TechpadinTech News Musk's Midnight Saboteur Email Elon Musk emailed the whole Tesla staff overnight accusing an employee of sabotage. The theory is interesting, but the framing is what actually caught my attention. June 18, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Week Into the GitHub Panic, and Nobody Actually Left A week after Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub deal, the mass exodus to GitLab mostly fizzled out, though their import queues sure didn't feel like it on Tuesday night. June 10, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Weekend Half of GitHub Tried to Move to GitLab Bloomberg's Friday report that Microsoft was closing in on GitHub sent developers into a weekend-long panic, and GitLab straight into a traffic spike. Some thoughts from someone who did NOT export all his repos. June 3, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Echo That Mailed Itself An Amazon Echo in Portland recorded a private conversation and mailed it to a stranger, no hack required. It's a smaller, weirder story than GDPR week deserved more attention. May 31, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Rocket Land While My Inbox Fills With Privacy Policies 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. May 15, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Falcon 9 Block 5 and the Boring Future of Rockets 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. May 13, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Boring Bonehead Questions 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. May 7, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News That Twitter Password Bug Finally Got Me Off My Butt 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. May 5, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Turns Out My Data Got Scraped Too 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. April 10, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Spotify Skipped the Ceremony 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. April 4, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Panera Bread Sat on a Data Leak for Eight Months 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. April 2, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News So MyFitnessPal Got Popped Too 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. March 30, 2018·4 min read
