|
August 9, 2023, 11:40 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| CNBC: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $20.7B, PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M, operating income down 31% YoY to ~$782M, and expects to sell 25M PS5s by March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line …
More: Sony Investor Relations, Reuters, Game Developer, OnMSFT.com, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Sony, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, TechSpot, Associated Press, IGN, Wccftech, Deadline, Variety, VentureBeat, Nikkei Asia, The Hollywood Reporter, and Reuters
X: @mauronl3, @domsplaying, @genki_jpn, @cvxfreak, @geronimo_73_, @nib95_, @ps_vortex, and @ethangach
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
In its Q1 report, Sony, the world's largest camera sensor supplier, pushes back expectations for a smartphone market recovery to 2024 at the earliest — - The camera sensor leader had anticipated second-half recovery — Sony warns that conditions are tough in China and the US| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Gizmodo EIC Dan Ackerman sues Apple, the Tetris Company, and others, claiming they adapted his book about Tetris into a feature film without his permission — Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Slack announces its biggest-ever redesign, catering to power users, adding a new Home section, a new sidebar on the left, a new DMs section, and Activity window — Slack is many things. Which is kind of the problem. … Eventually, that even affects the “talk to your team” part of Slack …
More: Slack, TechCrunch, Thurrott, Silicon Republic, Computerworld, PCWorld, Tech Monitor, Washington Post, Daily Mail, CNET, Engadget, Fortune, Tom's Guide, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, Fast Company, and TechRadar. X: @slackhq
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
More: Downfall Attacks, Intel, PCMag, PCWorld, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, Daniel Moghimi, Phoronix, CNX Software, Cyber Kendra, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Security Affairs, Wccftech, and ServeTheHome
Mastodon: @wwahammy@social …, @nixCraft@mastodon.social, @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social, and @couts@mastodon.social
X: @flowyroll, @p3b7_, and @royalhansen
Forums: r/technews, r/linux, r/Amd, and r/intel
| Aaron Pressman / The Boston Globe: |
Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its workforce, or around 470 people, and reports Q2 revenue rose 14% YoY to $190M and a $67M net loss — The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash
More: TechCrunch, Rapid7, SiliconANGLE, Rapid7, SecurityWeek, and Investing.com India
Mastodon: @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social and @g@irrelephant.co
X: @jfslowik, @imposecost, @malwarejake, and @dakacki
| Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: |
X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after releasing payments to thousands of select accounts; how payouts are calculated remains unclear — ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators …
More: MarTech, gHacks Technology News, Social Media Today, CNBC, Search Engine Journal, Livemint, Engadget, Forbes, The Information, Fortune, Dexerto, and Search Engine Land
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator notes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos' Move to Copilot — Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there's been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action.
More: Aptos Labs, The Block, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, MSPoweruser, CryptoGlobe, Ethereum World News, CoinJournal, and Bitcoinist.com
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net revenue up 17% YoY to $1.28B, net bookings up 20% YoY to $1.2B, and forecasts $8B in bookings for the next fiscal year, hinting at GTA 6 — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the company behind video games like Grand Theft Auto, rose in extended trading …
More: Engadget, Take-Two Interactive Software, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, Thurrott, VentureBeat, GameSpot, GamingBolt, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, TechRadar, Game Rant, and Push Square
X: @stephentotilo, @videotechx, @deeketweak, @shinobi602, @dmc_ryan, @domsplaying, @domsplaying, @mauronl3, and @videotechx
Forums: r/gamingnews and r/PS5
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds native translate capability to its Gmail app on Android, available now, and on iOS, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google is finally adding a native translate capability to Gmail for Android and iOS after long supporting it on the web client.| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
China plans to require app developers to file business details with the government or face sanctions from March 2024, likely creating headaches for developers — China will require all mobile app providers in the country to file business details with the government, its information ministry said …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, The Information, and Tech in Asia
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks' crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
CCDH: ChatGPT, Bard, My AI, DreamStudio, Dall-E, and Midjourney generated “pro-anorexia” content 41% of the time when asked about common eating disorder topics — Disturbing fake images and dangerous chatbot advice: New research shows how ChatGPT, Bard, Stable Diffusion …
More: Center for Countering …, The Week, and Decrypt
X: @willoremus, @snchancellor, @rvawonk, @jengolbeck, @geoffreyfowler, and @emdashes
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
More: INTERPOL, Group-IB, The Register, The Record, and Silicon Republic
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$681M, bookings up 22% YoY to $780.7M, vs. $785M est., and a $282.8M net loss; DAUs up 25% YoY to 65.5M; RBLX drops 9%+ — - Shares of Roblox fell Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on top and bottom lines.
