Note: Techmeme is hiring part-time editors. Go here to apply, or tell a friend!
|
April 29, 2025, 3:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon” — WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
More: 404 Media, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Axios, New York Times, CNET, Tom's Hardware, BBC, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Watcher Guru, Deseret News, Metro.co.uk, New Republic, NextDraft, AppleInsider, The Guardian, RedState, Forbes, National Review, Boston Herald, Barron's Online, Sherwood News, TheStreet, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, crypto.news, Chain Store Age, The Daily Signal, WUSA, The Indian Express, and BGR
Bluesky: @noupside, @mikeelgan, @nandosigona, and @jonzoidberg.xyz. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Threads: @ianbremmer and @carnage4life
X: @brendanpedersen, @natesilver538, @zachweinberg, @mattyglesias, @jason, @dougboneparth, @seanmdav, @patricksvitek, @mehdirhasan, @trumpwarroom, @lisaabramowicz1, @tomjchicago, @jenniferjjacobs, @joshdcaplan, @atrupar, @richardgrenell, @rapidresponse47, and @0liviajulianna
LinkedIn: Casey Golden and Chris Van Nuys
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/NPR, r/Economics, r/stupidpol, r/democrats, r/politics, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/ABoringDystopia, r/StockMarket, r/facepalm, r/Fauxmoi, r/NewsAndPolitics, r/TheBusinessMix, r/Destiny, r/FreeSpeech, r/nottheonion, r/technology, r/conservativeterrorism, r/inflation, and r/PoliticalOptimism
| Fortune: |
Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …
More: Reuters, Engadget, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Verge, Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Hill, Cord Cutters News, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, WFAA-TV, Washington Examiner, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @hypervisible. X: @jstein_wapo, @jstein_wapo, @theo_wayt, @buccocapital, @edludlow, @vanillaopinions, @coopercooperco, @jstein_wapo, @jdcmedlock, @howardlutnick, and @tysonbrody. Forums: r/technology
| CNN: |
Sources: President Trump called Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about reports that Amazon was adding tariff prices to listings — President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost …
More: CNET, Gizmodo, Mercury News, Cryptopolitan, San Francisco Examiner, Forbes, Raw Story, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, and Raw Story
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term — Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from sellers, particularly from China — Amazon is seeking steep discounts …
More: Reuters, The Guardian, PYMNTS.com, and Sherwood News
| Punchbowl News: |
More: Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, CNBC, Android Authority, Mediaite, GeekWire, RedState, Washington Examiner, Politico, Yahoo Finance, HuffPost, UPI, New Republic, The Hill, ABC News, NBC Bay Area, Quartz, Forbes, Daily Kos, Blaze Media, Chain Store Age, MobileSyrup, NPR, Deadline, Raw Story, The Wrap, Investor's Business Daily, theJasmineBRAND, Time, PBS NewsHour, About Amazon, Bloomberg, nextbigwhat, Rolling Stone, Townhall, TMZ.com, New York Daily News, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Variety, Telegraph, Proactive, CNN, WCNC-TV, New Jersey Online, New York Post, Hollywood Life, The US Sun, ZeroHedge News, FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, The Post Millennial, Mock Paper Scissors, Pocket-lint, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @timkarr and @cwebbonline.com
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share — The new Meta AI app puts a twist on social media. … Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant.
More: Meta, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, Moneycontrol, The Sun, Benzinga, CNET, Engadget, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Mercury News, 9to5Mac, The Information, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Adweek, Gulf News, CNBC, Neowin, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, Barron's Online, City A.M., Futurism, Hypebeast, WinBuzzer, Meta, Quartz, Sherwood News, and Analytics India Magazine
Bluesky: @alexeheath.com and @davelee.me
Threads: @chriscox, @firerock31, @boztank, @benedictevans, @wongmjane, @wongmjane, and @creators. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @ns123abc, @wongmjane, @meta, @alexeheath, @meta, and @parkerortolani
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy — WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats.
