|
April 20, 2016, 1:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Intel Newsroom: |
Intel announces cuts of 12K jobs, or 11% of global workforce, by mid-2017, with most cuts coming in next 60 days — Intel Announces Restructuring Initiative to Accelerate Transformation — Intel Corporation Announces a Restructuring to Speed its Transition to a Company that Powers the Cloud …
More:
VentureBeat, AnandTech, Oregonian, Bloomberg, Reuters, Re/code, Intel, The Verge, Business Insider, ZDNet, Quartz, Tech Trader Daily, WinBeta, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Liliputing, Neowin, Windows Central, New York Times, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Reuters and Engadget
Tweets: @alistairmbarr and @dmac1
| Kevin Kelly / Wired: |
Magic Leap impressions: works well close up unlike some MR/VR systems, transition back to reality is effortless; mixed reality interface demoed in short video — The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World's Most Secretive Startup — Don't call it a lens: Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz displaying …
More:
Tech in Asia, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, Wired.co.uk, Tech Insider, BGR, Business Insider, Motherboard, Fortune, Boing Boing, TIME and UploadVR
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @reckless, @leahfinnegan, @carlfranzen, @caseynewton, @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff and @mims
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo bidders include Verizon, TPG, and Bain Capital paired with Vista Equity Partners, which involves multiple former Yahoo execs including Ross Levinsohn — Yahoo bidders are few and far between, but include Verizon, TPG and a gang of exes — As Yahoo prepares to release what is widely expected …
More:
Fortune, AdExchanger, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Business Insider, VentureBeat, eWeek, Fast Company, Mattermark, ZDNet, Re/code, Business Wire, TechCrunch and Mashable
Tweets: @danprimack and @eringriffith
See also Mediagazer| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
More:
ZDNet, Forbes, VentureBeat, New York Times, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, Re/code, AdExchanger, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @vindugoel. See also Mediagazer
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Apple refused China's request for source code within last two years, said Apple's top lawyer Bruce Sewell in congressional hearing — Apple refused China request for source code in last two years: lawyer — Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand …
More:
New York Times, Fortune, Pocketnow, ZDNet, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, AppleInsider, The Loop, Reuters, SiliconBeat and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @normative, @robyn_greene, @normative, @normative, @normative, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @xor, @xor, @xor, @xor, @xor, @normative, @normative, @ericgeller and @astepanovich
| Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
App Store Censorship and FBI Hacking Proposed at Congressional Crypto Hearing — Tech experts and industry representatives squared off against law enforcement officials in two sessions of lively testimony today in front of the House Energy and Commerce committee.
More:
Motherboard, NPR and CIO.com
Tweets: @kevinbankston, @normative, @eff, @normative and @normative
| Austin Walker / Giant Bomb: |
Sources: upgraded PlayStation 4 is codenamed NEO, contains stronger CPU, GPU, and faster RAM to support 4K output; there will be no NEO-exclusive games — Sources: The Upgraded PlayStation 4 is Codenamed NEO, Contains Upgraded CPU, GPU, RAM — Though the NEO will offer greater visual fidelity …
More:
The Verge, Eurogamer.net, BGR, MacNN, Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, Tech Insider, Digital Trends, Fortune, Softpedia News, Tech Times, TechnoBuffalo, Wired.co.uk, Forbes, Windows Central, Gadgette, Mashable, International Business Times, Geek.com, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Neowin, SlashGear, techPowerUp!, TechSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, bit-tech.net, VG247, destructoid, Polygon and Kotaku
Tweets: @j_swinbanks, @manvsgame and @iconmaster
Thanks:@brian_johnsonok| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Sources: Apple hires former Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Chris Porritt for “special projects”, a likely candidate to lead Apple's electric car initiative — Exclusive: Apple hires former Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Chris Porritt for ‘special [car] project’
More:
Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Redmond Pie, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, Re/code, BGR, Tech Times, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, AppAdvice.com Latest, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Patently Apple, Fortune, Tech Insider, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Engadget, International Business Times, Quartz, AppleInsider, TIME, USA Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Automotive News Automaker
| Apple: |
Apple's MacBook gets faster dual-core Skylake processors, longer battery life, 8GB memory, faster graphics, and rose gold finish, starting at $1,299 — Apple Updates MacBook with Latest Processors, Longer Battery Life & New Rose Gold Finish — CUPERTINO, California April 19 …
More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Wirecutter, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo, O'Grady's PowerPage, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, Refinery29, The Mac Observer, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacNN, MacDailyNews, iMore, Computerworld, Wired.co.uk, Gizmodo UK, Insanely Great Mac, The Verge, CIO.com, Forbes, FierceCIO News, eWeek, TechSpot, GeekWire, Liliputing, POPSUGAR, MacStories, Neowin, Pocketnow, Six Colors, TIME, Laptop Mag and Slashdot
| Martyn Williams / PCWorld: |
EFF sues Justice Department to uncover govt. demands to decrypt communications, says USA Freedom Act compels DOJ to publish significant decisions of FISC court — EFF sues to uncover government demands to decrypt communications — The group says the USA Freedom Act compels the DOJ …
More:
Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, Engadget and ZDNet
| Adrian Ludwig / Google Online Security Blog: |
Android security 2015 annual report: Google checks 6B+ installed apps per day for malware, and fewer than 0.15% of devices using only Google Play have malware — Android Security 2015 Annual Report — Posted by Adrian Ludwig, Lead Engineer, Android Security
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook floats the idea of letting users add a tip jar to profit from posts, among others, in user survey about monetization — Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts — Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned.
More:
Digital Trends, Daily Mail, Fortune, New York Magazine and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @lisafleisher and @margarita
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
GitLab-Digital Ocean partnership to provide free hosting for continuous online code testing — GitLab.com users have always had free access to the Gitlab programmer's toolset including GitLab Runner. Today it announced a new feature called Gitlab Runner Autoscale that allows continuous code testing …
More:
GitLab, The Next Web, Marketwire, SD Times and The Diversity Blog
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
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.
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.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge
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.
Machine Gods:
OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Cheeky Pint:
Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Great Chat:
The case for AI optimism
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Sources:
Tobi Lütke on the AI agent revolution and future of Shopify
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:25 AM ET, April 20, 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
Jasper Ward / Reuters:Reuters:
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
More:
The Register, Marketwire, SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily and Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
Fortune, Tech Times, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
Tweets: @drbarnard, @chockenberry, @jsnell and @amir
| Alastair Sharp / Reuters: |
More:
Competition Bureau, Re/code and Android Central
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
BetaNews, CNBC, emptywheel, Digital Trends, The Next Web, CNET, NBC News, The Hill, The Verge and Fortune
Earlier Picks
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
The Register, Garage & Updates, WinBeta, iMore, The Next Web, Engadget, MSPoweruser and Windows Central. Tweets: @jandawson
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
More:
Tech Insider and Business Insider
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
More:
NTIA, LJ INFOdocket, Engadget, FedScoop, The Register, Digital Trends, CircleID, TechSpot and The Hill
Tweets: @pt, @richbtig, @dries, @b_fung and @counternotions
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
More:
9to5Google, Softpedia News, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Police, Featured Articles, Tech2, TechRadar.com, GSMArena.com, Digital Trends and GottaBeMobile. Tweets: @evleaks
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
TechSpot, TIME, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Fortune, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog and Viber
Tweets: @fredericjacobs, @fredericjacobs and @jennamc_laugh
Thanks:@ingridlunden| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
More:
New York Times, Guardian, The Hill, ResearchBuzz, Neowin, The Authors Guild, R Street Institute, Fusion and TechCrunch