|
March 6, 2024, 4:15 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long” — Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images …
More: Apple Support, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Ghacks, PC Guide, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, iMore, and Android Headlines
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @zollotech, @parkerortolani, @mysk_co, @baekdal, @eshumarneedi, @florian4gamers, @zollotech, @theryanprhodes, @mysk_co, @nexusben, and @stevesi
| Niléane / MacStories: |
Apple releases iOS 17.4 with new default browser prompts in the EU, support for third-party browser engines, transcripts for Podcasts, 118 new emojis, and more — Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories.
More: Apple, Livemint, 9to5Mac, Business Standard, Pocket-lint, The Register, Mashable, iOS & iPhone, MacRumors, Emojipedia, Absolute Geeks, Gearrice, 9to5Mac, Gearrice, GSMArena.com, Six Colors, Brandon Butch on YouTube, Stephen Robles on YouTube, Jerusalem Post, The Verge, Neowin, MobileSyrup, The Mac Observer, AppAdvice, iThinkDifferent, How-To Geek, USA Today, ZDNet, CNET, MakeUseOf, MacRumors, The Apple Post, TweakTown, iClarified, Android Headlines, OS X Daily, Macworld, Digital Trends, The Apple Post, The Apple Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, iMore, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Forbes, BGR, BGR, Wired, Trusted Reviews, and Laptop Mag
X: @steven_aquino, @tailosivetech, @tina__nigro, @firt, @dannymoerkerke, @stephenrobles, @mysk_co, and @theapplehub. LinkedIn: Dyllon Young
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In response to the EU's ruling, Spotify submits an app update for the EU to provide pricing info within its iOS app and link users to its subscription options — Spotify isn't going to launch the in-app purchases it previously planned for the European Union, at least right now.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
More: Apple Developer, Livemint, nextpit, 9to5Mac, Gearrice, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Supercharged, iClarified, TechCrunch, NewsBytes, Wccftech, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing Musk of suing when the company “started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him” — Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman …
More: OpenAI, Engadget, Australian Financial Review, Benzinga, Neowin, New York Times, CNBC, TechCrunch, Axios, VentureBeat, Fortune, and San Francisco Business Times
Threads: @crumbler. X: @ylecun, @deliprao, @vkhosla, @pmarca, @pmarca, @pmarca, @stevesi, @azeem, @carnage4life, @garymarcus, @garymarcus, @rakwtf, @drtechlash, @mattrosoff, @kyliebytes, @garymarcus, @parismarx, @sharongoldman, @alliekmiller, @iscienceluvr, @0interestrates, @aisafetymemes, @openai, @chandrarsrikant, @austin_rief, @edludlow, @ashleevance, and @inafried
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Reuters: |
A BlackCat ransomware gang website shows a takedown notice; the UK NCA denies involvement and experts suggest an exit scam after an alleged UnitedHealth payment — A website used by hackers responsible for a breach at UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) has been replaced by a notice saying it has been seized by international law enforcement.
More: Wired, Krebs on Security, Cybernews.com, TechRadar, Dark Reading, The Register, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, and ComputerWeekly.com
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @fwosar, @fwosar, and @lawrenceabrams
LinkedIn: Yossi Akselrud, Adam Sewall, Andy Greenberg, and Pramod John
Forums: r/nashville and r/technews
| Wall Street Journal: |
After the Change Healthcare attack, the US will relax some Medicare prescription rules and consider advance payments; some providers begin furloughing staff — Federal government says it will consider accelerated Medicare payments on an individual basis, relax prior authorization requirements for struggling healthcare providers
More: HHS News releases, The Record, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, SC Media, and Reuters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 on March 5, 2025, and consequently, end support for the Amazon Appstore on Windows too — Microsoft is ending support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 next year. The software giant first announced …
More: Amazon Appstore Developer Blog, Windows Central, TechCrunch, The Register, Microsoft Learn, Phoronix, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, MSPoweruser, Techaeris, TweakTown, Engadget, How-To Geek, Android Central, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, Android Police, Pureinfotech, Android Authority, Thurrott, Liliputing, Neowin, PCWorld, BetaNews, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, and Windows Latest
Bluesky: @elkmovie.bsky.social and @rvbdrm.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/Windows11, r/Android, r/WSA, r/gachagaming, r/Surface, r/windows, r/technology, and r/dotnetMAUI
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Under regulatory pressure on cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's Azure fees remain — Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached.
More: Amazon Web Services, Inc., SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, CIO.com, Quartz, BNN Bloomberg, The Register, and DatacenterDynamics
X: @iaasgeek, @quinnypig, and @quinnypig
LinkedIn: James Kierstead, Jeff Barr, and Alexey Shlykov
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/aws
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a March 21 announcement of a Surface Laptop 6 and OLED Surface Pro 10, both offered with Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips — Microsoft's first AI PCs will be unveiled on March 21, ahead of next-gen Windows 11 AI features coming this fall. — What you need to know
More: The Verge, 9to5Google, TweakTown, Liliputing, Android Headlines, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Phandroid, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCWorld, Digital Trends, and Thurrott
Forums: r/hardware and r/Surface
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results — Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta confirms a technical issue caused an outage affecting Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest logins, and more, for over two hours — Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all experiencing issues. The three Meta-owned platforms aren't working for many users, with the widespread outage seeming to start around 10AM ET.
