Catching Up: The Best Tech Stories of the Day

Frederic Lardinois

07 Jul 2011 — 1 min read

We can only write so many stories here, but we read (or at least skim) through quite a few more throughout the course of any given day. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking stories we saw today. Here is a round-up of the best stories we found today.

Today’s Headlines: Six Strikes, iPhone 5 Redesign and ARM Supercomputers

Today’s news wasn’t dominated by just one or two stories as some earlier days this week. Instead, we have a good mix of news and analysis covering a wide range of topics, including a story about using ARM chips to develop supercomputers to simulate the human brain and a discussion of the “six strikes” copyright enforcement plan that a group of major ISPs in the U.S. agreed to today.

We are using Pearltrees to curate these stories. Just click on a headline that looks interesting to you and an overlay with the article will appear. Use the arrow buttons at the top of the screen to navigate between stories.

📝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

Today’s Headlines: Six Strikes, iPhone 5 Redesign and ARM Supercomputers

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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