TechpadinTech News An Evening With Claude Opus 4.1 A late-night test of Anthropic's new Opus 4.1 model, fixing a years-old RSS scraper script, and a small complaint about AI naming schemes. August 6, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Bot Wearing a Trench Coat Cloudflare accused Perplexity of dodging robots.txt blocks with spoofed browser signatures, and it's got me digging through my own server logs wondering what's actually crawling this blog. August 5, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Silicon Heartland Just Got Smaller Intel's Q2 earnings call confirmed deeper layoffs and pushed Ohio fab completion out to the early 2030s, even as the stock rose on the news. A look at the gap between the 2022 groundbreaking hype and where things actually stand. July 26, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Perplexity Wants You to Stop Browsing and Start Delegating Perplexity's new Comet browser went out to Max subscribers this week, and its whole pitch is that you shouldnt have to click around the web yourself anymore. Im not sure Im ready for that. July 11, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Guy In the Passenger Seat Tesla's Austin robotaxi launch had a human safety monitor riding in the passenger seat the whole time, which says more about the actual state of the tech than the press coverage did. June 23, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Afternoon Spotify and Discord Went Down A big Google Cloud outage on June 12th took down Spotify, Discord and a bunch of other apps for a few hours — some notes on what it's like to lose your background noise mid-workday, and how the story got buried under WWDC coverage. June 14, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody Was Driving That Car A handful of Waymo robotaxis got torched during the LA protests this week, and the weirdest part isn't the fire, it's how naturally an empty self-driving car became a political symbol. June 12, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Silksong Showed Up Again and I Still Don't Trust It Watching the Xbox Games Showcase from a work tab, a Silksong trailer I still don't trust, and a case against sponsor breaks in game reveals. June 8, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Elon Threatened to Strand the Astronauts, Then Deleted the Tweet Elon Musk threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon capsule NASA uses to reach the ISS during his blowup with Trump, then quietly deleted the tweet hours later. June 6, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The $250 Line Item Nobody Asked For Google I/O dropped a $249.99/month AI Ultra tier today, and thats a weirder story than any single feature they announced alongside it. May 20, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Skype Ringtone Is Gone For Good Microsoft actually shut Skype down this week, and going through old blog-era Skype history turned out to be more of a gut punch than expected. May 10, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Finally Got Kuiper Off The Ground Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites finally launched this week, but the real story is a looming FCC deadline, not a Starlink rivalry. May 2, 2025·3 min read
