Top Stories on My Three Major Networks - Aug 12, 2014 As of 7:21 p.m. EDT - My Evening News Programs h2. techmeme.com http://techmeme.com # "Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself":http://www.wired.com/2014/08/viv # "Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S.":http://recode.net/2014/08/12/apples-diversity-report-70-percent-male-55-percent-white-in-u-s/ # "Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service":http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-apple-healthcare-exclusive-idUSKBN0GC09K20140812 # "Microsoft will offer a $499 Call of Duty Xbox One bundle with 1TB of storage, but no Kinect":http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5994189/xbox-one-white-console-call-of-duty-1tb-bundle # "Uber says Lyft cancelled 12.9K Uber rides, and Lyft investors pressured Uber to buy Lyft":http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/accusations-fly-between-uber-and-lyft/ h2. mediagazer.com http://mediagazer.com # "Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash":http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/middleeast/times-journalist-iraq.html # "BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles":http://gawker.com/over-4-000-buzzfeed-posts-have-completely-disappeared-1619473070 # "As the Internet narrows the difference between media and software distribution, technology VCs value BuzzFeed like a tech company":http://stratechery.com/2014/buzzfeed-tech-company/ # "The Long Fall of Philly Newspapers":http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/08/11/financial-decline-philadelphia-newspapers-inquirer-daily-news/ # "Journalists Face Tear Gas, Police Threats While Covering Protests Against Killing Of Michael Brown":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/journalists-threatened-michael-brown_n_5671155.html h2. news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com # "Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll":https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/law-students-fend-off-a-patent-troll-2b8a708277fc # "Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs":http://techreport.com/news/26911/errata-prompts-intel-to-disable-tsx-in-haswell-early-broadwell-cpus # "2014 Fields Medals announced":http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/2014 # "Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping":https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Something+is+amiss+with+the+Interwebs+BGP+is+a+flapping+/18523 # "Mono 3.6.0 is out":http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.6