|
July 23, 2020, 12:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox for up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack — Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today …
More:
BBC, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, CNET, CyberScoop, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Associated Press, The Hill, Mashable, Bitcoin Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, Input, The Verge, MSPoweruser, CryptoGlobe, InsideBitcoins.com, Android Central, Newser, Coinspeaker, The Next Web, SecurityWeek, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, CoinDesk, SlashGear, MacRumors, Digital Trends, The Block, and Engadget
Tweets: @twittersupport, @sethweathers, @leokelion, @briannawu, @zackwhittaker, @kfile, @twittersupport, and @thekarami
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
More:
NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @elanazak, @emzanotti, @mattnavarra, @aynrandpaulryan, @lachlan, @gelliottmorris, and @twitterir
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses Q2 expectations with revenue of $683M, down 19% YoY, but reports 186M mDAUs, up 34% YoY, and ad revenue of $562M, down 23% YoY; stock up 8%+ — - Twitter reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that missed analyst expectations on revenue, but showed strong growth in users.
More:
VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNN, Engadget, Axios, Associated Press, Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNET, Wall Street Journal, and Wccftech
Tweets: @willoremus, @megancgraham, @shivsharma_5, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @kurtwagner8, and @carnage4life
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants — - Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants. — The ability to live broadcast Messenger Rooms calls could pose another threat …
More:
About Facebook, About Facebook, Reuters, Engadget, Windows Central, Mashable, MSPoweruser, and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @db
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels across news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more categories, accessible by both free users and subscribers — Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible … | Bill Ready / The Keyword: |
Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify — Over the past few months, we've made significant changes to help businesses reach more consumers and help people find the best products, prices and places to buy online.
More:
New York Times, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Shopify's pressreleases, and support.google.com
Tweets: @daiwaka, @delrey, and @williamready
| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network — The carrier is also adding 5G access to its cheapest unlimited plan. — AT&T's 5G network crossed an important milestone Thursday, with the telecom giant announcing …
More:
AT&T, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Android Authority, MacRumors, Android Police, AppleInsider, Light Reading, FierceWireless, and Engadget
Tweets: @ryanfduffy and @eliblumenthal
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Corning announces Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous model — Samsung will be the first to feature the new glass — Your next Samsung Galaxy or iPhone may soon include the toughest gadget glass Corning has ever created.
More:
Corning, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, USA Today, CNET, TechSpot, SamMobile, Neowin, Engadget, Droid Life, TechPP, Mashable, and Wired. Tweets: @calebwatney
| ETtech: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in Reliance Retail, for a preferred, strategic stake in its e-commerce venture JioMart — JioMart, the e-commerce venture of Reliance's retail arm, was launched in May and poses a formidable challenge to Amazon's local unit and Walmart's Flipkart.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook can now simulate the actions of bad actors using AI-powered bots let loose in a parallel version of Facebook that researchers can then study — Bad bots roam free in a parallel version of Facebook — Facebook's engineers have developed a new method to help them identify …
More:
Facebook AI, Engadget, ZDNet, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, and CNET
Tweets: @moonalice, @markhurst, @kateo, @tante, @hypervisible, @jjvincent, @rstephens, @alexvoica, and @iansherr
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia expressed interest about a potential deal for ARM as SoftBank explores a sale; Apple declined to pursue a bid after being approached by SoftBank — - SoftBank also approached Apple to gauge its interest in Arm — Japanese group bought U.K. chip designer for $32 billion| BuzzFeed News: |
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built — On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: to save TikTok, ByteDance and investors are considering options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm — - Venture investors urge Zhang to sell a majority stake in app — Time is running short to avoid a crackdown from U.S. officials| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NY legislature passes a bill pausing use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until 2022, the first such regulation in the US if signed — The New York legislature today passed a moratorium banning the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric identification in schools until 2022.| Lawfare: |
An overview of how COVID-19 contact tracing technology has fared in the US and around the world, as contact tracing apps retreat from the spotlight in the US — In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop a “world beating” …
More:
9to5Mac and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @jacob_r_schulz, @carnage4life, @hypervisible, @caparsons, @ruskin147, and @lawfareblog
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M creators fund to pay creators directly for their content — The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right … | Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
Personal info of 200K+ Instacart users is being sold on the dark web, including names and last 4 digits of credit card numbers; Instacart denies a data breach — The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web.| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q4: revenue up 13% YoY to $38B, net income of $11.2B, down 15% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $13.4B, up 17%, and Azure revenue up 47% — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
More:
GeekWire, Light Reading, The Verge, Cloud Computing News, TrueAchievements, CNBC, and GamingBolt
Tweets: @futterish and @zhugeex
| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed News: |
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out — First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
More:
Techdirt and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @blmohr, @webdevlaw, @campuscodi, @paldhous, @zackwhittaker, @tomasekeli, and @dguido
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora expands interactive voice ads in beta for more listeners and advertisers and allows free users to unlock on-demand music search with their voice — Pandora is expanding the scope of its interactive voice-based advertising today, launching the service in beta for more listeners …
More:
The Verge and TechCrunch
| Bryan Walsh / Axios: |
Facebook VP of AI Jerome Pesenti says OpenAI's GPT-3 can “easily output toxic language that propagates harmful biases”, as some critics point out issues of bias — While GPT-3 has earned ecstatic reviews from many experts for its capabilities, some critics have pointed out clear issues around bias.
More:
The Next Web, Wired, and Bloomberg
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Facebook to pay $650M to settle a facial recognition suit in Illinois, after judge says the original settlement of $550M did not adequately punish the company — Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $53M — CyCognito, which helps identify and eliminate the critical security risks in an organization's IT ecosystem, secured a $30 million round of Series B funding to expand its unique approach to assessing risk.
More:
VentureBeat
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
As investors become skeptical about self-driving tech, startups can compete by focusing on commercializing the least demanding applications of self-driving tech — Slow progress is forcing self-driving startups to tighten their belts. — Progress on self-driving technology has been slower …
Tweets: @samabuelsamid and @binarybits
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple starts giving “hacker-friendly” iPhones with a custom and more accessible iOS version to vetted researchers in the iOS Security Research Device program — For the past decade Apple has tried to make the iPhone one of the most secure devices on the market.
More:
Apple Developer, SecurityWeek, Engadget, ZDNet, Digital Trends, O'Grady's PowerPage, Fossbytes, The Mac Observer, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @mcgrewsecurity, @lorenzofb, @alexstamos, @ihackbanme, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @josephfcox, @adamely, and @zackwhittaker
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Quantexa, which uses big data intelligence for risk analysis and investigations, raises $64.7M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners — The wider field of cyber security — not just defending networks, but identifying fraudulent activity — has seen a big boost in activity in the last few months, and that's no surprise.
More:
FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and Tech.eu
Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 12/20 - Gemini Flash Thinking
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:45 PM ET, July 23, 2020.
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
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
More:
ComputerWeekly.com and The Verge
Tweets: @twittersafety, @donie, @cjewel, @yashar, @oliverdarcy, @wexler, @dfriedman33, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @parismartineau, @katestarbird, @oliviasolon, and @drg1985
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
More:
Office of the Comptroller …, Fortune, CoinDesk, Coin Center, The Daily Hodl, Cryptonews, Ethereum World News, CryptoGlobe, The Next Web, CryptoSlate, SiliconANGLE, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @lopp, @cryptomanran, @crypto_tone1, @alexsaundersau, @alexisgoldstein, @stomarova, @vtg2, and @mdudas. Thanks:@saniyamore
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
More:
CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @benbajarin, @reneritchie, @siegel, @cabel, @elkmovie, @kylealden, @matt_garber, @dhh, @elkmovie, @reckless, @stroughtonsmith, @reneritchie, @chrismaddern, @brentsimmons, @dhh, @siegel, @jason, @snazzyq, @timsweeneyepic, @rsebbe, @kantrowitz, @alexeheath, @stevelevine, @carnage4life, @lauren_feiner, @caseynewton, @stevekovach, and @willoremus. Thanks:@aidaakl
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |