TechpadinTech News 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. February 11, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 3, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. February 1, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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." January 23, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinTech News It's the Far Side, Not the Dark Side China's Chang'e 4 pulled off the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon last week, and it's bugging me how many headlines still call it the "dark side." January 7, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody Has Actually Found This Drone The couple arrested over the Gatwick drone shutdown were released with no evidence against them, and nobody's actually produced a drone. Some thoughts on a story that outran its own facts. December 26, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Tumblr's Filter Can't Tell Soup From Porn Tumblr's new adult content filter went live yesterday and it's flagging everything from soup bowls to knitting patterns as explicit, while actual affected communities scramble to leave. December 18, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google+ Finds a Second Way to Die Google just moved up the Google+ shutdown after a second data-exposing bug hit 52.5 million accounts. A look at why the pattern matters more than the bug itself. December 16, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 64 Satellites, One Rocket, and a Cold Cup of Coffee SpaceX crammed 64 satellites onto one Falcon 9 rocket last week, and I got up early to watch it. Also: digging through old Starwood account emails after the Marriott breach news. December 9, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Tumblr's Porn Ban and the Robots Getting It Wrong Tumblr's incoming porn ban kicks in December 17th, and the automated filter doing the flagging is already misfiring badly on art, fandom content, and even grapes. December 8, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Bethesda's Idea of an Apology Is Five Bucks of Pretend Money Bethesda's response to the Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition bag swap was to offer angry buyers five dollars of in-game currency, and it's a perfect little case study in how not to apologize. December 1, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Real Story of Landing Day Was Two Briefcases The real hero of Mars landing day wasn't the InSight lander, it was two briefcase-sized cubesats nobody's talking about that relayed the touchdown signal home in near real time. November 29, 2018·3 min read
