A Cable, Ten Billion Dollars, and One More Delay
NASA pushed the James Webb Space Telescope launch again, this time over a loose communication cable, days before it's set to finally fly.
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My Weekend Patching a Minecraft Server for Log4Shell
A personal, slightly panicked account of patching a home Minecraft server (twice) after Log4Shell blew up the internet's Java software this week.
The Morning Half the Internet Lived in Virginia
A big AWS outage this morning knocked out Ring, Disney+, Venmo and Amazon's own site all at once, and it made me think about how invisible cloud dependencies are until they're not.
Graviton3, SageMaker Canvas, and Vegas Being Vegas Again
AWS re:Invent came back in person last week with Graviton3 chips and a new no-code ML tool, but the real story is how absurd the gap has gotten between what AWS builds and what most of us actually need.
Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Grind Is Already Wearing Me Out
Halo Infinite's multiplayer dropped as a surprise free launch tied to Xbox's 20th birthday, and after a weekend with it the gunplay's great but the battle pass XP grind is already grating.
YouTube Just Took Away the Smoke Detector
YouTube just hid the public dislike count and I have a lot of unhedged opinions about losing the one honest metric the platform had left.
Peloton Just Had The Worst Day Anyone Saw Coming
Peloton's stock got cut to pieces this morning after the company admitted demand is drying up. Anyone who's walked past a bike collecting laundry could've called it.
The Word Meta Wasn't Sitting There Empty
A week after Facebook renamed itself Meta, a small complaint about a company trying to own a word that tech nerds already claimed decades ago.
Same Company, New Nameplate
Facebook renamed its parent company to Meta this week, right on the heels of a giant leaked-documents story - the timing is the part that actually stuck with me.
The New MacBook Pro Brought My Ports Back
Apple's new MacBook Pro brought back the HDMI port, SD card slot, and MagSafe charging they took away in 2016 — and after five years of dongle drawers, I have feelings about it.
The Bitcoin ETF That Isn't Really a Bitcoin ETF
The first US bitcoin futures ETF (BITO) launched this week to a huge debut, but it doesn't hold actual bitcoin, and almost nobody buying it seems to know that.
Two More Days Until Apple (Maybe) Kills the Touch Bar
Apple's invite for Monday's "Unleashed" event went out earlier this week, and I've spent way too many hours reading rumor roundups instead of doing actual work.