A Day With the Pixel 9 Pro
A day-one hands-on with the Pixel 9 Pro that went on sale this week: the price jump, the flat sides I actually like, and why "Add Me" is a better party trick than I expected.
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So About My Melting 13900K
My 13900K started randomly crashing this year, and it turns out I'm not alone — here's where the Intel 13th/14th gen instability mess actually stands right now.
Intel's Bad Tuesday and Cisco's Rerun
Intel's brutal stock drop and Cisco's second layoff round of the year landed in the same two weeks, and the spreadsheet I've been keeping just got two uglier rows.
The Pixel 9's Best New Feature Is Also Kind of a Lie
Google's new "Add Me" feature on the Pixel 9 lets you photoshop yourself into your own group photos. It's exactly what I wanted for a decade, and also a little unsettling.
The Localhost Bug That's Apparently Been There Since 2006
A DEF CON disclosure this month shows browsers have quietly let websites reach into your local machine through the address 0.0.0.0 for almost two decades, and I found it running on my own laptop.
Watching Nvidia Crater Before I'd Finished My Coffee
A personal, slightly panicked recap of Monday's global market selloff, the yen carry trade unwind that tanked Nvidia, and why the financial media coverage annoyed me more than the dip itself.
A Very Bad Monday for the AI Trade
A global stock selloff hit AI-adjacent tech stocks hard today, and it wasnt really about AI at all. Notes on Nvidia, the yen carry trade, and watching a narrative meet reality.
I Tried to Download Llama 3.1 405B and Learned My Limits
I tried to download Meta's new 405B-parameter Llama 3.1 model and self-host it. Here's why that failed within an hour, and what I used instead.
Google Chickens Out on Cookies, Again
Google quietly walked back its plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome, again, and it's honestly the least surprising tech news of a very weird week.
The Blue Screens, and Why It Was a Content File, Not a Driver
A personal, in-the-weeds account of Friday's CrowdStrike outage — why a "content update" running in kernel mode could brick millions of machines, and six hours spent talking a friend's office back to life.
Fixing Other People's Blue Screens
A rundown of how a bad CrowdStrike update turned my Friday into six hours of manually fixing blue-screened laptops for family and small local clients.
Watching the Streak Break
Falcon 9's remarkable nine-year run without a mission failure ended last night on a Starlink launch, and the timing couldn't be worse with Starliner still stuck at the ISS.