Catching Up: Today's Best Tech Stories (7/26)

Frederic Lardinois

Jul 26, 2011

Today was a pretty busy day in the tech world. Not only did we see the aftermath of Amazon’s and others’ decisions to pull features from their apps to avoid Apple’s rules for in-app purchases, but we were also treated to an old-fashioned bitchmeme about the state of tech blogging.

One interesting phenomenon of the rise of Google+ is also how it has reinvigorated MySpace founder Tom Anderson (a.k.a. MySpace Tom). Today, he wrote a good TechCrunch guest post about the things he learned at MySpace that could help Google+ in the long run.

You can find those stories – and many others – in the Pearltrees widget below.

📝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