TechpadinTech News The EU Copyright Vote and What It Actually Means for a Blog Like This The EU Parliament just approved its negotiating mandate on the Copyright Directive, Article 13 and Article 11 included. Some thoughts from a small link-heavy blog on what actually changes (not much, yet) and what genuinely worries me (not the part everyone's yelling about). September 13, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News An Invite and an Empty Chair Apple's invite for the September 12 event landed alongside a Senate hearing where Google left an empty chair — two very different kinds of tech news on the same day. September 5, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fortnite Android Bug Fight Nobody Needed A Labor Day catch-up on the Fortnite-for-Android sideloading mess and the testy security disclosure fight it kicked off between Epic and Google. September 3, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Turning Off "Location History" Doesn't Turn Off Location History The AP's report that Google keeps logging your location even after you switch Location History off sent me straight to my own account settings, and yeah, it's true. August 19, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching the Parker Solar Probe Launch at 3AM Skipping the Tesla and Fortnite headlines this week to talk about staying up until 3am to watch NASA's Parker Solar Probe launch, and why the heat shield numbers actually got me. August 17, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Fortnite Android Scam That's Eating YouTube Right Now Fortnite for Android is skipping the Play Store, and a wave of fake APK scam sites is already cashing in on the confusion before the real release even lands. August 11, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Fortnite Is Skipping the Play Store, and That Should Worry You More Than It Excites You Fortnite for Android is skipping the Google Play Store entirely, and while it's a smart money move for Epic, sideloaded APKs plus millions of kids searching for download links sounds like a malware problem waiting to happen. August 9, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Chrome Just Started Shaming My Old Links Chrome 68 started flagging every plain-HTTP site as "Not Secure" last week, which sent me down a rabbit hole checking old links on this very blog. August 1, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Chrome Just Called My Blog "Not Secure" Chrome 68 just started marking every plain HTTP page as "Not secure," including this one, so I finally stopped putting off moving techpad to HTTPS. July 29, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The $5 Billion Fine and My Old Galaxy Nexus The EU just hit Google with a $5 billion fine over Android bundling. Here's why that made me think about rooting my old Galaxy Nexus back in 2013, not about the legal fine print. July 21, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Checking My Follower Count After Twitter's Bot Purge Twitter's follower purge made celebrity accounts bleed millions overnight, and it had me refreshing my own tiny follower count for no good reason. July 14, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News IGTV and My Tired Arm Instagram launched its standalone IGTV app today with vertical-only, up-to-an-hour video. I tried it over lunch and my arm got tired. June 20, 2018·3 min read
