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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Tesla's Q2 delivery numbers came in down year-over-year but "beat" Wall Street's recently lowered estimates, which got me thinking about how that framing trick works everywhere in tech reporting.
Two months after Sonos shipped a broken app redesign, alarms still dont work right, and Im done pretending this was a modernization instead of a downgrade.
Wired's "bullshit machine" story on Perplexity got me checking my own server logs for scraper traffic, and I have complicated feelings about who gets to be outraged about content theft.
Six weeks into the Sonos app rewrite and my kitchen speakers still can't do things my 2016 setup could do without thinking. A rant, with a weird Nvidia tangent.
