|
February 17, 2016, 7:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Tim Cook / Apple: |
Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent” — A Message to Our Customers — The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers.
More:
Politico, Wall Street Journal, Fight for the Future, The Verge, The Daily Beast, Reuters, Ars Technica, Internet Society, Popular Mechanics, Quartz, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, New York Times, TechCrunch, CircleID, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web, CNN, CSO, NPR, iMore, SiliconValley.com, AVC, BuzzFeed, Macworld, Washington Post, The Register, BGR, The Register, The Intercept, CNNMoney, ACLU, Marco.org, Guardian, Forbes, Vox, US News, Fortune, Michael Geist, Federal Computer Week, CNET, New York Times, Mashable, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Adweek, blog.trendmicro.com, Tech Insider, BBC, Christian Science Monitor, Cult of Mac, NPR, Benzinga, Digital Trends, Phandroid, Freedom to Tinker, POPSUGAR, Wired, Associated Press, Boing Boing, CBS New York, Bloomberg Business, Patently Apple, FierceCIO News, The Daily Dot, Shadowproof, International Business Times, PhoneArena, Hit & Run, MacNN, eWeek, Forrester Blogs, Techvibes Global News, Guardian, BetaNews, The Tech Report, Re/code, Nextgov, iPhone Hacks, The San Diego Union …, Refinery29, Neowin, InvestorPlace, Investor's Business Daily, Fusion, Very Biased Reviews, TIME, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, The Tech Portal, Salon, DSLreports, Slate, PCWorld, Business Insider, American Enterprise Institute, The Loop, Six Colors, WindowsITPro, and Naked Security
| Dan Guido / Trail of Bits Blog: |
iPhone 5C lacks Secure Enclave, makes it technically feasible for Apple to comply with court order over San Bernadino shooter — Apple can comply with the FBI court order — Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI's request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen's iPhone 5C.
More:
Lawfare, Errata Security, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, New York Magazine, Zdziarski's Blog of Things, The Daily Caller, The Verge, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, CNN, Washington Post, Nextgov, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Fortune, Daily Mail, BGR, Tech Insider and iMore. Tweets: @mattblaze
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue …
More:
Daring Fireball, Engadget, Re/code, The Next Web, The Verge and Pocketnow
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @xor and @snowden
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor — Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn't asking …
More:
Slate, ABC News, BGR, Wall Street Journal, PCWorld, Daring Fireball, BBC, Patently Apple, iClarified, Forbes and The Verge
Tweets: @kevinbankston and @attackerman
| Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: |
A look at early reactions from lawmakers and candidates Trump and Kasich to Apple's encryption standoff with the FBI — Should Apple unlock a phone tied to the San Bernardino attack? Lawmakers say yes and no — Add this to the list of controversies facing Capitol Hill.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
More:
Techdirt, NBC News, The Verge, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo Tech, Wired, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, Tech Insider, Independent Journal Review, O'Grady's PowerPage, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Re/code, CSO, NBC Bay Area and The Next Web
Tweets: @jzdziarski, @normative and @agcrocker
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, Daring Fireball, Network World, Washington Post, Tech Insider, Quartz, Mashable, MacNN, The Register, CSO and CNET. Tweets: @grimmelm
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter rolling out a new GIF button for iOS, Android, and Twitter.com over coming weeks, in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter rolls out native GIF support in partnership with Giphy and Riffsy — Twitter has added native support for GIFs, thanks to its partnership with Giphy and Riffsy.
More:
The Twitter Blog, GeekWire, BetaNews, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, Adweek, The Verge, Social Media Today, PhoneDog.com, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, Laughing Squid, Boing Boing and Engadget
Tweets: @caseynewton, @twitterau, @howardlindzon, @jguynn and @jbruin
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages — Twitter may be in the middle of an existential crisis of sorts over where to take its slow-growing social network, but the company keeps plugging away at basic features to bring the service up to speed with competitors like Facebook Messenger.
