Catching Up: The Best Tech Stories of Today

Frederic Lardinois

05 Aug 2011

Every day, we round up the most interesting tech stories of the day here. Unlike most days, today wasn’t dominated by a small number of stories that broke during the morning, so instead of focusing on just a few major events, today’s list consists of a more eclectic mix of stories than usual.

The selection ranges from a discussion of where Mozilla should focus its energies on in the near future by the organizations’ own chair Mitchell Baker, to an overview of the flaws that a Google engineer found in a major anti-virus product.

Read those stories – and more – by clicking on any of the headlines 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