23andMe filed for bankruptcy this week and state attorneys general are urging users to delete their genetic data before it changes hands. I finally did, and the process taught me more than I wanted to know.
Nvidia's GTC keynote this week had a two-year GPU roadmap and a $3,000 desktop AI computer, but the part I keep thinking about is the robot dog.
Nvidia's GTC keynote promised AI factories and a chip named after an astronomer, but months after launch I still can't buy an RTX 5090 anywhere near its sticker price.
Apple quietly doubled the base RAM on the new M4 MacBook Air to 16GB without raising the price, ending years of shipping 8GB base models. A small, overdue fix worth noticing.
X went down in three waves yesterday and Musk blamed Ukraine within the hour. Here's why I'm not buying the instant, evidence-free version of events.
Apple's new Mac Studio buries an M3 Ultra chip above the newer M4 Max, and the naming makes way less sense than it should.
Monster Hunter Wilds is a massive hit, but a decent mid-range PC still can't hold 60fps without frame generation propping it up.
Mozilla gave Firefox its first-ever terms of use on February 26th, the wording spooked a lot of longtime users, and the hasty rewrite two days later didn't really fix the trust problem.
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet and a new terminal coding tool called Claude Code today, so I installed it and pointed it at my worst Python script.
Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum chip announcement gave me deja vu, given how the last time they claimed to find Majorana particles, it ended in a retraction.
Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's nonprofit got rejected, and Sam Altman's snarky $9.74 billion counter-joke about buying Twitter is the part actually worth talking about.
OpenAI made o3-mini free for everyone right as DeepSeek panic peaked, and the timing is not exactly subtle. Some notes after a weekend of poking at both.
