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1Sep 27, '23Sources: Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been discussing building a new AI hardware device, and Masayoshi Son has been involved in some aspects of the conversation (The Information) �131×756k53781125
2Jun 29, '23Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022, less than half of AWS' revenue in the same period (@aaronpholmes / Th106×611k2575862
3Apr 18, '24Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (@tbarrabi / New Yor105×602k6807928
4Sep 4, '24Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane (@rhianlubin / The I92.3×531k98330984
5Jan 25, '25Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits (Financial Times)92.1×530k750117195
6Feb 28, '24Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race "completely unacceptable" and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem (@reedalbergotti / 90.3×519k3885437
7Jan 18, '24Zuckerberg says Meta wants to build AGI and open source it, brings Meta's AI group FAIR closer to generative AI team; Meta will own 340K+ H100 GPUs by 2024 end (@alexeheath / The V78.1×449k3167348
8Apr 20FYI: We're now omitting links in @Techmeme tweets. Why? 1. Links limit reach (see embedded study) 2. The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900%. Links may re58.2×335k2563556
9Sep 8, '22Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company found that "a substantial portion" of Twitter's users were "not real", when Disney considered buying Twitter in 2016 (@pkafka / Vox)53.6×015k1.6k138
10Mar 10, '23Email: VC firm Greenoaks warned founders of potential problems at SVB in November 2022; a source says over 12 portfolio companies withdrew ~$1B in recent months (@lizette_chapman /46.8×269k30712628
11Sep 3, '18Sources: Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on content decisions at Twitter and overruled staff to keep Alex Jones and reinstate Richard Spencer's account (Wall Street Journal)20.8×01.7k1.6k36
12Mar 6, '23👉 Some other places to get @Techmeme headlines: 🌐 Our website: , which includes commentary links, ranks stories by importance, and updates continuously 📪 Our daily newsletter: �18×104k2217812
13Mar 18, '19Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 due to data corruption during a server migration project (@doctorow / Boing Boin15.3×092049226
14Apr 13, '22An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has failed to garner a bid over $1K (@iamsandali / CoinDesk)12.8×01.8k46768
15Mar 7, '18Amazon confirms some Alexa devices are randomly laughing and says it's working on a fix, after multiple users posted about it on social media (@shannon_liao / The Verge)10.3×092358111
16Apr 29, '22Sources: Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Elon Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned (Wall Street Journal)5.4×064629993
17Aug 2, '22Hackers drain nearly all of the ~$190M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which is backed by Coinbase and OpenSea, over a long series of transactions (@newarbrian / Cointelegra4.9×061430758
18Oct 13, '19Apple, which only used Google Safe Browsing for malicious site warnings earlier, now says in fine print it may also use Tencent Safe Browsing, which can log IPs (@matthew_d_green /4.7×055546118
19Apr 13, '22An investigation into Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave, valued at $3B, alleges employee stock option fraud, sexual harassment, and workplace bullying (@davidhundeyin / West Af4.4×071732546
20Apr 29, '22Sources: Elon Musk has lined up a new CEO for Twitter and told banks about ideas for monetizing tweets like charging a fee for quoting or embedding tweets (Reuters)4.1×022812518
21Aug 2, '19Sources: Facebook plans to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp to "Instagram from Facebook" and "WhatsApp from Facebook", causing surprise and confusion internally (@alexeheath / The In3.9×05271378
22Nov 25, '17Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules (@jeffykao / Hacker Noon)3.8×05033750
23Oct 31, '22Sources: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue into a $19.99 subscription that verifies users; staff are told they will be fired if they don't build it by Nov. 7 (@alexeheath / The 3.6×034517725
24Mar 16, '22Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or the $APE token, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose founding members include Alexis Ohanian (@lucasmtny / TechCrunch3.5×058916532
