On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure’s East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. Attempted allocations for virtual machines failed. The root cause wasn’t a network breach, misconfiguration, or other complex technical mishap. It was something shockingly basic: a lack of capacity. A sudden surge in demand outstripped

Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages and the newly refined type hinting in Python 3.14 are just two examples, and the brand new, in-beta installation manager also helps. We get you started with all three—and more—in this week’s Python Report. Top

Every now and then, you run into some genuinely surprising new Android option that actually makes you sit up and say: Whoaaaa. (Kindly apply an early-90s Keanu affectation onto that when reading it in your mind, if you would.) This week, my fellow Android-appreciating animal, I had exactly that sort of moment. And, as often

If you’re new to Google Sheets, our Google Sheets cheat sheet can quickly get you up and running with the popular web-based spreadsheet app. Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to dig in with a few intermediate tips. We’ll guide you through a fast way to clean up your data; how named ranges can

Google Sheets is a powerful spreadsheet app that you use through your web browser. It stores your spreadsheets in the cloud with Google Drive. In addition to the web app, there are Sheets mobile apps for Android and iOS. Anyone with a Google account can use Sheets and Drive for free. They’re also part of

Just in time to build up the late-summer Apple product refresh hype, news of a big collection of product upgrades has magically appeared as Cupertino puts the finishing touches to its iPhone keynote event invite. To help Apple fans monitor the impact of the latest leaks on their blood oxygen levels, the company also helpfully reintroduced some support for oxygen

The AI boom has created a record-breaking wave of new billionaires and high company valuations in the past year at a rate unprecedented in history, according to CNBC. CB Insights reports there are now 498 AI “unicorns” (private companies worth at least $1 billion) with a combined value of $2.7 trillion — and 100 of

For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company “gave

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering mind behind AI industry-transforming neural networks, who’s often referred to as a “godfather of AI,” says we need to infuse AI with “maternal instincts” to save humanity from rogue AI. Though his work on neural networks helped to usher in the large language models (LLMs) that dominate Silicon Valley today, these days,