|
May 19, 2020, 12:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Chromium Edge is getting Pinterest suggestions, sidebar search, and business features like Windows Information Protection support — At its Build 2020 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features coming to Chromium Edge. Consumers can expect Pinterest suggestions and sidebar search.
More:
The Verge, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, and Thurrott
Tweets: @candicepoon and @stshank
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
More:
Windows Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Thurrott, Microsoft Docs, Softpedia News, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @tomwarren, @panos_panay, @epro, @dcseifert, and @ow
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
More:
CNET, The Verge, Petri, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, VentureBeat, and The Verge. Tweets: @whatthebit
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
More:
VentureBeat, The Next Web, ZDNet, ZDNet, Laptop Mag, GeekWire, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Thurrott, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, and Engadget
| New York Times: |
Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
More:
Wall Street Journal, PR Newswire, The Verge, CNN, The Hill, BBC, Reuters, Protocol, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, Hollywood Reporter, The Overspill, Silicon Republic, Social Media Today, Input, and Engadget
| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of 9M passengers were stolen and credit card details of 2,208 customers were accessed — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
More:
Investis Digital, The Guardian, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, Graham Cluley, Telegraph, BetaNews, Bloomberg, The Capital, Bloomberg, SlashGear, CNBC, and Mashable
Tweets: @osxreverser, @weldpond, @petefirman, @ccleaner, @joetidy, and @mikko
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung announces a 50-megapixel smartphone sensor promising faster “DSLR-level auto-focus speeds” and better low-light image quality — Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone sensor showing that more megapixels may not always be better. The ISOCELL GN1 is “only” a 50-megapixel sensor …
More:
Samsung Global Newsroom, XDA Developers, The Verge, 9to5Google, Droid Life, TechSpot, Mashable, Android Central, Neowin, Android Authority, Pocketnow, and SamMobile. Tweets: @stanhoraczek
| Richard Speed / The Register: |
At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source — Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …
More:
Windows Central, ZDNet, ExtremeTech, Input, TechRadar.com, and PC Games Insider
Tweets: @skinnylatte, @jwolpert, @amandaksilver, @kevinokeefe, @dirkriehle, @alrubinger, and @backlon
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare, a suite of telehealth tools including a Healthcare Bot Service and patient engagement portals, is now in public preview — At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare.
More:
CNET, TechCrunch, Microsoft Industry Blogs, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and EU-Startups
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
More:
TechCrunch, TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, PCWorld, Windows Central, ZDNet, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Business Insider, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @jorilallo, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
More:
CNET, The Verge, Microsoft Tech Community …, Windows Central, Thurrott, and Engadget
| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
More:
NBC News, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, CNBC, The Next Web, Droid Life, and Android Central
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
AG Barr says that, “no thanks to Apple”, the FBI succeeded in unlocking the “phones” of the Pensacola gunman, who they found had significant links to Al Qaeda — It looks like the most recent contention between the FBI and Apple over device encryption has come to an end …
More:
Axios, CNN, U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, The Verge, U.S. Department of Justice, MacRumors, Vox, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Federal Bureau …, Gizchina, Input, Fortune, Techdirt, The Loop, International Business Times, CNET, infosecurity-magazine.com, Daring Fireball, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Appleosophy, MacDailyNews, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Wccftech, ZDNet, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @markgurman, @chriswelch, @9to5mac, @ahmed, @stick631, @xxdesmus, @eff, @marcoarment, @heilemann, and @karaswisher
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identify of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.
More:
9to5Mac, US-CERT, iMore, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Brex, which offers a credit card tailored to startups, raises $150M in a Series C extension — Fast-growing fintech behemoth Brex is raising big money as its customer base itself — high-growth and spendy startups — is struggling. — The company, which sells a credit card tailored for startups …
More:
FinSMEs and PYMNTS.com
| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
Profile of Chinese voice computing company iFlytek, which makes AI-based apps for consumers and the Chinese government that critics say aid surveillance efforts — Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users.
