|
October 26, 2018, 1:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Natfriedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub's new CEO Nat Friedman says Microsoft's $7.5B acquisition of GitHub is now complete — I'm thrilled to share that the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is complete. Monday is my first day as CEO. Millions of people rely on GitHub every day, and I am honored by the opportunity to lead this company.
More:
The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, Windows Central, CNET, Inquirer, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, Petri, VentureBeat, Light Reading, ZDNet, Business Insider, Engadget, Neowin, and Mashable
Tweets: @microsoft, @jezcorden, @natfriedman, @spacekatgal, @github, and @satyanadella
| Facebook: |
Facebook says it has removed 82 Pages, groups, and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people in the US and UK — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that originated in Iran for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
More:
Reuters, Recode, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Hill, BBC, The Verge, Washington Post, TechCrunch, CNET, CNN, Business Insider, Axios, USA Today, CNBC, and DFRLab
Tweets: @rmac18, @tonyromm, @thisisfoxx, @tonyromm, @shanvav, @facebook, @attackerman, @ridt, @alinaselyukh, @rmac18, @mikeisaac, and @rmac18
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Source: Samsung is working with Google on developing a special version of Android OS for a foldable-screen device codenamed “Winner” — - Company in talks with Verizon for 5G network-ready phone — New flagship to include fingerprint scanner under screen
More:
PCWorld, Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, CNET, SlashGear, TechCo, Droid Life, Mashable, KnowTechie, Patently Apple, Android Beat, Gizchina.com, BGR, Inquirer, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, Softpedia News, Gizmochina, and Engadget. Tweets: @laurengoode
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
AT&T to shut down WarnerMedia's FilmStruck, its two-year-old streaming video service for indie, arthouse, and classic films, on November 29 — In AT&T's latest move to streamline WarnerMedia, Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks announced Friday that the FilmStruck indie …
More:
TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, IGN, Polygon, and FierceVideo
Tweets: @seanfennessey, @thezanesimon, @markharrisnyc, @danadelany, @gc9x, @somebadideas, and @murrelldan
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, raises $1.25B from KKR, Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Vulcan Capital, and others — Jonathan Shieber , Jordan Crook 7 hours — It pays to have the most popular game in the world. — Epic Games, the creators … | Kyle Wiens / iFixit: |
New DRM rules allow jailbreaking of voice-assistant devices and unlocking of new phones, but don't allow game consoles to be fixed or HDCP to be bypassed — Six months ago, on a sunny spring day in LA, I donned a suit—a rare event—and walked into a courtroom at UCLA.
More:
U.S. Copyright Office, The Register, iPhone Hacks, and SlashGear
| Andy Rubin / @arubin: |
Andy Rubin says NYT story is part of a smear campaign, calls allegations false, is troubled that Google execs are commenting and misrepresenting facts about him — 1/2 The New York Times story contains numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations about my compensation. Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room. These false allegations are part of a smear campaign
| CNBC: |
More:
New York Times, Inquirer, Bloomberg, Fortune, Newser, The Register, and CNN
Tweets: @ejacqui, @agamoni, @b_fung, @berthacoombs, and @thekenyeung
| New York Times: |
More:
Digiday, BBC, Bloomberg, Politico, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Fossbytes, Android Beat, Al Jazeera English, Ars Technica, Financial Times, CNN, AndroidGuys, The Verge, France 24, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Fortune, TechSpot, Deadline, The Guardian, The Hill, and The Atlantic
Tweets: @ktbenner, @daiwaka, @gruber, @daiwaka, @jyarow, @chafkin, @chillmage, @backlon, @jyarow, @mikeisaac, @davidenrich, @sierra, @jena_alm, @migueldeicaza, @erikloomis, @rmac18, @johnpaczkowski, @pardesoteric, @keithboykin, @kyweise, @jomc, @robpegoraro, @klillington, @cfarivar, @elizabeth_joh, @dangoodin001, @byrosenberg, @mikeisaac, @conordougherty, @mikeisaac, @daiwaka, @daiwaka, @daiwaka, @jedmiller, @marypcbuk, @levynews, @bafeldman, @bdsams, and @marypcbuk
| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
Tether says it has destroyed over half of its total supply, or 500M USDT, from the Tether treasury wallet — UPDATE (24 October 19:25 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from a Bitfinex spokesman. — Shortly before 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, Tether … | Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain partners with Ledger to unveil $99.99 Lockbox hardware wallet, which will enable crypto-to-crypto trades through the company's native brokerage — One of the oldest software wallet providers in the cryptocurrency industry is launching its first hardware product.
