Catching Up: The Best Tech Stories of the Day

Frederic Lardinois

Jul 20, 2011

No doubt, today’s tech news was all about Apple. A new Apple operating system and a slew of new hardware will do that. The reactions to OS X Lion were generally positive, but also somewhat less enthusiastic than usual. The best and most in-depth OS X Lion review was featured on Ars Technica. Indeed, clocking in at about 27,000 words, it’s so long, the publishers decided to turn it into an eBook you can buy for $4.99.

There were, of course, some other stories we tracked throughout the day as well, so I split today’s episode of Catching Up into two groups: one for Apple and one for non-Apple news.

📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

Google used to be a company where experimentation was encouraged -- or at least it felt like that from the outside. Now it's hard to remember when Google last launched a new product that was an immediate hit. But with NotebookLM and its AI podcasts, Google finally scored

🪧 Pressed words

I don't think anyone outside of Matt Mullenweg had the recent WordPress/WP Engine drama on their bingo card for this year. After a bit of early confusion, I think it's now clear that this is, in many ways, an extension of the open source discussions

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

I've followed the development of quantum computing for the better part of the last decade. For the longest time, it's been "just around the corner" and with the advent of generative AI, any of the hype around the technology has receded into the background.

The week after CrowdStrike

It's been a week... Given everything that's happened lately, it's hard to believe that the CrowdStrike outages hit only a week ago. We're now deep in the clean-up phase of that particular disaster and while the blame for this particular incident falls

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📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

🪧 Pressed words

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

The week after CrowdStrike