The Best Tech Stories of the Day (8/3)

Frederic Lardinois

Aug 3, 2011

The tech news world today was dominated by a few major stories. Google’s assertion that Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies are waging “hostile, organized campaign against Android” through bogus patent claims garnered the most attention. Then, there was the revelation that last week’s story about the low IQ of Internet Explorer users was a hoax (my take here) and the news that Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi is leaving Facebook (and made some ill-timed comments about privacy in the process).

You can find those stories – and more – in our daily round-up 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