Month: June 2023
Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules
A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now. The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint on Monday seeking to get the restraining order and a preliminary injunction, and the court has…
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Instagram’s new music-sharing status feels like the return of MySpace
What is old is now new again as Instagram is updating its Notes status tool with a new music-sharing feature. This information comes from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg who shared the update via the Broadcast channel on his Instagram account (which is only viewable on mobile). He states that users…
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Logitech’s CEO is leaving for another job
Logitech’s CEO of 10 years is leaving the company for a new job. Bracken Darrell has resigned and will be “departing the Company to pursue another opportunity,” according to a Logitech press release. Darrell’s resignation is effective Tuesday, but he’ll stay at Logitech “over the coming month to ensure a…
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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results. With Google’s generally poor search results nowadays, appending “reddit” has long been the default way I search…
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Amazon’s server outage is breaking fast food apps like McDonald’s and Taco Bell (and also The Verge)
An outage within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup was affecting a number of internet services, including our website, but has been resolved. The AWS Health Dashboard noted problems of degradation on multiple services in the US-East-1 region that started around 3PM ET. The most recent update from…
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Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after three years even if nothing’s wrong
If you’ve owned an HP laser printer like I have, you’ve probably replaced a toner cartridge just because the printer warned you it was depleted. But buried in the printer’s settings is a way to override the message and continue printing 100, 200, or even an indefinite number of sheets…
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