|
April 3, 2024, 9:10 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC halts some chipmaking and evacuates plants after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's biggest in 25 years, and plans to assess the impact; UMC did similar — - Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation areas — The earthquake rocked Taiwan and triggered tsunami warnings
More: Taiwan News, AppleInsider, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, MacRumors, Barron's Online, The Guardian, DatacenterDynamics, Data Center Knowledge, Fortune, Supernews, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, Total Telecom, Electrek, The Verge, NPR, DigiTimes, CNBC, Wccftech, Financial Times, Bloomberg, TechInformed, Bloomberg, Phandroid, TechPowerUp, Business Insider, PC Gamer, iMore, Wall Street Journal, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, guru3d.com, Nikkei Asia, Semafor, and Notebookcheck
X: @dnystedt, @asiatechwire, @rainmaker1973, @teortaxestex, @shd2790, @kosenjuu, @marikakatanuma, @dnystedt, @dnystedt, @stevenglinert, @realmemes6, @pharris667, @sino_market, @benthompson, @wenyee_lee, @nearcyan, and @cloudflareradar
Forums: r/hardware, r/worldnews, and MacRumors Forums
| Russ Cox / research!rsc: |
A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros from Debian, Red Hat, others — Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library …
More: xzbot on GitHub, ongoing, research!rsc, BleepingComputer, Firmware Security, SecurityWeek, Stratechery, and The Verge
Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world, @CyclopsCaveman@octodon.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @rsc@hachyderm.io, @rsc@hachyderm.io, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud, @howelloneill@infosec.exchange, @juliank@mastodon.social, @josh@josh.tel, @jerod@changelog.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @specter@eattherich.club, @0xamit@infosec.exchange, @zarfeblong@mastodon …, @jwildeboer@social …, @venthur@mastodon.social, @tinker@infosec.exchange, @ravirockks@infosec.exchange, @irving@mastodon.social, @kurtsh@mastodon.social, and @0xamit@infosec.exchange
Bluesky: @flicknow.xyz and @accordionguy.bsky.social
X: @ffmpeg, @_mark_atwood, @binitamshah, @fr0gger_, @liveoverflow, @0xcharlie, @mer__edith, @fr0gger_, @thegrugq, and @matthew_d_green
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, and Lobsters
| Washington Post: |
The US Cyber Safety Review Board faults Microsoft for a “cascade of avoidable errors” that led to the 2023 Chinese hack of top US government officials' emails — The independent Cyber Safety Review Board's forthcoming report knocks the tech giant for shoddy cybersecurity practices …
More: Cybersecurity …, The Verge, Department of Homeland …, The Register, Windows Report, Proactive, MSPoweruser, TechRadar, Associated Press, The Stack, DataBreachToday.com, CyberScoop, GeekWire, Axios, and Reuters
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers detail “many-shot jailbreaking”, which can evade LLMs' safety guardrails by including a large number of faux dialogues in a single prompt — How do you get an AI to answer a question it's not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques …
More: Anthropic, Axios, The Rundown AI, Ben's Bites, SiliconANGLE, and Maginative
Bluesky: @microh.bsky.social. X: @anthropicai, @pmarca, @anthropicai, @jayelmnop, @paul_cal, @anthropicai, and @anthropicai. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Newzoo: PC and console game revenues grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 through Q4 2023 — The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to the second annual report on the market-by-market researcher Newzoo.
More: Newzoo, Kotaku, Video Games Chronicle, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Pure Xbox, GamesIndustry.biz, Reuters, and Newzoo
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/PS5, and Slashdot
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Google details Device Bound Session Credentials, a feature that aims to stop browser cookie theft and uses the PCs' TPM chip, in beta in some Chrome versions — ‘Device Bound Session Credentials’ will tap the TPM chip in today's PCs. Google is testing it with some users running the beta version of Chrome.| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon plans to remove Just Walk Out from most of its grocery stores and add more grocery stores with Dash Carts, which let shoppers scan items while they shop — Amazon's grab-and-go checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a centerpiece of its ambitions to transform bricks-and-mortar supermarkets.
