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2024-08-11 19:20:40

Some longtime users of LinkedIn lament the barrage of performative content from hustle-culture influencers and AI-generated "thought leadership" on the site (Charlie Wells/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-10/tips-for-using-linkedin-will-personal-posts-help-your-job-search
http://www.techmeme.com/240811/p6#a240811p6

2024-07-23 16:15:36

Meta VP Rob Sherman confirms a report that Meta received an EU request to pause future AI model training on data in the EU, and says the EU may get left behind (Financial Times)
https://t.co/EANyN6qi1t
http://www.techmeme.com/240723/p23#a240723p23

2024-07-22 19:30:46

Google says it won't be "deprecating third-party cookies" in Chrome and will instead keep working on "privacy-preserving alternatives" via Privacy Sandbox APIs (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/after-years-of-uncertainty-google-says-it-wont-be-deprecating-third-party-cookies-in-chrome/
http://www.techmeme.com/240722/p15#a240722p15

2024-04-24 08:03:44

A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
http://www.techmeme.com/240424/p10#a240424p10

2024-04-19 19:16:46

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown
http://www.techmeme.com/240419/p10#a240419p10

2024-04-02 16:30:44

Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200+ others sign a letter to AI developers and tech companies decrying "predatory" AI that steals voices, replaces artists, more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/musicians-letter-ai-replace-artists
http://www.techmeme.com/240402/p16#a240402p16

2024-03-12 17:01:21

Match and Bumble have lost $40B+ in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder-bumble.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240312/p23#a240312p23

2024-01-12 21:16:03

An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH (benjojo blog)
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
http://www.techmeme.com/240112/p17#a240112p17

2024-01-11 16:50:45

Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/asia/nayanthara-annapoorani-pulled-netflix-hindu-complaints-1235868630/
http://www.techmeme.com/240111/p26#a240111p26

2024-01-10 20:25:53

The SEC says it is working with the FBI in investigating the false X post about spot bitcoin ETFs (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/271688/sec-says-the-fbi-is-now-involved-in-investigating-false-post-about-spot-bitcoin-etfs
http://www.techmeme.com/240110/p32#a240110p32

2023-12-08 09:04:17

A look at Alibaba's decline since China halted Ant's IPO in 2020, losing its online shopping dominance to rival PDD last week, and roadblocks in revival plans (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/alibaba-china-tech-titan-decline-117cde5b?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/231208/p4#a231208p4

2023-10-20 20:40:59

Cybersecurity company Okta closes down 11.5% after saying a hacker had accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed some client files (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/20/okta-shares-fall-after-company-says-client-files-were-accessed-by-hackers-via-its-support-system.html
http://www.techmeme.com/231020/p19#a231020p19

2023-10-17 23:41:53

Source: X will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create list (Kylie Robison/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/
http://www.techmeme.com/231017/p47#a231017p47

2023-10-03 11:15:45

Stampli, which uses AI to automate the processing of invoices and help businesses pay vendors, raised $61M, bringing its total funding to $148M+ (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-03/startup-stampli-raises-61-million-aims-to-bring-ai-to-accounts-payable
http://www.techmeme.com/231003/p8#a231003p8

2023-09-27 19:01:06

DOJ sues eBay, saying it broke environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products including 343K+ "defeat" devices that skirt vehicle emission controls (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-sues-ebay-over-sale-aftermarket-motor-vehicle-products-2023-09-27/
http://www.techmeme.com/230927/p36#a230927p36

2023-09-18 17:21:05

Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft's former Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-18/amazon-is-poised-to-hire-departing-microsoft-product-chief
http://www.techmeme.com/230918/p19#a230918p19

2023-09-15 15:30:48

X changes its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature to show contributors other note proposals and see other viewpoints before they submit a rating (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/15/xs-crowdsourced-fact-checking-system-will-now-let-contributors-consider-opposing-viewpoints/
http://www.techmeme.com/230915/p14#a230915p14

2023-09-14 14:25:53

Amazon expands its search and discovery features, including multimodal search and Find-on-Amazon, which lets users find similar products to those in a photo (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/amazon-updates-visual-search-ar-search-and-more-in-challenge-to-google/
http://www.techmeme.com/230914/p20#a230914p20

2023-09-14 08:01:09

Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her (Taylor Lorenz/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/julia-allison-first-online-influencer-vilified-1234823324/
http://www.techmeme.com/230914/p6#a230914p6

2023-09-13 11:30:50

After France ordered Apple to step selling the iPhone 12 due to radiation levels, Apple says the device was certified by multiple bodies as radiation compliant (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-disputes-french-findings-says-iphone-12-complies-with-radiation-standards-2023-09-13/
http://www.techmeme.com/230913/p20#a230913p20

2023-09-12 00:01:20

Survey of 2,203 US adults: 53% say AI misinformation will impact who wins the 2024 election, and 35% say AI will decrease their trust in election ads (Ryan Heath/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/11/poll-ai-elections-axios-morning-consult
http://www.techmeme.com/230911/p29#a230911p29

2023-09-08 13:30:58

Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paid subscribers, including up to 20 hours of content a month, as part of a push into audiobooks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/spotify-to-offer-paying-subscribers-free-audiobook-trial-80e9eb68?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/230908/p11#a230908p11

2023-09-03 04:45:50

Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be "dying out" as a format (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://t.co/HhzRjWbHdE
http://www.techmeme.com/230903/p3#a230903p3

2023-08-31 18:10:40

Investigation: IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, in July, despite a 2020 pledge to quit such work (Mark Wilding/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852955/ibm-uk-government-contract-biometric-facial-recognition
http://www.techmeme.com/230831/p36#a230831p36

2023-08-31 08:10:36

Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 across Europe from October 1, instead offering Teams to enterprise for €24 per year (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/microsoft-tries-to-ward-off-eu-antitrust-probe-into-teams-app
http://www.techmeme.com/230831/p8#a230831p8

2023-08-25 13:01:24

US Treasury proposes new rules treating crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report crypto gains to the IRS, starting in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s-tackles-crypto-tax-mess-5a751679?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/230825/p8#a230825p8

2023-08-24 05:25:49

An analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles, which first appeared in outlets like CNN, the NYT, and Reuters, without credit (NewsGuard)
https://newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/august-2023
http://www.techmeme.com/230824/p2#a230824p2

2023-08-22 13:30:38

IBM agrees to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented services, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-22/ibm-to-sell-the-weather-company-assets-to-francisco-partners
http://www.techmeme.com/230822/p14#a230822p14

2023-08-21 19:20:33

Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose shares dropped ~80% in the last two years, has been exploring options including a sale; stock jumps 15%+ (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cybersecurity-firm-sentinelone-explores-sale-sources-2023-08-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/230821/p19#a230821p19

2023-08-21 12:15:34

A notice from Maine's AG says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of "insider wrongdoing" (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-20/tesla-data-breach-blamed-on-insider-wrongdoing-impacted-75-000
http://www.techmeme.com/230821/p7#a230821p7

2023-08-21 12:01:12

NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/246477/recur-to-shut-down-less-than-two-years-after-raising-50-million-in-series-a
http://www.techmeme.com/230821/p6#a230821p6

2023-08-21 11:05:44

The US announces $667M in new grants and loans for 37 new recipients to expand rural broadband infrastructure, after allocating $771.4M in April and June 2023 (Kavish Harjai/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/broadband-internet-access-federal-grants-cdcfb6f53b05107f0bfe02d5d366a39d
http://www.techmeme.com/230821/p3#a230821p3

2023-08-20 14:20:31

John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company's CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82 (Dayana Mustak/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-20/adobe-s-co-founder-john-warnock-dies-at-82
http://www.techmeme.com/230820/p5#a230820p5

2023-08-19 04:50:46

US intelligence agencies warn China and Russia are targeting private US space companies and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/cyberattacks-russia-china-space-companies.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230819/p1#a230819p1

2023-08-18 20:05:59

Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information (Pete Evans/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nwt-wildfire-evacuation-meta-blocking-news-1.6939286
http://www.techmeme.com/230818/p15#a230818p15

2023-08-18 14:20:46

Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/17/twitch-will-let-streamers-block-banned-users-from-watching-streams/
http://www.techmeme.com/230818/p8#a230818p8

2023-08-18 09:01:36

Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill on August 23 that mandates at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/tech/minneapolis-rideshare-minimum-wage/
http://www.techmeme.com/230818/p2#a230818p2

2023-08-17 20:01:26

Internal document: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to "talk" content that could boost Spotify's annual gross profit by €35M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-17/white-noise-podcasters-are-costing-spotify-38-million-a-year
http://www.techmeme.com/230817/p31#a230817p31

2023-08-17 14:20:59

Apple says The Glenn Beck Program was removed from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute that has since been resolved (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/apple-removes-glenn-beck-podcasts-1235698278/
http://www.techmeme.com/230817/p22#a230817p22

2023-08-17 06:40:37

Court filings: Tesla engineers admit that the company did nothing to address Autopilot's inability to recognize crossing traffic following a fatal crash in 2016 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/tesla-failed-to-fix-autopilot-after-fatal-crash-engineers-say
http://www.techmeme.com/230817/p8#a230817p8

2023-08-16 02:41:13

The US Commerce Department has built a team of people from Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, KKR, and other Wall Street firms to help allocate $39B in chip subsidies (Yuka Hayashi/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-white-house-went-to-wall-street-to-revive-the-u-s-chips-industry-fe0a0aac?mod=djemalertNEWS
http://www.techmeme.com/230815/p30#a230815p30

2023-08-15 17:20:46

OpenAI says it has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using it for content moderation (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/15/2023/can-chatgpt-become-a-content-moderator
http://www.techmeme.com/230815/p19#a230815p19

2023-08-15 14:50:56

Setapp, known for its Mac and iOS app subscription service, plans to launch an alternative app store for iOS and iPadOS next year in the EU, thanks to the DMA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/08/15/setapp-plans-to-launch-eu-only-alternative-ios-app-store
http://www.techmeme.com/230815/p14#a230815p14

2023-08-09 16:40:58

The SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to other payment options (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-09/apple-can-keep-app-store-rules-for-now-as-top-court-spurns-epic
http://www.techmeme.com/230809/p26#a230809p26

2023-08-09 15:21:08

An analysis of Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top tool in China for inputting Chinese characters with 450M+ MAUs, finds data-leaking flaws in its encryption (The Citizen Lab)
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/
http://www.techmeme.com/230809/p25#a230809p25

2023-08-09 06:49:19

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2023-08-08 00:35:50

Sources: in late 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks, with the problem persisting until at least early 2021 (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/07/china-japan-hack-pentagon/
http://www.techmeme.com/230807/p30#a230807p30

2023-08-07 14:35:36

The SEC's recent cyber regulations will grow industry awareness but the new incident reporting rules are redundant, misdirected, and overlap with CISA reporting (Chris Krebs/Financial Times)
https://t.co/hlhuLHdKfy
http://www.techmeme.com/230807/p17#a230807p17

2023-08-07 11:26:10

Toshiba announces a $14B tender offer to take the company private at $32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/toshiba-buyout-tender-fund-japan-nuclear-chips-b274bff747ddbf2a3443cc882e632c8d
http://www.techmeme.com/230807/p9#a230807p9

2023-08-04 11:01:13

Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a new company in Germany to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting the auto industry (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-04/qualcomm-nxp-and-others-team-up-to-develop-arm-rival-chip-tech
http://www.techmeme.com/230804/p7#a230804p7

2023-08-03 08:40:38

Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate shock value tactics as the audience of "normal people" shrinks (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/
http://www.techmeme.com/230803/p6#a230803p6

2023-07-13 15:25:46

The AP signs a two-year deal with OpenAI, under which the AP will get access to OpenAI tech and license some of its archive dating back to 1985 for AI training (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/13/ap-openai-news-sharing-tech-deal
http://www.techmeme.com/230713/p24#a230713p24

2023-06-16 09:45:43

Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation against Tesla and Twitter (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/15/elon-musk-led-twitter-suspended-plainsite-a-prominent-tesla-critic.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230616/p4#a230616p4

2023-06-13 21:46:07

Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group says it will close multiple studios, cancel games, and cut staff, after a $2B deal unexpectedly fell through (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)
https://www.polygon.com/23759179/embracer-tomb-raider-lotr-restructure-studio-closures-lay-offs
http://www.techmeme.com/230613/p39#a230613p39