25Oct 28, '21NYU research suggests Twitter's algorithms promote conservative politicians because they are more likely to be "ratioed", which Twitter may count as engagement (Washington Post)3.4×046717233
26Oct 2, '22The UN Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray region is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring (@zekuzelalem / Cont3.3×03083990
27Mar 22, '21Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations (@deantak / VentureBeat)3.3×043810620
28Apr 25, '22Millions of dollars worth of NFTs were stolen after Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram and Discord were hacked and a malicious "mint" link was promoted (@osatonomayo / The Block)3.3×04717127
29Jan 10, '21Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by "every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers", which could end the business (@bruceharing / Deadline)3.3×050314115
30Nov 17, '22Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and is trying to convince staffers to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave ahead of his 5pm ET deadline (Bloomberg)3.0×044310517
31May 14, '18Sources: Tesla engineers wanted to add eye tracking and other sensors to Autopilot at its debut to help alert drivers but were rejected by Musk over cost fears (@timkhiggins / Wall2.8×06451452
32Mar 21, '19Facebook admits it stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M user passwords (Krebs on Security)2.7×02431947
33Dec 14, '20Pornhub says it has removed all videos from unverified accounts from its platform; the number of hosted videos dropped from 13.5M to 7.2M (@samleecole / VICE)2.7×04969026
34Jul 21, '20A deep dive into how Robinhood makes money and how its UX design and algorithmic nudges can lead some inexperienced investors to undertake riskier trades (@ranjanxroy / Margins)2.6×041091146
35Aug 28, '18Twitter says it removed a further 486 accounts for engaging in "coordinated manipulation", following the removal of 284 last week (@catherineshu / TechCrunch)2.6×06201034
36May 12, '20Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a pro-tech political advocacy group in Washington, to battle antitrust lawmakers and regulators (@tonyromm / Washingto2.5×024922211
37Jan 10, '20Uber to end operations in Colombia on January 31, after courts side with the local competition authority, which found that Uber broke market rules (@lauren_feiner / CNBC)2.5×032417315
38Aug 1, '19Sources: as part of its antitrust probe, FTC is investigating whether Facebook bought startups like Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize possible competitors (Wall Street Journal)2.4×0247929
39Dec 11, '21Assembly, a new blockchain under the IOTA network focused on DeFi, NFTs, and crypto game development, raises $100M and plans to launch its token next year (Gertrude Chavez-dreyfuss2.2×05171094
40Aug 21, '18Tinder begins rolling out a new college-only service called Tinder U to iOS devices at four-year, accredited, not-for-profit schools in the US (@ashleyrcarman / The Verge)2.2×03359611
41Jan 19, '18After initial rejection, Apple approves Wehe, an app that detects net neutrality violations by testing download speeds and video throttling in seven apps (@jason_koebler / Motherbo2.2×03521980
42Feb 4, '21Amazon is quietly transitioning its US warehouse workers to 10-hour graveyard shifts; labor experts say the move is to cut costs and pay for fewer benefits (@laurenkgurley / VICE)2.2×026515611
43Sep 29, '18Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a startup to guide the project (@timberners_lee)2.1×029218815
44Jul 18, '20Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them (@colinlecher / The Markup)2.0×036510540
45Nov 18, '14Advances in image-recognition software show identification of entire scenes, not just objects1.9×02801940
46Dec 16, '20SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public (Washington Post)1.9×02371449
48Dec 8, '17Sources: Apple to acquire music recognition app Shazam; one source puts the deal at about $400M (TechCrunch)1.9×02471440
49Sep 9, '22Roblox will add age guidelines to its games, announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and other surfaces (@miarsato / The Ver1.9×0490483
50Jun 26, '18Twitter to require email or phone number confirmation for new accounts, place a warning sign by suspicious accounts, and is using ML to find problematic ones (@selina_y_wang / Bloo1.8×02791113
