A Cold House and a Warm Keynote
A very cold day spent half-watching CES liveblogs from Vegas while babysitting frozen pipes and a doomed houseplant back home.
Yahoo's Homepage Was Serving Malware Over New Year's
Fox-IT reported that malicious ads running through Yahoo's own network were quietly redirecting visitors to an exploit kit for about four days around New Year's, no click required.
4.6 Million Reasons Snapchat Should Have Listened
A day late reaction to the Snapchat phone number leak: why the "theoretical" risk Snapchat dismissed in December turned out to be 4.6 million real usernames by New Year's Day.
Dogecoin, HODL, and Bitcoin's Very Weird December
Bitcoin had a brutal month after China's central bank cracked down, a drunk forum post turned "HODL" into a permanent word, and now there's a joke currency with a dog on it. Some notes on the weirdest few weeks in crypto I've seen.
The Target Breach Followed Me Home for Christmas
A personal, slightly paranoid postscript to the Target card breach after news that encrypted PIN data got stolen too, plus a mystery $4.17 charge from a state I've never visited.
The Target Breach, My Mailbox, and Why We're Still Swiping Cards Like It's 1995
A personal rundown of what to actually do after the Target card breach, plus a rant about why the US is still swiping magstripe cards like it's 1995.
My Brother-in-Law Asked About Bitcoin Two Days Too Late
A Christmas dinner conversation about Bitcoin's brutal mid-December crash, plus a note on skipping card swipes at Target this year.
My Target Card Was Probably in That Breach
Target confirmed a breach touching roughly 40 million card accounts from Black Friday weekend through December 15th, and I'm pretty sure my own debit card swipe from early December landed right in that window.
Bitcoin's Insane December
Bitcoin had a brutal, confusing December after China cut banks off from it, and I still can't decide if the coverage of it makes any sense.
Google's Robot Shopping Spree
Google quietly bought Boston Dynamics, its eighth robotics acquisition in six months, and the company's Atlas robots are about to headline a DARPA contest this weekend.
The Moon Has a Rover on It Again and Nobody Seems to Care
China's Yutu rover just rolled onto the lunar surface, the first soft moon landing in 37 years, and it barely made a dent in the tech news cycle this week.
Requesting My Own Phone Records After the NSA Ruling
A day after a federal judge called NSA phone-data collection "almost Orwellian," I called AT&T to request my own call records and learned how weirdly hard that actually is.