TechpadinTech News Netflix Raised Prices, Then Six Days Later Told Us Growth Is Slowing Netflix raised US prices on January 14th, then six days later warned investors that subscriber growth is stalling out. The stock tanked in after-hours trading. January 20, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News When Kazakhstan Went Dark, Bitcoin Felt It Kazakhstan's internet blackout this week is a human rights story first, but it's also quietly rattling Bitcoin's global hash rate since the country hosts a huge share of the world's mining. January 6, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News CES Without Half of Tech Actually Showing Up Half of tech just bailed on CES 2022 over Omicron, my press-release inbox didn't get the memo, and Kazakhstan shutting off its entire internet put the whole drama in perspective. January 4, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Log4j Patch Number Four Just Dropped and I'm Done Apache shipped Log4j 2.17.1 on December 28th, the fourth patch in three weeks, and it ate what was left of my holiday. December 29, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. December 21, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. December 15, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. December 7, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. December 6, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 20, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 12, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 4, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. November 2, 2021·4 min read
