|
April 11, 2024, 11:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by remote “mercenary spyware attacks” — Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.
More: Apple Support, BleepingComputer, Macworld, ZDNet, Metacurity, The Economic Times, Silicon Republic, MacRumors, The Hacker News, The Daily Dot, Engadget, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Amnesty International, The Indian Express, Computing, Android Headlines, Dexerto, CNET, iMore, The Hindu, Livemint, TweakTown, Supercharged, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, Amnesty International …, Verdict, and The Straits Times
Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange and @bruienne@infosec.exchange
X: @lorenzofb, @jsrailton, @lorenzofb, @surabhia_et, @amnestytech, @ihackbanme, @jsrailton, and @donnchac
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, r/apple, r/gadgets, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Ashna Teresa Britto / Reuters: |
Apple swaps “state-sponsored” with “mercenary spyware attack” in threat notifications; source: it faced pressure from India for linking breaches to state actors — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has warned its users in India and 91 other countries that they were possible victims of a …
More: Gizmodo, Business Standard, Tech Monitor, The Hindu BusinessLine, Techloy, Gizchina, New York Post, Security Affairs, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, Nairametrics, Business Today, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, The Statesman, The New Indian Express, The Week, Benzinga, Telegraph India, and BGR
| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Apple says owners of the iPhone 15 or newer will be able to fix broken devices with used parts, including screens, batteries, and cameras, starting in fall 2024 — Starting this fall, you may be able to pay less for a fully functioning fix if you have an iPhone 15 or newer| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Humane AI Pin review: well-made and easier to access than a phone, but doesn't work half the time, really slow even when it does work, and lacks basic features — For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There's only one problem: it just doesn't work.
More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Engadget, CNET, USA Today, New York Times, TechCrunch, MrMobile [Michael Fisher] on YouTube, PetaPixel, Spyglass, Wired, Inverse, Engadget on YouTube, and Inverse
X: @anshelsag, @tina__nigro, @stevemoser, @bendreyfuss, @beala, @katienotopoulos, @mattzeitlin, @dlberes, @julianchokkattu, @collincornwell, @jetscott, @raywongy, @julianchokkattu, @devindra, @julianchokkattu, @shakeelhashim, @shakeelhashim, @captain2phones, @raywongy, and @sharadhsivamani
Forums: Hacker News and r/gadgets
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
DuckDuckGo launches Privacy Pro, a $9.99-per-month service offering a VPN, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration, available in the US — Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
More: Spread Privacy, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, The Verge, Thurrott, Lifewire, Neowin, BetaNews, Techaeris, and RestorePrivacy
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Bluesky: @austinfound.bsky.social. X: @johnbourscheid and @duckduckgo
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images DMed to teens, and show a pop-up to the sender and the recipient, rolling out in the coming months — Obscured photos and warnings will discourage users from exchanging nude photos with potential strangers
More: Meta, The Verge, 404 Media, Engadget, Proactive, 9to5Mac, Yahoo News, Neowin, Mobile World Live, Wccftech, Telegraph, BBC, and CNN
X: @josephfcox, @metanewsroom, and @_andyburrows
| Wall Street Journal: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Andy Jassy says GenAI “may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud” and Amazon is committed to cost-cutting — In his letter to shareholders, Andy Jassy says generative AI could usher in the largest tech transformation since the Internet
More: Thurrott, About Amazon, The Information, Axios, Barron's Online, Constellation Research, Bloomberg, Chain Store Age, Cryptopolitan, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @delrey, @delrey, @mukund, @_hariby, and @madscapital
LinkedIn: Beryl Tomay, Adi Habusha, Josh White, and Christopher Versace
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Docs: Adobe offers its network of photographers $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62/minute to ~$7.25/minute on average, to train AI — - OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
More: PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Finbold, PCMag, BGR, Maginative, Ben's Bites, Cryptopolitan, and Nairametrics
X: @adamhlavac, @klendathucap, and @brodyford_
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs as a type of playback feature; rights holders would still get paid — Streamer is developing tools that would make it easier for fans to create custom versions of their favorite music
More: TechCrunch, Dexerto, and 9to5Mac
| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies — - Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology — Kishida touts benefits of Japan's investments in the US
More: The White House, Microsoft, ZDNet, AI News, The Seattle Times, CryptoSlate, and GeekWire
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Auto parts maker Magna will pilot Sanctuary AI's humanoid robot in its factory; Figure and Apptronik are piloting their humanoid systems with BMW and Mercedes — Sanctuary AI announced that it will be delivering its humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility.
