TechpadinTech News 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. October 30, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. October 24, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. October 23, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. October 16, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Week and a Half Into Windows 11, and the Taskbar Is Still Bugging Me A week and a half into Windows 11: snap layouts are great, the taskbar redesign is not, and a completely unrelated Twitch breach got me to finally turn on 2FA everywhere. October 15, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Captain Kirk Actually Went Up There William Shatner flew to space this morning on Blue Origin's New Shepard, and watching a 90-year-old Captain Kirk actually leave the atmosphere messed with my head more than I expected. October 13, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Twitch Leak Nobody's Talking About Because Facebook Fell Over First The Facebook outage ate all the headlines this week, but the Twitch data leak — full source code, three years of streamer payouts, and a mysterious Steam competitor codenamed Vapor — is the more interesting story. October 7, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Boring Certificate That Broke My Kitchen Tablet The DST Root CA X3 cross-sign expired on September 30th and quietly broke old Android phones, firewalls, and my ancient kitchen recipe tablet. October 1, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 15 Landed and Safari Still Isn't Settled iOS 15 landed yesterday, and the most interesting part isn't Focus mode or Live Text, it's that Apple's summer-long Safari redesign backlash actually changed what shipped. September 21, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Windows 11 Has a Date and My PC Might Not Be Invited Windows 11 finally has a release date, October 5th, but my perfectly good desktop is one CPU generation too old to officially qualify, and the TPM 2.0 saga still isn't fully sorted out. September 3, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News October 5th It Is (My Spare PC Still Says No) Microsoft set October 5th as the Windows 11 release date this week — notes from two months on the Insider build, plus a rant about the still-murky TPM 2.0 requirement. August 31, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News T-Mobile Got Hacked Again and I Finally Changed My PIN T-Mobile's breach numbers keep climbing (47 million and counting) and I finally got around to changing my account PIN. Some thoughts on why "two years of free identity protection" doesn't fix a permanent problem. August 24, 2021·3 min read
