Techmeme
September 8, 2022, 10:20 AM

Top News

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook partner to launch the Steve Jobs Archive, which features emails, videos, and historical materials related to Jobs  —  CodeCon 2022 held an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, former design chief Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs on Wednesday.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Apple unveils the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max with a Dynamic Island notch, 48MP main camera, an A16 4nm chip, and an always-on display  —  It's also the first iPhone with a 48-megapixel camera  —  Apple has officially announced the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
The Verge:
Answering a question on iMessage-RCS interoperability at Code, Tim Cook suggests “[buying] your mom an iPhone” to end green bubbles  —  Asked about RCS support in iMessage, Apple's CEO said users aren't asking for it  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea of adopting RCS messaging …
The Verge:
Hands-on with iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max: similar design to 13 Pro but without the notch, thanks to the playful Dynamic Island; always-on is a great feature  —  A first look at the new always-on display, camera, and more  —  Apple just announced the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Hands-on with Apple Watch Ultra: the large, flat 49mm display, which can reach 2,000 nits, is in a class of its own and the device is lighter than expected  —  Two incremental updates and one big newcomer  —  Today was a big day for Apple wearables.  Not only did Apple announce the brand-new Series 8 …
Peter Kafka / Vox:
At Code, former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company found “a substantial portion” of Twitter users “were not real” when it considered buying Twitter in 2016  —  Bots were fine.  Nastiness wasn't.  —  Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter.  Then he decided he didn't.
Sami Fathi / MacRumors:
A Geekbench test shows the iPhone 14's A16 chip, built on a 4nm process, is only marginally faster than the iPhone 13's A15 chip, built on a 5nm process  —  A Geekbench score for the iPhone 14 Pro with the new A16 Bionic chip has revealed little performance improvement compared to the iPhone 13 Pro from last year.
Reuters:
Apple partners with satellite company Globalstar on Emergency SOS, agreeing to pay 95% of the approved capital expenditure to deploy new Globalstar satellites  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday selected Globalstar Inc (GSAT.A) as its partner for a feature that would allow iPhone 14 users …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Bloomberg:
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Chair Gary Gensler signals support for Congress giving the CFTC oversight on bitcoin and ether, as long as the SEC retains its power  —  Former CFTC chief says he could back giving agency oversight of nonsecurity tokens  —  WASHINGTON—Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler signaled …
Reuters:
Russia's trade minister Denis Manturov says Russians will be able to buy the iPhone 14 despite US sanctions thanks to the country's parallel import scheme  —  Russians will have the chance to buy the new Apple iPhone 14 despite the U.S. tech company having left the country thanks …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Six people, including Coinbase employees and prominent crypto developers, sue the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, and officials in Texas over Tornado Cash sanctions  —  Six users of Tornado Cash, a popular decentralized cryptocurrency service, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Treasury Department …
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Apple's video montages for the new Watch and iPhone 14 safety features, like satellite emergency calling and car crash detection, are ominous and unsettling  —  The newly unveiled Watch and iPhone 14 features — car crash detection, satellite emergency calling, extreme weather — all seem a little ominous.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Apple debuts the Watch Ultra, for athletes, with a 49mm titanium case, improved multiband GPS, “action button”, second speaker, and 36-60-hour battery, for $799  —  Say hello to Apple's biggest fitness watch  —  After over a year of rumors, Apple has finally announced the Apple Watch Ultra …
José Adorno / 9to5Mac:
Cade Metz / New York Times:
In a closely watched trial, ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan's lawyers say the company scapegoated him over the 2016 breach after Travis Kalanick's turbulent exit  —  A federal trial began on Wednesday for Joe Sullivan, a former federal prosecutor who is accused of not disclosing a data breach while at the company.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Byju's has missed its own deadlines to file audited financials for the year ending March 2021 by nearly 18 months; Indian government demands an explanation  —  It took Byju's 10 years to become India's most valuable startup, expanding its empire of online learning apps to many markets including …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Arize AI, a service for machine learning operations, or MLOps, raised a $38M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $62M  —  Arize AI, a startup developing a platform for machine learning operations, today announced that it raised $38 million in a Series B round led by TCV …

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.
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.
Zoho:
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive  —  Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm.  Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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

Big Technology Podcast:
SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
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.
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
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:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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.
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.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:20 AM ET, September 8, 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

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Wall Street Journal:
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:

Earlier Picks

Melissa Repko / CNBC:
Financial Times: