You won’t have to do any back-and-forth planning once this update to Google Workspace rolls out.
To use it, you’ll click the new calendar button in the message toolbar to propose time blocks via a window on the right. Then, the recipient can choose the one that works best.
Convenient! Availability starts today for some, with a wider rollout beginning July 31st.
Perhaps reacting to Threads’ 100 million user milestone, Elon Musk tweeted today that “cumulative user-seconds per day of phone screentime... may hit an all-time record this week.” He noted that stat, “as reported by iOS & Android, is hardest to game.”
Anyway, here’s a probably-unrelated video.
That’s not something I thought I’d be typing today, but what else is new? Anas Haqqani, a Taliban leader, tweeted his support of Twitter, saying other competitors can’t replace it (via Vice Motherboard).
He lauds its “freedom of speech,” calling Meta “intolerant.”
Vice quotes Aram Shabanian, an OSINT manager for nonpartisan think tank New Lines Institute, who is surprised the Taliban endorses Twitter:
“Zuckerberg is clearly the Mullah Omar of this situation,” Shabanian said, referring to the founder of the Taliban and previous ruler of Afghanistan. “You may not like him, but at least you know what you’re getting...”
“Unlike going with Musk, who represents a lawless, profit-driven society. Musk is all balls, no shaft, as the ancient Armenian proverb goes.”
Apple dropped new Rapid Security Response updates — the aptly-named updates that let it quickly address security issues — today that address potentially-active exploits:
Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
The new versions are iOS 16.5.1 (a), iPadOS 16.5.1 (a), and macOS Ventura 13.4.1 (a). Apple’s first such update went out in May.
[Apple Support]
Microsoft Dev Box, which was offered as a developer-only preview in August last year, gives developers cloud-based workstations for building and testing software projects using development tools that already run on Windows.
Microsoft said at Build in May that it would launch the Dev Box workstations in July.
[Azure Blog]
The two posted on Threads today, with Zuckerberg posting that the march to 100 million users of the new Twitter clone over the last five days has been mostly organic.
Mosseri, who heads up Instagram, said in a post he can’t wrap his mind around the platform’s early success. Mosseri has previously said that ads are an eventual “champagne problem.” One wonders if the company might not be ready to pop the cork sooner than expected.
