TechpadinTech News 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. April 18, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 16, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. April 9, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 29, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 27, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 21, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 15, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 12, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 5, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. March 4, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 25, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 10, 2021·3 min read
