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Microsoft is Working with the Security Industry to Prevent Another CrowdStrike Outage

Microsoft published a technical deep dive into what went wrong with the CrowdStrike outage and…

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X Now Uses Public Posts to Train its Grok AI, But You Can Opt Out

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup is now using X public posts to train its Grok…

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WhatsApp Crosses 100 Million Monthly Active Users in the US

WhatsApp has crossed a new usage milestone in the US with 100 million monthly active…

Resiliency
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Resiliency (Premium)

In the wake of the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft has adopted the industry partnership stance I…

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Apple Maps is Now Available on the Web in Beta

Apple Maps is finally available on the web in beta. The web app currently works…

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Microsoft Brings Generative Search to Bing in Early Preview

Last night, Microsoft revealed that it has begun testing a new generative search experience in…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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