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @shanthikalathil, @wired, and @wadhwa
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems — Microsoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference.| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
More:
Bundesverfassungsgericht. Tweets: @privacyint, @markard_chair, @daphnehk, @gabrielazanfir, @fborgesius, @senficon, and @jonathandunnett
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet.com, which it acquired for $3.3B in 2016, even as Q1 e-commerce sales were up 74% — Jet.com was critical to Walmart's e-commerce strategy and omnichannel efforts, but is no longer necessary.| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Instagram introduces Guides, a feature letting creators curate content on a specific subject, debuting with select accounts focusing on wellness — Creators, public figures, organizations and publishers can curate content on a specific subject — Instagram introduced a new Guides feature Monday …
More:
Instagram, The Verge, Neowin, Firstpost Tech, Input, CNET, Social Media Today, and Engadget
Tweets: @mosseri, @instagram, @glenngabe, @adweek, @taylrn, @joshconstine, @bluechoochoo, and @besvinick
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it will not “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry” — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out — After a year of weathering criticism … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Confluera, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies autonomously detect and track attacks in real time, raises $21M Series B led by Icon Ventures — Confluera, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies autonomously detect and track attacks in real time, has raised $21 million in a series B round of funding led by Icon Ventures.
More:
FinSMEs
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A look at Congress' approach to data privacy during the pandemic, including the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act, a bill introduced by Republican Senators — After saving lives, the most urgent — and hotly debated — problem facing government policymakers in the age of COVID-19 …
Tweets: @math_rachel
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.
Zoho:
Zoho Writer's latest automation updates: smarter formulas, dynamic content, and less manual work — Create personalized documents with smarter formulas, dynamic content, and payment links, and update templates without rebuilding …
Zoho Writer's latest automation updates: smarter formulas, dynamic content, and less manual work — Create personalized documents with smarter formulas, dynamic content, and payment links, and update templates without rebuilding …
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.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Machine Gods:
Crypto's Biggest Heist Ever + The Spy Who Loved Nvidia + Hacktober's Mysteries
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Barry Diller on Big Bets, AI, and Knowing When to Walk Away
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Martin Casado on Frontier Model Economics, AI's Slowdown, and the Cursor Deal
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Sources:
A quiet investor's $10 billion bet on AI, chips, and defense
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.
Cheeky Pint:
The company building America's uranium supply from scratch
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Grit:
The Difference Between 1% Improvements and 10x Growth | Immad Akhund
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 12:20 PM ET, May 19, 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:Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
More:
Reclaim The Net, Nieman Lab, 9to5Google, BGR India, Podnews podcasting news, Techdirt, and Android Police
Tweets: @plinz, @lbryio, @ashleyrcarman, @marcoarment, and @backlon
Earlier Picks
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
More:
ZDNet, NBC News, BeInCrypto, Business Insider Nederland, CNET, and Mercury News
Tweets: @cyberomin, @jkap, @bigblackjacobin, @zoeschiffer, @lawoftd, and @taralach
| Oculus: |
More:
Oculus-blog voor ontwikkelaars, UploadVR, Pocket-lint, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GameSpot, Road to VR, PC Games Insider, VRScout, Gamasutra, Social Media Today, and Oculus-blog
Tweets: @oculus_dev, @mrdoob, @immersedvr, and @deantak
| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
CNBC, The Verge, Observer, Business Insider, The Irish Times, Bloomberg, coinspeaker.com, Telecoms.com, MediaNama, Engadget, TheStreet, CCN.com, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @kateconger, @preetika_rana, @khanoisseur, @andyjayhawk, @jessiwrites, @gregbensinger, @alex, and @wsj
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: |
| Sachin Ravikumar / Reuters: |
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
More:
Fortune, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Inc42 Media, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @bigblackjacobin, @nytimes, @reutersbiz, @aaronwall, @vusithembekwayo, @willjordan, @glcarlstrom, and @tculpan