The Best Tech Stories of the Day (8/2)

Frederic Lardinois

Aug 2, 2011

Even though it’s the middle of summer, the week is off to a strong start with regard to tech news. Not only did Facebook acquire Push Pop Press (a move, which I have to admit I’m not perfectly happy about as I would have loved to see their product grow and evolve), but we also saw the release of the first comprehensive U.S. broadband report by the FCC and the revelation that about 92% of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers are fake.

You can find those stories – and more – in our daily rundown of the most interesting tech stories of the day:

📝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