SpaceX finally flew the Block 5 Falcon 9 on Thursday, and I watched the whole thing instead of doing actual work, while my inbox quietly turned into a graveyard of updated privacy policies.
While everyone was talking about Google's assistant calling a hair salon, SpaceX quietly flew the first Falcon 9 Block 5 and landed it on a droneship, the boring hardware change that actually matters.
Some notes on Tesla's rough Q1 earnings call, where Elon Musk dismissed analyst questions as "boring" and handed the mic to a YouTuber instead.
Twitter admitted this week that a bug had been logging passwords in plain text internally, and it finally scared me into cleaning up a decade of terrible password habits.
Facebook started showing everyone a notice this week about whether Cambridge Analytica got their data. Mine did. Here's what that actually looked like on my own account.
Spotify skipped the usual IPO circus and just started trading on the NYSE yesterday. Some thoughts on the direct listing structure, and a separate complaint about Discover Weekly going stale.
Panera Bread sat on a data leak for eight months after a researcher warned them, and their own damage estimate doesn't match what independent researchers found.
MyFitnessPal (owned by Under Armour) disclosed a breach affecting about 150 million accounts. A personal rundown of getting the email, the bcrypt vs SHA-1 detail, and yet another round of password cleanup.
Elon Musk deleted the Facebook pages for both Tesla and SpaceX overnight after a Twitter dare, and the offhand way it happened says more than another Cambridge Analytica recap would.
The web quietly turned 29 this week, and Tim Berners-Lee marked it with an open letter that reads less like a birthday card and more like a warning.
HMD Global brought back the yellow Matrix-famous Nokia 8110 slider at Mobile World Congress last week, and it's got me thinking modern phones lost all their personality.
GitHub just survived the biggest DDoS ever recorded, and the mechanism behind it (misconfigured memcached servers) turned out to be way dumber, and way more relevant to small server owners, than you'd expect.
