TechpadinTech News I Sat Through the Artemis I Scrub So You Didn't Have To NASA scrubbed the first Artemis I launch attempt on August 29 over a stubborn engine sensor, so here's what three hours of couch-watching and some very rough per-launch cost math felt like. August 31, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News GPU Prices Are Finally Coming Back Down to Reality Nvidia's latest earnings show gaming GPU revenue cratering, and after two years of scalped prices, that's actually good news for anyone trying to buy a graphics card. August 25, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Your Phone Number Was Never a Good Password Signal disclosed today that the Twilio phishing breach exposed around 1,900 users' phone numbers, which got me ranting about why SMS verification is still load-bearing for so much of our security. August 15, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Fake IT Text Message Is All It Took Twilio disclosed today that a fake IT text message was all it took to phish employee credentials and get at customer data. A look at why the boring attacks keep working, and why I'm finally ditching SMS codes on my own accounts. August 7, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Pushes Back the Cookie Apocalypse, Again Google pushed the third-party cookie phaseout in Chrome back again, this time to late 2024. A rundown of why, plus why I don't quite believe the new date either. July 28, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Make Instagram Instagram Again Instagram's push toward a TikTok-style algorithmic feed sparked a very online backlash this week, complete with Kardashian-approved protest graphics and a sudden BeReal obsession. July 26, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Cloud Has No AC A record UK heat wave took down parts of Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud's London data centers this week, and it's a good reminder that "the cloud" is just a building with a thermostat. July 20, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Netflix Beat the (Very Low) Bar Netflix's Q2 losses came in lower than feared, thanks partly to Stranger Things 4 — but the real story is the ad tier and password-sharing crackdown quietly taking shape underneath it. July 19, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Webb Images Everyone's Sharing Aren't the Interesting Part NASA's first full James Webb images went public this morning, and the raw data landed in the public archive right alongside them — which is the part actually worth paying attention to. July 12, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Webb's First Deep Field, and a Website That Couldn't Handle It NASA and the White House released the first full-color James Webb Space Telescope image last night, and I spent twenty minutes fighting NASA's own website just to download the full-res version. July 11, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Copilot Isn't Free Anymore GitHub Copilot left preview and got a price tag this week ($10/month, free for students and OSS maintainers) - some notes on nine months of free access, the bugs it quietly hands you, and the licensing argument that isn't going away. June 24, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Diablo Immortal and the Hundred Thousand Dollar Character Diablo Immortal came out a week ago and the internet already did the math on what a maxed-out character actually costs. Spoiler: its not pretty. June 9, 2022·4 min read
