|
December 13, 2023, 5:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol” — Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other AcitivityPub protocol-supported networks.
More: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
Threads: @zuck, @quillmatiq, @jasontheknight, @mmasnick, @m4rk, @mattnavarra, @aaronrosspowell, @salrodriguez, and @micah.pollak
Mastodon: @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @wall0159@aus.social, @evan@cosocial.ca, @stroughtonsmith …, @bikepedantic …, @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, @profcarroll@federate.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ cars after the NHTSA issued a recall, following a probe that found its means for keeping drivers engaged were inadequate — - US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
More: CNN, NHTSA, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, The Verge, iTnews, New York Times, The Verge, New York Times, The Messenger, TechSpot, Digital Trends, TechRadar, The Register, Kotaku, CNBC, ExtremeTech, MobileSyrup, Ars Technica, Tech Xplore, TechStartups, Semafor, T3, Telegraph, Rolling Stone, The Information, TechCrunch, New York Post, Electrek, Reuters, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Wired UK, BGR, SlashGear, The Robot Report, Mashable, HotHardware, VICE, Newser, Axios, New York Daily News, NBC News, Metro.co.uk, Notebookcheck, and Yahoo Finance
Threads: @taylorlorenz, @lorakolodny, @carnage4life, and @ramseyramblin. Mastodon: @mattblaze@federate.social. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @wholemarsblog, @zsk, @carlquintanilla, @wholemarsblog, @troyteslike, and @tomgara
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google announces Gemini Pro for enterprises, letting Cloud clients build apps for free, with some limits, and plans to add Gemini Pro to AI Studio and Vertex AI — Gemini Pro is aimed at businesses and app developers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced a slate of upgraded artificial intelligence features … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Imagen 2, launched in preview in May 2023 and built using Google DeepMind tech, offering “significantly” improved image quality and new features — Google's making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt …
More: Google Cloud Blog, The Decoder, and The Verge
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Axel Springer signs a multiyear deal with OpenAI, which plans to offer ChatGPT news summaries and use Politico, Business Insider, and others to train AI models — Generative-AI company reaches multiyear pact with owner of Politico, Business Insider and major European properties
More: Axel Springer SE, OpenAI, Axios, PYMNTS.com, The Guardian, Engadget, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Telegraph, The Information, Politico, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, The Decoder, Reuters, Analytics India Magazine, KNSD-TV, OODA Loop, WRAL TechWire, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, The Messenger, and Tech Xplore
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: sparked by Spotify's complaint in 2019, the EU may fine Apple in 2024 and plans to ban its anti-steering App Store rules used on music streaming rivals — - EU to ban allegedly abusive App Store rules for music rivals — Antitrust decision due early 2024 and could come with fines| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available in beta on the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers — Xbox Cloud Gaming is arriving on Meta's range of VR headsets today. A beta version of the cloud gaming app is now available for the Meta Quest 2, 3 …
More: Meta, Xbox Wire, Thurrott, Road to VR, Dexerto, Engadget, Gizmodo, Windows Central, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, UploadVR, CNET, Neowin, TweakTown, Android Headlines, Mashable, Game Rant, IGN, Android Central, and Pure Xbox
| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase rolls out spot crypto trading on its international exchange, starting with BTC-USDC and ETH-USDC pairs via API access for non-US institutional clients — - Hazy regulatory outlook deters some investors from US venues … Institutional investors can initially trade Bitcoin and Ether …
More: Coinbase, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, The Block, Blockworks, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, Finbold, CoinGape, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, and Cointelegraph. X: @coinbase
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
More: Coinbase, Coinspeaker, and Crowdfund Insider
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Your Books, a feature that lets users organize all their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while providing recommendations — Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: 3AC co-founder Su Zhu for the first time faced questioning in a Singapore court about the fund's collapse; Teneo estimates 3AC owes creditors ~$3.3B — - Failed crypto fund's co-founder Zhu was arrested in September — Liquidators seek information for creditors owed $3.3 billion
More: Default, Decrypt, crypto.news, CoinDesk, CCN.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Cryptonews, The Block, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, and Protos. X: @clemtan
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU Council and Parliament back a deal to reclassify millions of ride-hailing and food delivery app workers as staff, which could cost the industry billions — European Union negotiators backed a deal to reclassify millions of people working for ride-hailing and food-delivery apps …
More: Council of the EU, European Parliament, Engadget, Electrek, Tech Xplore, TechCrunch, Financial Times, WeeTracker, Wired, Euractiv, and Politico
X: @eucouncilpress, @ep_president, @timchristiaens5, @ben_wray1989, @epsocialaffairs, @nicolasschmiteu, @ben_wray1989, @_aloisi, and @maxvonthun. LinkedIn: Olgu Özdemir Ertürk