More: Gizmodo, Engadget, GeekWire, Forbes, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, Cryptopolitan, OSnews, TechRadar, TechSpot, Cybernews.com, Newser, Fortune, TweakTown, Financial Times, Daring Fireball, The Verge, New York Daily News, PYMNTS.com, Seattle Business Journal, ZDNet, Payments Dive, PCMag, Chain Store Age, and Finextra
Threads: @paul_rietschka. Mastodon: @parismarx@mastodon.online. X: @themaxburns, @shwinyo, @danbarker, @alex_orlov_, @ddayen, @vxunderground, @focusfronting, @tomgara, @usa_comrade, @swiftonsecurity, @aricohn, @grosdoriane, @kriswolfheart, @theo_wayt, @garrytan, @kindasortamaebe, @tomgara, @kristyt, @sonnybunch, @besttrousers, @beerswithandres, @tomgara, @tomgara, @ranting_trans, @davidgerard, @moreperfectus, @theo_wayt, @christophmcghee, @quinnypig, @garymarcus, and @garymarcus
LinkedIn: Martin Heubel, Ariel Guersenzvaig, Erika Hall, and Chris Weston
Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/Cyberpunk, r/nova, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 — - New fund would be industry's largest since crypto downturn — Paradigm was a major investor in bankrupt exchange FTX
More: Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and PYMNTS.com
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel says its Foundry division had $18.9B in 2023 revenue, down 31% YoY, a $7B operating loss, up from $5.2B, and expects 2024 to be the peak of its losses — - In a change, company breaks out numbers for manufacturing unit — New Intel Foundry division is expected to break even by 2030
More: Reuters, SemiAnalysis, Silicon Republic, The Verge, New Electronics, guru3d.com, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CNBC, and Constellation Research
X: @thetranscript_, @aschilling, @thetranscript_, @markhachman, @ericjhonsa, @iancutress, and @ericjhonsa
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/AyyMD, and r/technology
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
POTUS' official Threads account starts using Meta's ActivityPub integration to post on the decentralized networking protocol — POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’ — The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden, has begun using Meta's ActivityPub integration …
More: TechCrunch and NewsBytes
Threads: @quillmatiq, @timothyjchambers, @0xjessel, @lilkioko, and @evanprodromou
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @anildash@me.dm
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC plans to vote on April 25 to restore net neutrality rules and assume regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under President Trump — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight …
More: AppleInsider and MediaNama
Forums: r/technews, r/VoteDEM, r/technology, r/UpliftingNews, and r/politics
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: VCs raised $30.4B globally in Q1 2024, a marked slowdown from 2023, which itself was the worst year since 2016, suggesting the end of “megafunds” era — Data shows a ‘sustained slowdown’ has persisted in the first quarter of 2024 as a lack of exit options weighs on fundraising efforts| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from 50+ families locally, including Llama and Google's Gemma, via the Ollama open source framework — Web browser company Opera announced today it will now allow users to download and use Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computer.
More: PCMag, Cryptopolitan, TNW, Opera Newsroom, and MSPoweruser
| New York Times: |
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes — Oren Etzioni worries A.I.-generated fakes could overwhelm upcoming elections.Kyle Johnson for The New York Times
More: Cryptopolitan, TrueMedia.org, TrueMedia.org, The Information, and GeekWire
| Callum Booth / The Verge: |
A first look at two third-party iOS app stores in the EU: the B2B-focused Mobivention and the upcoming AltStore, which takes ~12 screen interactions to install — DMA is about to unleash a brave new world of game emulators, clipboard managers, and uncertainty.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
X: @florian4gamers and @wavesblog
| Christopher Kuo / New York Times: |
George Carlin's estate settles with the makers of Dudesy, who agree to remove their YouTube video and podcast they originally claimed used an “AI” George Carlin — The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin's work.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators — Patreon is taking a page out of Reddit's book. Now, podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators on the subscription-focused creator platform … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website — Stable Audio 2., an audio generation model for Stability AI, now lets users upload their own audio samples which they can then transform using prompts …
More: Billboard, VentureBeat, and Stability AI
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
A rising number of Chinese tech workers face legal action from former employers, including Pinduoduo and Tencent, looking to enforce strict noncompete clauses — From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up| Jenna Scatena / Wired: |
A profile of Faruk Fatih Özer, the convicted CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, as he starts a 11,196-year prison sentence in Turkey for laundering assets — Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey's history … Sponsor Posts
Termina:
AI Powered Diligence at Scale — VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI.
AI Powered Diligence at Scale — VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI.
