Simon Willison’s Weblog

20th August 2007 - Link Blog

Skype: What happened on August 16. Windows Update caused a massive global reboot, which destabilised Skype’s peer to peer network due to the flood of log-in requests.

Posted 20th August 2007 at 2:11 pm

Recent articles

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything - 19th May 2026
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes - 19th May 2026
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal - 7th May 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 20th August 2007.

peertopeer 1 skype 3 windows 39

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe