|
June 17, 2022, 6:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022 — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
More:
New York Post, Protocol, New York Times, Gizmodo, Engadget, Barron's Online, Insider, Adweek, TechCrunch, b'dot.LA', Reuters, and Mashable
| Reuters: |
TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US — TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters.
More:
TikTok, The Hill, CNN, and New York Times
Tweets: @quinnypig, @thatjeffsmith, @jerrydunleavy, @trevorcroker, and @karlbode
| Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital is exploring financial options, including asset sales and a rescue by another firm, and says it invested ~$200M in Luna — Firm's founders say they still believe in the future of cryptocurrencies — Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd …
More:
The Block, Web3 is going just great, Bitcoin News, The Verge, CryptoSlate, watcher.guru, Bitcoinist.com, Crypto Briefing, Broadcast, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, CoinJournal, Finbold, CryptoPotato, Fortune, and Reuters
Tweets: @susanlitv, @demirelo, @anthony, @ceostroff, @w7voa, @laurashin, @silvermanjacob, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, and @nkulw
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK publishes its final response to a data reform consultation to diverge from EU rules, including replacing cookie consent pop-ups with browser opt-outs — The UK government has published its final response to a data ‘reform’ consultation it kicked off last year, laying out how it intends … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
A group of Senate Democrats calls on the US Commerce Department to follow the EU and create a strategy to require a common charging port for all mobile devices — No more Lightning ports? — A group of Senate Democrats is calling on the US Commerce Department to follow Europe's lead … | Andrea Peterson / The Record: |
The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation — The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany …
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, The Register, PCMag, CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Cyber Defence News …, and Tech Monitor
Tweets: @fbisandiego and @imposecost
| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
TSMC details its roadmap: a high volume 3nm chip production starting in H2 2022, with five 3nm-class N3 node iterations, and 2nm-class N2 introduction in 2025 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday kicked off its 2022 TSMC Technology Symposium, where the company traditionally shares …
More:
Taiwan Semiconductor …, Digital Trends, Нов …, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, Android Headlines, Liliputing, Focus Taiwan, TechSpot, The Register, and SamMobile
Tweets: @dnystedt, @dnystedt, @skyjuice60, @dnystedt, @anandtech, @dnystedt, @scobleizer, and @ryansmithat
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Some employees say that Musk sounded genuinely enthusiastic about owning and running Twitter, but the meeting reinforced their mostly negative beliefs about him — Musk says he has big plans for the company. Employees wonder how he'll achieve them
More:
Insider, Reuters, The Verge, Telegraph, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @caseynewton, @jtlevy, @profcritic, @mattxs, @mslopatto, @martinsfp, @susanbordson, and @alexeheath
| Bloomberg: |
More:
Vox, The Verge, New York Times, The Verge, Washington Post, CNBC, BBC, Fortune, CNBC, Protocol, Blockworks, CryptoPotato, Insider, Decrypt, Android Headlines, NPR, Fossbytes, Benzinga, and La Wikly de Emilio Doménech
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @bennyjohnson, @alexeheath, @_szheng, @lizzadwoskin, @danprimack, @alexeheath, @cernovich, @mikeisaac, @noupside, @alexeheath, @elonmusk, @daithaigilbert, @jenn_elias, @kenli729, @maxkennerly, @reckless, @bennyjohnson, @elonmusk, @evafoxu, @elonmusk, @kantrowitz, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @donie, @donie, @hsajwanization, @caseynewton, @nycsouthpaw, @markmilian, @ericnewcomer, @stevekovach, @mmasnick, @nytimes, @kurtwagner8, @pkafka, @kurtwagner8, @qhardy, @jlgolson, @mikeisaac, @anthony, @mikeisaac, @pkafka, @alexeheath, @kantrowitz, @jyarow, and @mattrosoff
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Sources: SpaceX fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter calling Elon Musk's behavior “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment” — In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”
More:
The Verge, The Verge, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Verge, The Register, Protocol, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, CNBC, b'dot.LA', Continuum, Ars Technica, Yahoo Finance, TheGamer, ExtremeTech, TechCrunch, New York Post, Washington Post, Fortune, Gizmodo, Newser, PCMag, Bloomberg, Insider, The Hill, Silicon Republic, Mashable, Vanity Fair, and PC Gamer
| Freya Pratty / Sifted: |
Proximie, whose AR tech enables surgeons to virtually collaborate during surgeries, has raised an $80M Series C, bringing its total funding to $129M — Proximie, which was founded in 2016, states its mission as saving lives by creating a “borderless operating room”.
More:
Fierce Healthcare, Auganix.org, and FinSMEs
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”
More:
Eva Chen, The Verge, PCMag, Adweek, Reuters, Elle Italia, Seeking Alpha, Social Media Today, Vogue, PAPER, and Dazed
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @michaelzimmer, @glowsteeze, @keithdsouza, @dinafierro_, @liahaberman, @tajocrypto, @realtorstarshar, @maghanmcd, @maxasteele, @shiringhaffary, @meta, @nssmag, and @maghanmcd
| The Verge: |
Snap is internally testing Snapchat Plus, a paid subscription service that will give users early access to exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features — It's currently in “early internal testing” — Snap is doing internal tests of a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus …
More:
TechCrunch, Adweek, Tubefilter, CNN, b'dot.LA', XDA Developers, Fossbytes, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, SlashGear, iMore, KnowTechie, HotHardware.com News, PCMag, Web3 Digest, Android Police, Phandroid, Digit, Benzinga, TechCircle, PhoneArena, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Mashable, BGR India, and Social Media Today
Sponsor Posts
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.
Zoho:
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
(BNS) How To Know When To Kill Your Startup
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 6:20 PM ET, June 17, 2022.
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
Oliver Darcy / Status:Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Colin Kellaher / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
More:
Decrypt, The Block, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, The Weekly Update, Crypto Daily, Crunchbase News, crypto.news, Ethereum World News, CoinQuora, and Coinpedia
Tweets: @kadhim, @alex, @nycsouthpaw, and @charlesarthur
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
PYMNTS.com, EU-Startups, MacDailyNews, Sifted, Tech.eu, and Reuters. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
Earlier Picks
| Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Coinspeaker, Crunchbase News, City A.M., Notadeepdive, Newslit Daily, Sifted, The Block, AltFi, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @ryan_browne_, @bongcapital, and @alex