From The Verge: In an interview with CNBC, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the July 19th outage caused by a CrowdStrike update cost his company half a billion dollars in five days. Delta canceled more than 5,000 flights that weekend and had blue error screens still visible at airports days after...

From PC Mag: Following last week's update disaster, CrowdStrike shareholders are suing the cybersecurity company over its plummeting stock price.

The Plymouth County Retirement Association, which bought shares in CrowdStrike, filed a securities class-action lawsuit against the Texas-based...

From PC World: On Tuesday July 30, users worldwide experienced disruptions with Microsoft services connected to the company’s Azure cloud platform.

According to initial reports, the outage mainly involved Microsoft 365 products, but eventually problems also surfaced with the Admin Center, Intune...

From The Verge: After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data.

“Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which...

From Tom's Hardware: Online retailer Newegg has announced the start of its new CPU Trade-In Program this morning, along with a limited-time PC Trade-In Program with Intel. The full PC Trade-In program will run until August 11th, and CPU trade-ins are expected to join GPU trade-ins as an evergreen...

From TechCrunch: Google has released a trio of new, “open” generative AI models that it’s calling “safer,” “smaller” and “more transparent” than most — a bold claim, to be sure.

They’re additions to Google’s Gemma 2 family of generative models, which debuted back in May. The new models, Gemma 2 2B...

From PC Mag: Spotify is lifting restrictions on lyrics for free accounts less than a year after the music-streaming service capped users at three songs per month.

As Engadget reports, the change may take some time to show up as Spotify plans a slow rollout.

“At Spotify, we’re always testing and...

From PC World: Skype is already used by many people for communication, but it’s set to become even more attractive in the near future as Microsoft moves to make extensive changes to the service.

Instead of integrating more ads—as the company has been doing with Windows—Skype will now be completely...

From The Verge: Another round of layoffs has hit Bungie. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons made the announcement on the studio’s website, citing the increasing costs of development and economic conditions as the reason for the reduction of staff — a refrain that’s become common in the last two years of...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is excited to unveil a new addition to its lineup of high-performance gaming mouse pads: the MM500 v2 Series. Featuring a precision-enabling hybrid cloth material, MM500 v2 mouse pads offer advanced tracking consistency across a full 360° range of direction. For...