Techmeme: Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class (David Katzmaier/CNET)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

April 12, 2015, 1:55 PM

Top News

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO — First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.

More: Variety, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, The Daily Dot, BetaNews, BuzzFeed, Sydney Morning Herald, TMZ.com, SlashGear and Digital Trends. Tweets: @chrismlacy. See also Mediagazer

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:

HBO Now streaming service faces first major stress test with Sunday's Game of Thrones premiere

More: CNET. Tweets: @pkafka and @business

Stack Overflow:

Stack Overflow user survey: 92% male, 41.8% self-taught, 54.5% use Javascript, 32.4% are full-stack web developers, 9.1% mobile developers — Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 — Every year we run a survey. This year, more developers answered more questions than ever before.

More: ZDNet, InfoQ, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Slashdot, WordPress Tavern and SlashGear

Tweets: @samthebrand, @anildash and @mims

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business — Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …

More: The Next Web, Gnip, Forbes and Search Engine Journal

Tweets: @mdmgeek, @jstrauss, @jamesaneufeld, @panzer, @mikeisaac, @jstrauss, @biologypartners and @howardlindzon

Nick Halstead / DataSift:

Social intelligence service DataSift says its Twitter firehose access expires August, bemoans impact on its customers and their customers, touts Facebook access — Twitter Ends its Partnership with DataSift - Firehose Access Expires on August 13, 2015 — For several months now …

More: New York Times, Re/code, The Register, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat and Beyond Search

Tweets: @loic, @msuster, @bhorowitz, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @nik, @fattypontoonski, @markzohar, @vivian, @jakeludington and @ruskin147

David Katzmaier / CNET:

Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class — Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming — Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy. Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.

More: TechCrunch

Washington Post:

Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama — As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security — For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …

More: The Verge, Slashdot and Engadget

Tweets: @csoghoian, @binitamshah, @dangillmor, @xor, @xor and @trevortimm

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Flir FX is a home security camera that also acts as an action camera and a car dash cam — The Flir FX is a security camera with bigger ambitions — Anyone who grew up in the 1980s probably knows of Bo Jackson. Unlike most professional athletes, Jackson played both baseball and football, managing to become an all-star in each.

More: Gizmodo, The Next Web, Popular Mechanics, App Advice, SlashGear, TechHive, Mashable and AndroidHeadlines.com

Daniel Rivero / Fusion:

Advocacy group Privacy International creates fake companies to gain access to surveillance industry trade shows and expose the industry's surveillance powers — Meet the privacy activists who spy on the surveillance industry — LONDON- On the second floor of a narrow brick building …

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks — Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149 — The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.

More: TechCrunch

Leon Spencer / ZDNet:

DARPA's BRASS program aims to create software that can remain functional for over a century by adapting itself to changing computing environments — New DARPA project aims to do away with IT updates — Summary:DARPA is hoping to do away with software updates as it embarks on a new project …

More: SD Times, Motherboard and SiliconANGLE

Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

As Flash usage wanes, Internet archivists struggle to preserve Flash websites — Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool — Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet canon.

Tweets: @dalmaer

Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video — Marissa Mayer Shuffles Yahoo Leadership Team — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, announced a major reorganization …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Mercury News, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha and Fortune. See also Mediagazer

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:

Zoho Sign takes a bite of Apple's latest: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate — It's September, and you know the drill. Apple just handed us a fresh batch of releases, and there's plenty to look forward …

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.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares

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.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?

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.

Invest Like the Best:

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

Sources:

Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI

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.

Training Data:

Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion

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.

Uncapped with Jack Altman:

Andrew Feldman from Cerebras

Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.

Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:55 PM ET, April 12, 2015.

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.