|
February 11, 2020, 8:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| New York Times: |
Sources: the T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial judge is expected to rule in favor of the merger, and the decision will be revealed Tuesday; Sprint stock up over 60% — A last-ditch attempt by a coalition of state attorneys general is said to have failed to halt T-Mobile's purchase of a smaller rival.
More:
Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, TechRadar.com, CNBC, Tom's Guide, International Business Times, Android Central, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Verge, GeekWire, Light Reading, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, TmoNews, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Android Police, Axios, WebProNews, Engadget, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @jimwindolf, @kadhim, @thekenyeung, @kellymakena, @superwuster, @nytimes, and @krisketzkmbc
| Greg Miller / Washington Post: |
Sources: the CIA secretly owned the leading supplier of encryption systems worldwide and could easily read allies' and adversaries' communications for decades — For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.| Eric Geller / Politico: |
US DOJ charges four Chinese intelligence officers with hacking Equifax; the breach was disclosed in 2017 and exposed financial records of 150M Americans — Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax …
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, The Verge, Ars Technica, Telegraph, Axios, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, Enterprise Times, Security Boulevard, VICE, BBC, HackRead, PR Newswire, BGR, Input, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Techdirt, TechRadar.com, Federal Computer Week, PYMNTS.com, Nextgov, Dark Reading, infosecurity-magazine.com, BleepingComputer, Popular Mechanics, MIT Technology Review, Tom's Guide, Threatpost, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, The Hacker News, Reuters, Business Insider, Computer Business Review, CNET, CNBC, Gizmodo, CyberScoop, Mashable, Slashdot, and The Morning Dispatch
Tweets: @dnvolz, @dalperovitch, @zackwhittaker, @swiftonsecurity, @sentoomey, @hshaban, @vermontgmg, @ajitpaifcc, @repjackbergman, @dnvolz, @repandybiggsaz, @senwarren, @robertmaguire_, @swiftonsecurity, @emptywheel, @kennwhite, @merlemaigre, @selectedwisdom, @alfredwkng, @alex, @profcarroll, @ridt, @kimzetter, @hshaban, @senatorromney, @alfredwkng, @kimzetter, @campuscodi, @alexstamos, @joeuchill, @privacyproject, @shashj, @iblametom, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Nick Bastone / The Information: |
Source: Alphabet quietly moved Jigsaw, a tech incubator that makes tools to curb online misinformation, back under Google last month — Another arm of Alphabet, the holding company for Google and a collection of other businesses, has gone away. — Within the past month … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products — The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …
More:
Changing Communications, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Business Insider, BGR, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @a_w_gordon, @edison_apps, @privacyproject, @vice, @karissabe, and @bigblackjacobin
| Danielle Abril / Fortune: |
Google's HR head, Eileen Naughton, to step down from her role amid rising employee anger over Google's handling of sexual harassment claims and staff protests — Google's head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, will step down later this year amid rising tensions between the company's top executives and rank and file employees.
More:
Android Central, The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNBC, CNET, and Seeking Alpha
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless shuts down, becoming the first company backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund to do so — Today direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless becomes the first SoftBank Vision Fund-backed startup to close down, as it stops taking orders and halts all business operations.
More:
Bloomberg, Morning Brew, PYMNTS.com, Input, Financial Times, Crunchbase News, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider
Tweets: @protocol, @bizcarson, @rouserjp, @yo, @cherylanneny, @sumastodon, @billda, @vcstarterkit, @hackapreneur, @ben_zifkin, @samueljscott, @chafkin, @kylebrussell, @tomfgoodwin, @pitdesi, and @mylesudland
| The Information: |
Sources: YouTube is considering a competitor to Amazon and Apple TV channels for accessing premium video subscriptions from other companies — YouTube is sending signals that it wants to become a destination site for every part of the TV universe. — The Google-owned video giant … | Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
On Monday, Bloomberg's campaign asked hundreds of tech leaders over a conference call to refer their most talented staff to its election operation in New York — Exclusive: Bloomberg gathered hundreds of tech leaders on a call to ask for their most talented friends.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Shippeo, which works on improving supply chain visibility by digitizing freight transport, raises €20M Series B led by NGP Capital and ETF Partners — Shippeo, the French startup working in supply chain visibility, has raised a €20 million Series B round, led by NGP Capital …
More:
FinSMEs, KrASIA, Yahoo Finance, and Silicon Canals
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
More:
Android Authority, Sony Global, CNET, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Newsroom, TechSpot, The Hill, TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, Android Police, Android Central, Mashable, CNET, The New Stack, The Economic Times, MSPoweruser, FierceWireless, Fortune, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Associated Press, Droid Life, International Business Times, SlashGear, GeekWire, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, Geek.com, Yahoo Finance, International Business Times, Light Reading, Broadband TV News, Telegraph, Reuters, TechRadar.com, South China Morning Post, TechNode, Engadget, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and CNET
Tweets: @caro_milanesi, @marshacollier, @keithdyer, @greengart, @brij, @danielnewmanuv, @reuters, @dinoflore, @robpegoraro, @rdrv3, and @greengart
| Reuters: |
More:
ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters
Tweets: @jonrussell, @reuters, @rob_cyran, @stevehouf, @bradmunchen, and @onlyyoontv
| Lukasz Olejnik / Wired: |
India's proposed data protection bill, which intends to ban re-identification of user data without consent, could criminalize the work of security researchers — The proposed ban on re-identification discourages researchers from investigating security weaknesses—and encourages criminals to exploit them.| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Research: in 2019, payments to release files from ransomware attacks averaged ~$84K in Q4, more than double the Q3 average, and jumping to $191K in December — Hackers are locking people out of their networks and demanding big payments to get back in. New data shows just how common and damaging the attacks have become.Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:10 AM ET, February 11, 2020.
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
New York Times:Todd Spangler / Variety:
David Ingram / NBC News:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Felix Salmon / Axios: |
More:
Quartz, American Banker, Colin Walsh, Wall Street Journal, and Varo Money
Earlier Picks
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
More:
The Hill. Tweets: @oliverdarcy, @davidstreitfeld, @feardept, @anncoulter, @jgreenblattadl, @nytimesbooks, @brendannyhan, and @redlianak
| CNBC: |
More:
CNN, Axios, WinBuzzer, coinspeaker.com, Fortune, GeekWire, OnMSFT.com, Gizmodo, MSPoweruser, Seeking Alpha, Politico, TechRadar.com, CNET, Business Insider, Engadget, and Protocol
Tweets: @perlmangerry, @b_fung, @nedprice, @annierpalmer, @mcwellons, @carney, @amanda_m_macias, @n_srnck, and @stevekovach
| New York Times: |
Tweets: @newshour, @alexsalvinews, @briannawu, @anildash, @yoda, @kevinroose, @owillis, @nytimes, @brandyzadrozny, @maxboot, @rgoodlaw, and @kevinroose
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
More:
Engadget, Gizchina, Digital Trends, South China Morning Post, TheStreet, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, TalkAndroid.com, Phandroid, CNET, ZDNet, Mashable, CNN, Android Headlines, Input, BGR, International Business Times, BGR India, Pocketnow, Engadget, BetaNews, The Next Web, XDA Developers, Business Insider, Android Police, 9to5Google, and TechRadar.com
Tweets: @reckless, @backlon, and @reneritchie