|
June 23, 2019, 1:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches — President Trump approved an offensive cyber-strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches …
More:
Yahoo News, Engadget, Associated Press, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Axios, SecurityWeek, Slashdot, and Business Insider
Tweets: @dnvolz, @jgeltzer, @profcarroll, @redsteeze, @julianbarnes, @mdubowitz, and @colinkahl
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted — Google's getting out of the tablet hardware business, canceling two different tablets it was building and reassigning those employees to other projects.
More:
iMore, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Digital Information World, Chrome Unboxed, Android Central, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, Pocket-lint, and Computerworld
Tweets: @rosterloh, @sriramk, @timbray, @backlon, @rosterloh, @reneritchie, @edbott, and @harrymccracken
| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
Magic Leap sues Chi Xu, a former employee who founded the China-based AR startup Nreal, for alleged IP theft — - The startup says the former employee stole its AR secrets — Alleged technology theft a sore point in U.S.-China relations — Magic Leap Inc., a U.S. startup that makes …
Tweets: @technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Less than a day after breaching $10K, Bitcoin climbs to $11K+, as the unveiling of Libra and increased institutional support spur hopes of mainstream adoption — The world's most popular cryptocurrency gets a boost from Facebook's plan to launch Libra — Bitcoin rose over $10,000 …
More:
Bloomberg, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoinist.com, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, Cointelegraph, InsideBitcoins.com, Ethereum World News, Coinspeaker, Ars Technica, Mashable, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @peterlbrandt, @rjparkerjr09, @foldablehuman, @iamjosephyoung, @apompliano, @ceterispar1bus, @cryptomanran, @fundstrat, and @mdudas
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal COO Bill Ready, who joined the company in 2013 when it acquired Braintree, is leaving the company at the end of 2019 — PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns — As Slack makes its stock market debut, there's a major company that won't be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration …
More:
The Verge, Gizmodo, TechSpot, FutureSin, Beyond Search, BetaNews, OnMSFT.com, and CNBC
Tweets: @dcseifert, @canterrain, @maria_puertas_, @dcseifert, @ow, @quinnypig, @sean_michael_uk, and @jordannovet. Thanks:@nickabouzeid
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
How COPPA came about 20 years ago, making 13 years the internet's age of adulthood, as a bipartisan COPPA 2.0 bill seeks to raise the age to 16 — The inside story of COPPA, a law from the early days of e-commerce that is shaping a generation and creating a parental minefield
Tweets: @waituntil8th and @wsj
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
iRobot has acquired Root Robotics, which makes a $199 educational robot that can be programmed to draw, respond to touch and sound, play music, and more — Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot, the robotics company perhaps best known for its iconic Roomba autonomous home vacuum cleaners … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data — NASA described the hackers as an “advanced persistent threat,” a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups.
More:
NASA OIG, Tom's Hardware, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Forbes, Computer Business Review, TechWorm, HotHardware, SecurityWeek, PCMag, Fortune, Fossbytes, HackRead, Tom's Hardware, and Inquirer
Tweets: @djsnm, @campuscodi, @brianlinuxing, @trickfreee, @adam_k_levin, and @xbindx
| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds — A powerful intergovernmental organization devoted to combating money laundering and terrorism financing has finalized …
More:
Coin Center, U.S. Department …, Bloomberg, Inc42 Media, CryptoGlobe, InsideBitcoins.com, Messari Crypto, Cointelegraph, and ETHNews
Tweets: @codiox and @jerrybrito
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Livepeer, a decentralized marketplace for encoding providers and developers who need video-streaming services, based on Ethereum network, raises $8M Series A — Video is the core entertainment medium of the web. Platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Netflix and more deliver millions of hours … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Airbus partners with Microsoft to sell custom apps for HoloLens to aerospace companies, starting with an app for airline maintenance workers and cabin crews — After four years using Microsoft's HoloLens internally, aerospace giant Airbus is partnering with the tech company …
More:
ZDNet
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:
Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
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
Sources:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's agent bet and AI's trust problem
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
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.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We're Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Gabe Stengel - Building Investing Superintelligence
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:25 AM ET, June 23, 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
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
ABC News:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @joannastern, @jake_k, @caseynewton, @iroqu0isp1iskin, @verge, @katienotopoulos, and @dcseifert
Earlier Picks
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Kate O'Keeffe / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
New York Times, Patently Apple, FutureSin, CNBC, CNET, Engadget, Fortune, MIT Technology Review, The Register, The Mac Observer, Bloomberg, PCWorld, CNN, Tom's Hardware, HPCwire, and Reuters
Tweets: @willmauldin, @paulmozur, and @jc_mittelstadt
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
More:
Sensor Tower Blog, Financial Times, VentureBeat, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Variety, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Telegraph, Gotta Be Mobile, Kotaku, iMore, and IGN
Tweets: @axios, @getfandom, @msquinn, and @tim
| Francesco Canepa / Reuters: |
More:
Reuters, InsideBitcoins.com, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, UtopiaPress, The Next Web, CoinDesk, CryptoGlobe, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @reuters, @neerajka, @kwerb, @reuters, @davidgerard, @icodrops, @mdudas, @mrapptech, and @theblock__
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |