Is DOGE still there? The latest reporting [1] I've seen is that it's leaderless and has more or less just been absorbed into other organizations. This aligns with DOGE not posting anything for several months now.
If I trade in my phone, I want my trade-in offer now. Instead, the full value of whatever trade-in deal provided is split over 36 months as bill credits.
While the new phone might actually be “free” in one of these promotions, it’s not, naturally, because you’ve been thrown into a 36 month installment agreement separate of the cellphone service they’ve sold you on (that they also claim is “price locked” while independently raising surcharges and other fees).
With inflation such as it is, finance it and don't be concerned about a temporary lock. Most carriers will unlock it after X months and/or for travel. Let the phone carrier eat it and conserve capital.
This article links to a Forbes article that states it was a leak of a Saleforce instance that contained contact information about small and medium businesses.
This PCWorld article seems to be taking that to mean that every single gmail account (2.5B) is at risk with nothing to support that claim.
MarkMonitor is a registrar (one of many). GoDaddy Registry is the .us registry operator (the only one); they actually operate the TLD on behalf of the government. In this capacity they are not operating as another registrar, but as the TLD operator.
"It would be amiss not to start without a reference to AI, as 2024 saw the movements toward legal definitions and prohibited AI practices with the EU’s AI Act. 2024 also saw more innovative integration of AI into registrars’ service offerings, from “chatbots” to registration process flow to domain name generators. We also witnessed the rise of LLM (or Large Language Models) being used in Brand Protection Services and the identification of abusive registrations. This trend will definitely be increasing in 2025."
Puget Systems has similar publications covering their experience building client systems, though not always in the same level of detail. They also have PugetBench to benchmark systems in real-world applications/workflows.
It was dead long before Google was involved. Pebble filed for insolvency back in 2016 with Fitbit acquiring much of the assets. It was dead at this point. 5 years later Google bought Fitbit.
