Newsletter

It has been a while. I tried to do weekly newsletters, but I got too busy to do it weekly, so now I’m going to do it whenever I want. I still want it to be weekly, but I am…

US regulators seek to break up Google, possibly forcing Chrome sale As reported by the Associated Press, U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search…

Cox Media Group uses your phones microphone to serve you ads First discovered by 404 Media, as reported by Futurism, Based on leaked documents, the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called “Active Listening”…

Telegram CEO Durov faces preliminary charges in France As reported by Associated Press, French authorities handed preliminary charges to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France…

Google’s online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules This isn’t part of BBC’s article, but, according to Statcounter, Google Search has 91% market share on all platforms and 95% on mobile. It’s surprising how it took for Google to…

Intel lays off 15,000 employees and their stock price is at its lowest in over a decade Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sent a note to all employees after their second-quarter 2024 earnings were published on Aug. 1, 2024. This note…

Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World As reported by WIRED, Banks, airports, and TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread…

Nearly all AT&T Cell Customers’ Call and Text Records Exposed in a Massive Breach As reported by TechCrunch, U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to…

Computex 2024 Coverage Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon X Elite As reported by Forbes, With an impressive lineup of over 20 launch laptops featuring the new Snapdragon X Elite CPU, including the Dell XPS 13, Qualcomm’s bullish attitude to this year’s Computex…

Google leaked a ton of technical search algorithm details by accident As reported by The Verge, A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today. Until…