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Roblox, MarketWatch, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Catherine Perloff / Adweek: |
Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google removed “in-stream” classification from the name of one of its video formats.
X: @catherineperlo1, @judspencer, and @alexbeaurepaire
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Sex workers who relied on crypto for storing wealth and accepting payment, bypassing the banking system entirely, are finding the limits of crypto's utility — Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
X: @jessicavanmeir, @mintstarsreal, @mikestabile, @mistressmatisse, @fscarmy, and @ashleylatke
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Nikon reports Q1 revenue up 8.6% YoY to $1.1B, profit down 78% YoY to ~$23M, and shipping four lithography machines, compared to eight in 2022; NINOY drops 11% — - Nikon supplies mature chipmaking machines to Intel, TSMC — Chip industry sales have been hit by glut, economic headwinds
More: Nikon Investor Relations
| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success — Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding …
X: @restofworld, @vickiturk, @restofworld, @russellbrandom, @varshaabansal, @restofworld, @anupkaphle, @restofworld, and @schoenmakersk. LinkedIn: Sophie Schmidt
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV.
More: App Store, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, O'Grady's PowerPage, Business Today, Tom's Guide, Mashable, WRAL TechWire, GSMArena.com, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, The Verge, MacRumors, TechRadar, iThinkDifferent, BGR, iClarified, Android Headlines, SlashGear, MobileSyrup, Android Police, Cord Cutters News, Engadget, Droid Life, iMore, The Streamable, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and OnMSFT.com. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on cloud competitors, layoffs, AI, Nvidia, the Trainium and Inferentia chips, the Amazon Bedrock library of AI models, and more — Today, I'm talking with Adam Selipsky. He's the CEO of Amazon Web Services, or as it's usually called, AWS. AWS is quite a story.| The Citizen Lab: |
An analysis of Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top tool in China for inputting Chinese characters with 450M+ MAUs, finds data-leaking flaws in its encryption — We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or iOS version 11.25).
X: @russellbrandom, @citizenlab, and @jsrailton
Sponsor 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
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.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Everything Google Everywhere And All At Once
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View:
Inside Box's AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie
Azeem Azhar explores how AI and exponential technologies are shaping our future.
Subscribe to Azeem Azhar's Exponential View.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Spotlight On:
Tines's Eoin Hinchy on rejecting the playbooks
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:40 AM ET, August 9, 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
Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
More: Entrackr, Reuters, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Moneycontrol, and The Indian Express
X: @jduballreports, @ani, @rajeev_goi, and @internetfreedom
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
More: 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @timnitGebru@dair …, @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social, and @Julia@journa.host. X: @willoremus
Earlier Picks
| Nivesh Rustgi / Decrypt: |
More: Binance Blog, AltFi, CCN.com, CryptoGlobe, crypto.news, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, ZyCrypto, 24/7 Wall St., Cryptopolitan, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, NullTX, Ethereum World News, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, DeCential, and CoinGape
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
More: Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Mashable, Reuters, Lyft, Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
More: The Verge, Neowin, The Register, TechRadar, and TechCrunch
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @paninid@mastodon.world. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. X: @malwarejake, @selviano, @quinnypig, @mattrosoff, @joshuaogundu, and @cliffpavlovic
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Messages by Google Community, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Phandroid, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, BGR, AppleInsider, PCMag, CNET, Android Central, Phone Scoop, Engadget, MobileSyrup, TechCrunch, Android Police, The Verge, and Droid Life
Threads: @backlon. Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@writing …. X: @sundarpichai. Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: Google for Developers Blog, The Register, Metaverse Post, TechRadar, Neowin, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, IT Jungle, and 9to5Google
Mastodon: @tomayac@toot.cafe. X: @rajtalker, @bb_fresh, @mkobuolys, @googledevs, @auchenberg, and @romannurik. Forums: Slashdot
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
More: Vim announcement maillist on Google Groups, TNW, Silicon Republic, HackRead, Jan van den Berg, The Verge, The Register, The New Stack, and Stack Diary
Mastodon: @srinicame@bsd.network, @fsf@hostux.social, @kevin@elephant.crime.group, @nertzy@ruby.social, @neovim@hachyderm.io, @BradRubenstein@infosec …, @pancake@infosec.exchange, @mwop@phpc.social, and @nicemicro@fosstodon.org. X: @quinnypig
Forums: Hacker News, news.ycombinator.com, r/programming, r/linux, r/vim, r/opensource, r/emacs, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum