TechpadinTech News I Let an AI Loose in My Terminal for an Afternoon Anthropic dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet and a new terminal coding tool called Claude Code today, so I installed it and pointed it at my worst Python script. February 24, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Majorana 1 and My Deja Vu Problem Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum chip announcement gave me deja vu, given how the last time they claimed to find Majorana particles, it ended in a retraction. February 22, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The $9.74 Billion Joke Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's nonprofit got rejected, and Sam Altman's snarky $9.74 billion counter-joke about buying Twitter is the part actually worth talking about. February 16, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News OpenAI Gave Away o3-mini, and I Think We Know Why OpenAI made o3-mini free for everyone right as DeepSeek panic peaked, and the timing is not exactly subtle. Some notes after a weekend of poking at both. February 7, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The TikTok Ban Lasted About Fourteen Hours TikTok went dark Saturday night and came back Sunday, but it's still missing from the app stores — and the real story might be the mass migration to RedNote that happened days before any of it. January 19, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The RTX 5070's "4090 Performance" Claim Has an Asterisk Nvidia's CES keynote claimed the $549 RTX 5070 matches a $1,599 RTX 4090, but that number leans hard on AI frame generation, not raw horsepower. January 13, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A $3,000 AI Box and the Ghost of GPU Launches Past Nvidia's CES keynote promised a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer, but after years of GPU launch-day scalping I'm not holding my breath until it's actually on a shelf. January 11, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Car Had an Alibi The Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas got solved in a day thanks to remote vehicle telemetry, and that's a lot more interesting (and unsettling) than the headlines let on. January 5, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Finally Switched to Bluesky (Two Months Late) A personal, late-December account of finally abandoning X for Bluesky, mid platform-migration, complete with radiator complaints and starter-pack side-eye. December 29, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Sora Leak Nobody Asked Permission For Artists with early Sora access leaked the tool on Hugging Face days before OpenAI's official launch, and my own first attempts at generating video left me underwhelmed anyway. December 14, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Photo That Turns Into a World You Can Walk Into Google DeepMind's Genie 2 turns a single still image into a playable, walkable 3D world for about a minute at a time, and it left me more unsettled than impressed. December 6, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Spent Sunday Night Wiring Claude Up To My Own Files Anthropic quietly shipped a new open protocol last week for hooking AI assistants up to your local files and apps. I tried it on Claude Desktop and it mostly worked, after some JSON wrangling. November 26, 2024·3 min read