More: Meta Developers on YouTube, The Record, Engineering at Meta, The Hacker News, and WABetaInfo
Bluesky: @matthewdgreen. X: @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, and @matthew_d_green
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced — At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. — Available in limited preview … | Wired: |
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network … | Google Cloud Blog: |
Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits — Google Threat Intelligence — Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. — Executive Summary| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them — Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
More: Techdirt, PCMag, Gizmodo, CyberScoop, Mashable, Reclaim The Net, Columbian, Deseret News, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, New York Times, CBS News, PetaPixel, The Independent, Bloomberg, U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson, U.S. Senate Committee …, and The 19th
Bluesky: @fightforthefuture.org, @bubbaprog.lol, @mmasnick, @nickgarcia, @jmiers230, @mmasnick, @cathygellis, @mmasnick, and @mmasnick
Mastodon: @skry@mastodon.social and @TechBean@mstdn.social
X: @globalaffairs, @repthomasmassie, @flotus, @andymstone, @mzanona, @repbrianfitz, @speakerjohnson, @tiktokpolicy, @ncmec, @repashleyhinson, @repfeenstra, @sentedcruz, @housegop, @senamyklobuchar, @vernbuchanan, @reppfluger, and @repdean
Forums: r/politics, r/politics, and r/technology
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
More: Ars Technica and Electronic Frontier Foundation
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
More: The Register, Pittsburgh Business Journal, Thurrott, Futurism, Business Standard, The Decoder, MEDIANAMA, Engadget, Sherwood News, Decrypt, Business Today, Tech.co, and Business Insider
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @kidvanguard, @carnage4life, and @jaypeters.net. Mastodon: @peter@thepit.social
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22 — Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted …
More: Bloomberg, BBC, The Record, ITV News, The Sun, The Guardian, Hackread, BBC, The Grocer, Tech Monitor, The Sun, Telegraph, The Guardian, Reuters, Financial Times, BBC, The Times, The Grocer, and The Guardian
Bluesky: @joetidy. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. X: @marksandspencer and @marksandspencer
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, operating income of €509M, below its €548M forecast, Q2 MAUs forecast below analysts' estimates; SPOT drops 8%+ — Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled on Tuesday after the streaming company gave a muted outlook for profit and subscriber growth in the current quarter.| Bloomberg: |
The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation — The UK government will collaborate with US officials on plans to regulate the burgeoning crypto industry, distancing itself …
More: GOV.UK, PYMNTS.com, GOV.UK, Reuters, The Block, Reuters, The Crypto Basic, CoinDesk, Watcher Guru, The Standard, Cointelegraph, and The Crypto Times. LinkedIn: Jonathan Galea
| Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs — Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons
More: SC Media, The Record, Metacurity, Security Boulevard, Nextgov/FCW, NBC News, Cybersecurity Dive, and CyberScoop
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @zackwhittaker.com, @eff.org, and @kevincollier
Sponsor 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:
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
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
Techmeme Ride Home:
Somebody Knows Victoria's Secrets
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
How private equity kills companies and communities
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Jordan Bramble from Antares
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired's Katie Drummond
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View:
GitHub CEO on what AI means for developer salaries, SaaS, and more
Azeem Azhar explores how AI and exponential technologies are shaping our future.
Subscribe to Azeem Azhar's Exponential View.
Spotlight On:
*Live from Accel's 2025 People Summit* Behind the Netflix Culture Deck with Patty McCord and Jessica Neal
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:00 PM ET, April 29, 2025.
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Wall Street Journal:
Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
More: Engadget, Business Insider, The Hill, TechCrunch, Fox Business, United Launch Alliance, DatacenterDynamics, CNBC, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Tech Monitor, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, RCR Wireless News, Financial Times, CNET, Defense One, SPACE.com, Telecoms Tech News, SpaceNews, Silicon Republic, Mobile Europe, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Telegraph, TelecomTV, Moneycontrol, The Stack, New York Times, and GeekWire
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Qwen, Interconnects, Simon Willison's Weblog, GitHub, Nikkei Asia, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, The Cloudflare Blog, nextbigwhat, Constellation Research, WinBuzzer, BGR, CNBC, Moneycontrol, Silicon Republic, and Windows Report
X: @justinlin610, @alibaba_qwen, @teknium1, @xenovacom, @nisten, @theo, @natolambert, @ns123abc, @bartowski1182, @iscienceluvr, @teortaxestex, @unsorsodicorda, @mascobot, @kaggle, @huybery, @dorialexander, @alibaba_qwen, @alibaba_qwen, @alibaba_qwen, and @ollama
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
More: nextbigwhat, KnowTechie, Fortune, The Rundown AI, India Today, and The Hindu
X: @sama, @aidan_mclau, @krishnanrohit, @shakoistslog, @hyperdiscogirl, @aidan_mclau, @keytryer, @simonw, and @ettingermentum. Forums: r/ChatGPT