My Reddit Front Page Just Disappeared
Half of Reddit's biggest subreddits went private overnight after the company fired its AMA coordinator with no warning to mods — a look at what that reveals about who actually runs these platforms.
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Jack Dorsey Is Back (Interim, Wink Wink)
Jack Dorsey officially becomes Twitter's interim CEO today while somehow still running Square. Some thoughts on why that's a strange arrangement and what actually needs fixing.
The Tumblr Post That Made Apple Blink
Taylor Swift's Tumblr post about Apple Music not paying artists during the free trial got Apple to reverse course in about a day, and that's a more interesting story than the launch itself.
The Ok Google Blob Hiding Inside "Open Source" Chromium
Chromium's been quietly downloading a closed-source voice-hotword module, and the real story isn't "Chrome spies on you," its that "open source" apparently comes with an asterisk now.
What the Apple Music Reversal Actually Proved
Taylor Swift called out Apple Music's plan to not pay artists during the free trial, and Apple reversed course in about 18 hours. The speed of it says more about leverage than fairness.
Amazon Made Up a Shopping Holiday
Amazon announced Prime Day yesterday, a one-day sale on July 15th tied to Amazon.com's 20th anniversary. Some thoughts on why a made-up shopping holiday still works on people like me.
Shenmue III Broke Kickstarter and I Have Been Useless At Work
Shenmue III's Kickstarter shattered records this week, and this is less a news recap and more a personal meltdown from someone who's been waiting fourteen years for a sequel.
LastPass Got Breached and Im Not Panicking
LastPass disclosed a breach of email addresses, password hints, and authentication hashes this week. Heres why Im rotating my master password instead of ditching the whole idea of a password manager.
The Shenmue III Number Just Won't Stop Climbing
Sony's E3 conference delivered Shenmue III, and the Kickstarter that followed blew past its $2 million goal faster than any video game project ever has, plus a few thoughts on The Last Guardian and Fallout 4's new release date.
Bethesda's First E3 Show Cost Me a Night's Sleep
Bethesda's first-ever E3 press conference brought Fallout 4 gameplay, a surprise same-day launch of Fallout Shelter, and cost me most of a night's sleep.
When the Antivirus Company Gets Hacked
Kaspersky Lab says its own network got hit by a new, memory-resident piece of nation-state malware called Duqu 2.0, and the details are a lot more interesting than the obvious irony joke.
The Story WWDC Week Buried
While everyone's timeline is full of Apple Music and WWDC hype this week, a much bigger and quieter story got a day and a half of coverage: the OPM breach affecting millions of federal employees' data.