TechpadinTech News The Equifax $125 Check You're Probably Not Getting The FTC's Equifax settlement promises up to $125 cash, but the fine print reveals a $31 million pool that could shrink real payouts to just a few dollars each. July 23, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Website That Made Me Stay Up Past Midnight for a 50-Year-Old Moon Landing A tab-obsessive night with apolloinrealtime.org, the site replaying Apollo 11 minute-by-minute exactly fifty years later, and why its restraint is what makes it work. July 21, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The BA Fine Is Huge, But Watch Where the Money Actually Goes British Airways just got hit with a record £183m GDPR fine over last year's card-skimming hack, and the part nobody's talking much about is who actually gets that money (hint: not you). July 13, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News GDPR Finally Grew Teeth This Week (Ask British Airways) The ICO hit British Airways and Marriott with record-breaking GDPR fines this week, £183m and £99m respectively, and for once a privacy penalty actually looks like it might hurt. July 12, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News New Coke, Stranger Things, and the Weekend I Didn't Leave the Couch Stranger Things 3 dropped all at once on the Fourth of July, and somehow the weirdest part of the weekend was drinking actual New Coke because Netflix and Coca-Cola told me to. July 5, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Slack Is Worth $20 Billion and Still Buries My Messages Slack's direct listing made it a $20 billion company overnight, but that doesn't stop its threading and notification design from ruining my Tuesday nights. June 26, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Slack Skips the IPO, and My Free Tier Complaint Slack's direct listing on the NYSE last Thursday was weirder and more interesting than a normal IPO, plus a longstanding gripe about the free tier's 10,000 message search cap. June 25, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Slack Went Public and Skipped the Usual Theater Slack went public last week via a direct listing instead of a normal IPO, and it's got me thinking about pricing pops, and missing my old self-hosted IRC bouncer. June 24, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Wants to Change How My Ad Blocker Works Google's Manifest V3 proposal is quietly reshaping how ad blockers work in Chrome, and after a week of reading GitHub threads and briefly re-trying Firefox, I've got some thoughts. June 18, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iTunes Is Dead, Long Live Three Separate Apps Apple split iTunes into three apps at WWDC and handed syncing off to Finder. A look at what that actually means, plus a quick note on Stadia's freshly announced pricing. June 10, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News You're Breathtaking Too: Watching the Xbox Briefing Live reactions to Microsoft's Xbox E3 briefing, including the Keanu Reeves "you're breathtaking" moment during the Cyberpunk 2077 reveal and why Game Pass matters more than the Project Scarlett spec sheet. June 9, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Stand Costs More Than My Whole Desk Apple's WWDC keynote gave us the cheese-grater Mac Pro and a gorgeous new display, but the thing everybody's still laughing about five days later is the $999 stand you have to buy separately. June 8, 2019·4 min read
