Netflix can’t fire its way out of this downward spiral
Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters assured investors this week that they have nothing to be concerned about. Sure, the company was going to lay off 1,000 employees, downsizing its product, tech, and legal departments, and was ousting its chief…
Brick’s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling
Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new device that's designed to help you cut back on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: instead of requiring…
Google targets AI agents’ idle-time costs with new compute service
As enterprises scale AI agents, Google is betting that idle infrastructure costs could become a major barrier to adoption. To address that challenge, the company on Thursday launched Agent Compute Engine, a service that suspends ...
Retro gaming is being overrun with AI
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone…
How Rank Trackers Say They Handle Suspect Google Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Rank trackers describe how they check suspect Google results, what customers see during checks, and what they say about reprocessing and past results. The post How Rank Trackers Say They Handle Suspect Google Results appeared first on Search Engine Jou...
Startup equips genetically enhanced dogs with Palmer Luckey’s military tech
A new Texas-based defense startup has a plan to improve military and police dogs in the US: it's going to genetically modify them and equip them with Anduril's military technology. Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril's Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm,…
CA shutdown puts Java, containers, and security appliances in the certificate crosshairs
A certificate authority’s decision to abandon the global SSL/TLS market is exposing a weakness many organizations rarely examine: their dependence on complex PKI trust chains. Following the compromise of private keys behind e...
No, the iPhone Duo isn’t a small phone
When we published our review of the iPhone Duo, I got a lot of hopeful questions from my fellow Mini fans who took note of the cover screen's Mini-ish 5.4-inch size. "Is this… a small phone that turns into a tablet?" they asked. And I'm sorry to be the…
Don’t assume resilience from your cloud provider
The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by a “power event” affecting London-based data cen...
When resilience is out of your control
The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by a “power event” affecting London-based data cen...
