Note: Techmeme is hiring part-time editors. Go here to apply, or tell a friend!
|
August 7, 2023, 10:40 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with 95% accuracy overall and 93% on Zoom — A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using …
More: TechRadar, Digital Trends, arxiv.org, gHacks Technology News, TweakTown, PC Gamer, iTnews, The Hacker News, DataBreaches.net, and Tom's Hardware
Mastodon: @karim@geiger.ee, @lrz@mastodon.cloud, @airadam@mastodon.me.uk, and @Haste@mastodon.social
X: @p3b7_, @nearcyan, @nagatodharma, and @nearcyan
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/hacking, and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: the iPhone 15 will go on sale around September 22 — On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, Forbes, MacRumors, XDA Developers, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Tom's Guide, CNBC, nextpit, AppleInsider, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, Laptop Mag, BGR, T3, gHacks Technology News, iMore, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Gadgets & Wearables, PCMag, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Cult of Mac, The Apple Post, Supercharged, and SPARROWS NEWS
Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon …. Bluesky: @austinfound.bsky.social. X: @majinbuofficial, @trengriffin, @kasdad, @damanr, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman — Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking.
More: Insider, NBC News, Washington Post, AI News, New York Post, and The Verge
X: @evan_greer, @peterdaou, @openrightsgroup, @kashhill, @arielbogle, @kashhill, @dancow, @kashhill, @laurenkrisai, and @kashhill
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, and r/Detroit
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually — - PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector| New York Times: |
Shoddy self-published guidebooks, which appear to be compiled with the help of generative AI and promoted via deceptive reviews, are proliferating on Amazon — In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in Bucks County …
More: The Hill. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @clive@saturation.social, @waldoj@mastodon.social, and @tim@phire.place
X: @kchoudhu, @harrymccracken, @jordannovet, @sahiltner, @sahiltner, @rafat, @rafat, and @kashhill. LinkedIn: Milton Pedraza
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora” — The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
Mastodon: @perkoch@mastodon.world and @somebitslinks@tech.lgbt
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability — It's a big update year for Samsung's flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference.
More: PhoneArena, PCMag, Digital Trends, CNET, The Verge, TechCrunch, T3, Tom's Guide, and XDA Developers. Mastodon: @davidpierce@mastodon.social
| Reuters: |
Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more — An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year …
More: HackRead, SentinelOne, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and Reuters
X: @kimzetter, @tomhegel, @tomhegel, @tomhegel, @michellenichols, and @pearswick. Forums: r/UkrainianConflict
| Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments cratered; assets under management reached $595.5B due to Aramco — - Softbank's fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022 — Current estimates place the PIF's assets at $777 billion
More: Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, New York Times, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
More: Associated Press, New York Times, Cybernews.com, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Forbes, The Verge, NBC News, Washington Post, CBS News, The Guardian, and CNN
X: @malwarejake, @cybersleuth1, @nytimes, @willyrontgen, and @jgreigj. Facebook: CharterCARE Health Partners. Forums: r/technology
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
A look at Senator Chuck Schumer's efforts to boost US chip manufacturing, including marshalling the CHIPS Act, leading to substantial funds flowing to New York — The Senate majority leader helped deliver billions of dollars in federal funding for semiconductors. Now he's pushing for his state to reap benefits.
X: @mattkahn1966, @seangraf, and @paragkhanna
| Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: |
Shanghai-based Hua Hong Semiconductor raises ~$2.96B in its Shanghai IPO, the Asia Pacific region's largest in 2023; the company is already listed in Hong Kong — - Company raised nearly $3 billion through the share sale — It is the largest listing in the Asia Pacific region this year
More: Reuters, CNBC, South China Morning Post, and Tech in Asia
| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toshiba announces a ~$14B tender offer to take the company private at ~$32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies — Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private …
More: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, WRAL TechWire, and Toshiba
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
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:
Sandbox testing: Create Mail Agents in sandbox mode — Email is considered the backbone for any organization's communication. That's even more true for transactional emails, which are operation-critical for any business.
Sandbox testing: Create Mail Agents in sandbox mode — Email is considered the backbone for any organization's communication. That's even more true for transactional emails, which are operation-critical for any business.
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:
Big Meta/Anduril Deal Is A Big Deal
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
The Social Radars:
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel Part 4 (Bonus)
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Logan Bartlett Show:
Rick Smith (CEO, Axon): The Wild Ride From Near-Bankruptcy to $50B+
A podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett, an investor at Redpoint Ventures, covering tech with industry insiders.
Subscribe to The Logan Bartlett Show.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'Sewing Machine Repair Shop', With Patrick McGee
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
How private equity kills companies and communities
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:40 AM ET, August 7, 2023.
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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Max Tani / Semafor:
Chris Willman / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
More: Bloomberg, Business Today, Cointelegraph, Entrackr, Times of India, Moneycontrol, MediaNama, and Livemint
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, @charliejane@wandering.shop, and @metacurity@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @charliejane.bsky.social
X: @mumbly_joe, @adamkovac, @ataykozlovski, @platformer, @evan_greer, @senatorshoshana, and @caseynewton. Forums: Beehaw
| Reuters: |
More: The Verge, New York Post, Analytics Insight, Reuters, Forbes, The Information, Metaverse Post, Insider, Newser, Cryptopolitan, The Irish Times, Fortune, TechSpot, DL News, Cointelegraph, BBC, Bloomberg, and The Verge
Threads: @reporterzoe and @crumbler
Bluesky: @davidlublin.bsky.social, @gbbranstetter.bsky.social, @angelaw.bsky.social, @mrxmrt.bsky.social, @michaelmirer.bsky.social, @kwcollins.bsky.social, @stitzch.bsky.social, @cleoselene.bsky.social, @hithisismira.bsky.social, @gct.bsky.social, @lazear.bsky.social, @extremelyuncanny.bsky.social, @ugarles.bsky.social, @srossmktg.bsky.social, @evacide.bsky.social, and @caseynewton.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @bernybelvedere, @karaswisher, @ajdelgado13, @oneunderscore__, @ericfrohnhoefer, @anammostarac, @esqueer_, @donaldjtrumpjr, @nigel_farage, @ginacarano, @0xgaut, @elonmusk, @timinclimate, @evcricket, @levynews, @austen, @edzitron, @edzitron, @pinboard, @iamcouncil, @redsteeze, @radiofreetom, @ngrossman81, @warclandestine, @wholemarsblog, @lauraloomer, @therabbithole84, and @gokulns. Forums: r/RealTesla