Note: Techmeme is hiring part-time editors. Go here to apply, or tell a friend!
|
March 8, 2024, 5:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Epic says Apple has reinstated its developer account, clearing the way for its Epic Games Store in the EU; Tim Sweeney says the move followed a swift EU inquiry — After a whirlwind of events, Epic Games says Apple has reinstated their App Store developer account.
More: Epic Games, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Hill, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, PCMag, TechCrunch, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, Business Insider, Benzinga, Thurrott, Reuters, Spyglass, Forbes, TechRaptor, New York Post, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, Supercharged, iMore, CNBC, Neowin, BGR, games fray, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Six Colors, and MacDailyNews
X: @timsweeneyepic, @markgurman, @thierrybreton, @dhh, @neilcybart, @ifiremonkey, @sdw, @games_fray, @florian4gamers, @epicnewsroom, @nikitabier, @florian4gamers, @mgsiegler, @mysk_co, @rjonesy, @gergelyorosz, @mitsuhiko, @keleftheriou, @lutherlowe, @mgsiegler, @tomwarren, @carnage4life, @inafried, and @inafried
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| Florian Mueller / games fray: |
More: Wired, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TNW, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, Times of Oman, Reuters, Associated Press, and iMore
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Russian state-sponsored hackers Midnight Blizzard accessed some of its “source code repositories and internal systems” following the January hack — Microsoft revealed earlier this year that Russian state-sponsored hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team.
More: Microsoft Security …, Ars Technica, Security Affairs, TechCrunch, The Register, CNN, NBC News, CSO, CyberScoop, PCMag, International Business Times, SC Media, Windows Central, CNBC, Security Boulevard, Gizmodo, Axios, The Hill, MobileSyrup, Appuals, CRN, Game Rant, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Fast Company, Cybersecurity Dive, Neowin, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Information, iPhone in Canada Blog, GovInfoSecurity.com, MSPoweruser, The Record, Wall Street Journal, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer, Benzinga, ITPro, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, Dark Reading, The Stack, and Thurrott
X: @shomikghosh21, @lorenzofb, and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Bob Young and Subhash P.
Forums: r/PrepperIntel, r/technews, r/technology, r/tech, r/news, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
CISA confirms it took down two systems in February, after discovering signs of exploitation via vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that the agency used — Hackers breached the systems of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in February through vulnerabilities in Ivanti products, officials said.
More: SiliconANGLE and Cybersecurity …
Mastodon: @bkastl@mastodon.social and @jgreig@ioc.exchange. X: @chirag_mehta. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Donald Trump declares support for TikTok, saying a ban will double the business of “Facebook and Zuckerschmuck” and Facebook is the “true enemy of the people” — - Congress members were inundated with calls from angry constituents after TikTok told its users …
More: 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Associated Press, Neowin, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Vanity Fair, Techaeris, Business Insider, CBS News, BGR, Semafor, New York Magazine, The Information, Newser, Variety, The Hill, and Newsmax
Threads: @mattnavarra, @michaelbtech, and @drewharwell
Bluesky: @korvin.bsky.social and @stonehead.bsky.social
| Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg: |
More: The Record, CNN, Security Boulevard, Search Engine Land, Deadline, TechRadar, Fox News, Business Insider, KYMA-TV, South China Morning Post, Business of Fashion, PhoneArena, Forbes, Tech in Asia, Newsweek, CoinChapter, Responsible Statecraft, MSPoweruser, Metro.co.uk, GB News, Fox Business, Anadolu Ajansı …, Associated Press, and Reuters
| Mathias Hammer / Semafor: |
More: The Hill, CNN, ZDNet, Associated Press, Ars Technica, The Olympian, Reuters, Fortune, TIME, NBC News, Financial Times, The Daily Caller, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, Distractify, Platformer, New.blicio.us, JURIST, Techdirt, CBS News, Business Insider, Vibe, Asia Financial, Social Media Today, Context, Newsweek, American Greatness, The Mirror, Allmedia24 News, Inc.com, Silicon UK, Digital Music News, The Independent, Verdict, The Economic Times, Telegraph, Just The News, MediaPost, Benzinga, Washington Post, The Standard, New York Times, The Overspill, The West Australian, Variety, Pixel Envy, CNBC, Hollywood Reporter, E&C Committee, 118th Congress, The Hill, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, TIME, TechCrunch, and Axios
X: @olivia_beavers, @mattocko, @ellenjdasilva, @autismcapital, @katienotopoulos, @broderick, @binarybits, @samfbiddle, @rabois, @antgoldbloom, @broderick, @eric_seufert, and @mattocko
Forums: r/decadeology, r/YesAmericaBad, and r/democrats
| Bloomberg: |
Tests show GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 systematically produce biases that disadvantage protected groups, based on their names, when screening and ranking job candidates — Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone
More: VentureBeat, Towards Data Science, Mashable, Cryptopolitan, and TechCircle
Mastodon: @jonkeegan@mastodon.social, @matt@isfeeling.social, @davatron5000@mastodon.social, and @SteveThompson@mastodon.social
X: @leonyin, @sarahfrier, @rakeshlobster, @daveyalba, @cameronwilson, @rachelmetz, @leonardonclt, @kevinbankston, @f_j_j_, @jon_ayre, and @kevinbankston
LinkedIn: Dr. Christina Jayne Colclough, Emil Protalinski, Leon Yin, Tom Armstrong, and David Sharratt
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Wyoming passes the Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act, a framework to recognize DAOs as legal entities; a16z crypto supported the law — On Thursday, Wyoming's Republican governor, Mark Gordon, signed into law the Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act …
