Robinhood went public this week and let users buy the IPO shares straight through its own app, an odd little loop worth picking apart, plus a quick note on Amazon's rough earnings day right next to it.
Zuckerberg spent Facebook's Q2 earnings call pitching a "metaverse" future, and I'm not sure I buy it — plus a Steam Deck reservation and a week of mask-mandate whiplash.
Valve's Steam Deck preorders went live this week and I tried (and maybe failed) to snag one, plus some thoughts on the base model's storage and how it stacks up against the new Switch OLED.
Biden's new executive order tells the FTC to go after manufacturers who block third-party repair, and it name-checks farmers hacking their own tractors right alongside phone screens.
Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 11 on Thursday, but thanks to a leaked build I'd already been living with the rounded corners and centered taskbar for over a week.
A full Windows 11 build leaked days before Microsoft's official reveal, so tomorrow's big event already feels like a recap. Some thoughts on the centered taskbar, leak culture, and running an old VM to poke around.
A leaked build of the next Windows landed on forums this week, a full eight days before Microsoft's own event, and I could not resist installing it in a VM.
Nintendo's E3 Direct confirmed Metroid Dread is real after sixteen years of rumors, plus another moody Breath of the Wild 2 teaser with still no release date.
Amazon switched on its Sidewalk bandwidth-sharing network for Echo and Ring devices by default this week, buried the opt-out three menus deep, and I have complaints about that pattern in general.
The DOJ says it recovered $2.3 million of the Colonial Pipeline ransom by tracing bitcoin on the blockchain — a smaller and more specific story than the headlines make it sound.
A ransomware attack on JBS, the world's largest meat processor, hit right after Colonial Pipeline, and I noticed it first at the grocery store checkout.
My new blue 24-inch iMac arrived this week, and between the $200 price gap for Touch ID and the leftover chin, I've got some notes.
