Jul 24th 2024
This Week in Google 778
Wet and Winded
Prime Day Injuries, Broken Goo.gl Links, Brat
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- Craig Newmark and pancakes
- After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
- Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
- Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage
- Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
- Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
- NYT vs OpenAI
- Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025
- Deadpool and Wolverine are Google’s first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]
- Google’s Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo
- X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
- CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?
- An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The ‘Hotdoggers’ Are OK.
- The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk’s X
- Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “more comfortable” with new appearance after AI interview
- Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses
- “Ignore all previous instructions”
- The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
- Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
- Stolen Buttons
- Succession comes to life
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Links
- Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
- Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage - The Official Microsoft Blog
- Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike
- Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
- Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025
- Google’s Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo
- Deadpool and Wolverine are Google’s first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]
- Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones
- X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
- CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?
- An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The ‘Hotdoggers’ Are OK. - The New York Times
- The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk’s X
- Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “more comfortable” with new appearance after AI interview
- Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses
- “Ignore all previous instructions”
- Meta just took the AI fight to OpenAI in a big way — here's how Llama 3.1 beats ChatGPT
- Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
- Stolen Buttons
- Succession comes to life