Amazon Announced SageMaker Today and I Still Just Want a Cheap Box
Amazon used today's re:Invent keynote to launch SageMaker and a $249 camera called DeepLens, and I spent the whole livestream thinking about how little of it I actually need.
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Uber Knew for a Year and Said Nothing
Uber admitted today that it covered up a 2016 breach affecting 57 million users for over a year, paying hackers $100,000 to stay quiet. Some thoughts on the driver's license numbers and my own password habits.
The Fork That Got Called Off
SegWit2x got cancelled last Wednesday and instead of a quiet news day, Bitcoin Cash spent the weekend briefly overtaking Ethereum while bitcoin itself whipsawed a couple thousand dollars.
The Pixel 2 XL Screen Thing Is Kind Of A Mess
Google's $849 Pixel 2 XL has been out a week and reviewers keep finding the same screen problems. I almost bought one anyway.
KRACK and My Graveyard of Unpatched Gadgets
The KRACK wifi flaw dropped today, and patching my laptops was the easy part — the real mess was the pile of forgotten smart plugs and printers that will never see a fix.
iOS 11.0.3 Fixed My Crackling Phone Calls
iOS 11.0.3 quietly fixed the crackling call audio on my iPhone 8 Plus, and it's got me thinking about why new iPhones ship with these bugs every single year.
Turns Out It Was All Three Billion
Yahoo quietly revised its 2013 breach number this week from one billion accounts to all three billion it ever had, which sent me digging through a Yahoo Mail inbox I'd forgotten I still owned.
iOS 11's Broken "I" Is Driving Me Insane
iOS 11 has been quietly turning lowercase "i" into "A" plus a broken symbol for about a week now, and my texts have been reading like ransom notes because of it.
Google Didn't Buy HTC, It Bought HTC's Brain
Google didn't buy HTC, it bought about 2,000 of HTC's engineers for $1.1 billion, and that says more about the smartphone business in 2017 than the iPhone 8 launch does.
The Watch That Can't Quite Call Home
A few days in with the cellular Apple Watch Series 3 and the LTE bug that keeps it from finding a signal, plus a bleak little aside about Equifax's CEO stepping down the same week.
That Cellular Apple Watch Everyone's Suddenly Not So Sure About
The Apple Watch Series 3's cellular connection has been glitching out for reviewers all week, and I'm glad I didn't pre-order one.
iOS 11 Showed Up and Quietly Murdered My Flashlight App
iOS 11 landed this week and quietly wiped out thousands of old 32-bit apps. Mine included, and I'm still a little annoyed about it.