TechpadinTech News A $30 Billion Quarter and My Sad Little 3060 Nvidia posted a $30 billion quarter this week, and all it did was make me feel worse about the frame rate on my three-year-old GPU while playing Black Myth: Wukong. August 30, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 23, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 22, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Preordered a Pixel, Now Having Feelings About It A Pixel 9 Pro preorder, a friend's layoff-season joke about "meeting math," and some overdue honesty about my yearly upgrade compulsion. August 21, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 15, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 14, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 13, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 7, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. August 5, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 27, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 25, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 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. July 21, 2024·3 min read