More:
Ledger, Blockchain Blog, TechCrunch, Coingeek, CoinSpeaker, Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, and CCN. Tweets: @onemorepeter
| Corin Faife / BREAKER: |
Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500 — This article started out with an email, one that arrived in my inbox years ago. I can't remember when the first of them came exactly …
More:
TechCrunch, Decrypt Media, The Next Web, and The Block
Tweets: @crypt0snews, @stephendpalley, @brianmcc, @blockdata_tech, @breakermag, @boxmining, @nathanielpopper, @corintxt, and @laurashin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese media giant Bytedance, owner of Toutiao and Tik Tok, has raised $3B from SoftBank and others, at a $75B valuation — - A deal will crown the Chinese startup the world's largest — Funding from SoftBank and others will fuel global expansion| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Following Trump's complaint about Twitter removing many people from his account, Twitter explains how its fake account removal policies make the service better — - Platform has been eliminating fake and abusive accounts — Conservatives have argued social media platformed biased
More:
The Verge, CNET, Washington Post, Associated Press, and The Hill
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @twittercomms, @jonfavs, @thedailyshow, and @davidfrum
| Amazon: |
Amazon Q3: revenue of $56.6B, up 29% YoY, operating income of $3.7B, up from $347M YoY, net income of $2.9B, up from $256M YoY; stock down 7%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) October 25, 2018—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2018.
More:
Recode, CNBC, Business Insider, CNBC, Retail Dive, Bloomberg, cloudcomputing-news.net, Fortune, The Register, SlashGear, AdExchanger, Reuters, and Business Insider
Tweets: @delrey, @smulpuru, @trevornoren, and @recode
| Gabe Cohn / New York Times: |
Christie's sells a portrait by the French art collective Obvious generated using AI for $432,500, over 40x its estimated price, a first for the auction house — Last Friday, a portrait produced by artificial intelligence was hanging at Christie's New York opposite an Andy Warhol print and beside a bronze work by Roy Lichtenstein.
More:
The Verge, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, TechnoLlama, USA Today, BBC, TechSpot, Fortune, HYPEBEAST, The Next Web, Data Driven Investor, Boing Boing, Motherboard, and CNN
Tweets: @drbeef_, @arthistorynews, @erocdrahs, @jjvincent, @chris_ciaccia, and @alex
| Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with 70+ current and former Netflix employees tell of a culture of candor and transparency that some find ruthless, demoralizing, and dysfunctional — Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandalSponsor Posts
Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
Don't just draw it—do it: Leveraging the Business Model Canvas with Zoho One — Every successful business journey begins with three essentials: clarity, strategic alignment, and focused execution.
Don't just draw it—do it: Leveraging the Business Model Canvas with Zoho One — Every successful business journey begins with three essentials: clarity, strategic alignment, and focused execution.
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
Spotlight On:
VBSR 1.01: RTO is back (again) + data moats dry up + Sara vibecodes
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Techmeme Ride Home:
OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
BG2 Pod:
AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is okay with reinventing the bus
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
David Tisch from BoxGroup
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:30 PM ET, October 26, 2018.
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
David Folkenflik / NPR:Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
More:
The Register, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, CNET, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, and Liliputing. Tweets: @dcseifert
Earlier Picks
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
More:
Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Nieman Lab, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Snap, New York Times, Yahoo! Finance, Financial Times, Cult of Mac, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, Hollywood Reporter, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, and 9to5Mac
| Ruth David / Bloomberg: |
More:
Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and CoinSpeaker. Tweets: @business
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
CNET, The Keyword, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @andrewmartonik, @robinwauters, and @backlon
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
More:
PR Newswire, Axios, Recode, Search Engine Journal, Featured Insights, Digiday, and CNET
Tweets: @ranimolla, @twitterir, @richbtig, @madhavchanchani, and @marshallk