WhatsApp vs. India: The Encryption Fight Nobody's Talking About
WhatsApp sued the Indian government over traceability rules that would break end-to-end encryption, and it's getting buried under bigger headlines this week.
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Nvidia's Mining Limiter and the Great GPU Price Non-Drop
Nvidia rolled out mining-limited RTX cards the same week Bitcoin crashed under $30k, and I'm still stuck refreshing eBay for a GPU at anything close to retail.
The WhatsApp Deadline Is Tomorrow and Nothing Dramatic Is Happening
WhatsApp's delayed privacy policy deadline hits tomorrow, and the reality of what happens is way less dramatic than the January panic made it sound.
The Dogefather Sketch and a Very Bad Night for Doge
Elon Musk called Dogecoin "a hustle" during his SNL hosting gig this weekend, and the coin tanked live on air. A few thoughts on watching it happen.
The Epic v. Apple Trial and the 15% I Actually Pay
The Epic v. Apple trial started this week, and instead of the monopoly arguments, I keep thinking about the 15% App Store cut I actually pay as a tiny developer.
One Week of Tapping "Ask App Not to Track"
A week into iOS 14.5's tracking prompts, most people are just saying no — plus a Dogecoin tangent I didn't plan on writing.
iOS 14.5 Day One: So Many "Ask App Not to Track" Popups
iOS 14.5 landed today and brought App Tracking Transparency with it, so I spent my morning tapping "Ask App Not to Track" on every app I own instead of drinking coffee.
A Used Rocket Just Flew Four More People to Orbit
SpaceX launched four astronauts on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster that had each already flown a human crew before, and somehow that quietly matters more than this week's shinier headlines.
Ingenuity Can Wait, My PS5 Restock Cannot
Skipping the Coinbase recap everyone else is running this week to talk about NASA's Mars helicopter getting delayed again, and my own much lower-stakes wait for a PS5 restock.
The Coin That Ate My Hard Drive Budget
Chia cryptocurrency's "proof of space" mining is chewing through SSDs and driving up hard drive prices, and I felt it firsthand trying to buy a 4TB drive for my NAS.
Signal Added Crypto Payments and I Have Mixed Feelings
Signal quietly added a MobileCoin-powered payments beta this week, and while the Facebook leak ate all the headlines, this smaller story has me more conflicted.
Please Do Not Let Microsoft Turn Discord Into Skype
Bloomberg says Microsoft's in talks to buy Discord for $10B+, and given what happened to Skype, I've got some opinions. Plus: I may have spent four days watching a stuck ship on a map.