51Jan 3, '19BitTorrent announces its own crypto tokens that users can pay or trade with other users for faster downloads (@bradydale / CoinDesk)1.8×03801104
52Jan 31, '22Interview with Roblox's VP of Product Bjorn Book-Larsson about the evolution of the game's avatars, having more contractors than staff for moderation, and more (@harrisonabbot13 / 1.8×0526395
53Aug 22, '20In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share (@ranaayyub / Washin1.7×03231219
54Jan 25, '20Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators "soon" (@joshconstine / TechCrunc1.7×03451074
55Apr 13, '19Hackers claim they stole ~4K unique personnel records from sites related to the FBI National Academy Association, claim to have data from 1K+ more hacked sites (@zackwhittaker / Te1.7×02361373
56Feb 10, '22Apple confirms it changes the job title of every ex-employee to "associate" in job verification services, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint (@reedalbergotti / Wa1.7×02559023
57Nov 28, '17YouTube says it has terminated 270+ accounts, taken down 150K+ videos, removed ads from ~2M videos over past week as it purges content that endangers children (Noah Kulwin / VICE N1.7×02671350
58Jan 15, '21Kuo: 14" and 16" MacBook Pros coming in 2021 with Apple Silicon, MagSafe charging, no Touch Bar, new design with squared-off sides and more built-in IO ports (@bzamayo / 9to5Mac)1.7×0297414
59Apr 10, '21Report: data of 1.3M Clubhouse profiles, including names, social media handles, and more, apparently posted on a hacker forum; Clubhouse has not confirmed (CyberNews)1.7×02417924
60Mar 9, '20Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus and a new oil price war (@yunli626 / CNBC)1.6×0450511
61Dec 16, '20A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight (@adriennelaf / The Atlantic)1.6×027110919
62Mar 19, '19Kickstarter staff announce their intention to unionize, potentially becoming the first major US tech company with union representation (@bijanstephen / The Verge)1.5×03021065
63Mar 5, '18Coinbase plans to add 250 staff, and Circle says it wants to add ~200, while source says Kraken plans to add 800, each to roughly double their headcount in 2018 (@fintechfrank / Bu1.5×02731162
64Dec 15, '20A security researcher says that, last year, he alerted SolarWinds that anyone could access SolarWinds' update server by using the password "solarwinds123" (Reuters)1.5×02329314
65Oct 3, '21Analysis: Apple's operating profits from games in FY 2019 totaled $8.5B, $2B more than the combined profits of Sony, Activision, Nintendo, and Microsoft (@timkhiggins / Wall Street1.5×02636226
66Feb 28, '22A pro-Ukraine member of the Conti ransomware gang posts 339 days' worth of the group's chat logs, after its leaders declared support for Russia (@campuscodi / The Record)1.5×03041008
67Dec 19, '20Twitter updates its election misinformation labels to say "election officials have certified Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. Presidential election" (@thatjanetlee / Variety)1.5×0342775
68Dec 15, '18Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a "cash management" program (@julieverhage / Bl1.5×0255778
69Nov 29, '22Sources: Twitter only has one staff left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Musk saying removing child exploitation is top priority (@morganmeaker / Wired)1.5×02569519
70Feb 4, '13"Evasi0n" Overloads Servers As Over 270,000 People Download The New Jailbreak For iOS 6.0/6.1…1.5×02581360
71Jun 27, '19Superhuman, a $30/month email service designed for speed that has less than 15,000 users, raises $33M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $260M valuation (@kevinroose / New Yo1.5×02686915
72Nov 18, '22Sources: the US is seeking info on confidential deals that Elon Musk made with foreign investors over concerns they may be able to access Twitter users' data (Bloomberg)1.5×02191078
73Oct 21, '21The Associated Press partners with crypto company Chainlink to add data about elections, sports, and more to the blockchain in order to authenticate it (@dragonwolftech / Decrypt)1.4×03067610
74May 9, '17Cisco patches 318 switch models for 0-day remote exploit from March's WikiLeaks CIA dump1.4×02251330
75Nov 9, '22Report: Twitter files paperwork with the US Treasury to process payments; source: Twitter is working on a product that accepts cryptocurrencies, including DOGE (@beckpeterson / The1.4×02501014