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A profile of Nandini Jammi, a co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit using social media to call out companies whose ads appear on far-right creators' websites — Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones — When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 15 lineup and M2 Macs, brings the program to 24 more countries, and releases an Apple Diagnostics tool in the US — Apple today announced it has expanded its Self Service Repair program to cover the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by M2 chips …
More: Apple, ZDNet, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, iClarified, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Lifewire, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, iMore, Supercharged, TidBITS, and Thurrott
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Etsy plans to lay off ~11% of its workforce, or ~225 employees, as the e-commerce website grapples with slow consumer spending and rivals like Shein and Temu — Etsy is laying off roughly 11% of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed, as the e-commerce site that helps small businesses sell …
More: CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Etsy News, The Messenger, South China Morning Post, and Barron's Online
X: @buccocapital and @theo_wayt
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US, the UK, and Poland say that since September 2023, state-backed Russian group APT29 has targeted servers hosting Czech firm JetBrains' TeamCity software — Government agencies in the U.S., Poland and the U.K. said on Wednesday that Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) …
More: Cybersecurity … and BleepingComputer
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Google's Epic loss, where a jury found Google guilty on all 11 antitrust claims, may portend its legal fate in two, more significant US antitrust cases in 2024 — A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google's business and sap its profits.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, BIG by Matt Stoller, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Tech Xplore, TechCabal, New York Post, The Information, Slate, and CNBC
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, Qualcomm, and seven other tech companies form the Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems, aiming to promote more open digital ecosystems in the EU — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed …
More: MacRumors, Fortune, Metaverse Post, WinBuzzer, PYMNTS.com, and The Messenger. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to require a judge's order to share users' push notification data, in line with Google, instead of only a subpoena — Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, Supercharged, Tech Xplore, Cult of Mac, PCMag, Daring Fireball, CPO Magazine, Fox News, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, MediaNama, AppleInsider, Proactiveinvestors NA, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and PhoneArena
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. X: @istrakhov, @reuterslegal, and @jsrailton. Forums: Hacker News
| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture before Elon Musk's takeover, when employees focused on improving the health of online conversations rather than growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
More: The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, The Hill, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNN, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @martinsfp, @reckless1280, @qasimnauman, @m0qazi, @andyyang, @technicallymims, @shaneafsar, @cdylanparks, @j.b.robertson, @luke.pfister, @racsterls, @mikecvet, @mikecvet, and @reporterzoe
Mastodon: @anzet@zeppelin.flights and @reichenstein@mastodon.social
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance cancels the Pico 5, an upcoming VR headset from its Pico subsidiary, after Pico 4 sales fell far short of expectations and the VR market sags — Chinese tech giant ByteDance might have set Facebook owner Meta Platforms on its heels with its hugely popular TikTok app.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $5.05B, vs. $5.03B est., Digital Media revenue up 13% YoY to $3.72B, FY 2024 revenue guidance below est.; ADBE drops 6%+ — - Adobe's fiscal fourth-quarter results surpassed expectations, but guidance for fiscal 2024 trailed estimates.
More: Bloomberg, Adobe, Associated Press, MarketWatch, PetaPixel, and Constellation Research
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Abu Dhabi-based Andalusia Labs, which offers risk management services for digital assets, raised a $48M Series A led by Lightspeed at a valuation “north of” $1B — Digital asset risk infrastructure-focused Andalusia Labs, formerly known as RiskHarbor, has raised $48 million …
More: NFTgators and Andalusia Labs
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
A parliamentary report warns that the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” due to the government's failures to tackle ransomware — Because of the British government's failures to tackle ransomware, there is a “high risk” the country faces a … Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box 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 & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Great Chat:
The stories we told ourselves in 2025
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.
The Social Radars:
Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 5!
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Grit:
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff
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:
OpenAI's Potential, Google's Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
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 5:35 PM ET, December 13, 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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block, Worldcoin, Bankless Times, DL News, CoinJournal, Cryptopolitan, and Cryptonews. X: @worldcoin
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
More: Meta, NBC News, MobileSyrup, livingright26 on Instagram, Mashable, Android Headlines, Cryptopolitan, PhoneArena, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, The Verge, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @mattnavarra, @faith_jvs, @chris, @voorhees_dnb, and @luhtestoni
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |