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2026-03-26 22:01:40 UTC

OpenAI has surpassed $100M in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads, has expanded to 600+ advertisers, and plans to launch self-serve advertiser access in April (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-openai-surpasses-100-million-annualized-revenue-ads-pilot
http://www.techmeme.com/260326/p45#a260326p45

2026-03-26 13:10:47 UTC

WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/whatsapp-can-now-draft-ai-generated-responses-based-on-your-conversations/
http://www.techmeme.com/260326/p21#a260326p21

2026-03-24 23:21:12 UTC

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-dodges-retaliation-claims-from-whatsapp-whistleblower/
http://www.techmeme.com/260324/p52#a260324p52

2026-03-24 10:42:20 UTC

Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been "disrupted" due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-says-awss-bahrain-region-disrupted-following-drone-activity-2026-03-24/
http://www.techmeme.com/260324/p12#a260324p12

2026-03-23 13:50:55 UTC

Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-digital-rules-should-apply-big-techs-smart-tvs-broadcasters-tell-antitrust-2026-03-23/
http://www.techmeme.com/260323/p21#a260323p21

2026-03-20 15:01:45 UTC

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
http://www.techmeme.com/260320/p11#a260320p11

2026-03-18 21:36:22 UTC

Democratic voters in Illinois rejected most candidates supported by the crypto and AI industries, marking an unexpected defeat after industry PACs spent $18M+ (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/ai-crypto-suffer-surprise-defeats-in-illinois-primary-fights
http://www.techmeme.com/260318/p47#a260318p47

2026-03-10 10:05:51 UTC

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)
https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-6/
http://www.techmeme.com/260310/p6#a260310p6

2026-03-04 14:13:56 UTC

Apple unveils the $599 MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB C ports, and Touch ID (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/ultrabooks-ultraportables/apple-announces-macbook-neo-running-a18-pro-chip-budget-laptop-starts-at-usd599-and-comes-in-fun-colors
http://www.techmeme.com/260304/p21#a260304p21

2026-03-04 14:11:01 UTC

Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming "performance cores" to "super cores" and "efficiency cores" to "performance cores" (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/apple-gives-in-to-temptation-and-renames-its-cpu-cores/
http://www.techmeme.com/260304/p20#a260304p20

2026-03-01 08:34:00 UTC

Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2
http://www.techmeme.com/260228/p21#a260228p21

2026-02-25 12:56:17 UTC

A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered (Chris Stokel-Walker/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
http://www.techmeme.com/260225/p19#a260225p19

2026-02-22 06:30:57 UTC

Source Global: the US consulting market is set to grow 7% in 2026, the fastest pace in the post-COVID era, as companies seek advice on profiting from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cd94803-909c-4617-99b0-a1b5061f93ad
http://www.techmeme.com/260222/p5#a260222p5

2026-02-21 20:15:55 UTC

Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (David Nield/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-killing-pop-and-gmailify-access-what-it-means-for-you/
http://www.techmeme.com/260221/p8#a260221p8

2026-02-20 20:39:36 UTC

Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/microsoft-gaming-chief-phil-spencer-retires-asha-sharma-replacing.html
http://www.techmeme.com/260220/p17#a260220p17

2026-02-20 05:46:02 UTC

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d
http://www.techmeme.com/260220/p1#a260220p1

2025-11-27 02:21:00 UTC

Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenow-advanced-talks-buy-security-startup-least-1-billion
http://www.techmeme.com/251126/p31#a251126p31

2025-11-17 11:25:43 UTC

Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/global-internet-freedom-declines-for-15th-consecutive-year/
http://www.techmeme.com/251117/p7#a251117p7

2025-11-03 00:30:36 UTC

A look at Palantir's four-month "Meritocracy Fellowship" for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5?st=gaTU1P
http://www.techmeme.com/251102/p12#a251102p12

2025-10-26 15:30:34 UTC

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/26/developers-can-make-android-apps-with-swift/
http://www.techmeme.com/251026/p10#a251026p10

2025-10-24 22:36:05 UTC

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9a11ffa8-aa4c-40d4-982e-ede163b8a0b2
http://www.techmeme.com/251024/p21#a251024p21

2025-10-14 08:50:53 UTC

OpenAI's massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and achieving it via world-changing financial engineering to raise $1T+ (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-13/openai-keeps-doing-deals
http://www.techmeme.com/251014/p6#a251014p6

2025-10-12 01:20:55 UTC

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/
http://www.techmeme.com/251011/p24#a251011p24