76May 23, '22StepN, a Solana-based app that rewards users with tokens for walking and running, says it has 2M-3M MAUs and makes $3M-5M/day in net profit from trading fees (@ritacyliao / TechCru1.4×02755910
77Jul 26, '21China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+ (Bloomberg)1.4×0235819
78Dec 31, '18AI image processing for computer vision, facial recognition, image generation, and other applications saw marked improvements in 2018 (@terrortola / Engadget)1.4×0340585
79Apr 17, '18New York AG Schneiderman launches an inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges, sending a letter to 13 of them, including Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, and Bitfinex (@shannon_liao / The Ve1.4×02441091
80Apr 4, '19WhatsApp Business, a free app for businesses available only on Android previously, launches on iOS in Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, India, Mexico, UK, and the US (@sarahintampa / Tec1.3×0243533
81Jun 28, '22A deep dive on Truth Social's struggles, as the social network flails in its efforts to build a competitive platform while alienating tech talent and partners (Reuters)1.3×0239808
82Aug 30, '22Cloudflare is facing growing pressure for providing services to Kiwi Farms, a forum with a long history of harassment; Cloudflare remains silent on the matter (@tomkrazit / Protoco1.3×0307576
83May 20, '20Five years ago today in Techmeme history📜, Shopify priced its IPO at $17/share, raising $131M. It's currently trading at $770/share:1.3×0274696
84Dec 11, '21Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, resulting in the unavailability of millions of COVID-19 certificates and the loss of 50TB of data (@angelicamari / ZD1.3×0236605
85Jan 13, '20Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B (@kr00ney / CNBC)1.3×0242912
86Oct 9, '20Yelp introduces Business Accused of Racist Behavior, a new alert to caution users about businesses that may be associated with overtly racist actions (Noorie Malik / Yelp)1.3×0250737
87Aug 12, '14Meet Marques Brownlee, the 20-year-old tech reviewer with over 1.5M subscribers on YouTube1.2×0231940
88May 12, '21An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services (@soniafaleiro / Rest 1.2×0252783
89Oct 10, '19[Thread] Former World of Warcraft developer lead denounces Blizzard, says Chinese investment in game companies is silencing voices for freedom and democracy (@grummz)1.2×0276680
90Jul 13, '20Both the DNC and RNC have asked campaign staff to refrain from using TikTok on personal devices (@donie / CNN)1.2×0212902
91Mar 31, '19A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on "killer robots" (@danbilefsky / New York1.2×0290542
92Dec 3, '18Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17 and eliminate Safe Mode (@shannon_liao / The Verge)1.1×0225561
93Jan 10, '21Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence (Wall Street Journal1.1×0222705
94May 24, '22Apple says that starting June 30, all App Store apps that offer account creation must also let users delete their account within the app (@filipeesposito / 9to5Mac)1.1×02495311
95Jun 22, '22Valve's Steam Deck, which runs Arch Linux and lets users install software from anywhere unlike other game consoles, makes a great case against walled gardens (@onejarednewman / Fas1.0×02523511
96Nov 15, '23VP of audio at Stability AI Ed Newton-Rex quits, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use (Music Business Wor1.0×5.8k159554
97Jun 9, '22In a series of reforms, Microsoft says it will no longer include noncompete clauses in US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, and more (@toddbishop / GeekW1.0×0253334
98Nov 25, '21Roblox sues Ruben Sim, a YouTuber it has banned over harassment and sexual content, for leading a "cybermob" that it says terrorizes its platform and developers (@sweetpotatoes / P1.0×02183213
99Jun 9, '21Privacy-focused Vivaldi 4.0 browser launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader, and a translator service hosted on the company's own servers (@fredericl / TechCr0.9×0276263
100Nov 12, '22Sources: Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told staff on November 9 that she, SBF, and two FTX executives were aware that FTX lent its customers' money to Alameda (Wall Street Journal)0.4×083263

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