TechpadinTech News Reddit Finally Admits What Everyone Already Knew Ellen Pao is out as Reddit's CEO and a co-founder is stepping back in. A few thoughts on the mod blackout, the pile-on, and why the "founders return" narrative doesn't sit right. July 11, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My Front Page Went Dark and I Had No Idea Why A bunch of my favorite subreddits went private out of nowhere last week. Here's what the AMAgeddon mod blackout actually looked like from the reader's side. July 7, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hacking Team Leak and a Very Bad Week to Sell Spyware Hacking Team, the Italian firm that sells intrusion software to governments, got hacked itself over the weekend, with 400GB of its internal files dumped for anyone to grab. July 6, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Apple Music, Five Days In: My Library's a Mess Five days into the Apple Music free trial and iCloud Music Library has already scrambled half my carefully ripped collection. Some early impressions, good and bad. July 5, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 3, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 1, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 27, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 25, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 24, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 23, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 19, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. June 18, 2015·3 min read
