|
December 16, 2017, 5:15 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Unsealed letter by attorney of former Uber security employee Richard Jacobs, released in Uber-Waymo trial, claims Uber spied on competitors and employees — The letter has been submitted as evidence in Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber. — A 37-page letter that details allegations …
More:
Business Insider, Fortune, New York Times, Business Insider, Tech Times, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, CNET, The Guardian, Engadget, Forbes, and Axios
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @dhh, @bizcarson, @rmac18, @buzzfeednews, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @dellcam, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Jacobs' letter alleges corporate espionage, unlawful surveillance, wiretapping, bribery, and illicit hacking by Uber; Jacobs walked back some claims under oath — The judge in the $1.9 billion civil suit between Alphabet's self-driving car unit Waymo and Uber released the letter …
More:
Digital Trends, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, and Reuters
| Nikhil Chandhok / The Keyword: |
Google releases ARCore Developer Preview 2 and says it is ending support for Project Tango — Augmented reality is a powerful way to bring the physical and digital worlds together. AR places digital objects and useful information into the real world around us, which creates a huge opportunity …
More:
TechCrunch, GitHub, VRFocus, BGR India, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Firstpost, Tech Times, Ars Technica, Fone Arena, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, AndroidHeadlines.com, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Phandroid, Business Insider, The Tech Report, 9to5Google, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin, Engadget, ZDNet, Android Central, and Android and Me
| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
After slipping an unexplained promotional plugin for the TV show Mr. Robot into Firefox and angering users, Mozilla will move the extension to its add-on store — This week, Mozilla slipped a browser extension that promoted Mr. Robot into Firefox. The goal was to give Firefox users access …
More:
Gizmodo, CNET, Drew DeVault's Blog, The Verge, BleepingComputer.com, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @tedonprivacy, @snipeyhead, and @sanasaleem
| Giulio Prisco / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Anonymous early bitcoiner “Pine” creates $86M Pineapple Fund for charity, has already donated $6M+ to non-profits like EFF, The Water Project, BitGive, OpenBSD — Yesterday, one post set the Bitcoin subreddit on fire: An anonymous Bitcoiner who goes by the name of “Pine” …
More:
CNBC, Gizmodo, Mashable, and The Next Web
| Nathan Heller / New Yorker: |
A look at how Estonia is building a digital society, with projects such as e-Estonia that move bureaucratic processes online for its 1.3M citizens — Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future?
More:
PRI. Tweets: @opdeatheatersus, @newyorker, @imran, @nathanheller, @erictopol, @jdennelind, @nagrikta, @nathanheller, @nathanheller, @gquaggiotto, @abdihakimainte, @nxthompson, and @rahulabhatia
| Sucheta Kulkarni / The Keyword: |
Google Maps for Android gets a new public transit navigation feature that sends users notifications when they need to get off the bus or train — Traveling on a bus or train is the time for you to do your best music-listening, news-reading, and social-media scrolling ... as long as you don't miss your stop.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Holographic capture startup 8i, maker of Holo AR app for iOS and Android, says it is laying off up to half of its 70 full-time employees — New Zealand- and Los Angeles-based holographic capture startup 8i is having significant layoffs that could impact more than 30 staffers.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How women, who helped shape computing's early years when it was considered “women's work”, were systemically pushed out of the field in the US and UK — In computing's early years, when it was considered women's work, all six programmers of America's first digital computer, ENIAC, were women
Tweets: @un_women, @mims, @histoftech, and @skupor
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Apple says iTunes won't be available in the Microsoft Store by the end of 2017, as originally planned; new timeline for release is unclear — Sorry, Windows 10 S users. Apple confirms that iTunes won't make it into the Microsoft Store this year, as Microsoft and Apple originally promised.
More:
Softpedia News, Tech Times, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, On MSFT, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Laptop Mag, iDownloadBlog.com, Axios, Engadget, MacMagazine, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, Neowin, and Mehedi Hassan
Tweets: @zacbowden, @stroughtonsmith, and @maryjofoley
| Ryan Vlastelica / MarketWatch: |
Online broker TD Ameritrade says it will begin allowing trading of Cboe's Bitcoin futures on Monday — TD Ameritrade on Friday said it would open trading for the recently launched bitcoin futures contract on Cboe Group Inc., following what it said was “standard protocol” for granting access to any futures product.
More:
Cointelegraph.com News, Bitcoinist.com, and Bloomberg
| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Some viewers use Twitch as an outlet for suicidal thoughts and streamers say Twitch can do more to help than just point them to a mental health support page — A few weeks ago, a Twitch stream moderator and health professional who goes by “Badxan” posted on the Twitch subreddit …
Tweets: @dacidbro, @wishfuiiytv, and @chrsmxwll
| Harper Neidig / The Hill: |
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will use the Congressional Review Act to force a vote on FCC's net neutrality rules repeal — (D-N.Y.) said Friday that he intends to force a vote on a bill that would preserve Obama-era net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to repeal this week.
More:
New York Times, The Verge, UPROXX, Reuters, Washington Post, BetaKit, Recode, Media Matters for America, Fortune, and Socialnomics
Tweets: @standupamerica and @senmarkey
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
More:
Boing Boing, New York Times, KTLA, CNNMoney, VentureBeat, and Quartz
Tweets: @karlbode, @henshaw, @karlbode, @karlbode, @joshtpm, @normative, @normative, @parkermolloy, @malwarejake, @sensanders, and @keithellison
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.
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.
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:
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
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.
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.Featured Podcasts
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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:
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:15 PM ET, December 16, 2017.
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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
More:
Android Police, 9to5Google, Firstpost, BGR India, Fone Arena, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, Inside BlackBerry, Inside BlackBerry, and Engadget. Tweets: @epro
| Facebook: |
More:
Fortune, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Gizmodo, Slate, NewCo Shift, Forrester Blogs, Business Insider, Digital Trends, SiliconBeat, Recode, Washington Post, The Guardian, Android Authority, The Daily Caller, SlashGear, The Register, New York Magazine, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Verge, CBS San Francisco, The Ringer, Axios, Engadget, CNBC, and Axios