A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market
The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS — Get notified of outages that impact you — Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash
GPT-4o mini. I've been complaining about how under-powered GPT 3.5 is for the price for a while now (I made fun of it in a keynote a few weeks ago).
Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account
including sideloading John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Apple begrudgingly allows EU custo...
Apple's €0.50 Core Technology Fee in the EU would lead to a free or freemium app with 2M annual “first installs” paying $540K+ a year even if no money is earned
App developers in the European Union who choose to opt in to Apple's new business terms must pay an €0.50 …
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce …
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times :
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Spotify redesigns its app's core homescreen with album and playlist covers and a TikTok-like vertical scroll of playlists, video podcasts, and more
Spotify is redesigning the core homescreen of its app, trying to make it easier for users to find new stuff to listen to — and watch.
Microsoft releases a Windows 11 update that adds the new AI-powered Bing search to the taskbar, Phone Link for iOS, screen recording, Notepad tabs, and more
here's what it looks like Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows, will it last? Brad Linder / Liliputing : Windows 11 update brings AI-powered Bing ...
Twitter delays its new paid API launch by “a few more days”, claiming “there has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API”
it's another to see exactly what that entails. @kottke@botsin.space : These updates about the Twitter API continue to be insulting and full of bullshit. Enthusiasm. Optimal exper...
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend
For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
What to expect from Apple's March 8 event: a 5G iPhone SE, an iPad Air, a new Mac, and a “wild card” preview of a new monitor, an iMac Pro, or a smaller Mac Pro
Kuo: a more powerful Mac mini and a more affordable 27-inch external display without mini-LED will launch in 2022, a Mac Pro and an iMac Pro are coming in 2023
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Spotify expands real-time lyrics to all users globally in partnership with Musixmatch, after initially launching in 26 markets
and easily share them with friends. Who's ready? https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ... #SpotifyLyrics https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
Spotify expands real-time lyrics to all users globally in partnership with Musixmatch, after initially launching in 26 markets
After years of ignoring consumer demand for in-app lyrics, particularly in the U.S., Spotify announced today it will make a new Lyrics feature available to all global users …
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions
We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings
Enable the new (bad) tab experience in settings — Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas …
Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS
Even some three year old computers may not be able to run the OS. — Traditionally, we think of Windows as the operating system …