|
October 14, 2024, 7:50 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray-Ban Meta-like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027 — Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google.
More: Wall Street Journal, PCMag, Moneycontrol, MacRumors, T3, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, CCN.com, MySmartPrice, Spyglass, Business Standard, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Neowin, MIXED Reality News, TweakTown, Business Today, UploadVR, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @synstelien. X: @markgurman, @jasonstechnews, @raywongy, @markgurman, @stevesi, @zollotech, and @darewecan
Forums: r/HomeKit, r/hardware, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” — The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …
More: HEY, The Verge, WordPress News, ACF, Semantically Secure, anderegg.ca, The Stack, Coinmonks, TechIssuesToday.com, The Register, Werd I/O, Matt Mullenweg, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @chikorita157@sakurajima.moe, @misty@digipres.club, and @donw@mastodon.coffee
X: @wp_acf, @jdnoc, @treybastian, @verygoodplugins, @takisbig, @geerlingguy, @jasnell, @wordpress, @thdxr, @lauraelizdunn, @batuhan, @kellie, @ryancduff, @wp_acf, @tylerlwsmith, @ozskier, @imkaiarhodes, @webdevlaw, @hashim_warren, @ericlbarnes, @jeremiahprummer, @robclark, @petersuhm, @mblair, @mfischface, @ryancduff, @levelsio, @solarise_webdev, @johannessiipola, @dingman, @greginbytes, and @dhh
Forums: r/technology, r/webdev, r/theprimeagen, and r/WPDrama
| Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: |
More: Pixel Envy, Ian Betteridge, acecomments.mu.nu, LinuxJedi's /dev/null, and Google Docs
Threads: @mathewi and @dankennedy_nu
Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon … and @dankennedy_nu@journa.host
X: @mathewi, @photomatt, @photomatt, @photomatt, @mathewi, @rajendrazore, @mathewi, and @mathewi. LinkedIn: Andrew Hutchings. Forums: Hacker News
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members' content — Pressure is growing on C-suite executives to raise their online game — but they must beware of oversharing| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account — Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it!
More: MSPoweruser, Social Media Today, Tempo, and NewsBytes
| Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark “Open AI” in December 2015 — Guy Ravine's Open AI (with a space) owns a trademark and website that OpenAI (no space) wants.
More: Fortune
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9 — The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.
More: Information Age, The Cyber Express, OSnews, heise online, PCMag, and TechRepublic
| Wired: |
How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations — Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
More: Mercury News, Beyond Search, SlowMist, and The Tech Report
| Financial Times: |
The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech — Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A profile of Ben Nimmo, OpenAI's principal threat investigator who found evidence that Russia and China were using ChatGPT to sway political discourse online — Ben Nimmo brings a literary bent to the serious business of keeping ChatGPT from being an engine of misinformation.| Evan Halper / Washington Post: |
An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply — An energy crunch forces continued coal burning in a low-income area as data centers strain the regional power supply.
Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green and @Snoro@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @shannonvallor.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Sasha Mackler and Eric Christian Pedersen
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete BS” — Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
More: TechSpot, The Rundown AI, PCMag, TechCrunch, Cafe Hayek, and AIM
LinkedIn: Hilal Lashuel and Rahul Chadha
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023 — South Korea's exports of technology products slowed for a straight second month in an indication global demand may be peaking out … 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.
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:
5 common accounting mistakes — This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions. A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms. This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
5 common accounting mistakes — This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions. A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms. This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
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.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
(BNS) Brian's Appearance On Daily Detroit
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 7:50 AM ET, October 14, 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
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:Peter White / Deadline:
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Samanth Subramanian / Bloomberg: |
Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social. X: @jeremy_keehn, @bw, @harmancipants, @samanth_s, @samanth_s, @samanth_s, @samanth_s, and @samanth_s. LinkedIn: Michael Clohisy
Earlier Picks
| Washington Post: |
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
More: Business Standard, Tom's Guide, nextpit, Hindustan Times, PCMag, Gizchina.com, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Thurrott, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Neowin, and NewsBytes
X: @ahmdnazrafq, @cr3, @aaronp613, @ucfso, @meowkoteeq, @summerlintaco, and @meowkoteeq
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
More: AppleInsider, Pivot to AI, Cybernews.com, arXiv, Radio Free Mobile, MarkTechPost, The Statesman, Business Today, The Decoder, and TechCrunch
Threads: @rstephens and @thebrianpenny
Mastodon: @jplebreton@mastodon.social, @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk, @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk, @wikkit@mastodon.social, @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @jasongorman@mastodon.cloud, @afeinman@wandering.shop, @ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social, @griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com, @max@wetdry.world, @ChateauErin@mastodon.social, @yogthos@social.marxist …, and @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt
Bluesky: @tyrantcbass.bsky.social, @jamesmunns.com, and @guntoucher.bsky.social
X: @fchollet, @danhendrycks, @simonw, @mfarajtabar, @bindureddy, @davidad, @garymarcus, @emollick, @mfarajtabar, @camrobjones, @chris_j_paxton, @nouhadziri, @ahatamiz1, @jonmasters, @garymarcus, @garymarcus, @rao2z, @kanair, @garymarcus, @guyvdb, @bilawalsidhu, @natolambert, @ayazdanb, and @garymarcus
LinkedIn: Alexis B., Kyle Gao, Peter Cotton, Mehrzad Samadi, Alex Trouteaud, and Hamdi Amroun, PhD
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technology, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, r/LocalLLaMA, lobste.rs, and Slashdot
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
More: ISD, Links I Would Gchat …, National Review, Brownstone Institute, Salon, Reuters, NBC News, and The Guardian
Mastodon: @Julie@social.coop, @hazz223@mstdn.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @clive@saturation.social, @wdlindsy@toad.social, and @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
X: @briankarem, @asharangappa_, @gaywonk, @theboyonthebike, @dwallacewells, @daithaigilbert, @gzornick, @jayrosen_nyu, @bhumikatharoor, and @andersen
LinkedIn: Tina D Purnat, Cristina Tardáguila, Rob Karpati, and Eric Deggans