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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.
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Cisco workforce reductions
Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction. Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction.
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Google has abandoned Google News?
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
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Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports
Hertz announced a $168 million settlement covering 364 claims against them, at an average of just over $460,000 per customer. There are perhaps a dozen more customers who are suing Hertz, that are not a part of the settlement. I have to think that in many of those cases the customers believe the egregiousness of their…
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Amazon Go and the Future
Amazon Go exemplifies how Amazon is building its monopoly in three ways: horizontally, vertically, and financially. Plus, why automation is worth being optimistic about.
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Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
The reduction of CI/CD minutes aligns with the majority of free user usage
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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down.
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Don't squander public trust on bullshit
a tragedy of the public emergency system commons...
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How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world....
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The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s “exhaustion doctrine”
Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could allow companies to keep a dead hand of control over their products, even after you buy them. The case, Impression Products v. Lexmark International, is on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who last year affirmed...
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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne
Learn how XBOW achieved #1 performance in autonomous penetration testing by validating real exploits and outperforming human pentesters in speed and accuracy.
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The Pendulum Swings, Again
In the early days of computing, computers were physical monsters, occupying large rooms or even whole buildings. Acess to them was closely guarded, you were lucky if you had access at all, let alone close-up and personal access. That was reserved for the system operators, the people tasked with the relatively boring…
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The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs
We had no idea how close we came to being crushed.
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Amazon Health
Amazon Health doesn’t seem like much now, but there are hints it could be the ultimate application of Aggregation Theory.
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Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
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Yes, The CIA Spied On Congress
Why? The torture report, of course: Late last night, McClatchy reported that the CIA inspector general has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the CIA illegally monitored C…
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Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard
iPhone users—this one’s for you. Meet Gboard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard.
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Goodbye YC
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View,...
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Don Valentine has died
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Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value
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What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?
The old economic world may be leaving us, but its pathologies stubbornly remain.
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Introducing Windows 11
At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.
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