Catching Up: The Most Interesting Tech Stories of the Day (6/29)

Frederic Lardinois

29 Jun 2011 — 1 min read

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

After yesterday’s Google madness, today’s news focused on putting Google+ into perspective. Then, of course, there was also the news about MySpace, which was sold off for $35 million today and a merry assortment of other stories that didn’t get a lot of play, but are worth reading and are hence included in our list below.

As an experiment, 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

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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