TechpadinTech News Amazon Turned Sidewalk On Without Really Asking 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. June 9, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Bitcoin Was Never Actually Untraceable 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. June 8, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News First the Gas, Now the Beef 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. June 1, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Notes on the New Blue iMac (and the $200 Catch) 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. May 29, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 28, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 26, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 14, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 11, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 4, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. May 3, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 26, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 24, 2021·4 min read
