|
October 9, 2024, 7:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case — - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
More: The Straits Times, Luxembourg Times, US District Court for the District of Columbia, The Hindu BusinessLine, Financial Times, Politico, CNBC, The Times, Mumbrella, AV Club, Benzinga, Spyglass, Livemint, The Verge, Al Jazeera, CCN.com, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, The Wrap, The Register, Quartz, Newser, New York Sun, Inc, RTTNews, canoe, New York Post, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Barron's Online, NZ Herald, Yahoo Finance, Cord Cutters News, Business Today, Tech Startups, News/Media Alliance, Chamber of Progress, New York Times, Business Times, and Neowin
X: @lutherlowe, @vidushi_law, @progresschamber, @jason_kint, @mattdpearce, @vidushi_law, @jason_kint, @catherineperlo1, @jason_kint, @prefshares, @balancecrafting, @jason_kint, @khushitavasant, @balancecrafting, @adamkovac, @wkasel, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, and @jason_kint
LinkedIn: Caroline Hyde, Phil Rosen, and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/law, r/wallstreetbets, and r/politics
| Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part …
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg, BBC, Mashable, Ars Technica, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Search Engine Journal, NPR, Associated Press, Search Engine Roundtable, PhoneArena, The Daily Caller, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Engadget, MarTech, TechSpot, Courthouse News Service, Search Engine Land, PC Gamer, Wccftech, Breitbart, AppleInsider, Shacknews, PYMNTS.com, UPI, Fortune, and Investor's Business Daily
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/Android, and r/OpenAI
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: CNBC and CDR-news.com magazine
| Financial Times: |
More: Fox Business, Washington Times, PCWorld, and ZeroHedge News
Mastodon: @1br0wn@eupolicy.social and @LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social
| Bloomberg: |
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction” — - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
More: Nobel Prize, The Guardian, Inc, PC Gamer, Le Monde.fr, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, WVIA Public Media, New York Times, Business Insider, BBC, Capacity Media, LinkedIn News, The Register, Google DeepMind, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Wired, Associated Press, Gulf Today, Washington State Standard, GeekWire, AIM, Minutehack, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Nikkei Asia, Cybernews.com, Yahoo News, BusinessLIVE, Chess.com, Engadget, Maginative, Silicon Republic, TNW, Raw Story, Financial Times, UPI, FierceBiotech, CNET, 3 Quarks Daily, ENDPOINTS NEWS, The Indian Express, Royal Society of Chemistry, New York Times, and Nobel Prize
X: @nobelprize, @andrewyng, @ylecun, @kylecranmer, @jeffdean, @uwproteindesign, @armandjoulin, @natolambert, @oriolvinyalsml, @roysocchem, @edcumming, @arpitingle, @nobelprize, @organic_portal, @roysocchem, @googledeepmind, @madhumita29, @parmy, @sundarpichai, @emollick, @nobelprize, @xie_tian, @nobelprize, @nobelprize, @cambridge_uni, @hsu_steve, @usembsweden, @benwansell, @tszzl, and @mhbergen. LinkedIn: Sapna Chadha
Forums: r/biology, r/worldnews, and r/technology
| CoinDesk: |
US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets — Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted …
More: US Department of Justice, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, US Securities …, Decrypt, Bloomberg, The Block, Fortune, Protos, Cryptopolitan, CoinJournal, crypto.news, and CoinGape
X: @wazzcrypto, @mdudas, @pierre_crypt0, @teeznutz11, @wazzcrypto, @jconorgrogan, @poppunkonchain, @astekz, @cl207, @jconorgrogan, @evan_ss6, @0xstrobe, @langeriuseth, @bubblemaps, @trading_axe, @coinmamba, @0xaphelion, @icebergy_, @a1lon9, @codexbt, @tier10k, @tier10k, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, @tier10k, @0xg00gly, @beausecurity, @splitcapital, @0xlawliette, @byzgeneral, @cryptokaleo, @lsdinmycoffee, @davidiach, @litocoen, @retardedath, @tier10k, @alexonchain, @loomdart, @dmanews1, and @double_you_ess
| Reuters: |
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide …
More: CT.gov, Federal Trade Commission, The Record, PYMNTS.com, The Register, ZDNET, BankInfoSecurity.com, CNET, PhocusWire, Oregonian, Seeking Alpha, KATV-TV, Federal Trade Commission, and Skift
X: @kevincollier and @ftc
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus — - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years
More: UploadVR, 9to5Mac, The Information, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iClarified
X: @definition_of_i and @pascal__2k
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app — Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
More: PYMNTS.com, About Amazon, Reuters, GeekWire, Maginative, Reuters, TechCrunch, and Associated Press. X: @amazonnews
| Reuters: |
Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity” — Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse, WinBuzzer, PhoneArena, RestorePrivacy, PocketGamer.biz, Blockchain News …, BleepingComputer, Turkish Minute, Bloomberg, Türkiye Today, The Record, Reclaim The Net, and Neowin
X: @mervenoyann and @carl_dong
Forums: r/privacy and r/worldnews
| Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post: |
| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK — 15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks. — Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, News.ng, Neowin, Phandroid, The Verge, UKTN, UploadVR, Android Headlines, London Evening Standard, LBC, BNN Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference — ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Docs: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, nearly 3x its 2024 losses — OpenAI's newest investors have signed up for a bumpy and expensive ride. The company's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029 … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update — Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.
