From ExtremeTech: Google has shifted gears after being caught flat-footed by OpenAI and Microsoft. The search giant has integrated its Gemini AI into numerous products, but that's not the only Google AI. The company also offers a collection of open-source models, and it's adding some new options...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report.

“While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial...

From Tom's Hardware: AMD still has to introduce its codenamed Strix Halo processor for ultra-high-performance laptops, but we occasionally get confirmations about this APU's monstrous specifications. This week, an unknown blogger posted excerpts allegedly from AMD documents revealing some extra...

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...