TechpadinTech News Somebody Actually Agreed to Run Twitter for Elon Elon Musk says he's hired a new Twitter CEO without naming her, and the rumor mill has already landed on an NBCUniversal ad exec. Some thoughts on why that pick would actually make sense. May 11, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Part of the WGA Strike That's Actually About AI The WGA walked out yesterday, and the part of their AI proposal actually worth paying attention to isn't the ban-the-robots headline, it's the fine print about pay. May 3, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Toggle I've Been Waiting For OpenAI quietly added a way to turn off ChatGPT's chat history (and stop it training on your conversations) right as Italy lifted its ban. I've been asking for this since December. April 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Part of the Starship Launch Wasn't the Rocket The Starship test flight ended in a fireball everyone covered — but the wrecked parking lot six miles away in Port Isabel is the part I can't stop thinking about. April 24, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Three Checkmarks Elon Decided to Pay For Twitter ripped the legacy blue checkmarks off this week, and Elon Musk personally comped verification for exactly three people. Some notes on the pettiest tech story of the week, plus a Starship tangent. April 23, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Wants to Charge for Its API and I'm Worried About Apollo Reddit just announced it's going to start charging for API access, and while the headlines are about AI scraping, the part that actually worries me is what it means for apps like Apollo. April 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Banned ChatGPT and I Kind of Get It Samsung banned ChatGPT for employees after a few code-leak scares, and it made me think hard about the time I almost pasted a client's code into it myself. April 16, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Quietly Names Its AI Titan, And Nobody Blinks AWS rolled out Bedrock and a model called Titan this week, and the most interesting part isnt the tech, its how little anyone reacted. April 14, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News So Long, Twitter Bots (And My Dumb Little Cross-Poster) Twitter's new API pricing just killed off the Big Ben bot and a bunch of other tiny hobby accounts - and it might take my decade-old blog cross-poster down with it. April 8, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Git History Twitter Didn't Open Source Twitter open-sourced its recommendation algorithm on GitHub, and I lost a Friday night reading it. Some notes on Home Mixer, SimClusters, and a suspiciously clean git history. April 2, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My Mom Texted Me the Pope in a Puffer Coat A fake AI photo of the Pope in a puffer coat fooled my mom, and it's got me thinking about what Midjourney v5's quality jump actually means. March 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Bug Nobody's Talking About Anymore OpenAI quietly confirmed that a bug briefly exposed ChatGPT Plus payment details for some subscribers. A look at the actual incident report, not the GPT-4 hype cycle. March 28, 2023·3 min read
