Catching Up: Today’s Most Interesting Tech Stories

Frederic Lardinois

Jun 14, 2011

We can only write so many stories here every day, but we read (or at least skim) through a few hundred every day. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking stories we saw today.

As an experiment, we’re using Pearltrees to curate these stories. Just click on a headline that sounds interesting to you and an overlay with the article will appear. Use the arrow buttons at the top of the screen to navigate between stories.

🪧 Pressed words

I don't think anyone outside of Matt Mullenweg had the recent WordPress/WP Engine drama on their bingo card for this year. After a bit of early confusion, I think it's now clear that this is, in many ways, an extension of the open source discussions

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

I've followed the development of quantum computing for the better part of the last decade. For the longest time, it's been "just around the corner" and with the advent of generative AI, any of the hype around the technology has receded into the background.

The week after CrowdStrike

It's been a week... Given everything that's happened lately, it's hard to believe that the CrowdStrike outages hit only a week ago. We're now deep in the clean-up phase of that particular disaster and while the blame for this particular incident falls

Return From the Cloud

Renting servers in the cloud isn't cheap. Traditionally, the argument has been that it's still cheaper than buying your own hardware and having a dedicated staff managing servers. Plus, you get to benefit from the innovations that Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Co. are bringing to market.

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🪧 Pressed words

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

The week after CrowdStrike

Return From the Cloud