|
July 8, 2023, 6:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue” — / Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics …
More: Garbage Day, Techlusive, Livemint, Yahoo Style, CNBC, Fortune, The Hill, Reuters, Forbes, TechCrunch, PCMag, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, TweakTown, Newser, GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, Mashable, and IGN
Twitter: @josephpolitano, @ggreenwald, @saksithcna, @kausmickey, @rafat, @asteris, @adamsinger, @danprimack, @davidclinchnews, @om, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @selviano, @maxasteele, @loudmouthjulia, @parismarx, @jeffveillette, @tomwarren, and @martinsfp
Threads: @martinsfp, @mosseri, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Less than two days after launch, Mark Zuckerberg says Threads signups reached 70M, which is “way beyond our expectations” — - Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has exploded in growth in its first full day since its public debut Wednesday night, fueled by Instagram's already massive userbase.
More: The Verge, MarketWatch, International Business Times, The Economic Times, Forbes, Android Police, Associated Press, Thurrott, The Messenger, The Verge, The Information, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, SiliconANGLE, Pixel Envy, Neowin, Axios, The Apple Post, KNSD-TV, Bloomberg, NPR, San Francisco Business Journal, Windows Central, Sammy Fans, Music Ally, WebProNews, and Semafor
Bluesky: @nevillehobson.xyz and @epro.social
Twitter: @benedictevans, @ernestwilkins, @gncordova, @aishacounts, @dimensionmedia, @ttp_updates, @conorsen, @oneunderscore__, @jason_kint, @efeng, and @nikitabier
Threads: @zuck, @andymstone, @metamoskov, @metamoskov, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @zuck, and @nikitabier
| Turner Novak / The Split: |
More: Forbes, Slate, Rob Pegoraro, Big Technology, and Pirate Wires
Twitter: @semil, @joshelman, @bobbyfijan, and @sarthakgh
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
More: CNN, Forbes, The Hill, Cryptopolitan, The Guardian, TweakTown, MarketWatch, Insider, Financial Times, Deadline, KitGuru, Coinpedia Fintech News, TechRadar, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, Tech Xplore, Livemint, Bloomberg, and The Information
Twitter: @ashleymayer, @seth1620, and @wsjtech
| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality — NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
Bluesky: @serrurier.bsky.social. Mastodon: @jpholbrook@mastodon.online. Twitter: @danwwang, @kevinakwok, @joshconstine, @lorenfox7, @ejames_c, @ikillcuriosity, @chetanp, @obrien_kat, @eugenewei, @tammigaw, @eshear, @buccocapital, @eugenewei, @borrowed_ideas, @ross, @msg, @sarthakgh, @modestproposal1, and @mazedamouth. Threads: @eugenewei. Forums: Hacker News
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions — A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
Mastodon: @ppatel@mstdn.social and @falschgold@mastodon.social
Twitter: @natesilver538, @noahpinion, @pt, @washingtonpost, and @aghamilton29
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Gemini sues DCG and its founder; Cameron Winklevoss accuses Barry Silbert of being “the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors” — - Crypto exchange Gemini sued Digital Currency Group and its founder on Friday, accusing Barry Silbert of being …
More: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Protos, CoinDesk, Reuters, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Financial Times, The Daily Hodl, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, Watcher Guru, Ethereum World News, Decrypt, crypto.news, Blockworks, CryptoPotato, and CoinGape
Twitter: @cameron, @dcgco, @tyler, @pierre_crypt0, @newsasset, @adamscochran, @coinbureau, @poordart, @smtuffy, and @aaronrday. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout — Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter …
More: Ars Technica, New York Times, Cryptopolitan, Livemint, Financial Times, Insider, The Verge, Neowin, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Information, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @ravickan.bsky.social. Mastodon: @Celeste_pewter@mastodon … and @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
| Reuters: |
Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI's ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon's arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development — - Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google
More: Neowin, Seeking Alpha, Telegraph India, Benzinga, Business Today, Times of India, and Inc42 Media
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
A look at assistive apps like Be My Eyes and Ask Envision, which integrate GPT-4 to give visually impaired users more visual details about the world around them — Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site's “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
More: PCMag, The Verge, PC Gamer, Polygon, 9to5Mac, and Livemint
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. Forums: r/technews, r/BotDefense, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US schools are piloting AI surveillance robots that can detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns — When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming …
Twitter: @kylebrussell
| Associated Press: |
A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new $17.96/hour minimum pay for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city — A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers …
More: The Hill, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Fast Company, CNN, VICE, Washington Post, Associated Press, Engadget, New York Times, New York Post, and Insider
| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.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.
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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
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
Hard Fork:
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Great Chat:
Tech's short-term era
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.
Access:
Meet the most AI-pilled CEO on Earth
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Basis's Matt Harpe: Why AI Won't Replace Accountants — It'll Make Them Richer
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood's Sort-of Comeback
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.
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 6:05 PM ET, July 8, 2023.
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
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:Clayton Weimers / The National Interest:
Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
More: Fortune, Cryptopolitan, ChinaTechNews.com, MarketWatch, Reuters, Financial Times, Associated Press, American Banker, PingWest, and CNBC. Forums: r/baba
Earlier Picks
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
More: Web3 is Going Just Great, MakeUseOf, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, The Daily Hodl, crypto.news, Cryptonews, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist.com, Metaverse Post, Cryptopolitan, The Block, The Record, CryptoPotato, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, Crypto Daily, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and Unchained Crypto
Twitter: @multichainorg, @multichainorg, @cz_binance, @adamscochran, @coindesk, @multlchainorg, and @cbgbull. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |