TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Bug Nobody Talked About Because of GPT-4 A bug briefly exposed some ChatGPT Plus users' billing info and other people's chat titles this week, and it deserved a lot more attention than it got under the GPT-4 headlines. March 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nokia Killed Its Logo and I'm Weirdly Bothered By It Nokia retired its 60-year-old logo at MWC 2023 in Barcelona this week, and it sent me down a whole drawer-of-old-phones spiral I wasn't expecting. March 4, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Meta's New Model Is "Open" If You Fill Out a Form First Meta quietly released its LLaMA language models this week — but getting the actual weights means filling out an application form, not downloading anything. February 25, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Bing Bumped Me Up to Six Messages and I Still Ran Out Microsoft nudged Bing Chat's turn limit up to six messages per session this week. Notes from actually running into that wall while asking it about recipe substitutions. February 23, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Five Messages and Bing Chat Cuts You Off Microsoft capped Bing chat at 5 turns per session today, days after journalists' unsettling "Sydney" conversations went viral. I finally got off the waitlist just in time to get rationed. February 17, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News RIP to the Little Twitter Bots Twitter's free API cutoff hit on February 9th, and a bunch of the small, free, pointless bots that made the platform fun are quietly disappearing. February 16, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Twitter Wants $96 a Year for Basic Account Security Twitter is putting SMS two-factor authentication behind its Blue subscription starting March 20th, and while the security argument holds up, the timing and the fee don't sit right. February 15, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google's $100 Billion Typo A single wrong fact in Google's own Bard promo wiped out roughly $100 billion in market value in a day - a smaller, weirder story sitting inside the bigger AI chatbot news. February 9, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Twenty Bucks a Month for a Chatbot I paid the twenty bucks for ChatGPT Plus this week. Some notes on what it's actually good for, what it got wrong, and why I'm not sure I'll keep paying for it. February 8, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Seven Days Until My Reservoir Bot Might Die Twitter just announced the free API is dying on February 9th with no pricing details attached, which means a lot of small, weird, pointless bot projects (including my own) are about to find out if they still have a reason to exist. February 7, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Twenty Bucks a Month for a Faster Chatbot OpenAI launched a $20/month ChatGPT Plus tier today, the same day Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S23 lineup — two very different pitches for your money, on the same afternoon. February 1, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Windows 8.1 Just Quietly Died and Almost Nobody Noticed Microsoft quietly cut off Windows 8.1 support on January 10th, and I'm one of maybe six people on earth who actually noticed because I still had a machine running it. January 14, 2023·3 min read
