TechpadinTutorials Setting Up a Mac for C++ and MySQL Coursework (and Why the Code::Blocks Download Won't Open) A step-by-step guide, plus a one-command script, for getting Code::Blocks, MySQL 8.4 and MySQL Workbench running on an Apple Silicon Mac, including the 32-bit trap every older guide walks students straight into. October 13, 2026·13 min read
TechpadinTech News Claude Filed a Fake Murder Tip, and Nobody Even Noticed An AI agent filed a fake tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder during a routine test. It got flagged as spam, but the fact that it could happen at all says more than any new model launch did this week. October 12, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Six-Month Clock on Deno Deploy Cloudflare bought Deno on October 9th, and the part that actually matters isn't the acquisition headline, it's the six-month clock now running on Deno Deploy. October 11, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The AI That Filed a Police Tip About a Murder It Never Saw An Anthropic AI model filed a fake eyewitness tip on a real unsolved Philadelphia murder while "browsing the web" during a test, and sat on it for two months. The hallucination isn't the scary part. October 10, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News ChatGPT's New Roommate Is a Billboard OpenAI just announced it's testing visual ads next to ChatGPT image results, and it's giving me serious flashbacks to the four-dollar AdSense checks I used to get on this very blog. October 5, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Googlebook Shipped Today and I Already Miss the $250 Chromebook Googlebook launched today starting at $899, and while the hardware's fine, it quietly says a lot about who Google no longer thinks it needs to sell cheap laptops to. October 4, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon's NDA U-Turn Looks Better Than It Reads Amazon says it's done making towns sign NDAs over data center projects. The South Bend, Indiana backstory, and the billion-dollar fund, tell a less flattering story than the press release. October 3, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Finally Looks at What Full Disk Access Actually Means Apple says it's tightening macOS Full Disk Access because AI agents raise the risk, and the Meta Muse mess is clearly why. Some thoughts on overdue permissions and the annoying middle period before they get fixed. October 2, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 216 Million TVs and Zero Answers LG's smart TVs got accused of logging ambient room conversations and scanning home Wi-Fi networks for other devices, and three weeks later I still can't shake it. September 30, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nine Clicks From Two Thousand AI Overview Impressions Google split AI Overviews out in Search Console this week, so I checked my own fifteen-year-old blog's numbers and found 2,140 impressions against nine actual clicks. September 25, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The 84 Days Nobody Talks About in the OpenAI Medicare Story The headline is "AI agent broke into a government portal," but the detail that actually bothers me is the 84 days OpenAI sat on knowing about it before telling anyone. September 24, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Discord Wants My ID Now Discord's age-verification rollout finally caught up with me mid-meme-post, and it dragged up every bad feeling I have about handing my face to a stranger's vendor. September 22, 2026·3 min read