2025-09-10 03:01:40 UTC

Memo: Apple's March update to its AI training guidelines for data annotators marked DEI as a "controversial" topic and removed intolerance as "harmful" behavior (Océane Herrero/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teaching-artificial-intelligence-adapt-to-trump-era/
http://www.techmeme.com/250909/p60#a250909p60

2025-08-28 20:25:48 UTC

Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and says it plans to ship $20B of AI servers in its fiscal 2026, double what it sold last year (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/dell-earnings-report-q2-2026.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250828/p38#a250828p38

2025-08-26 15:30:47 UTC

SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.QMzu.MnnCIYsHsahW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.techmeme.com/250826/p20#a250826p20

2025-08-26 11:36:01 UTC

Sources: Temu resumes shipping goods from China directly to US consumers and increases its US ad spending, after a trade truce between Washington and Beijing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ff9993d7-969b-48ff-b7e9-d92b842c0645
http://www.techmeme.com/250826/p12#a250826p12

2025-08-26 09:40:42 UTC

Shopify updated a help page in May to tighten its rules against "hateful content" like racist merchandise, after removing a similar ban in July 2024 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/shopify-revives-a-hateful-content-ban-amid-sales-of-racist-merchandise
http://www.techmeme.com/250826/p4#a250826p4

2025-08-25 22:50:42 UTC

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/44-attorneys-general-to-ai-chatbot-companies-open-letter/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p28#a250825p28

2025-08-25 21:55:43 UTC

Sources: Doug Beck, director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns; DOD officials had previously raised concerns about his donations to Democrats (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagons-innovation-unit-chief-resigns-latest-shake-up-sources-say-2025-08-25/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p27#a250825p27

2025-08-25 19:10:50 UTC

The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-commerce-department-voids-bidens-74-billion-semiconductor-research-grant-deal-2025-08-25/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p25#a250825p25

2025-08-25 17:25:43 UTC

Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p22#a250825p22

2025-08-25 15:20:39 UTC

Nvidia says the Jetson AGX Thor, its latest "robot brain" chip module, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit; the module will ship next month (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p20#a250825p20

2025-08-25 14:01:17 UTC

Saudi Arabia's Humain debuts Humain Chat, a bilingual Arabic-English conversational AI powered by its Allam LLM and designed around Islamic values and heritage (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/saudi-s-humain-launches-arabic-chatbot-with-islamic-values
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p17#a250825p17

2025-08-25 12:15:39 UTC

Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on November 12 and Dallas on December 11 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/netflix-house-opening-date-philadelphia-dallas-1236496376/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p13#a250825p13

2025-08-25 08:25:55 UTC

Sources: Spotify's difficulties of lining up partnerships have delayed its super premium service, which Spotify has been talking about for a couple of years (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-24/spotify-said-it-was-making-a-super-premium-service-where-is-it
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p5#a250825p5

2025-08-25 06:25:47 UTC

Sony's gaming execs, designers, and studio founders describe how it wants its first-party studios to contribute more to revenue growth and take measured risks (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d5859ffc-c4d7-4480-98a6-c1cff07af299
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p2#a250825p2

2025-08-25 05:10:34 UTC

Vertical streaming apps charging $20/week are beating Netflix and other SVOD platforms in user growth with their mini-dramas optimized for mobile viewing (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/23/vertical-series-dramas-soap-streaming/
http://www.techmeme.com/250825/p1#a250825p1

2025-08-25 03:35:34 UTC

Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/grindr-dating-app-push-into-ai-stock/
http://www.techmeme.com/250824/p19#a250824p19

2025-08-24 08:05:44 UTC

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/
http://www.techmeme.com/250824/p9#a250824p9

2025-08-24 06:01:37 UTC

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (Beth Rose/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ejvxne7elo
http://www.techmeme.com/250824/p8#a250824p8

2025-08-20 10:26:02 UTC

Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-third-political-party-69bf9bd8?st=FJHnkY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250820/p11#a250820p11

2025-07-28 19:41:38 UTC

Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code "continuously in the background" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/anthropic-unveils-new-rate-limits-to-curb-claude-code-power-users/
http://www.techmeme.com/250728/p21#a250728p21

2025-04-28 19:16:38 UTC

OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-adds-shopping-to-chatgpt/
http://www.techmeme.com/250428/p19#a250428p19

2025-04-07 13:30:50 UTC

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says an "off-frontier" strategy of building models "three or six months behind" cuts costs and helps focus on some use cases (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/microsoft-ai-chief-sees-benefits-to-ai-models-that-are-months-behind.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250407/p14#a250407p14

