TechpadinTech News Everyone Was Watching Apple. 48 States Were Watching Google. While the whole internet obsessed over the new iPhone cameras, 48 states quietly launched a joint antitrust investigation into Google three days earlier. September 12, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Night I Blamed My Router for Wikipedia Being Down Wikipedia went down for hours this weekend thanks to a DDoS attack, and it took me way too long to realize it wasn't my own wifi acting up. September 6, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The CEO Got Locked Out of His Own House Jack Dorsey's own Twitter account got hijacked through a relic SMS-tweeting feature from 2006, and it says a lot about why SIM swaps keep working. August 31, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Titanium Card Finally Showed Up My Apple Card showed up in the mail this week, a blank titanium slab with no numbers on it, and here's what actually surprised me after activating it. August 26, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Nobody Saw Coming Apple accidentally reopened an old security hole in iOS 12.4, and for the first time in years the current version of iOS is jailbreakable. A look at the bug, and some nostalgia for the Cydia days. August 25, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Note10 Ditched the Headphone Jack and I'm Weirdly Sentimental About It The Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ hit stores yesterday, and the detail that actually stuck with me wasn't the price - it was Samsung finally dropping the headphone jack on its last holdout flagship. August 24, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Reading Cloudflare's S-1 at 1 AM Cloudflare filed its IPO paperwork this week, and I spent way too long reading the actual S-1 instead of just skimming a headline about it. August 17, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Adam Neumann Sold WeWork the Word "We" for $5.9 Million WeWork's newly public S-1 filing is a wild read, especially the part where Adam Neumann sold his own company the rights to the word "We" for $5.9 million. August 15, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Killed the Note's Headphone Jack and I'm Not Over It Samsung's new Note10 lineup dropped the headphone jack this week, and after years of Samsung mocking Apple for doing the same thing, it stings more than it should. August 9, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Killed the Headphone Jack on the Note, and the Irony Is Not Lost on Me Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note10 today and finally killed the headphone jack, three years after mocking Apple for doing the exact same thing. August 7, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Capital One Thing Wasn't a Password Problem The Capital One breach wasn't a stolen password, it was a misconfigured firewall and an AWS metadata endpoint handing out IAM credentials for the asking. August 1, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Capital One Hack Wasn't Even Clever Capital One says a hacker got at data on over 100 million people through a misconfigured firewall, not some brilliant zero-day. That's the part that should actually worry you. July 29, 2019·3 min read