More:
The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, iMore, Gizmodo, Neowin and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @support, @davezatz and @robinwauters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Gmailify to let users of non-Gmail accounts take of advantage of Gmail's best features like spam detection, Google Now integrations, more — Google Launches “Gmailify” - A Way To Use Gmail's Best Features With Non-Gmail Accounts — Since early 2015, Google's Gmail Android app …
More:
Gmail Blog, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Google Operating System, Android Authority, Marketing Land and BetaNews. Tweets: @theromit
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company — If It's Wednesday, It's Layoffs Day at Yahoo: Today, Digital Magazines Get Hit — According to sources close to the situation …
More:
Yahoo, Eater, Politico, The Register, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, New York Times, Android Police, eWeek, TechCrunch and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @jyarow
| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12 — Facebook Will Make Instant Articles Available to All Publishers — As of April 12, almost a year after launch, any publisher can host content directly on the social media site
More:
Facebook Media, The Verge, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, Engadget, SlashGear, Marketing Land, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Next Web, WebProNews, Poynter and MobileSyrup.com
Tweets: @joshconstine and @poynter
See also Mediagazer| Office Blogs: |
Outlook.com exits preview, gets major update including @mentions in emails, side-by-side doc and email editing, Giphy integrations — Outlook.com—out of preview and better than ever — The Outlook team is on a mission to bring you the best email and calendar experience—at work, at home—across all your favorite devices.
More:
eWeek, PCWorld, Engadget, The Next Web, FierceCIO News, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, Thurrott.com, WinBeta, Neowin, Windows Central, Lifehacker and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
U.S. Department of Defense to upgrade 4 million devices to Windows 10 by February 2017 — The U.S. Department of Defense is committing to upgrade roughly four million devices and systems running legacy versions of Windows to Windows 10 by February 2017. — The U.S. Department … | Wall Street Journal: |
Google expands its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries starting in San Francisco and Los Angeles, $35 minimum order — Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is expanding its same-day delivery service to fresh groceries, the latest example … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Nvidia reports quarterly revenue up 12% to $1.40B on higher chip demand, GAAP net income up 7% YoY to $207M, rising interest in deep learning tech; stock up 6%+ — Nvidia touts deep learning success in Q4 earnings win — The graphics chipmaker revenue of $1.4 billion, up 12 percent year-over-year.
More:
NVIDIA Newsroom, AnandTech, The Tech Report and Reuters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues — Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.
More:
Windows Blog, ZDNet, PCWorld, Windows Central, Business Insider, SlashGear, WinBeta and Microsoft
| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango — Fandango Acquires Rotten Tomatoes & Flixster From Warner Bros Entertainment — BREAKING: Fandango is set to acquire Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes, which includes …
| Astro Teller / Backchannel: |
Plenty of Google X moonshot ideas are ditched, with 100 investigations killed last year, including vertical farming and variable buoyancy cargo ship projects — The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects — At X, I see up close every day how messy innovation is| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Custom Machine Types Come Out Of Beta, Now Support Red Hat And Windows — Custom Machine Types on Google's Cloud Platform allow you to choose exactly how many CPU cores and how much memory you want in a virtual machine to run your applications. Google first introduced this feature …
More:
Google Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet, InfoWorld, theWHIR.com and VentureBeat
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft now selling licenses to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure, also announces Azure support for Walmart's OneOps app lifecycle management platform — Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure — Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses.
More:
Microsoft Azure, InfoWorld, WinBeta, CIO.com, The New Stack and New York News. Tweets: @marypcbuk
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches templates for new issues and pull requests — GitHub today announced the availability of templates that repository maintainers can add to forms for new issues and pull requests. The move might sound like a small thing, but it could result in more civil discussion among GitHub users.
More:
GitHub and The Next Web
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Confidential internal data: Yahoo.com's daily active users declined 16.5% in 2015, Yahoo Mail down 11.5%, and Yahoo Search down 8.8% — The Death March of Yahoo's Core Products — The number of people visiting Yahoo's three most important products—Yahoo Mail, the Yahoo.com home page and Yahoo Search …
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Leap Motion demos Orion, a motion tracking system and sensor for VR headsets — Leap Motion's revamped hand tracking is getting built straight into VR headsets — When Leap Motion was announced in 2012, it seemed like a solution looking for a problem. A little black box that plugged … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MindMaze, Maker Of A ‘Neural Virtual Reality Platform,’ Raises $100M At A $1B Valuation — As consumers and businesses begin to focus on what form the next generation of computing may take beyond our current era of the smartphone, startups developing at the cutting edge of these concepts …
More:
VentureBeat, MedCity News, Forbes, Bloomberg Business, VRFocus and Xconomy
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 7:40 PM ET, February 17, 2016.
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
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
Engadget, GeekWire, BBC, Washington Post, Re/code, Wired, Agence France-Presse, Fortune, Quartz, CIO.com and Motherboard. Tweets: @tsimonite
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
More:
GeekWire, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, Fox News, TechCrunch and USA Today
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
SiliconANGLE and ZDNet
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |