X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/x-relaunches-a-re…
On the face of it, a technical detail – but aren’t details like that what make Europe a superpower? A single market for V2G, for example, absolutely requires these harmonised network codes - technical specifications for electricity - as a prerequisite.
https://www.e…
Several members of Armenia's opposition were arrested Friday
while a major pro-Russia party asked the top court to annul this month's election win by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's ruling party,
alleging electoral violations and suppression of the opposition.
The opposition "Strong Armenia" party appealed to the Constitutional Court
to invalidate election results or call a second round of voting,
and denounced the arrests of opposition po…
Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-ne…
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they're not good https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 (archived at https://ar…
We also talked about a "Chaos Monkey" exercise, where random people would be chosen to step out for a period of time to see how it impacts the organization. This really helps identify organizational over-reliance on people who could burn out/be arrested/otherwise be neutralized. It forces an organization to be more resilient because disruption becomes a normal thing that people must adapt to. When a real disruption happens, it's already something people have practiced for.
U.S. Ambassador to France,
Charles Kushner,
whose son Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka,
clashed with his French hosts weeks after arriving last July
when he accused them of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
Nearly a year later, he contends the problem has gotten worse
— so much so that he has suggested the Trump administration grant refugee status to French Jews, even as it otherwise scales back asylum provision.
“It would be an obje…
Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/busines