Last Week in Plain English

Last Week in Plain English

Google Makes Its Biggest Deal Ever, NVIDIA Bets on Neoclouds

JavaScript fixes its 30-year-old Date API with Temporal, Google acquires Wiz for $32B to buy enterprise security credibility, and Nvidia goes all-in on neoclouds with a $2B Nebius investment.

Mar 17, 2026
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Sunil here, Founder of In Plain English.

Much of the technology we rely on today was designed for a completely different era — smaller systems, less data, fewer users. Those decisions made sense at the time…but decades later, we're paying for it.

Now, across the stack, the industry is revisiting some of its oldest assumptions — from JavaScript’s datetime …

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