYT referencing recent iCloud celebrity photo hack  —  “We the people want our money safer than our selfies.”  PayPal goes after Apple in a full page NYT ad  —  As the rumors of an Apple payments platform swirled leading up to last week's keynote …
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Tony Fadell on the evolution of Nest, working with Jobs and Page, and integrating Google's culture  —  The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple?  —  Google is betting big on Nest CEO Tony Fadell, who helped invent the iPod and iPhone.  Here, a look inside his design revolution.
More: Business Insider.  Tweets: @austincarr
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Windows 9 event in San Francisco on September 30th  —  Microsoft is preparing to detail its next major version of Windows.  We had been expecting the company to hold a press event later this month, and now it's official.  Microsoft will hold a “Windows event” in San Francisco on September 30th.
Derrick Harris / Gigaom:
Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech  —  Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along with other big-name companies) to help foster open source efforts.
Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Blog:
Wolfram launches cloud-based Mathematica Online that works in the browser  —  Launching Today: Mathematica Online!  —  It's been many years in the making, and today I'm excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud …
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Silicon Valley's view of Alibaba: a competitor only for investments, and a potential acquirer  —  How Silicon Valley sees Alibaba  —  Wall Street is seeing green this week regarding the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.  It hopes to raise more than $20 billion.
Tweets: @jonrussell
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Why parents are raising their kids on Minecraft  —  Microsoft's latest purchase has remarkable intergenerational appeal  —  Back in June of 2011, David Pakman's daughter and son, at the time age 10 and eight, asked him for a copy of Minecraft.  “At the time I didn't know what that was …
More: Re/code, GeekWire and kottke.org
Tweets: @a91g and @cwarzel
Bloomberg:
Apple Watch Privacy Questioned by Connecticut AG Jepsen  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces questions by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen over privacy protections for users of the company's watch, which includes features such as health tracking, unveiled last week as part of its lineup of new products.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Mail.ru Takes Over 'Russia's Facebook' Vkontake In $1.47B Deal, Settles Durov Suit  —  Some big shareholder shifts at Vkontake, the social network with 92 million monthly active users that's often described as Russia's Facebook and has been embroiled in political controversies that resulted in the ousting of its founder, Pavel Durov.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup  —  Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started.  The executive shared the information on Facebook on Monday, saying that he was …
More: BetaKit.  Tweets: @rcnaturephotos
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Macy's rolls out retail's largest beacon installation  —  Summary: Macy's expects to complete the installation by early fall, just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season.  —  Following a test run during last year's holiday shopping season at its flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Digital Studio JibJab Acquires Startup Behind ‘Hello Santa’ Video Service  —  JibJab Bros. Studios, the company whose backers include Sony Pictures Entertainment best known for its political satires, announced that it has acquired Make Believe Studios, creators of the “Hello Santa” …
Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:
Tim Cook doesn't want Apple to be a ‘treasure trove’ of user data for the NSA  —  Apple's privacy and security measures have been under a microscope for the past month, first with a targeted attack on celebrities that led to leaked nude photos, and now on Apple's own systems as the company gears …
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Gartner: 75% of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in 2015  —  Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner  —  Summary: The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.

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.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference  —  Stop preparing for agents.  Start running them.  100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM  —  This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI  —  L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
 GPT-6 & OpenAI's Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer's Scandalous Legacy
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:
 The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
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.
Sources:
 Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
 Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
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.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:45 AM ET, September 16, 2014.

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

CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules via an emergency order that political parties are entitled to the same low-cost TV ad rates as candidates, giving an advantage to Republicans

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is launching a FAST channel, The Don Lemon Channel, with Swerve TV; it will also be available on linear TV

More News

Richard Salgado / Google Public Policy Blog:
Transparency Report: Government demands for user info have risen 150% over the last five years
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Panasonic puts a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone

Earlier Picks

WikiLeaks:
WikiLeaks releases copies of FinFisher malware governments reportedly use to spy on journalists, political dissidents, and others
Wall Street Journal:
Bill Gurley says Silicon Valley is taking on the most risk since 1999, will see high-profile failures in the next year or two
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter