𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡, 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 | 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐏𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧
In this week’s TechPulse bulletin, we break down the major outage that disrupted both ChatGPT and X, and examine Cloudflare’s role in the incident. We also explore emerging reports suggesting a potential leadership change at Apple next year.
Another headline gaining traction is the rumored comeback of Vine, reappearing online in a new form called “Divine.” We analyze what the revival could mean for creators and the short-form content landscape.
We also highlight the Google Play Store’s Best Apps of the Year, covering standout picks across categories.
To wrap up, we bring you an inside look at Oppo’s software labs in Shenzhen, offering exclusive insight into the company’s device testing and development workflows.
Welcome to the latest episode of Tech Pulse Newton. This is your host through Mon. Let's dive into all the tech news that you need to learn for this week. Team on November 18th when Jag, GPT and other major online services including X and Canva experienced the widespread global outage due to a technical failure at cloud flare. The Causeway is not a cyber attack. A configuration file view to large and crashed software systems that manage traffic for several cloud flare services. Another update comes from the world of short form content. Wine is making a comeback. Yes, you heard that right. It is being brought back with a rebrand dubbed Divine. And it is being brought back by none other than Jack Dorsey. Yes, the founder of Twitter. But yes, there is a hook. New users need to submit original content and not AI generated videos in order to join the platform. Next news comes from the world of Apple. John Turner's name is doing the rounds for the next CEO of Apple following Tim Cook's decision to step down at the end of this year. The news of Mr. Tim Cook stepping down as the Apple CEO has been doing the rounds for a while. In other news, Google announced the best of Play Store applications of 2025. Best application honor was given to district movies events and dinings as the best app of 2025 the best game of 2025 was awarded to cookie run India a running game you can check out the entire list of winners by heading to Google's own blog next news comes from China last week we were in Shenzhen in oppose brand new facility where they run their hardware and software test we have already put out a dedicated hardware video in this particular bulletin we will quickly tell you about the software side that we observed oppo is very serious when it comes to bug. Lifting and making sure that the OS is very smooth. Color OS is the name of their software. As it turns out, this particular skin is tested thoroughly and we were shown multiple blocks and rooms where the phones were being tested using multiple assets that phones were being tested for thermal capacity and also debugging. So this was our news for this week. Make sure that tune into next week for more tech news. We'll see you on the next one.