|
April 6, 2022, 2:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of Elon Musk, an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone — Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power — Today, let's talk about what Elon Musk means for the future of Twitter.
More:
Reason, Pirate Wires, Livemint, Insecurity Analysis, Fox Business, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @elonmusk, @paraga, @paraga, @jack, @samstein, @caseynewton, @sethdillon, @ranjanxroy, @johnbattelle, and @kateconger
| Jillian Ward / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk refiles his Twitter stake's SEC disclosure to classify himself as an active investor; Musk bought his 9.1% stake in cash from January 31 to April 1 — Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change …
More:
Margins, Crunchbase News, Financial Times, and Livy's Newsletter
| @twittercomms: |
Twitter says it has been working on an edit tweet option since last year and will start testing the feature in Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months — now that everyone is asking... yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didn't get the idea from a poll 😉 we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn't, and what's possible.
More:
The Verge, Ars Technica, HotHardware.com News, Tech Advisor, TheStreet, Redmond Pie, PCWorld, CNBC, City A.M., BBC, Twitter Help Center, Insider, The Economic Times, Search Engine Journal, KnowTechie, Deadline, Newser, Cult of Mac, Waivly, Gizchina, iThinkDifferent, and Newslit Daily
Tweets: @elonmusk, @twittercomms, @paraga, @jaysullivan, @michaelsayman, @alexstamos, @boztank, @jaysullivan, @bopinion, @twittercomms, @mikeisaac, @allanbell247, @erdayastronaut, @elonmusk, @cari_luna, @slowbeef, @alexhern, @mkbhd, @majorphilebrity, @loudmouthjulia, @moskov, @redsteeze, @ashleyesqueda, @jchensor, @thestalwart, @stammy, @carnage4life, @srirachachau, @pmarca, @adamliaw, @_zeets, @alanaevansxxx, @richontech, @hnshah, @royjsnell, @yashar, @liz_wheeler, @brianmcc, @stonekettle, @harrymccracken, @1djfirstclass, @genepark, @benadida, @kurtwagner8, @elliothackney, @dcseifert, @benadida, @artemr, @markgurman, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin hack — Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview — Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
More:
OpenAI, New York Times, Engadget, TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, and Fortune
Tweets: @sama, @openai, @waxpancake, @waxpancake, @waxpancake, @sama, @ak92501, @waxpancake, @maddiesimens, and @gdb. Thanks:@eliegnews
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov for helping operate and administer the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut down the site — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused …
More:
U.S. Department …, BBC, Wired, Metacurity, U.S. Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Reuters, and Micky
Tweets: @vickerysec, @andysheehankdka, @snlyngaas, @ericgeller, @a_greenberg, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @aspi_icpc
| Kevin Marks: |
Twitter quietly changed how embeds of deleted tweets work, showing blank embeds on websites; Twitter: the change is “to better respect” when users delete tweets — Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06 With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it …
More:
The Verge. Tweets: @reckless, @taylorlorenz, @alexhern, @jason, @nataliesurely, @crgibs, @kevinmarks, @wongmjane, @reckless, @wongmjane, @tweetanor, @film_girl, @jamesrbuk, @corintxt, @martinsfp, @mslopatto, @chrismessina, @jamesrbuk, @sam_l_shead, and @kevinmarks. Thanks:@kevinmarks
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google removes dozens of Android apps, including several Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor — Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
More:
The AppCensus Blog. Tweets: @appcensusinc, @thezedwards, @dnvolz, @justinhendrix, @appcensusinc, @appcensusinc, @edwardnh, and @cremnob
| BuzzFeed News: |
An investigation reveals that Worldcoin, which exchanges iris scans for free crypto, is grappling with issues, from angry field operators to privacy concerns — As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention. At its center, three men held …
More:
MIT Technology Review and Startup Strategies
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In a court-authorized March operation, the FBI cut off Cyclops Blink botnet's servers, tied to Russia's Sandworm, from Asus and WatchGuard routers in the US — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to mass-remove malware from thousands …
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, PCMag, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @profwoodward, @zackwhittaker, and @campuscodi
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance.US, the exchange's American affiliate, raises a $200M+ seed at a $4.5B pre-money valuation from RRE Ventures, Foundation Capital, VanEck, and others — Quick Take — Binance.US has closed its first funding round, raising more than $200 million at a $4.5 billion pre-money valuation.
More:
Blog & Resources, Finextra, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg, Blockworks, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, Forbes, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @yueqi_yang
| Crystal Kim / Bloomberg: |
MicroStrategy uses a loan against its bitcoin holdings to buy $190.5M more bitcoin, a first for the company; MicroStrategy now owns 129,218 BTC, worth ~$6B — MicroStrategy Inc. used a loan against its Bitcoin holdings for the first time to purchase $190.5 million more of the cryptocurrency.
More:
CoinQuora and On-chain student
Tweets: @saylor, @asvanevik, @matvelloso, @bascule, @bitfinexed, @priapusiq, @cz_binance, @fame21moore, @icodrops, and @wclementeiii
| Washington Post: |
Center for Countering Digital Hate: a study of 8,717 DMs sent to five high profile women shows Instagram didn't act on 90% of reported abusive direct messages — Women on Instagram are exposed to an “epidemic of misogynist abuse,” according to a new report.
