Insider accounts of the company reveal a chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and troubles with the SEC
According to Astrobotic’s post-mission report:
After an extensive review of the events before, during, and after Peregrine’s mission, the board concluded that the most likely cause of Peregrine’s anomaly was the failure of a singular helium pressure control valve, called PCV2, within the propulsion system.
The company now offers up to $250,000 to people who find, detail, and demonstrate remote code execution vulnerabilities in Chrome. That more than doubles Chrome’s previous top payout, which sat at $100,115.
[Google Bug Hunters]
The good ol’ days: two fun, funny anchors telling you about the day in sports.
The future, according to ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro:
By the time the flagship ESPN streaming service launches, he said, AI tools will be able to deliver a personalized version of SportsCenter to individual viewers based on their preferences.
Reliable leaker Evan Blass shared a pair of images of what he says is the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition. The device supposedly has a 10.6mm profile when folded shut — potentially making it thinner than the 12.1mm Galaxy Z Fold 6.
A reader asked the Denver Post why it hadn’t covered a grisly and salacious 2014 murder in Littleton, CO. It hadn’t, because the crime never happened.
But there it is on YouTube and Spotify, accumulating millions of views with seemingly AI-generated voiceovers and faces. True crime fans say they reported the videos months ago after YouTube recommended them, but they aren’t being removed.
If you try to download more than three updates at a time, you’ll see a “Pending” status, 9to5Google reports.
Google started allowing multiple full app downloads earlier this year; at the time, you were limited to just two downloads, but 9to5Google says that’s been bumped up to three.
The platform’s Search Visibility Page tells sellers what they should update in their product listings to improve their position in the on-platform search — an important way for sellers to get in front of buyers. That might mean adding a return policy, swapping out a product image, or changing shipping cost.
[www.etsy.com]
The Windows and Surface team split last year when Panos Panay left, with Parakhin’s team building AI-powered web services like Bing Chat / Copilot. Then, this spring, in a shake up as Mustafa Suleyman became CEO of Microsoft AI, Parakhin was out.
He’s since joined the board of an AI startup and with Shopify:
Mikhail will oversee our engineering and data organizations and push Shopify to the cutting edge, not just in ML and AI, but in everything we’re building to make commerce better for everyone.
