2+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions" " Please clap for Techmeme" " Techmeme turns 20 freaking years old today." This is our self-congratulatory post marking the occasion. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:05 PM ET, September 12, 2025....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (82+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom" " Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated " This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:10 AM ET, September 9, 2025....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Emma Roth / The Verge: Google has edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial after it was found to contain false information about Gouda cheese" " Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes up '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption.'" " Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (384+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google Photos starts adding its SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using Magic Editor, but says some changes may be too small to detect" " But Google admits that some generative AI adjustments may be "too small" for SynthID to detect." " But Google admits " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (384+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Cerebras says it worked with Mistral to help its Le Chat app respond to user questions with 1,000 words per second, making it the world's fastest AI assistant" " Cerebras Systems, an artificial intelligence chip firm backed by UAE tech conglomerate G42, said on Thursday it has partnered " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage AI…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (380+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Sources: OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's stealth startup; he left Anthropic after joining the startup in August 2024" " OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's stealth startup after departing Anthropic just five months " - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post SBS Comms: Expect Better: SBS Comms " The media landscape is changing fast, so don't be slow " out with the old, in with the new. SBS helps tech companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, Flexport, Ramp and more modernize comms and secure impactful results. - Sponsor Post Zoho: How to manage AI in employee experience…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago (76+ words) [Techmeme permalink] CNN: How Mode to Code, a nonprofit founded by a teenager, is teaching Bay Area seniors to use AI and avoid scams through free coding and tech literacy classes" " Jacob Shaul is the kind of rising high school student who spends Saturdays playing chess and devours books by Malcom Gladwell and Angela Duckworth. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:40 AM ET, September 28, 2025....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (173+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Richard MacManus / Cybercultural: A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages" " GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy " - Sponsor Post 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. - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to uncover hidden risks and opportunities. Explore how you too can invest and build better companies with AI. - Sponsor Post Zoho: Women's Day Special: Practical Lessons from Zoho's Women Leaders on…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (506+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Laura Dubois / Financial Times: Documents: EU prosecutors are probing how Atos' Moscow office helped build the EU's border system, which will establish the EU's largest personal info database" " Investigation examines how French IT group Atos used Moscow office for sensitive European computer project - Sponsor Post Zoho: Beyond downloads: Transforming remote assistance with Zoho Lens browser support " Zoho Lens is committed to making remote assistance straightforward and accessible for everyone. With its browser-based support, Zoho Lens simplifies " - Sponsor Post Techmeme Leaderboards: Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more " We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100. No sub needed! - Sponsor Post Termina: AI Powered Diligence at Scale " VCs and founders deploy Termina AI Scans on >12% of all known series A+ deals to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago (82+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Heather Knight / New York Times: A profile of Riley Walz, whose tech-related pranks in San Francisco blend technical skill with social commentary, including a viral site to track parking police" " The parking police in San Francisco always seem to know when a car has stayed just seconds too long at a curb or a meter has gone unfed. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:15 AM ET, October 6, 2025....