Sony Showed Everything Except the PS4
Sony held its big PS4 reveal event tonight and never once showed the actual console — some thoughts on why the new Share-button controller was the real story instead.
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The UltraPixel Thing
HTC unveiled the One today with a 4-megapixel "UltraPixel" camera, and I have thoughts about the marketing more than the sensor itself.
The Real Reason We Got 500 Angles of That Meteor
The Chelyabinsk meteor got filmed from every angle imaginable, and the real reason has nothing to do with the meteor and everything to do with insurance fraud and corrupt cops.
The Meteor Video Story Nobody Planned For
Tuesday's meteor over Chelyabinsk broke the internet before it broke any windows, and it did it through a piece of tech nobody outside Russia thought twice about: the dashcam.
Everyone's Getting Popped By The Same Java Hole
Facebook says it got hit by the same Java-based watering hole attack that already caught Twitter, Apple, and Microsoft, plus some thoughts on why dashcams turned out to be the internet's accidental meteor-watching network today.
Flash Patches and a Cybersecurity Order, Same Week
Twitter's breach, another emergency Flash patch, and a cybersecurity executive order all landed in the same two weeks — notes on a bad stretch for basic security hygiene.
On the Apple Wrist Rumors, and Why My Pebble Hasn't Sold Me
The NYT's Apple wrist-device rumor has everyone drawing iWatch mockups, but after a month with a Pebble I'm not convinced anyone's cracked the wrist-computer problem yet.
Patch Your Flash (Again) and Just Turn On Click-to-Play
Adobe rushed out a Flash patch for two zero-days last week, and it's got me back on my soapbox about just turning click-to-play on and never looking back.
Dell Buys Itself Back, Which Doesnt Actually Fix Anything
Michael Dell's $24.4 billion deal to take Dell private isn't a turnaround plan, it's a way to manage a decline out of the public eye. Some notes from someone who grew up on a Dell tower.
Update Your Flash Player (And Some Thoughts on That Oreo Tweet)
A last-minute reminder to patch a nasty Flash Player zero-day, plus a tangent on the Oreo Super Bowl blackout tweet and a House of Cards binge that ate a Friday night.
Update Your Flash Player Right Now (Yes, Again)
Adobe rushed out an emergency Flash Player patch for two zero-days already being exploited in the wild, and I've got some things to say about Flash, update dialogs, and pre-checked McAfee checkboxes.
The Cookie Tweet Everyone's Still Talking About
Two days after the Super Bowl blackout, Oreo's fifteen-minute "dunk in the dark" tweet is still all anyone's talking about, and I think it says more about staffing than it does about jokes.