Techmeme
February 20, 2022, 1:25 PM

Top News

Will Gottsegen / CoinDesk:
OpenSea is investigating rumors of a smart contract exploit via a phishing attack; CEO says 32 users “signed a malicious payload” and some had NFTs stolen  —  Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack.
New York Times:
A look at the challenges facing Trump's Truth Social app, including competition from Gettr and Parler and finding users willing to leave mainstream apps  —  Truth Social, the former president's hard-right alternative to Twitter, could open its doors next month.  But as businesses go, outrage may not be the best moneymaker.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Estimated Mac lineup for 2022: Mac mini with M1 Pro and M2; 13" MacBook Pro, 24" iMac, and MacBook Air with M2; iMac Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max; a new Mac Pro  —  As Apple gears up for its first product launch event of the year, the spotlight turns to its 2022 Mac plans.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's Podsights and Chartable acquisitions set it up to better compete with YouTube, offering dependable programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators  —  Why the company went on a shopping spree  —  This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.
Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters:
Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology service, sources say for $100M  —  Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for cryptocurrencies, has acquired First Digital, a stablecoin and digital asset payments technology platform.
Nikkei Asia:
HR experts, industry execs, and government officials in Taiwan say the current chip talent shortage on the island is the most serious they have ever seen  —  Semiconductor giants hike salaries to lure island's dwindling number of graduates  —  TAIPEI/HSINCHU, Taiwan …
Scott Galloway / No Mercy / No Malice:
How Apple can hit $1T in revenue by 2030, from $366B in 2021, using its hardware expertise, high consumer trust, capital reserves, and more to enter new markets  —  Round numbers have no inherent meaning — they're a consequence of 10 fingers.  But they provide a benchmark, a way to focus our observations.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Project Zero: Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, in an average of 25 days vs. Google in 44 days, Apple in 69, and Microsoft in 83  —  Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Convictional, which offers a one-stop shop for retailers to source, onboard, integrate, and trade with suppliers, raises a $40M Series B led by YC Continuity  —  Retailers have traditionally onboarded their drop-ship, marketplace and wholesale suppliers using electronic data interchange …
More: Forbes and FinSMEs

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.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics  —  Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards.  Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
How Zoho Workplace eliminates knowledge silos and provides a workplace where information flows  —  Discover how Zoho Workplace tears down information silos.  Bridge team gaps, centralize institutional knowledge …
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.

Featured Podcasts

Training Data:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Matthew Smith — How America Runs Out of Natural Gas by 2030
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
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:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
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.
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 1:25 PM ET, February 20, 2022.

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.

More News

Earlier Picks