Technology
Three stories a day on the technology that changes how businesses run, chosen for what they mean rather than how loud they are.
Technology at The First Click is not a gadget page. Each weekday at 11 we choose three stories for the reader who has to decide something because of them: the chief technology officer sizing a refresh, the founder reading a funding round for what it says about the market, the security lead who needs to know which assumption just expired. The beats are AI and machine learning, enterprise software, cybersecurity, semiconductors, and startups and funding. Every story is summarised in our own words and links to the publisher who reported it. Beneath the day’s lead sits an editor’s note: why we chose it over the alternatives, and what to watch next. On Fridays the funniest of the week gathers in pubLOL, and every second Sunday a Ctrl+Shift column takes one technology question at length.
Every story we have kept in Technology, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
A nine-year-old ran up 118,000 dollars in Google Ads charges promoting his Roblox and Minecraft YouTube channel on his father's corporate credit card, after an initial 20 dollar budget ran out.
New Apple CEO Finally Vows To Get Rid Of "Sent from Iphone" From Email App
Satire imagines an incoming Apple chief executive finally deleting the Sent from iPhone signature, on how long a smartphone-era default outlives the era that made it.
Editor's noteThe joke only works because the button it wants deleted stopped meaning anything years before anyone with the authority to remove it showed up. A default this stale surviving that long is evidence less of nostalgia than of how little attention leadership pays to the small defaults it inherits.
World’s Ugliest Hawaiian Shirt Was Designed to Make You Invisible to AI Surveillance Cameras
A Berlin designer tuned a Hawaiian shirt against detection algorithms until their confidence collapsed. Real, not satire: adversarial print meant to hide a wearer from surveillance cameras.
