In this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law
Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’
In this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future.
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
In this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices.
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working.
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation.
Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight
In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable.
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
Rails 7 FTW | WFH is SOP | 586M Passwords Dumped
In this week’s The Long View: Ruby on Rails 7.0 is go, working from home is still de rigueur, and HIBP gets far, far bigger.