More: TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Macau Business, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Bloomberg, TechCabal, Business Today, Independent Newspaper Nigeria, CP24, Mind.ua, HotHardware, The Times of Israel, Yen.com.gh, Black Enterprise, SiliconANGLE, CoinXposure, Daily Post Nigeria, LBC, Wired, CTV News, Hackread, Inquirer Technology, Proactive, CNET, Hindustan Times, IGN, UploadVR, Tech Startups, The Statesman, The Information, UNILAD, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Axios, ZDNet, Deadline, BBC, New York Times, Reuters, London Evening Standard, Variety, Daily Star, St. Louis News, MacRumors, Metro.co.uk, Livemint, Hindustan Times, iMore, BGR, Daily Mail, The Independent, and The Desk
Threads: @tb_99999, @wongmjane, @crumbler, and @alluring
Mastodon: @willoremus@mastodon.social and @scalzi@mastodon.social
X: @andymstone, @andymstone, @elonmusk, @stevesi, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @nikitabier, @bostonjoan, @bex_mixx, @nathievr, @willoremus, @ivanthek, @kurtwagner8, @jolienrosiers, @wallstreetsilv, @metanewsroom, @mcwm, @heaney555, @boztank, @netblocks, @timcast, @kentbye, @heaney555, @0xgaut, and @krownnist
Forums: Hacker News, r/Nepal, and r/technology
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations — If AI is so magical, why are so many chatbots dumb as rocks? — Amazon is experimenting with an artificial intelligence chatbot to help you figure out what to buy.
More: TechCrunch, EMARKETER, and Axios
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ema, a generative AI startup aiming to build a “universal AI employee” to automate mundane tasks, emerges from stealth and raised $25M from Accel and others — Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok moves its Creativity Program, now rebranded as the Creator Rewards Program, out of beta, and requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized — A year ago, TikTok introduced a new way for creators on the platform to make money: make longer videos.| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products — Tech company policies have put a chill on independent AI research, says open letter — More than 100 top artificial intelligence …
More: MIT, Cybernews.com, Knight First Amendment …, Computerworld, AI Snake Oil, and MIT
Mastodon: @michaelzimmer@aoir.social. X: @mozilla, @shayneredford, @rishibommasani, @sayashk, and @ashwinforga
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Boston-based Overjet, which offers AI software that helps diagnose dental disease from scans, raised a $53.2M Series C led by March Capital at a $550M valuation — - Overjet hopes to reduce friction in a trip to the dentist — It's one of many firms hoping to use AI in health care| Financial Times: |
A deep dive into PDD's finances and operations, which are shrouded in secrecy and raise questions about US investors' confidence in Temu's parent company — Its finances are a black box and its operations shrouded in secrecy, but PDD's extraordinary growth has made it a darling of Wall Street| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan urges LY Corporation, the operator of Line and Yahoo Japan, to bolster security measures and review its relationship with Naver after user data leaks — ‘Significant capital control’ by South Korean shareholder blamed after string of data leaks — A Japanese ministry has come …
More: LY Corporation, The Register, NHK WORLD, and Kyodo News
| Michael J. Totten / City Journal: |
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers — Will the AI revolution warm us or burn us? — / From the Magazine / Technology and Innovation, The Social Order — Winter 2024 / Share
X: @sapinker, @jacobjaber, @cityjournal, @cityjournal, and @bgurley
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:
Expanding horizons and growing better together with Zoho Books — Since its launch in 2011, Zoho Books has evolved in response to the growing demand from businesses and accountants across different regions.
Expanding horizons and growing better together with Zoho Books — Since its launch in 2011, Zoho Books has evolved in response to the growing demand from businesses and accountants across different regions.
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:
Wed. 12/11 - Gemini 2.0
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 4:15 AM ET, March 6, 2024.
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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Costas Pitas / Reuters:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| James Hunt / The Block: |
More: Decrypt, ZyCrypto, Blockworks, Associated Press, Bitcoin News, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGeek, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, DL News, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Metaverse Post, Milk Road, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Agence France-Presse, CdM, and CoinDesk. X: @pawelsynapse
| Kara Carlson / Austin American-Statesman: |
More: Axios, 9to5Google, Tech Times, Reuters, TechCrunch, and The Last Driver License Holder
Threads: @theromit. Mastodon: @spencerdailey@journa.host. Bluesky: @spencerdailey.bsky.social. X: @saswat101 and @techtimes_news
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
| Diane Brady / Fortune: |
More: Accenture, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn: Ken Y. and Vlad Larichev
Forums: Hacker News and r/consulting
Earlier Picks
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
More: U.S. Department …, NBC News, Defense One, iTnews, Associated Press, The Hill, BleepingComputer, and PCMag
Mastodon: @jsrailton@mastodon.social and @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
X: @ronwyden, @lorenzofb, and @rondeibert
| CoinDesk: |
More: New York Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, New York Times, Ars Technica, Axios, The Block, and Fortune
X: @autismcapital, @ercwl, @pentosh1, @blknoiz06, @nic__carter, @_richardteng, @twobitidiot, @runnerxbt, @kaileyleinz, and @eladgil. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Bobby Borisov / Linuxiac: |
More: ZDNet, Ars Technica, and ITPro
Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Steven Vaughan-Nichols. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/chileIT, r/linux, and Slashdot
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
More: 9to5Google, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, CNET, FE Tech Bytes, Ars Technica, TechEBlog, PCMag, Wired, The Guardian, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch
X: @stufflistings, @mkbhd, @nothing, and @nothing