2025-04-07 06:25:42 UTC

A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist François Chollet to show the gulf between AI models' memorized answers and "fluid intelligence" (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/arc-agi-chollet-test/682295/?gift=2iIN4YrefPjuvZ5d2Kh3089M3DxlABplHmODO9XssmE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.techmeme.com/250407/p2#a250407p2

2025-03-30 15:15:51 UTC

Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI applications, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A from Lightspeed and Bain Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/27/straiker-launches-21-million-funding-secure-enterprise-ai-applications/
http://www.techmeme.com/250330/p16#a250330p16

2025-03-26 15:26:15 UTC

TD Cowen: Microsoft walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that had been set to consume 2 gigawatts, a sign of AI computing oversupply (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says
http://www.techmeme.com/250326/p27#a250326p27

2025-03-19 03:01:34 UTC

Sources: the real closer for Wiz and Google executives was President Trump's election, which brought with it the prospect of a friendlier antitrust review (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/googles-32-billion-deal-wiz-accelerated-under-trump-sources-say-2025-03-19/
http://www.techmeme.com/250318/p51#a250318p51

2025-03-13 00:21:05 UTC

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/628643/meta-careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams-arbitrator-suing
http://www.techmeme.com/250312/p41#a250312p41

2025-03-12 01:35:59 UTC

Google updates Chrome extension policy to ban affiliate link injection without user action or benefit, after allegations Honey stole creators' affiliate revenue (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/627940/google-chrome-extensions-paypal-honey-affiliate
http://www.techmeme.com/250311/p44#a250311p44

2025-03-11 12:21:12 UTC

India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/indias-bharti-airtel-signs-deal-with-spacex-bring-starlink-internet-india-2025-03-11/
http://www.techmeme.com/250311/p17#a250311p17

2025-03-10 16:01:32 UTC

Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ai-voice-cloning-software-flimsy-guardrails-report-finds-rcna195131
http://www.techmeme.com/250310/p15#a250310p15

2025-03-09 06:02:02 UTC

Starting September 1, schools in Beijing will offer at least eight hours of AI classes per academic year for primary and secondary students (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/beijing-to-roll-out-ai-courses-for-kids-to-build-on-deepseek-boom
http://www.techmeme.com/250309/p3#a250309p3

2025-03-06 07:01:41 UTC

India's Income Tax Bill 2025 grants income tax officers the legal authority to access taxpayers' email and social media accounts if they suspect tax evasion (Ira Alok Puranik/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/tax/your-email-and-social-media-account-can-be-accessed-by-income-tax-officer-starting-next-financial-year-in-these-cases/articleshow/118685184.cms
http://www.techmeme.com/250306/p6#a250306p6

2025-03-05 07:30:53 UTC

Cybereason CEO Eric Gan resigns after a months-long feud with investors SoftBank and Steven Mnuchin; a source says the planned Trustwave merger is also canceled (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/softbank-backed-cybereason-ceo-quits-after-boardroom-turmoil
http://www.techmeme.com/250305/p9#a250305p9

2025-03-02 17:01:25 UTC

Honor pledges $10B in AI investments over the next five years and demos a proof of concept AI agent, powered by Gemini 2, that can book restaurant reservations (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/02/chinas-honor-pledges-10-billion-ai-investment-closer-google-ties.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250302/p9#a250302p9

2025-02-28 02:15:54 UTC

MetaMask Head of Security Taylor Monahan says the Bybit hackers have moved at least 209,384 ETH, of ~400,000 stolen, onto Bitcoin, largely using THORChain swaps (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/343855/bybit-hackers-half-the-stolen-eth-bitcoin-fbi-confirms-lazarus
http://www.techmeme.com/250227/p46#a250227p46

2025-02-27 00:50:55 UTC

Canada's broadcast regulator says that Google will be charged a fee to recover regulatory costs related to Canada's online news law, starting April 1 (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/canada-regulator-to-levy-fee-on-google-amid-heightened-u-s-trade-tensions-bdbc1af5
http://www.techmeme.com/250226/p45#a250226p45

2025-02-26 22:21:04 UTC

Source: Instagram considers launching a standalone Reels app, improving recommendations, and distributing more three-minute-long videos, to compete with TikTok (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/instagram-may-launch-reels-as-separate-app-increasing-pressure-on-tiktok
http://www.techmeme.com/250226/p42#a250226p42

2025-02-24 18:01:27 UTC

The Trump admin has fired 130+ staff at CISA, replaced staff refusing DOGE access to networks, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, more (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/trump-2-0-brings-cuts-to-cyber-consumer-protections/
http://www.techmeme.com/250224/p19#a250224p19

