Bitcoin Buys You a Tesla Now. It Still Won't Buy Me a Graphics Card
Tesla will now let you buy a car with Bitcoin. Meanwhile the same crypto boom is why I still can't find a graphics card anywhere near its actual price.
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The Part of the NFT Boom Nobody Put on the Invoice
Everyone covered the $69 million Beeple sale. Here's the part of the NFT boom that isn't on anyone's invoice: the electricity, and why I still can't buy a graphics card because of it.
150,000 Cameras and One Exposed Password
A hacker collective calling itself "Arson Cats" broke into 150,000 Verkada security cameras using an exposed admin password, and it made me go check my own front-door cam.
Someone Paid $69 Million for a JPEG and I Have Feelings About It
Beeple's NFT sold at Christie's for $69.3 million and I still can't explain to my brother-in-law what he actually bought. Also: patch your Exchange servers.
Google Swears Off Cookies (For Now)
Google says it won't replace third-party cookies with a new tracking ID once they're gone from Chrome. Here's why I'm not exactly celebrating.
Patching Somebody Else's Exchange Server at 1am
A late-night emergency call to patch a client's on-prem Exchange server against the Hafnium zero-days turns into a rant about why small offices are still running mail servers in closets.
The Texas Freeze Just Made My Graphics Card Hunt Even Worse
The winter storm that knocked out Texas chip fabs a week and a half ago is still rippling outward, and it's landing right on top of an already brutal GPU and console shortage.
A Week Inside the Clubhouse Invite Economy
Notes from a first week inside Clubhouse's invite-only audio rooms, plus how a Monday Tesla Bitcoin filing turned half the app into a crypto discussion by dinnertime.
That Five-Second Reddit Ad
Reddit's five-second, no-budget Super Bowl LV ad quietly outshined every $5.5 million commercial in the break, and I can't stop thinking about why it worked.
The Discord Ban Nobody Believed the Timing On
Discord quietly banned the WallStreetBets server the day before Robinhood restricted GameStop trading, and the coincidental timing did more damage than either company's actual explanation.
The Best Earnings Report Nobody Watched This Week
Apple posted the biggest quarter in its history on Wednesday and almost nobody noticed, because the entire internet was busy staring at GameStop.
A Judge Tells Parler What Everybody Already Knew
A federal judge denied Parler's bid to force AWS back into hosting it, and it's a good excuse to talk about how fragile "your own platform" really is when it sits on somebody else's servers.