More: XDA Developers, How-To Geek, ExtremeTech, Thurrott, HotHardware, Digital Trends, and Neowin
X: @daniel_rubino and @zacbowden
Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/Surface, and r/Android
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves — Zoom wants to turn you into an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar — but not until sometime next year.
More: Zoom, Cryptopolitan, Zoom, servicenow.com, Zoom, Channel Futures, Zoom, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Zoom, ComputerWeekly.com, and Engadget
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @kevmarmol.bsky.social
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an enterprise LLM trained for just $700K by using synthetic data; a source says Writer is raising up to $200M at a $1.9B valuation — San Francisco-based AI startup Writer debuted a large artificial intelligence model on Wednesday to compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
More: UPI, Writer, Tech Startups, Writer, SiliconANGLE, and Writer
X: @youraimarketer, @waseem_s, and @get_writer
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies — X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based …
More: TechCrunch and Mashable
| Associated Press: |
The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test — That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more.
More: Fortune, NPR, The Guardian, The Times, Front Office Sports, Reuters, Wimbledon, Financial Times, and BBC Sport
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance” — MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400.
More: MediaTek, MediaTek, SamMobile, Phandroid, AndroidGuys, Liliputing, Moneycontrol, 9to5Google, PCMag, XiaomiTime, Android Central, nextpit, Android Police, Digital Trends, Nikkei Asia, Android Authority, NewsBytes, Android Headlines, Sammy Fans, and Neowin
Forums: r/hardware, r/hardware, r/Android, and r/Android
Sponsor Posts
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.
Zoho:
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 11/15 - Crypto Ascendant
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 7:20 PM ET, October 9, 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
Michael Gold / New York Times:John Koblin / New York Times:
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
More: Social Media Today, Gadgets 360, and Absolute Geeks
Threads: @saramontourlewis, @tomwarrenuk, @ckt_bkr, @tomwarrenuk, @georgebetak, @bluesky_social, @mattnavarra, @karissabe, @mattnavarra, @stuartathompsonnyt, @kylie.robison, @personality_of_colt, @maryocontrary, @dino.luck, @bluesky_social, @georgescriban, @shayan86bbc, @mattnavarra, @josh.bellwilson, @willoremus, @guillecummings, @nickrmartin, @laura_brianna, @jendiagammon, @mattnavarra, @mosseri, @wario64, @renee.diresta, @mattnavarra, @bluesky_social, and @thebrianpenny
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: The Ring Blog, Wired, The Verge, GeekWire, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, MakeUseOf, Tom's Guide, and Engadget
Earlier Picks
| Laura Dobberstein / The Register: |
More: ZDNET, MSPoweruser, Maginative, TechCrunch, Asia Business Outlook, The Business Times, Binance Square, MarketWatch, The Star, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Malay Mail, and Tech in Asia
X: @openai, @emmaclalley, and @deanwball
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
More: Politico, The Block, Polymarket, BBC, Bloomberg, Spyglass, CoinDesk, ZeroHedge News, Gizmodo, CoinGape, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin Insider, Nairametrics, The Gateway Pundit, Boing Boing, Dexerto, Newser, Axios, Bitcoinist.com, BroBible, Quartz, crypto.news, The Register, CoinDesk, HBO, Washington Post, New Yorker, New York Times, The Block, Forbes, People, and Fortune
Threads: @drewharwell. X: @peterktodd, @pledditor, @ericyakes, @peterktodd, @bitmexresearch, @tier10k, @crypto_div, @julie_bush, @jonsarlin, @martinshkreli, @tayvano_, @altcoindailyio, @timccopeland, @jonsarlin, @neerajka, @peterktodd, @heckerhut, @kristovatlas, @drewharwell, @mhonkasalo, @peterktodd, @t4t5, @kevincollier, @kookcapitalllc, @jonsarlin, @bitmexresearch, @peterktodd, @autismcapital, @jeffjohnroberts, and @beaniemaxi
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/abovethenormnews, r/CryptoCurrency, and Slashdot