|
October 8, 2014, 12:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook working on stand-alone mobile app that will allow anonymous discussion; release expected in coming weeks — Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity — Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself. — Soon, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name.
More:
Wired, Gizmodo, The Verge, Business Insider, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, AllFacebook, MobileSyrup.com, TechSpot, SlashGear, Marketing Land, VentureBreak, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Phandroid, Forbes, Valleywag, Telegraph, App Advice, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite, VatorNews, The Daily Dot, BGR, Cult of Mac, Android Central, Mashable, Gigaom, Pocket-lint and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @dannysullivan, @kevinroose and @alexjamesfitz
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Twitter sues U.S. government over limits on ability to disclose surveillance orders — Twitter, the world's largest microblogging platform, on Tuesday sued the U.S. government, alleging that the Justice Department's restrictions on what the company can say publicly about the government's …
More:
The Twitter Blog, Wired, ReadWrite, The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, ZDNet, BetaNews, New York Times, TechCrunch, Slate, ACLU, GeekWire, Guardian, USA Today, The Hill, TechSpot, Nextgov, SiliconBeat, FedScoop, SC Magazine, Electronista, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, BBC, VatorNews, Forbes, Boing Boing, TIME, Consumerist, Threatpost and New York Magazine
Tweets: @mattcutts, @dnvolz, @digiphile, @emptywheel and @mikeisaac
See also Mediagazer| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
New Google+ Head David Besbris: We're Here for the Long Haul (Q&A) — Google+ isn't dying anytime soon, says Google's new head of social media David Besbris. — Of course, you'd expect the person in charge of the social network to say so, despite the fact that it's hard to ignore the chatter …
More:
BGR, Marketing Land, Tech Times, Electronista, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup.com, Business Insider, WebProNews and 9to5Google
Tweets: @alexia, @whatthebit, @joshconstine and @caseynewton
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
AAA study: hands-free Siri more distracting while driving than other voice-control systems — AAA says Apple's Siri causes potentially dangerous driver distractions — According to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, hands- and eyes-free infotainment and smartphone control systems …
More:
AAA, MacRumors, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Ars Technica, CNET, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, New York Times, Electronista, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, BGR and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Facebook: |
Facebook debuts “local awareness” ads, enabling local businesses to target users by location — Helping Local Businesses Reach More Customers — For many local business owners, marketing is just one of the many duties they must tackle every day.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Feds ‘Hacked’ Silk Road Without a Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue — With only a month until the scheduled trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road drug site, Ulbricht's defense lawyers have zeroed in on the argument that the U.S. government illegally hacked … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
The year of Watson continues: IBM announces a slew of new partners, public cloud integration, & more — Above: IBM's Watson headquarters in Manhattan — NEW YORK — IBM's Watson supercomputer is on a roll. — More than a month after opening up Watson's cognitive computing capabilities to researchers …
More:
TechCrunch, New York Times, Computerworld, eWeek and Tnooz
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Latest Apple TV update enables remote access relay for HomeKit connected accessories — The center of a connected smart home could soon be the Apple TV, as Apple's latest beta software officially brings HomeKit support to its $99 streaming set-top box. — As first discovered by AppleInsider …
More:
Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, SlashGear and App Advice
| Patrick Hoge / San Francisco Business Times: |
SF's new “Airbnb law” officially permits short term rentals, with restrictions, starting Feb 2015 — San Francisco Supervisors give okay to Airbnb legalization ordinance — Acknowledging that the “genie is out of the bottle,” the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave initial approval …
More:
TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, CBS San Francisco and Valleywag
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Adobe's Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader sends reading logs to company servers in plan text; Adobe says it's working on a fix — Adobe's e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] — Adobe even logs what you read in Digital Editions' instruction manual.
