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Faceplant in the mud
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How the Mighty Have Faceplanted (Premium)

In the 1990s, Microsoft destroyed many once-great companies. These days, they're just committing suicide. Case…

Google Play Adds Collections Widget, New Play Points Rewards, and More

Google Play now offers a new Collections widget in the US that highlights content from…

Google

Alphabet/Google Revenues Jumped 14 Percent in Q2

Google's parent company Alphabet reported it earned a net income of $23.6 billion on revenues…

Meta AI

Meta AI Expands to More Countries, Adds New Languages and Features

Meta has made several AI-related announcements today, including an expansion of its Meta AI assistant…

Netlix sucks
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Netflix Sucks and So Does Spotify and All the Rest (Premium)

In an ideal world, we would pay companies for the products and services we use…

A victory for cookies everywhere

Bowing to Regulatory Pressure, Google Abandons Plans to Kill Third-Party Cookies

After four years of delays, Google has finally abandoned its plans to replace third-party cookies…

Windows kernel: Safe or not?
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Not a Great Look (Premium)

Something has been nagging at me since Microsoft blamed the EU for the CrowdStrike outage.…

Windows Recovery

CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft’s Antitrust Problems

Microsoft this morning raised an interesting point about the CrowdStrike Internet outage that continues to…

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Microsoft: CrowdStrike Mishap Impacted Less Than 1 Percent of Windows PCs

The CrowdStrike outage this past week was devastating, but it impacted less than 1 percent…

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Botched CrowdStrike Update Triggered Microsoft Infrastructure Outage Overnight

Security firm CrowdStrike misconfigured a Windows security update, triggering a massive worldwide Internet outage.

Microsoft pays off CISPE

Microsoft Will Likely Avoid EU Antitrust Charges for Cloud Licensing

One week after it settled with CISPE, Microsoft has convinced OVHcloud to drop its EU…

Proton Scribe

Proton Launches Privacy-Focused ‘Scribe’ AI Writing Assistant

Proton announced today the launch of Proton Scribe, a privacy-focused AI writing assistant that will…

Microsoft Designer

Microsoft Designer Gets a Mobile App and New Integrations With Microsoft Apps

Microsoft Designer is getting free mobile apps and new integrations with Word, PowerPoint, and the…

Google Docs

Google Expands Markdown Support in Docs, Slides, and Drawings

After adding basic Markdown support in 2022, Google is expanding its support for Markdown in…

Microsoft Satya Nadella AI

The UK’s CMA is Investigating Microsoft’s Hiring of Inflection AI Employees

The UK’s CMA is investigating Microsoft’s hiring of key Inflection AI staff to determine if…

New Opera for iPhone and iPad

Opera for iPhone and iPad with New UI is Available in Beta

Opera announced a beta version of its mobile browser for iPhone and iPad that's been…

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