More: Bloomberg and RoboticsTomorrow.com
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company — The Securities and Exchange Commission warned Uniswap on Wednesday that it intends to bring an enforcement action against the company …
More: Uniswap Protocol, Blockworks, CoinDesk, CCN.com, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoSlate, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, NewsBTC, Unchained, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Coinmonks, Watcher Guru, CryptoGlobe, and Cointelegraph
X: @haydenzadams, @ammori, @uniswap, @ryansadams, @iamdcinvestor, @asvanevik, @richardheartwin, @uniswap, @poppunkonchain, @daancrypto, @bantg, @functi0nzer0, @0x_charlemagne, @koeppelmann, @adamscochran, @campbelljaustin, @adamscochran, @ryansadams, @milesjennings, @erikvoorhees, @adamscochran, @ammori, @danrobinson, @awice, @jolieyang, @mattomattik, @prestonjbyrne, @jessepollak, @alexkozak, @derivatives_ape, @mclader, @euler_mab, @martinshkreli, @valkenburgh, @0xmarcb, @lucmatheson, @functi0nzer0, @functi0nzer0, @adamscochran, @alice_comfy, @uniswap, @iamnomad, @adamscochran, @viktorbunin, @iamdcinvestor, @matthewstoller, @jasonyanowitz, @katherineykwu, @_jikim, @uniswap, @mdudas, @iampaulgrewal, @adamscochran, @usv, @udiwertheimer, @thevulturetrade, @fintechfrank, and @jeffjohnroberts. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Bloomberg: |
UK's CMA raises concerns after finding an “interconnected web” of 90+ AI deals and investments involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia — - Apple, Google and Microsoft AI deals seen as problematic — CMA says stakes in startups could reduce competition| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023 — As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch …
More: The Guardian, Simon Willison's Weblog, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @mistralai, @jmorgan, @andersonbcdefg, @reach_vb, @reach_vb, @thom_wolf, @bindureddy, @awnihannun, @aravsrinivas, @altryne, @denisyarats, @itsandrewgao, @jiayq, @basedbeffjezos, @danielhanchen, @sophiamyang, @anjneymidha, @carrigmat, @nearcyan, @mervenoyann, @perplexity_ai, @togethercompute, and @mistralai. Forums: Hacker News
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-service provider, owes tech company Kove $525 million … 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:
Highlights of 2024: Zoho Connect's journey to better workplaces — As we look back on 2024, it's clear that this has been a year of incredible transformation for Zoho Connect. Our mission?
Highlights of 2024: Zoho Connect's journey to better workplaces — As we look back on 2024, it's clear that this has been a year of incredible transformation for Zoho Connect. Our mission?
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:
(BNS) Calvin And Hobbes - With Daniel Kibblesmith
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 11:35 AM ET, April 11, 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
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:Inside Radio:
Reuters:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Motion Picture Association, Techdirt, TorrentFreak, Engadget, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MediaNama, 9to5Mac, and Plagiarism Today
Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social. X: @artsjournalnews. Forums: r/movies, r/entertainment, r/Piracy, r/animepiracy, and Slashdot
Earlier Picks
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
More: Accountable Tech, Accountable Tech, and Forbes
Threads: @randiweingarten. X: @accountabletech, @accountabletech, @rweingarten, @accountabletech, @glaad, @glaad, @glaad, @accountabletech, @washingtonpost, and @accountabletech. Forums: r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: |
More: Association for Computing Machinery, Institute for Advanced Study, Ars Technica, New Scientist, Haaretz, Princeton University News, and ZDNet
X: @theofficialacm, @michalfeldman9, @prfsanjeevarora, @tarunchitra, @dana_peer, @michael_nielsen, @theofficialacm, @gregbodwin, @yudapearl, @pmddomingos, @rinekev, @crypto_carsten, @zeyuanallenzhu, @tim_roughgarden, @arindamkhan, @dsivakumar, @acm_ceo, @princetongrad, @maxaifer, @princetonalumni, @risteski_a, @princeton, and @huckbennett. LinkedIn: Eric Horvitz. Forums: Hacker News
| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
More: Google Cloud Blog, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, Network World, TelecomTV, Total Telecom, Telecoms Tech News, TechRadar, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, Capacity Media, TweakTown, Verdict, and Gizmochina. Bluesky: @adammolina.com
| Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: |
More: The Guardian, Congressman Adam Schiff, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Fast Company, PetaPixel, Billboard, and Deadline
X: @jess_miers, @alancowen, @bcmerchant, @luizajarovsky, @ednewtonrex, @jess_miers, @jess_miers, @jess_miers, @iatse, @t_nyc, @nickgillespie, @repadamschiff, @repadamschiff, @ttoboyle, @sagaftra, @future_of_music, @wgawest, @wgaeast, and @repadamschiff. LinkedIn: Drew Sheridan. Forums: Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: The Keyword, MacRumors, Livemint, XDA Developers, Ghacks, Pocketables, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, London Evening Standard, T3, 9to5Google, The Mac Observer, Hindustan Times, MSPoweruser, PiunikaWeb, RM Update News, Business Today, NewsBytes, Google Help Center, Patently Apple, Phandroid, BetaNews, Forbes, Stuff, ZDNet, and BGR
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
More: Meta, Meta, ZDNet, Interesting Engineering, NewsBytes, Benzinga, MediaNama, TrendForce Insights, Analytics India Magazine, TechPowerUp, Mobile World Live, The Information, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, and DatacenterDynamics
Threads: @paul_rietschka and @paul_rietschka
X: @benbajarin, @mikeyanderson, @aiatmeta, @iancutress, @isidentical, @soumithchintala, @iancutress, @rao_hacker_one, @iamadifuchs, @squashbionic, @__tinygrad__, @thetechbrother, and @aiatmeta
LinkedIn: Mikael Strandlund, Albert Fong, Ash Jhaveri, Neeraj Agrawal, Dan Rabinovitsj, and Tanmay Zargar