|
November 1, 2020, 12:45 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs: |
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it will replace AirPods Pros manufactured before October 2020 that have crackling sounds, static, and active noise cancellation issues — - Apple said on Friday that it will replace AirPods Pro headphones that have sound issues. — These issues include a static or crackling sound …
More:
Official Apple Support, Gizchina, TechSpot, Forbes, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Bloomberg, Slashdot, Tom's Guide, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, and CNET
Tweets: @dsilverman, @markgurman, @petersterne, @rsgnl, and @scobleizer
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
More:
New York Post, New York Post, The Hill, Variety, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Fox News, Deadline, Axios, The Verge, Reuters, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and CNET
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @tedcruz, @mmasnick, @twittersafety, @sohrabahmari, @brithume, and @seanmdav
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies — Being online has changed Donald Trump. He was the internet's candidate in 2016—he appears in Urban Dictionary's definition of meme god … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A — Skan.ai, an AI-enabled process discovery and operational intelligence platform, today closed $14 million in funding.
More:
Cheddar, skan.ai, Pulse 2.0, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
| Nandita Mathur / Livemint: |
Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes — - The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas … | Elliott Ackerman / Wired: |
Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them — On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA, FBI say an Iran-linked APT targeted unsecured state election websites to harvest US voter info used to send threatening emails to some Democratic voters — DHS CISA and the FBI today shared more info on how an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group was able to harvest voter registration info …
More:
CISA, CyberScoop, Engadget, Reuters, and news.com.au
Tweets: @uscert_gov, @kimzetter, @defede, @ncscgov, @ericgeller, and @zackwhittaker
| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia — StrongDM, a single sign-on company for backend infrastructure, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series A led by Sequoia Capital.
Tweets: @forbestech
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus — Try out Intel's new discrete GPU — Earlier this month, the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel's new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press event.
More:
Engadget, VentureBeat, Intel Newsroom, SemiAccurate, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, CNET, and PCWorld. Tweets: @rogerdchandler
| Lara O'Reilly / Digiday: |
Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month.
Tweets: @larakiara and @appfairness
| FinSMEs: |
DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market — DriveWealth, LLC, a Chatam, N.J.-based global digital trading technology company, raised $56.7m in Series C funding.
More:
Business Insider, TechCrunch, Financial Planning, AltFi, Benzinga, Business Wire, Pulse 2.0, Finextra, and Fintech Today
Sponsor Posts
TELUS Digital:
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
Zoho:
Goodbye Skype! What's next for your chats? — Hi5, Orkut, MySpace, Geocities... Do these names ring a bell? Do you remember chatting with your friends on MSN Messenger in the late '90s?
Goodbye Skype! What's next for your chats? — Hi5, Orkut, MySpace, Geocities... Do these names ring a bell? Do you remember chatting with your friends on MSN Messenger in the late '90s?
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
Techmeme Ride Home:
It's Already Starting...
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Spotlight On:
Corelight's Brian Dye on What He's Learned About Scaling
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Invest Like the Best:
Michael Ovitz - Turning Potential into Prominence
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Grit:
Brex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro Franceschi
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:45 AM ET, November 1, 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
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
Nicole Meir / The Associated Press:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
More:
Variety, Ars Technica, The Verge, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Reuters, Axios, South China Morning Post, Social Media Today, Input, Yahoo News, Telegraph, IGN, Forbes, Engadget, Android Central, New York Post, and Business Insider. Tweets: @martinsfp
Earlier Picks
| Bloomberg: |
More:
Airbnb Newsroom, Airbnb, Protocol, Yahoo Finance, Associated Press, Skift, Axios, and San Francisco Chronicle
Tweets: @reidhoffman and @profgalloway
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
More:
project-zero, ZDNet, HackRead, The Register, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, Neowin, BleepingComputer, Neowin, SecurityWeek, Tom's Guide, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @seanwrightsec, @lee_holmes, @ryanaraine, @sunshowers6, and @zackwhittaker
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
More:
On my Om, MacDailyNews, Micky, MakeUseOf, iMore, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, CNBC, iMore, MacRumors, The Next Web, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Gizmodo, Cord Cutters News, CNBC, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, AppAdvice.com, Appleosophy, iMore, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, O'Grady's PowerPage, and CNET
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
Baltimore Sun, UA Newsroom, Baltimore Business Journal, Financial Times, Barron's Online, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, and Engadget
Tweets: @kevinctofel, @benlower, @carnage4life, @lepp, @stevemann, and @vaactiveangels
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
More:
International Business Times, Input, Gizchina, Trusted Reviews, Android Police, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Techaeris, The Verge, 9to5Google, BGR India, Pocketnow, GSMArena.com, Notebookcheck.net, Wccftech, TechRadar, and Neowin
Tweets: @onegarzon, @patrickmoorhead, and @brianroemmele