2025-02-20 12:55:41 UTC

US survey: views of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk tilt negative; Democrats and Republicans view Zuckerberg unfavorably; Musk is polarizing along party lines (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/19/how-americans-view-elon-musk-and-mark-zuckerberg/
http://www.techmeme.com/250220/p17#a250220p17

2025-02-19 00:40:56 UTC

Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible tablet's integrated GPU in its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip offers performance comparable to a GeForce RTX 4060 (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/review-asus-rog-flow-z13-tablet-takes-the-asterisk-off-integrated-gpus/
http://www.techmeme.com/250218/p33#a250218p33

2025-02-17 12:11:03 UTC

X appears to be blocking Signal's "Signal.me" links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, giving error messages and showing a warning page for users clicking them (Matt Binder/disruptionist)
https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal
http://www.techmeme.com/250217/p8#a250217p8

2025-02-17 09:35:56 UTC

An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more (David Barnett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/16/goodreads-amazon-nadia-odunayo-the-storygraph
http://www.techmeme.com/250217/p3#a250217p3

2025-02-13 18:05:52 UTC

Sources: Italian spyware maker SIO created malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other apps; a researcher says they were likely used in Italy (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/spyware-maker-caught-distributing-malicious-android-apps-for-years/
http://www.techmeme.com/250213/p33#a250213p33

2025-02-11 21:17:15 UTC

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US, filed in 2020 against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/
http://www.techmeme.com/250211/p34#a250211p34

2025-02-11 16:05:19 UTC

Shopify says Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, was shuttered because it violated Shopify's ToS (Patrick Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ye-website-selling-swastika-shirts-ecommerce-platform-says-site-violat-rcna191651
http://www.techmeme.com/250211/p24#a250211p24

2025-02-11 15:29:16 UTC

Powerbeats Pro 2 debut for $250 with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, ANC, better water resistance, a more comfortable and 20% lighter design than previous gen (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/11/powerbeats-pro-2-announced/
http://www.techmeme.com/250211/p23#a250211p23

2025-02-11 01:45:51 UTC

Source: Shopify tells support staff to give "no comment" if merchant clients asked about Kanye West using its tech to sell a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika (The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/kanye-west-yeezy-shopify-swastika-shirt/
http://www.techmeme.com/250210/p31#a250210p31

2025-02-07 05:01:33 UTC

Kadrey v. Meta: unsealed emails show Meta allegedly torrented 81.7TB+ of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna's Archive for AI training (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/
http://www.techmeme.com/250207/p1#a250207p1

2025-01-24 20:51:05 UTC

In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/wall-street-banks-prepare-to-sell-billions-of-dollars-of-x-loans-c609beb1?st=qi4q4y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250124/p24#a250124p24

2024-10-11 01:30:49 UTC

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the last year; it launched the marketplace in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/linkedin-says-10m-people-have-signed-up-as-freelancers-on-its-services-marketplace/
http://www.techmeme.com/241010/p34#a241010p34

2024-10-08 10:30:59 UTC

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for "foundational discoveries" in machine learning (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-08/two-scientists-share-physics-nobel-for-machine-learning
http://www.techmeme.com/241008/p6#a241008p6

2024-10-07 19:18:03 UTC

In a final Epic v. Google ruling, US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals for three years, distribute 3rd-party stores in Google Play, and more (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores
http://www.techmeme.com/241007/p15#a241007p15

2024-09-24 00:01:30 UTC

The US House approves a bill exempting some chipmaking projects from federal permitting requirements after Senate approval in 2023, sending it to Biden's desk (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-23/house-approves-permit-exemption-for-chips-sending-bill-to-biden
http://www.techmeme.com/240923/p29#a240923p29

2024-09-20 16:16:16 UTC

Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from 110K prior to the ban (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/tumblr-reports-350-user-growth-following-xs-ban-in-brazil/
http://www.techmeme.com/240920/p13#a240920p13

2024-09-18 13:21:04 UTC

Lions Gate Entertainment, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/lionsgate-studio-behind-john-wick-signs-deal-with-ai-startup-runway-f2180245?st=Xo3FPn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240918/p28#a240918p28

2024-09-14 01:30:53 UTC

Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/12/2024/ex-crowdstrike-employees-detail-rising-technical-errors-before-july-outage
http://www.techmeme.com/240913/p30#a240913p30

2024-09-10 15:36:23 UTC

Sony announces the PS5 Pro with more advanced internals for 45% faster game rendering but doesn't come with a disc drive, available November 7 for $700 (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/ps5-pro-hands-on-sonys-699-turbo-console-hits-in-november/
http://www.techmeme.com/240910/p15#a240910p15

2024-09-04 08:25:50 UTC

Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/nvidia-chip-index-tumble-investors-pause-ai-rally-2024-09-03/
http://www.techmeme.com/240904/p7#a240904p7

2024-09-02 19:13:07 UTC

Elon Musk boosts a post disparaging the abilities of "women and low T men", advocating for a "Republic of high status males", and mentioning a "Reich effect" (Ellsworth Toohey/Boing Boing)
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/02/musk-boosts-4chan-claim-that-women-are-incapable-of-critical-thinking.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240902/p12#a240902p12

2024-08-30 12:16:38 UTC

AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep its website and articles live indefinitely (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
http://www.techmeme.com/240830/p8#a240830p8

2024-08-16 02:35:36 UTC

Court filing: TikTok says DOJ misstated its ties to China, made factual errors in the case, and the divestment law would strip TikTok of its free speech rights (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-disputes-us-claims-china-ties-court-appeal-2024-08-16/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p33#a240815p33

2024-08-15 13:10:43 UTC

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices "out of an abundance of precaution", after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/15/google-sold-android-phones-with-hidden-insecure-feature-companies-find/
http://www.techmeme.com/240815/p19#a240815p19

2024-08-12 20:35:42 UTC

CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the "Most Epic Fail" Pwnie Award, saying "we got this horribly wrong" and "it's super important to own it" (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/crowdstrike-exec-shows-up-to-accept-most-epic-fail-award-in-person
http://www.techmeme.com/240812/p23#a240812p23

2024-08-10 19:20:49 UTC

Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers "sent a spear phishing email" to a campaign (Alex Isenstadt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503
http://www.techmeme.com/240810/p9#a240810p9

2024-08-10 00:11:10 UTC

Trump Media, Truth Social's parent company that has a ~$5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K; Trump owns 59.9% of Trump Media's common stock (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/09/trump-media-loss-quarter/
http://www.techmeme.com/240809/p23#a240809p23

2024-08-08 11:50:41 UTC

Elon Musk posted and then deleted on X a fake Telegraph story on Falkland "Detainment Camps" shared by a far-right UK political party; the post had 1.8M+ views (Josh Self/Politics.co.uk)
https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/08/08/elon-musk-deletes-post-spreading-fake-news-about-uk-detainment-camps/
http://www.techmeme.com/240808/p13#a240808p13

2024-08-03 05:10:51 UTC

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive (Michael McWhertor/Polygon)
https://www.polygon.com/24211944/romhacking-net-closure-internet-archive-downloads
http://www.techmeme.com/240803/p2#a240803p2

2024-07-31 18:40:50 UTC

A ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit OneBlood, which has asked over 250 hospitals in the US to activate their critical blood shortage protocols (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/politics/cyberattack-oneblood-blood-donation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240731/p30#a240731p30

2024-07-29 11:55:31 UTC

ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-nazi-content-moderation/
http://www.techmeme.com/240729/p3#a240729p3

2024-07-29 10:10:35 UTC

Sources: Twitch remains unprofitable a decade after Amazon's acquisition; Docs show Twitch generated ~$667M in ad revenue and $1.3B in commerce revenue in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/twitch-amazon-video-games-investment-9020db87
http://www.techmeme.com/240729/p2#a240729p2

2024-07-25 15:06:10 UTC

Sources: Meta is set to be hit with its first EU antitrust fine, which could be as much as 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-be-hit-with-first-eu-antitrust-fine-linking-marketplace-facebook-sources-2024-07-25/
http://www.techmeme.com/240725/p20#a240725p20

2024-07-24 18:41:27 UTC

Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/email/4650b997-7cc3-4578-834c-7e663ed3d516/
http://www.techmeme.com/240724/p29#a240724p29

2024-07-24 08:30:43 UTC

Irish government data: data centers in Ireland used 21% of its electricity in 2023, up 20% YoY, more than the 18% of electricity used by all urban homes (Jillian Ambrose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/ireland-datacentres-overtake-electricity-use-of-all-homes-combined-figures-show
http://www.techmeme.com/240724/p8#a240724p8

2024-05-05 17:36:01 UTC

Jack Dorsey replies "no" to an X user who asked if he was still on the Bluesky board; it's not clear when he left, as Bluesky's FAQ still lists him as a member (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/
http://www.techmeme.com/240505/p5#a240505p5

2024-04-24 08:03:44 UTC

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 UTC

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

2024-04-18 12:15:45 UTC

US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/tiktok-bytedance-jeff-yass.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.5Zek.ylMuHlxP418s&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/240418/p16#a240418p16