iPadOS 16 Showed Up, and So Did the M1 Catch
iPadOS 16 and iOS 16.1 landed today. Stage Manager is good, but its external display support only works on M1 iPads, and mine isn't one of them.
A Week With the Pixel 7 Pro
A week-later hands-on with the Pixel 7 Pro: the camera bar's weight, a genuinely good zoom shot, and a fingerprint sensor that's letting the whole phone down.
Pixel 7 Pro, Three Days In
Three days with the new Pixel 7 Pro: Magic Eraser is genuinely fun, the camera bar rocks on every flat surface, and I still haven't touched the Pixel Watch.
The Netflix Ad Tier's Real Catch Isn't the Ads
Netflix priced its ad-supported tier at $6.99 a month yesterday, and the 720p resolution cap and no-downloads rule matter more than the ad-count headline everyone's fixated on.
My iPhone 14 Pro's Camera Still Won't Stop Shaking
A week and a half after Apple promised a fix, my iPhone 14 Pro's camera is still buzzing every time I open Instagram or TikTok.
Pixel Watch Launched Today, And the Setup Restriction Bugs Me
Google's Pixel Watch went on sale the same day it was announced, but the requirement that you pair it with a Pixel phone first is the part nobody's leading with.
Optus, and the Data You Didnt Know You Handed Over
The Optus breach saga took a bizarre turn this week when the hacker apparently backed off and apologized. That doesnt fix the actual problem, which is how much ID data telcos sit on.
I Watched a Spacecraft Punch an Asteroid Last Night
I watched NASA's DART spacecraft slam into an asteroid live from my kitchen, and the wildest part is we still don't actually know if it worked.
The Two RTX 4080s Are Not the Same Card
Nvidia's two new RTX 4080 cards share a name but not a GPU die, and the naming trick is a bigger story than the announcement itself.
The GTA 6 Leak Gave Me a Half-Life 2 Flashback
Rockstar confirmed the huge GTA 6 footage leak today, and watching it unfold sent me straight back to downloading the stolen Half-Life 2 source code off IRC in 2003.
MFA Fatigue, or How Uber Got Owned By a Text Message
Uber's breach this week wasn't a clever exploit, just an 18-year-old texting an employee until he got tired of MFA prompts and tapped approve. That's the scarier part.
AirPods Pro 2 Preorder Day, and a Strange Week for News
A half-asleep 5 AM preorder for the AirPods Pro 2, a still-Lightning charging case that's annoying me, and the strange feeling of a huge tech launch and huge real-world news sharing the same week.