|
August 4, 2019, 5:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Robert Evans / bellingcat: |
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes mass shooters and gamifies the massacre of innocents — On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire.
More:
New York Times, Slate, The Guardian, Washington Post, New Yorker, Axios, Patently Apple, CNET, and New York Times
Tweets: @tim_cook, @pinboard, @oneunderscore__, @kevinroose, @juliacarriew, @mattdpearce, @axios, @andrewmarantz, @burnettrm, @borzou, @therickwilson, @ekp, @tvietor08, @_lilchen, @pinboard, @mattdpearce, @juliacarriew, @martinsfp, @cwarzel, @davidgross_man, @jeffjohnroberts, @scottbix, @ninadschick, @alexstamos, @althecat, @ladyred_6, @kevinroose, @drleostrauss, @jason_kint, @wisenbergsol, @drewharwell, @noahpinion, @nycjim, @3l3v3nth, @drogon_dracarys, @capitolfax, @adamconover, @juliacarriew, @slate, @markseibel, @rajit_h, @walterolson, @shawnhubler, @korybing, @joshuahol, @bellingcat, @cwarzel, @mikertrice, and @nfergus
| Maddy Myers / Kotaku: |
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates — A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
More:
VentureBeat, YouTube, GamesIndustry.biz, USgamer.net, Business Insider, PCMag, Digital Trends, PlayStation LifeStyle, and Engadget
Tweets: @stephentotilo, @kezamacdonald, @laura_hudson, @taylorlorenz, and @bratterz
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M — A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. — Japan Post Capital has led … | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher details how misconfigured Jira servers from entities like Google, Yahoo, and NASA publicly expose information about internal projects and users — Misconfigured Jira servers from big names in the tech industry exposed information about internal projects and users that could be accessed … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Data breach seller provides evidence that sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May, says 6.8M records with contact info and hashed passwords were taken — It wasn't “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm.
More:
Axios, Engadget, and StockX News
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at edtech startups like Squirrel AI that are using AI to personalize learning in China, where fierce academic competition is driving an AI education boom — In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: out of 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, ~50% have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000; only 13 have 10M+ users — Around 87% of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 1,000 installs. — There are 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store …
More:
Extension Monitor, gHacks Technology News, and Mashable
Tweets: @sandipwarke, @trengriffin, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| South China Morning Post: |
China is moving away from using QR codes for mobile payments and is increasingly adopting facial recognition payments technology from WeChat Pay and Alipay — In cities around China, vendors from supermarkets to bakeries have adopted facial recognition payments technology Facial recognition … | Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
WeWork has acquired at least six software companies related to real estate, possibly to build a software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies — This week WeWork, also known as The We Company and best known for its global coworking business, is adding another software company to its portfolio of acquisitions.| Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the “breakpoint” at which their service is so bad that a customer quits — Technology lets companies see how badly they can treat consumers, right up until the moment they bolt
Tweets: @alexhillman, @rishad, @zackwhittaker, @georgebdavis, and @wsj
| FinSMEs: |
Boston-based Jobble, an on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work in the US, raises $11M Series A — Jobble, a Boston, Massachusetts-based community of on-demand workers, raised $11m in funding. — The round was led by Vestigo Ventures …
More:
PR Newswire, Xconomy, and PE Hub Blog
| Colin Dixon / nScreenMedia: |
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively — New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV.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.
Command Line:
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
Zoho:
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
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
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 5:30 PM ET, August 4, 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
Reuters:Gavin Blair / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
More:
Digital Information World, FutureSin, and The Verge
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
More:
Fast Company, TechCrunch, Engadget, BetaNews, Firstpost Tech, iLounge, Gizmodo, TechHive, AppleInsider, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Lifehacker, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Ars Technica, PCMag, The Verge, CNET, GeekWire, MacDailyNews, Wired, The Hill, Business Insider, and Macworld
Tweets: @muckrakery, @johnlmacfarlane, and @canterrain
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
More:
Goldman Sachs, MACお宝 …, TechCrunch, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, CryptoGlobe, NullTX, iLounge, Hacked, CNET, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, BitcoinExchangeGuide, MacRumors, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, Engadget, Cointelegraph, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, iMore, MacDailyNews, and The Block
Tweets: @carnage4life, @socal_crypto, @business, @alexeheath, @backlon, and @stevemoser