Stadia and the Ghost of OnLive
Google unveiled Stadia at GDC yesterday with no price and no release date, and all I could think about was OnLive, the streaming service that promised the same thing in 2010 and died trying.
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Zuckerberg's Privacy Pivot Lands Two Days Before Warren's Breakup Plan
Zuckerberg's new privacy-and-encryption blog post landed two days before Elizabeth Warren's break-up-big-tech plan, and the timing feels like more than a coincidence.
Nineteen Years, One Bad DLL
A 19-year-old path traversal bug in WinRAR's ACE archive handling just pushed me to finally update, and it says something about how much old code we all run without thinking twice.
Two Grand to Fold My Phone? Pass
MWC wraps today with foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei stealing the show, but the $1,980 price tag isn't what worries me. It's the hinge.
Anthem Landed With a Thud
Anthem came out last week and the loading screens alone nearly broke me. A few days in, the cracks in BioWare's big loot-shooter bet are impossible to ignore.
Metro Exodus, the Epic Store, and My Increasingly Cluttered Desktop
Metro Exodus launched last week as an Epic Games Store exclusive, Steam users took it out on an older game's review page, and Ive got some complicated feelings about where PC gaming is headed.
A Weekend of Loading Screens With Anthem
A weekend spent in Anthem's early access turned into a case study in loading screens, and a reminder that this keeps happening to big live-service launches.
Tetris 99 Snuck Out Mid-Direct and Wrecked My Afternoon
Nintendo dropped Tetris 99 mid-Direct and it ate my whole afternoon. Thoughts on why the battle royale mashup actually works, plus the rest of the February 13th Direct.
If Jeff Bezos's Texts Aren't Safe, Yours Definitely Aren't
Jeff Bezos accused a tabloid publisher of blackmail this week over leaked private texts, and it's a good excuse to talk about why regular SMS was never actually private in the first place.
Group FaceTime Is Still Broken on Super Bowl Sunday
A week after the Group FaceTime eavesdropping bug went viral, Apple still hasn't shipped the fix, and it's picked an inconvenient weekend to stay broken.
The FaceTime Bug Story Nobody's Telling: A Mom, a Fax Machine, and a Week of Silence
Apple killed Group FaceTime after an eavesdropping bug went viral, but the real story is that a teenager's mom spent over a week trying to warn them first.
Google's 50 Million Euro GDPR Fine Is Real Money and Also Basically Nothing
France's CNIL just hit Google with the biggest GDPR fine yet over its Android consent flows, and the number matters less than what it says about "click to agree."