More:
The Register, The Digital Reader, Techdirt, Consumerist, PC World, LJ INFOdocket, Gigaom, Geek.com, Network World and Inquirer
Tweets: @j450nk, @virtadpt, @mattblaze, @thepacketrat and @dangillmor
See also Mediagazer| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Misconfigured server at US bond insurer MBIA leaks account statements of clients on public web — Huge Data Leak at Largest U.S. Bond Insurer — On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity notified MBIA Inc. — the nation's largest bond insurer — that a misconfiguration in a company Web server … | Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Google rolls out local News & Weather app for iOS — Google just introduced a new app for iOS that displays local news and weather. It's like the nightly local news except on your iPhone or iPad. — The News & Weather app for iOS is “your comprehensive and personalized view of headline stories …
More:
9to5Mac, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com and Engadget
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Plastc, a card to digitally replace other payment cards, is up for $155 pre-order, ships in summer 2015 — Plastc wants to replace your entire wallet with a single card — How much technology can you fit into a 0.8-millimeter-thick credit card? — Last November, Coin offered a first taste of what was possible.
More:
BGR, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Gigaom, Gizmodo, The Register, MacRumors, Android Police, Inc.com and VentureBeat
| Bloomberg: |
Symantec Said to Explore Split Into Security, Storage Cos — Symantec Corp. (SYMC) is exploring a breakup, according to people with knowledge of the matter, joining other large technology companies that are trying to make their businesses more focused and nimble.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Belkin confirms router failures blocking users from getting online, says issue is now resolved — Borked Belkin routers leave many unable to get online — Many ISPs, models appear affected—with a DNS problem apparently to blame. — Owners of Belkin routers around the world are finding themselves unable to get online today.
More:
DSLreports, Myce.com, The Register, PC World, TechCrunch, Macworld, Gotta Be Mobile and Gigaom
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Social Curation Platform Storify Gets A Redesign With Support For Group Collaboration — Storify, a service that allows users to curate tweets, photos, and other social media posts to create a coherent story, is getting a new design. More than just giving the product a new look … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches OneNote Class Notebook Creator app for teachers, Office 365 subscription required — Microsoft today launched OneNote Class Notebook Creator, an app designed to help teachers do their job in the paperless age. If you have an Office 365 subscription …
More:
Office Blogs, PC World and Windows Phone Central
| Robert Lemos / Ars Technica: |
Dozens of European ATMs rooted, allowing criminals to easily cash out — Criminals with physical access to ATMs install malware to control flow of money. — Criminals are installing fairly sophisticated malicious programs on banks' ATMs, allowing them to control access to the machines …
More:
Securelist, We use words to save the world, Threatpost, SecurityWeek, CIO.com and ZDNet
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Website creation service Squarespace updates with live preview editing, Getty integration — This Is The New Squarespace — Squarespace has just announced a brand new version of its product called Squarespace 7. — Obviously, the interface of the service (which gives users a full suite …
More:
VentureBeat, The Next Web, PC Magazine, bizjournals, PSFK, Business Insider, Electronista and Mashable
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to hold cloud media event in San Francisco on October 20 — CEO Nadella to talk up what's next for Microsoft's cloud — Summary: Microsoft execs, including its CEO Nadella, are on tap to talk more about the company's cloud futures on October 20.
More:
TechCrunch, Re/code, WindowsITPro, ScottGu's Blog, eWeek, Neowin and Gigaom. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Kano Lets Kids Build Their Own Computers and Learn to Code — If you ask a typical 10-year-old today what's inside her computer, or how the software is created, she's likely to be baffled. Today's sleek notebooks and desktops, and the apps they run, are a far cry from the crude models … Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:35 AM ET, October 8, 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
New York Times:David Ingram / NBC News:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
VentureBeat, Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom, The Register, Forbes, Reuters and Xconomy
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
More:
Xbox Wire, PC World, Blogging Windows, The Verge, SlashGear and destructoid
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
NextBigWhat, Trakin' the india …, Wall Street Journal, Tech in Asia, MediaNama and Electronista. Tweets: @zerohedge
Earlier Picks
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
More:
Opera Software, BetaNews, PC World, The Next Web, Geek.com, ZDNet, The Digital Reader, PC World, Tech Digest, Electronista and SlashGear
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
More:
Fiksu, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Fortune, 9to5Mac, New York Times, SlashGear, ReadWrite, PadGadget, CIO.com, CNET, Pocket Gamer.biz, Network World, iPhone, TUAW, GeekWire, BGR, Gigaom, Seeking Alpha, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, DailyTech, Inquirer and AppleTell. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Colin Neagle / Network World: |
More:
BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, Marketing Land, Gigaom and SiliconBeat