TWiG 674: Happy Leap Schmear - Tech earnings tanked, Instagram changes, TikTok in China, leap second

Alphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter.

Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected.

Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'.

Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.

Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook.

Zuck Turns Up the Heat.

Sunset of the social network.

@elonmusk: The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine.

Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'.

Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.

Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant.

TikTok's Pink Sauce chef defends her viral condiment.

Today's TikTok culinary horror: pizza sacrilege.

Why Does the Prison-Life Content on TikTok Feel So Familiar?

A Fond Farewell to the Chaotic Italian Sandwich Man of TikTok.

Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps.

Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image.

Google Play gets a new logo for its 10-year anniversary.

Hangouts on Air is back as Google Meet brings YouTube livestreaming to free Gmail.

Pixel's At a Glance widget starts showing Air Quality (AQI) alerts.

Google Drive, Docs, and other Workspace apps getting optimized for Android tablets.

Chromecast with Google TV finally supports streaming live video from new Nest Cams, Doorbell.

Chromebooks are getting a new, more advanced Google Photos movie editor.

Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.

Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing.

The drive to save Choco Taco.

Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of a seven-year-old opponent.

Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024.

Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.

How to Use BeReal, the 'Unfiltered' Social Media App.

Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.

Why Amazon is buying a little-known medical provider for $3.9 billion.

Frankfurt airport boss blames travel chaos on black suitcases.

Picks:

Stacey - @secengineer on TikTok.

Jeff - @jeffjarvis: Well, damn, now I'm crying all over again. Newport put up two high-quality and complete videos from @jonimitchell's set.

Ant - Mac Arnold's 80th birthday celebrated with blues jam.

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