|
March 8, 2019, 3:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren: |
Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid — Team WarrenBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist.
More:
New York Times, CNBC, Ars Technica, Recode, Washington Post, The Verge, Bloomberg, AdExchanger, TheStreet, CNN, PCWorld, Business Insider, GeekWire, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Android Police, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Financial Times, Telegraph, MacRumors, Vox, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, USA Today, Thurrott, BuzzFeed News, ZDNet, TIME, Communications …, Investor's Business Daily, The Intercept, Forbes, The Mac Observer, KnowTechie, CNET, Newser, Mashable, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Guardian, Adweek, Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Daily Dot, Reuters, Axios, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, FutureSin, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Observer, MacDailyNews, and Slate
Tweets: @ewarren, @profgalloway, @lexnfx, @tuckerhiggins, @armandodkos, @iansherr, @dhh, @jeffjohnroberts, @ewarren, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @benedictevans, @reckless, @patrickhealynyt, @mathewi, @benedictevans, @ftrain, @ggreeneva, @ajs, @benzevgreen, @russellbrandom, @davecoion, @karlbode, @moonalice, @carnage4life, @historein, @benedictevans, @henereyg, @owillis, @donie, @tomwatson, @benedictevans, @nickriccardi, and @peteharrisonnyc. Thanks:@varun_mathur
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to start manufacturing its AR headset between Q4 2019 and Q2 2020; the headset will rely on iPhone for rendering and connectivity — Apple talks about augmented reality at any opportunity it gets, but so far its fierce ambition has only materialized to consumers as ARKit apps on the iPhone and iPad.
More:
MacRumors, Macworld, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Digital Trends, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, AppleInsider, Inquirer, Variety, Forbes, InvestorPlace, KnowTechie, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, Apple Must, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, Fortune, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US — Smart Displays, like the Google Home Hub and Lenovo Smart Display, are great. They're helpful smart home gadgets … | Clement Lecigne / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google says the Chrome zero-day it patched last week was used with a zero-day impacting Windows 7 32-bit systems and that Microsoft said it's working on a fix — On Wednesday, February 27th, we reported two 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publicly-unknown vulnerabilities …
More:
ZDNet, The Blagoblag, BetaNews, Engadget, Ars Technica, Security Affairs, Malwarebytes Labs, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, Fossbytes, Firstpost, SecurityWeek, SlashGear, KnowTechie, IT PRO, BGR, Softpedia News, Help Net Security, Inquirer, OnMSFT.com, AskWoody, Slashdot, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, The Duo Blog, bit-tech.net, 9to5Google, Chrome Unboxed, Phandroid, The Register, WeLiveSecurity, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @anttitikkanen
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses — Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing …
More:
Security Discovery, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, SlashGear, TechSpot, IT PRO, Inquirer, DataBreaches.net, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @anildash, @profcarroll, @alexwhitcomb, and @troyhunt
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Dutch data protection agency says that blanket “cookie walls” that require visitors to accept all the cookies before accessing a site, violate GDPR — Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the “price” … | Recorded Future: |
Report: the goal of Chinese state-run social media influence campaigns is to promote an idealized view of China rather than sow discord among the US public — Recorded Future analyzed data from several Western social media platforms from October 1, 2018 through February 22 … | Jordan Crucchiola / Vulture: |
Alfonso Ribeiro withdraws his lawsuit against Epic Games over dance-move emotes in Fortnite after US Copyright Office refused “Carlton Dance” copyright claim — Epic Games will get a short respite from its dance-based legal battles. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso …
More:
The Blast, Fortnite INTEL, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, Fortune, and CBS Los Angeles. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared — New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported — Twitter is adding new options …
More:
Mercury News, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Firstpost, Adweek, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, SlashGear, CNET, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @twittersafety and @adambeam
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based PolyAI, which develops “conversational AI agents” for use in customer support contact centers, raises $12M Series A led by Point72 Ventures — PolyAI, a London startup founded by experts in the field of “conversational AI” — including CEO Nikola Mrkšić …
More:
FinSMEs and EU-Startups
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
As Twitter experiments with some metrics to improve the health of conversations, privacy issues have delayed partnerships with the outside researchers — Twitter wants to limit snark and get “healthy.” So far, it's gone nowhere. — There are few things the internet loves more than a vicious Twitter dunk.| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
An overview of Amazon's media strategies, which include partnering with channels, expanding sports rights, and connecting content to products it sells — - Jeff Bezos gives the Amazon Studios team a massive budget to win “Lord of the Rings” and even sends Echo speakers to the Tolkien estate.
Tweets: @sherman4949 and @sherman4949
| Sydney Johnson / EdSurge: |
Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B — A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry.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.
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.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
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
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
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.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
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.
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 3:10 PM ET, March 8, 2019.
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
Associated Press:Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Variety: |
More:
RAIN News, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, Fortune, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @davidisraelite, @serial461, @scottsimonswvla, @brianpolar, and @future_of_music
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
More:
App Store, Forbes, GameSpot, The Next Web, The Independent, Eurogamer.net, GamesIndustry.biz, BGR, Variety, Bleeding Cool, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, IGN, Mashable, Polygon, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, The Verge, and Global. Tweets: @playstation
Earlier Picks
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
More:
Skype Blogs, The Verge, KnowTechie, MSPoweruser, Engadget, BetaNews, Softpedia News, The Register, gHacks Technology News, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and Thurrott. Tweets: @alex
| Monika Bickert / Facebook: |
More:
New Yorker, Digital Trends, BuzzFeed News, Reuters, Nieman Lab, New York Times, Recode, Wired, MSPoweruser, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Adweek, The Daily Dot, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Hill, MIT Technology Review, Geek News Central, Thurrott, Bloomberg, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, TechSpot, and The Verge
Facebook: Yann LeCun. Tweets: @noupside, @kevinroose, @katienotopoulos, @zeynep, @peterhotez, @juliacarriew, @juliacarriew, @eileeniorio, @ylecun, @huffpost, @repadamschiff, @pedsgeekmd, @willoremus, @oliverdarcy, @chrisgailus, @juliacarriew, @katzish, @cwarzel, @passantino, @kurtwagner8, and @caseynewton
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
More:
Airbnb Press Room, New York Times, Android Authority, Recode, Observer, TechCrunch, CNBC, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Geek.com, The Verge, VatorNews, Gizmodo, Reuters, Digital Trends, Silicon Valley Business …, The Points Guy, Crunchbase News, Quartz, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Curbed, Telegraph, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @benthompson, @coryweinberg, @aplusk, @rafat, @levynews, @martinsfp, @fromedome, @teddyschleifer, and @pranavdixit
| BBC: |
More:
Facebook, CyberScoop, CNBC, Inquirer, DFRLab, Neowin, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Business Insider, and CNET
Tweets: @damiancollins, @hadas_gold, and @martinsfp
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
More:
Financial Times, TechCrunch, Observer, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, Engadget, and Axios
Tweets: @tim and @moore_oliver