More:
The Guardian and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @ccdhate, @moorehn, @jamieklingler, @taylorlorenz, @sophwilkinson, @taylorlorenz, and @sophwilkinson
| Maria Ponnezhath / Reuters: |
Intel is suspending all business operations in Russia and says it has implemented business continuity measures to minimize disruption to its global operations — Intel Corp (INTC.O) is suspending all business operations in Russia, effective immediately, the U.S. chipmaker said on Tuesday …
More:
Intel, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Windows Central, Oregonian, Silicon Valley Business …, PCMag, The Register, Intel, Light Reading, Gizmodo, and ITC.ua
Tweets: @intelnews, @donal888, and @epro
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Interview with Tim Sweeney and Epic executives on Unreal Engine 5's launch, its “Nanite” graphic rendering tech, using it in building the metaverse, and more — Growing up in suburban Potomac, Maryland in the 1980s, Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games …
More:
Unreal Engine, KnowTechie, MCV/DEVELOP, TechPowerUp, GamingBolt, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @max_uf, @technologizer, @atach, @tomwarren, @hscommentary, and @thesullivan. Thanks:@technologizer
| Donna Goodison / Protocol: |
Google Cloud unveils BigLake, a data lake storage engine based on its BigQuery data warehouse, to let customers analyze data across storage systems — Google Cloud plans to launch a new data lake storage engine based on its popular BigQuery data warehouse to help remove barriers preventing customers …
More:
Google Cloud Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Next Platform, TechRadar, The Economic Times, and ZDNet. Tweets: @samerkamal
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole
More:
AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iMore
Tweets: @samleecole, @samleecole, @lorenzofb, @katiohead, @libskrat, @r0wdy_, @jason_koebler, @stopsatgreen, @samleecole, @samleecole, @foxcahn, @lemonsand, @timmarchman, and @timmarchman
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta won't hold its F8 dev conference in 2022, instead holding a “business messaging event” called Conversations on May 19, and an AR/VR event later this year — Meta is pausing the event in 2022 — Meta won't be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022, the company announced Wednesday.
More:
Meta for Developers
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Uber says it plans to add long-distance travel bookings to its UK app in 2022, including intercity trains, coaches, and flights — Ride-booking group aims to become a broader travel hub as part of plan that was delayed by the pandemic — Uber plans to add long-distance travel bookings …
More:
Fortune, New York Post, CNBC, Protocol, and Engadget
Tweets: @markmilian, @daveleeft, and @muradahmed
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Grafana Labs, which develops the popular Grafana visualization tools, raises a $240M Series D led by GIC, bringing its total funding to $540M — Grafana Labs, the company behind the popular Grafana visualization tools (and other open-source projects like the Prometheus monitoring system) …
More:
AlleyWatch, CRN, VentureBeat, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD confirms a bug in its GPU driver is auto-overclocking Ryzen CPUs without the user's knowledge by changing settings in the BIOS — Radeon Adrenalin drivers have a mind of their own — AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its GPU driver is, in fact, changing Ryzen CPU settings in the BIOS without permission.
More:
HotHardware.com News, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, Neowin, and PCMag. Tweets: @3kliksphilip
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service — The virtual pinboard service will remove content that denies climate change after also blocking ads about politics, weight loss and anti-vaccine sentiment.
More:
CNN, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Guardian, Engadget, The Week, Mashable, Quartz, Fast Company, and City A.M.
| Google AI Blog: |
Google AI claims PaLM, its 540B parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model, shows breakthrough capabilities in tasks like language, reasoning, and coding — In recent years, large neural networks trained for language understanding and generation have achieved impressive results across a wide range of tasks.
More:
Synced and Beyond Search
Tweets: @googleai, @ericjang11, @blader, @zseward, @timsneath, @narphorium, @skiminok, @mattshumer_, @robinhanson, @robinhanson, @elipariser, @amasad, and @jeffdean
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Blockchain developer Near Protocol raises $350M led by Tiger Global, after raising $150M in January; CoinGecko says Near's market cap is over $10B — The blockchain developer Near Protocol raised $350 million, more than double what it got just three months ago.
More:
Decrypt, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, and The Block
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
London-based Fidel API, which offers identity, data, and payments tools, raises a $65M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its total funding to $88M — Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
More:
Finextra and VentureBeat
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:
Introducing AI Forms: Create optimized forms with AI in Zoho Forms — The future of form creation isn't coming, it's here. Forget everything you thought you knew about building online forms.
Introducing AI Forms: Create optimized forms with AI in Zoho Forms — The future of form creation isn't coming, it's here. Forget everything you thought you knew about building online forms.
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:
Fri. 12/20 - Gemini Flash Thinking
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 2:00 PM ET, April 6, 2022.
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
New York Times:Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
More:
9to5Mac, San Francisco Business Journal, and Engadget
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
More:
BBC, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and iMore
Tweets: @yoyoel, @yoyoel, @yoyoel, @evelyndouek, @patrickmoorhead, and @astroehlein
| John Paul Tasker / CBC News: |
More:
Engadget, Michael Geist, and Government of Canada
Tweets: @bgrueskin, @mgeist, @mediamorphis, @mediamorphis, @parismarx, and @mediamorphis