TechpadinTech News Almost Fell For The Google Docs Worm A close call with Wednesday's Google Docs phishing worm, and why the OAuth permission screen it exploited is basically useless as a warning system. May 6, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News F8's Ugly Opening, and the Filters That Followed Facebook opened F8 2017 by addressing the Cleveland Facebook murder video, then pivoted straight into AR camera filters and a VR hangout app for the Rift - the tonal whiplash stuck with me more than either announcement did. April 20, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Preordered the S8, and That Fingerprint Sensor Placement Is Even Dumber Than It Looked in Photos I preordered the Galaxy S8 this weekend, and I've got thoughts on that awkwardly placed fingerprint sensor, the Bixby button that does nothing yet, and why I'm just glad the headphone jack survived. April 10, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Used Rocket Fly Again SpaceX relaunched a used Falcon 9 booster this week for the SES-10 mission, and I spent my Thursday evening glued to a livestream instead of doing anything productive. April 2, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The House Voted Tuesday, So I Went and Bought a VPN The House vote to kill broadband privacy rules sent me down a rabbit hole of VPN shopping, router firmware, and a Skype call that wouldn't stop stuttering. March 31, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News So Congress Just Voted to Let Comcast Sell My Browsing History The House voted 215-205 this week to kill FCC rules that would've made ISPs ask before selling your browsing history. Im finally setting up that VPN Ive been putting off for two years. March 30, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News So I Guess I'm Buying a VPN Now The House just voted to let ISPs sell your browsing history without asking first. Since I only have one ISP option where I live, I finally caved and paid for a VPN. March 29, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Forget the Red iPhone, the $329 iPad Is the Real News Apple's red iPhone got all the headlines this week, but the quietly announced $329 iPad from that Chicago classroom event is the part that actually matters. March 23, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Kills the iPad Air Name, Ships a $329 Replacement Nobody Announced Apple quietly killed the iPad Air name and dropped a $329 replacement, plus a red iPhone 7, both announced without an event on the same day Twitter turns 11. March 21, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My Left Joy-Con Keeps Dropping Out, and I'm Not the Only One Twelve days after launch, my left Joy-Con keeps losing connection mid-fight in Breath of the Wild, and a quick look around says it's not just my unit or my apartment's wifi. March 15, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Part of Yesterday's AWS Outage Was the Status Page That Couldn't Admit It Half the internet broke yesterday when S3 fell over in us-east-1, and the funniest part was AWS's own status dashboard, whose little health icons live on S3 too. March 1, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Same Pad, Different Rocket SpaceX launched from Kennedy's Pad 39A on Sunday for the first time since the shuttle program ended, and I watched the whole thing instead of doing literally anything productive. February 21, 2017·4 min read
