Best of Tech News — March 2026

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   Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

   Alphabet has structured a three-year compensation package for Google CEO Sundar Pichai potentially worth $692 million, largely tied to performance metrics including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture. The deal could make Pichai one of the highest-paid executives globally. Meanwhile, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been making headlines for purchasing lavish Miami properties, widely interpreted as a response to California's proposed Billionaire Tax Act targeting net worths over $1 billion.

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   Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

   Accenture has agreed to acquire Ookla — the company behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics — from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Accenture plans to integrate Ookla's network performance and monitoring data into its offerings for communications providers, hyperscalers, and government clients to optimize Wi-Fi and 5G networks. Additional use cases include AI infrastructure resilience, fraud prevention, and retail analytics. Ookla reported $230.7 million in revenue and $76.1 million net income in 2025, and processes 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month. Ziff Davis originally acquired Ookla in 2014 for just $15 million.

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   What Has YouTube Become?

   A comedic tech news roundup covering YouTube surpassing Disney in revenue at $62 billion in 2025, Intel's Core Ultra 200S Plus chip refresh aimed at recovering from Arrowlake's gaming reputation issues, Meta's acquisition of Moltbook (an AI agent social network), plus quick hits on Apple MacBook Neo launch, Hisense forced TV ads controversy, a court order against Perplexity's AI shopping agents, a useful Windows 11 update, and a leaked Lenovo tablet with a JBL speaker.

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   Firefox Loves all 20 Window 7 Users

   Mozilla has extended Firefox 115 ESR security updates for Windows 7 users by another 6 months, pushing the end-of-life deadline to August 2026. This marks the fourth such extension since the original September 2024 cutoff, giving Windows 7 users over 6 years of support beyond Microsoft's official January 2020 end-of-support date. Microsoft itself continues pushing Defender updates to Windows 7 and even Vista. The piece humorously questions when software companies should stop supporting legacy operating systems.

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