Zoho:
Set it, forget it, and stop worrying about form availability! — Let's say you have a booking form that you only want to be available during business hours, or you're hosting an event with a specific registration period …
Set it, forget it, and stop worrying about form availability! — Let's say you have a booking form that you only want to be available during business hours, or you're hosting an event with a specific registration period …
SBS Comms:
Expect Better: SBS Comms — The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow — out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results.
Expect Better: SBS Comms — The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow — out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results.
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
BG2 Pod:
Grok 3, AI Memory & Voice, China, DOGE, Public Market Pull Back
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 10/28 - GPT-4.5
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Invest Like the Best:
Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Understanding Elon Musk's polarizing ascent in the MAGA movement
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
An inside look at X's Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:10 AM ET, April 3, 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
David Folkenflik / NPR:New York Times:
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
More: MIT Technology Review, Pixel Envy, and Platformer
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
More: Ben's Bites and SiliconANGLE
X: @amasad, @roybahat, @replit, @fahdananta, @amasad, @skirano, @amasad, @sullyomarr, @tanlere, @craft_ventures, and @replit
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Earlier Picks
| Raymond Wong / Inverse: |
More: Macworld, MacStories, Himels Tech on YouTube, MIXED Reality News, The Indian Express, Mashable, Six Colors, Quartz, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, Spyglass, The Verge, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, Raleigh News & Observer, Trusted Reviews, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @ismh@eworld.social
X: @mkbhd, @jetscott, @tina__nigro, @michaeljosh, @dilmerv, @ijustine, @jsnell, @tina__nigro, @heaney555, @_jamesoloughlin, @louisanslow, @timisenman, @nathievr, @bengeskin, and @raywongy. LinkedIn: Neil Redding
Forums: r/virtualreality, r/VisionPro, and MacRumors Forums
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
More: Yahoo Inc., Engadget, Business Today, Observer, PYMNTS.com, On my Om, Business Standard, Sandhill Report, ZDNet, Spyglass, Silicon Valley Business …, and New.blicio.us
Threads: @mgsiegler, @jlanzone, @simondowens, @eaustinj, and @parkerortolani. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
X: @pitdesi, @mikeisaac, @artifact_news, @markstenberg3, @parkerortolani, @carnage4life, @mjburnsy, @kerrymflynn, @mgsiegler, @ryanspoon, and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Alicia Ciaccia and Andrew Machado
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/artificial
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, BGR, BIG by Matt Stoller, The Daily Show on YouTube, The Guardian, Variety, The Daily Show on YouTube, The Register, Benzinga, American Economic …, Collider, CNN, The Information, Fox Business, HuffPost, Entrepreneur, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Independent, PCMag, Bloomberg, IndieWire, Rolling Stone, The Hill, Washington Times, The Wrap, Newsmax, Salon, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, New York Post, The Verge, CNBC, Vanity Fair, iMore, 9to5Mac, and Forbes
Threads: @pkedrosky. Mastodon: @reichenstein@mastodon.social. X: @linakhanftc, @snazzylabs, @evan_greer, @matthewstoller, @paterfamilias, @leehepner, @charlesarthur, @ggreenwald, @senwarren, @econliberties, @mer__edith, @florian4gamers, @zsharf, @moreperfectus, @wavesblog, @louisanslow, @benremaly, @jason_kint, @thedailyshow, @lutherlowe, @nick_field90, @carlyshandle, @ashleygjovik, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @wbm312, @lutherlowe, and @douglaslfarrar
Forums: Hacker News, r/videos, r/OpenAI, r/television, r/videos, r/DailyShow, r/television, r/DailyShow, and Ars OpenForum
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
More: FinTech Global, Data Center Knowledge, U.S. Department of Commerce, Cryptopolitan, TNW, GOV.UK, All tech magazine, Hackster.io, CryptoSlate, PYMNTS.com, and The Verge
X: @vmanancourt, @michelledonelan, @stokel, @shakeelhashim, @aisafetyinst, @matthewclifford, @the_jbernardi, @scitechgovuk, @soundboy, @ukinusa, @secraimondo, @commercegov, and @connoraxiotes
Forums: r/worldnews and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: The Verge, Associated Press, CourtListener, Hindustan Times, Voice of America, Schneier on Security, PaymentSecurity.io, Daring Fireball, Entrepreneur, NPR, Ars Technica, New York Times, and District Court for the Northern District of California
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange and @mwl@io.mwl.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technews, r/technology, r/brave_browser, r/technews, r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums