|
December 21, 2018, 5:55 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources describe how Amazon's efforts to make Alexa a better communicator through its Alexa Prize competition led to a hack and chats about sex and murder — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Millions of users of Amazon's Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa …
More:
Financial Times, Telegraph, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Authority, Inquirer, Washington Post, heise online News, HuffPost, TalkAndroid.com, NPR, The Register, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @bradheath. Thanks:@jldastin
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games is facing lawsuits over Fortnite dance emotes, real-life dance moves used in the game, raising questions about whether dance moves are copyrightable — Epic Games' Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now, but one of its biggest sources of revenue — the ubiquitous dance …
More:
TMZ.com, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, NBC News, BBC, Billboard, HotNewHipHop.com, Refinery29, CNN, Variety, Lifehacker, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @fortninety, @mattmcgee, @alancayce, @nickstatt, @undoomed, and @eugenewei
| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store had 164 publishers earn their first $1M in 2018, up ~15% YoY, nearly double the 88 on Google Play, which was up 24% YoY — Apple has long led its primary rival in the app economy in terms of monetization on its App Store, consistently generating close to twice … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook has forfeited our trust to the point that we see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show — Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
More:
Columbia Journalism Review, Techdirt, Techonomy, Washington Post, Vox, The Parallax, BestVPN.com, Motherboard, The Guardian, NPR, Infosecurity.US, InvestorPlace, and Adweek
Tweets: @netflix, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @willoremus, @mathewi, @kylepope, @bigalittlea, @benadida, @facebook, and @matthewstoller
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Blind, an anonymous chat app used by staff at companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Uber, left one database server exposed from Nov. 1 to Dec. 19 — One of the company's servers was exposed without a password for weeks. — Thousands of people trusted Blind, an app-based …
More:
Engadget, Mashable, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, archive.li, and Notes from Silicon Valley
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @tayhatmaker, @imeluny, @tayhatmaker, @alevskey, @carnage4life, @martinsfp, @dangillmor, and @caseynewton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook is developing a stablecoin for money transfers on WhatsApp, focusing first on the remittances market in India — - First focus will be on remittance market in India, people say — Social network is still working out its blockchain strategy
More:
BREAKER, TechCrunch, NullTX, The Verge, ETHNews, Engadget, Fast Company, The Block, Thurrott, PaymentsSource, CNBC, The Daily Hodl, TechSpot, Decrypt Media, Mashable, Neowin, IT PRO, NewsBTC, CoinSpeaker, Bitcoinist.com, Telegraph, MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CNET, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, CoinGeek, CryptoGlobe, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, Fossbytes, SludgeFeed, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @cz_binance, @sirajraval, @mbtcpizpie, @sassal0x, @brianmcc, and @crypto_bobby
| Bloomberg: |
Google Payment receives an e-money license in Lithuania, enabling it to process payments, issue e-money, and handle electronic money wallets throughout the EU — Google Payment, a company owned by Alphabet Inc., obtained an e-money license in Lithuania, joining a growing number of fintech firms …
More:
9to5Google
| New York Times: |
JD.com founder and CEO Richard Liu will not be charged with sexual assault following rape allegation in August, prosecutors in Minneapolis say — Richard Liu, the Chinese billionaire accused of rape nearly four months ago by a young Chinese student at the University of Minnesota … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Indian government downplays its order that seemingly authorizes ten government agencies to monitor, intercept, and decrypt data on all computers in the country — India's Ministry of Home Affairs, a federal government authority that controls the country's internal security …
More:
VentureBeat, The Hindu, Times of India, The Indian Express, NDTV Gadgets 360, Livemint, The Wire, News18, The Hindu, Firstpost, MediaNama, and Firstpost
| South China Morning Post: |
China is resuming video game approvals after a nine-month freeze; China's gaming industry expected to have its slowest growth this year in at least a decade — - Amid the regulatory hiatus, China's gaming industry suffered its slowest growth in at least a decade
More:
Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gamasutra, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, GamesIndustry.biz, and Bloomberg
| Josh Smith / Reuters: |
Woowa Bros, South Korea's largest food delivery startup, raises $320M at a valuation of $2.6B for international expansion and to develop autonomous robots — SEOUL (Reuters) - The operator of South Korea's largest food delivery app has secured a $320 million investment from Hillhouse Capital …
More:
Wall Street Journal, pulsenews.co.kr, The Spoon, and THE INVESTOR
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea, who joined from Google in April, has been promoted to its executive team as SVP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy — Apple today announced John Giannandrea, who handles machine learning and AI for the company, has been promoted to the Apple's executive team …
More:
Apple, The Mac Observer, CNBC, TechSpot, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, and MacStories
Tweets: @stevekovach, @stanfordnlp, @iryantldr, @gartenberg, and @reneritchie
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Sprint to pay $300M in a settlement with New York AG for failing to collect $100M+ in state and local taxes between 2005 and 2014 on some of its wireless plans — Carrier didn't collect proper taxes on some wireless plans for nearly a decade, New York attorney general saysSponsor 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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
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.Featured Podcasts
Grit:
Ex-Twitter CEO on Why AI Needs a New Internet | Parag Agrawal
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
Anthropic's first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
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.
Hard Fork:
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
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.
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 5:55 PM ET, December 21, 2018.
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 Stelter / CNN:Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Financial Times, Firstpost, Screen Savers …, CNET, and Business Insider
Tweets: @hypervisible, @malcolmmoore, and @joshconstine
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
More:
TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Pocket Gamer.biz, Gamasutra, Zynga Inc., eqtventures, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Pocket Gamer.biz, Tech.eu, and Reuters
Tweets: @anvu, @business, and @jowens510
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, Krebs on Security, Threatpost, The Hacker News, Engadget, Kotaku, and ZDNet
Tweets: @karolcummins, @blmohr, and @zackwhittaker
Earlier Picks
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
More:
Wired and 9to5Google
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
More:
Techdirt, TechCrunch, Gamasutra, cloudpro.co.uk, Silicon Republic, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, Motherboard, Mashable, The Register, BBC, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @a_h_a, @aaomidi, @farrokhi, @alexstamos, @aaomidi, @maasalan, @ehsanakhgari, @josephfcox, @brokep, @smarimc, and @lifewinning
| BBC: |
More:
The Guardian, Gizmodo, mediacentre.gatwickairport.com, Business Insider, DroneDJ, The Next Web, Newser, TechCrunch, Vox, SiliconANGLE, EE Times, Axios, DroneDJ, CNET, BBC, Sky News, Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Atlantic, BGR, Inquirer, Notes from Silicon Valley, Hackaday, BBC, and The Verge
Tweets: @skynewsbreak, @gatwick_airport, @alexhern, @alexhern, @tomwarren, @nycjim, @bbcnews, @wroetoshaw, @jonsnowc4, @los_fisher, @bbcnews, @jonsnowc4, and @skynews
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
More:
Qualcomm, Patent Progress, Reuters, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, FOSS Patents, PC Gamer, InvestorPlace, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Intel Newsroom, MSPoweruser, Firstpost, FOSS Patents, Thurrott, CNET, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Android Authority, Forbes, The Mac Observer, TechSpot, and Neowin
Tweets: @natisho, @danielnewmanuv, and @benwood
| CNBC: |
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington Post, ZDNet, Reuters, Ministry of Foreign Affairs …, cse-cst.gc.ca, GOV.UK, CNET, The Verge, Department of Foreign Affairs …, Dark Reading, Financial Times, BBC, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, IT PRO, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, NCSC Site, The Hacker News, BBC, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, TechNode, IT Management, BuzzFeed News, Federal Computer Week, ZDNet, The Register, SupChina, The Daily Caller, PYMNTS.com, Security Boulevard, The Guardian, The Diplomat, and Threatpost
Tweets: @ridt, @foreignoffice, @x0rz, @joshuawongcf, @ambjohnbolton, @mikepillsbury, @david_s_dowling, @marisepayne, @ridt, @ebkania, @ridt, @ncsc, @spoxdhs, @jc_stubbs, @ridt, @gregghoush, @eamonjavers, and @ericgeller