More: a16z crypto, Blockworks, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, The Crypto Times, The Block, New.blicio.us, crypto.news, and CoinGape
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Microsoft makes changes to Copilot, including blocking requests to create images of teens playing with assault rifles, following a staffer's letter to the FTC — - Microsoft seems to have made changes to its artificial intelligence guardrails, after a staff AI engineer wrote … | Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Sources: some NIST staff have threatened to resign over the expected appointment of an “effective altruist” AI researcher to the US AI Safety Institute — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is facing an internal crisis as staff members and scientists … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is in the process of raising $27B+ for its largest chip fund to date to counter US curbs; the central government will only contribute a fraction — - Local government, SDIC may join China's biggest-ever chip fund — Washington urges allies to tighten China export controls| Bloomberg: |
More: Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Android Headlines, Light Reading, Reuters, Huawei Central, and PhoneArena
| Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land: |
Reddit tests Reddit Pro, a free suite of tools to let businesses improve their engagement, including the ability to see which subreddits are mentioning a brand — Reddit is piloting a free suite of tools designed to help businesses improve their engagement with consumers.| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
Florida charges two teens under a 2022 law for allegedly creating and sharing deepfake nudes of classmates, in what appears to be the first such criminal case — In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law … | Laura Mandaro / The Information: |
Source: Sam Altman will be reinstated to OpenAI's board of directors, alongside three new directors Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo — In a surprise move, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is rejoining the board of directors of the non profit that oversees the artificial intelligence developer …
X: @steph_palazzolo, @nmasc_, and @amir
| Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
US data center demand for crypto mining and AI are putting new pressures on an overtaxed power grid, as bottlenecks mount and utilities struggle to keep up — AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America's power grid to the brink. Utilities can't keep up.
More: The Guardian and New.blicio.us
Mastodon: @zephoria@mastodon.social, @jonl@mastodon.wellperns.com, and @ericdaryl@mas.to
X: @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, and @washingtonpost
LinkedIn: Michelle Charello, Ritesh Jain, Dr. Andrea Licata, Mary Stevens, Julie Bolthouse, Frank J. Oswald, Rustam Kocher, Jonathan Phillips, Todd Price, Rebecca Sternberg Marttila, Scott Wiener, Rich Miller, Rick Brown, PhD, Rob Gramlich, Christina Hayes, Erin Greeson, Scott Dahman, Alex Marshall, and Brian Janous
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/climate, r/collapse, r/neoliberal, r/energy, r/Buttcoin, and r/technology
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: TSMC is set to win $5B+ in grants for its Arizona chipmaking project; Samsung offered more US investment to its $17B Texas factory to boost its award — - Talks ongoing with TSMC and other advanced chipmakers — Samsung has floated additional investment to boost their awardSponsor 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:
6 Tips to Unlock Revenue with Transactional Emails — This is a guest post by Tabular.You might think of transactional emails as boring necessities, but the truth is, they're far more powerful than you realize.
6 Tips to Unlock Revenue with Transactional Emails — This is a guest post by Tabular.You might think of transactional emails as boring necessities, but the truth is, they're far more powerful than you realize.
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:
Why Uber's CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
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.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:20 PM ET, March 8, 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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Brian Stelter / CNN:
Max Tani / Semafor:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
More: TechCrunch, GSMArena.com, New.blicio.us, MobileSyrup, and Livemint
X: @write, @iuliabaltoi, @lindayax, @karissabe, @techchelle, @ptraughber, @guar47, @liuyuxxd, and @efarraro
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: The Register, #TheAndroidShow on YouTube, Ars Technica, Android Central, Thurrott, Droid Life, Gizchina, BGR, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Benzinga, Phandroid, The Indian Express, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Android Police, The Verge, and Android Headlines
Mastodon: @matt@isfeeling.social. X: @never_released, @groundedtech, @mishaalrahman, @adamjmatlock, and @thisistechtoday
Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, and r/Android
| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
More: UnitedHealth Group, New York Times, Benzinga, Cybersecurity Dive, PCMag, Reuters, The Record, and STAT
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Blockworks, CCN.com, Cryptonews, Milk Road, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, DL News, Protos, Blockonomi, Unchained, crypto.news, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, and Bloomberg
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
More: Ars Technica, Six Colors, iMore, TechCrunch, The Verge, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, TheStreet, TechRadar, Andru Edwards on YouTube, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Gizmodo, T3, iJustine on YouTube, CGMagazine, iMore, CNET on YouTube, HardwareZone Singapore, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, TechRadar, The Mirror, MacRumors, The Verge, Justin Tse on YouTube, and Laptop Mag
Mastodon: @collin@ruby.social and @collin@ruby.social