|
January 12, 2024, 2:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says pre-ordering the Vision Pro requires an iPhone or an iPad with Face ID to perform a scan to help determine the right size Light Seal and head bands — Apple Vision Pro pre-orders are a week away, and Apple is sharing new information about the buying process.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Macworld, Thurrott, PCMag, MacRumors, Engadget, Road to VR, UploadVR, SlashGear, Wccftech, The Verge, TweakTown, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, nextpit, and MacSecurity.net
X: @bengeskin and @maxwinebach
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying the outlet doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material — After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication …
More: New York Times, Washington Post, The Verge, Werd I/O, Silicon Republic, Rolling Stone, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @goldman, @hunterwalk, @ricmac, @semaforben, @mossbergwalt, @reckless1280, @benedictevans, @moskov, @jeffjarvis, @pkedrosky, @alexkantrowitz, @edzitron, @crumbler, @crumbler, and @crumbler
Mastodon: @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @RealJournalism@mastodon …, @alexcox@mastodon.social, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @ash@bne.social, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @kissane@mas.to, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, and @willoremus@mastodon.social
Bluesky: @sallyprovan.bsky.social and @dnas.is
X: @willoremus, @carnage4life, and @molly0xfff
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Genesis agrees to settle with the NYDFS, under the terms of which the company will surrender its BitLicense, cease operations in New York, and pay an $8M fine — The New York Department of Financial Services plans to announce later today a settlement with Genesis Global Trading … | Tom Coates / plasticbag.org: |
Notes on Meta's plans to integrate Threads with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company seems to be trying to do cautiously and in good faith — This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta's offices in San Francisco.| CNN: |
Security researchers say they warned Apple as early as 2019 about AirDrop vulnerabilities that Chinese authorities claim they recently used to identify users — Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world.
More: Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and iMore
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to support more types of real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws — Google announced today that the company plans to support more real-money games (RMG) on the Play Store this year by allowing …
More: Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, Lifewire, PhoneArena, iThinkDifferent, MediaNama, Engadget, Entrackr, and The Verge
| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To comply with DMA, Google says it will let users in the EU choose which of its services are linked from March 6 — Some Google service features could become unavailable after unlinking. — • — TL;DR — Google will allow users to unlink the Google services they use to comply with the EU's Digital Market Act.
More: Google Help Center and Android Police
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at CD Projekt's three-year journey to turn around Cyberpunk 2077, which has now sold over 25M units and won a major award, after a disastrous 2020 launch — Roughly three years after a disastrous launch, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ a videogame featuring Keanu Reeves, has now sold 25 million units and won a major award| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Cal Henderson, Slack's CTO and sole remaining cofounder, is stepping down effective immediately, to be replaced by Salesforce cofounder and CTO Parker Harris — Slack cofounder Cal Henderson is leaving the Salesforce-owned company — The cofounder and CTO of Slack is leaving the company Fortune … | Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Palantir EVP Josh Harris says Palantir and Israel agreed to a strategic partnership to use “Palantir's advanced technology in support of war-related missions” — - US company will provide services for ‘war-related missions’ — Agreement follows co-founders' visit to Israel this week
Forums: Hacker News
| Reuters: |
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes — U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
More: Blockworks, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Block, The Block, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, Finbold, CoinDesk, Fox Business, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Financial Times, Forbes, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Crypto Daily, Wall Street Journal, Coinspeaker, CCN.com, CoinGeek, Analytics Insight, Metaverse Post, Bitcoinist.com, The Crypto Basic, Proactive, CryptoGlobe, Coinmonks, CoinGape, Blockonomi, Wired UK, Watcher Guru, Unchained, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cybernews.com, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, CoinJournal, Decrypt, New York Times, KNSD-TV, Axios, NewsBTC, Bloomberg, Finextra, and Silicon Republic
X: @senwarren, @ericbalchunas, @ericbalchunas, @jseyff, @ericbalchunas, @notsleepy, @ericbalchunas, @ericbalchunas, @yugacohler, @technologypoet, @ericbalchunas, @lexsokolin, @iamdcinvestor, @iamdcinvestor, @adamscochran, @patio11, @mdudas, @adamscochran, @duczko, @nategeraci, @ericbalchunas, @jameslavish, @gaborgurbacs, @ericbalchunas, @thestalwart, @patio11, and @3orovik
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Apptopia: WhatsApp's daily business users increased by 80% in the US in 2023 after a 122% jump in 2022, and daily users in the US grew by 9% in 2023 — The leading global messaging app is having its breakout moment in the U.S. with some help from Tim Cook and a bit of planning.| Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
An interview with Garry Tan, who confirms that Y Combinator moved its HQ from Mountain View to San Francisco as “you sort of have to be” in the city these days — Garry Tan, president, chief executive officer and cofounder of Y Combinator, during an interview on an episode of “The Circuit” at Y Combinator offices.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.
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.
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:
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
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.
Access:
Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Training Data:
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine's Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph
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.
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 2:45 PM ET, January 12, 2024.
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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
More: Metacurity, Silicon Republic, Tech Xplore, Security Boulevard, FCC, The Hill, and The Record
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
More: Apple, Computerworld, Silicon Valley Business …, New York Post, MacRumors, CNN, Wall Street Journal, iMore, Silicon Republic, Patently Apple, Bloomberg, Fortune, AppleInsider, Deadline, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, 9to5Mac, The Information, Supercharged, MacDailyNews, iClarified, The Hill, and The Verge
X: @counternotions, @kifleswing, @markgurman, @jwsherrod, @markgurman, and @rsgnl. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: Reuters, Financial Times, Telegraph, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, Wccftech, MarketWatch, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, Trak.in, Sammy Fans, SiliconANGLE, Boing Boing, Windows Central, Tech.co, Proactive, Business Today, PC Gamer, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, Watcher Guru, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and RTÉ
X: @adamrawlings and @timsweeneyepic
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
More: SFGATE, The Verge, BBC, TechSpot, South China Morning Post, Android Headlines, Mashable, The Guardian, 9to5Google, Dexerto, The Register, Silicon Republic, Semafor, and Tech in Asia
X: @alphabetworkers, @carnage4life, @google_jp_union, @jon_victor_, and @danielthall. Forums: Hacker News
| Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: |
More: Ars Technica, New York Times, US Department of Justice, BBC, TechCrunch, WSVN 7News, TechSpot, Cybernews.com, The Verge, NPR, New.blicio.us, Newser, Silicon Valley Business …, Boston Herald, Gizmodo, NBC News, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, The Register, New York Daily News, Engadget, The Messenger, Chain Store Age, New York Post, and Boing Boing
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
| Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: |
More: The Register, Polygon, PC Gamer, PetaPixel, Los Angeles Times, Dudesy on YouTube, TIME, Fortune, Deadline, TMZ.com, Dexerto, Newser, BGR, VICE, IGN, Mashable, The Guardian, New.blicio.us, NBC News, Consequence, MovieWeb, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Cryptopolitan, The Messenger, and Forbes
Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social and @remeneramasi.bsky.social
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Reuters, The Keyword, HotHardware, The Verge, Tabletmonkeys, Pocketables, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Gizchina, TalkAndroid.com, Search Engine Roundtable, Livemint, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, Android Central, Digital Trends, Baseline, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google, Windows Report, Mashable, ZDNet, Droid Life, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Search Engine Land, Neowin, TechHive, PhoneArena, Engadget, Android Police, and Android Authority