TechpadinTech News Nvidia's Hackers Have Weirdly Relatable Demands Nvidia confirmed a breach and hackers are reportedly demanding they kill the RTX 30-series mining limiter and open-source their drivers, a ransom note that sounds a lot like a Reddit thread. March 3, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Elden Ring, and a Week Nothing Else Got Noticed Starting Elden Ring during the strangest possible week to start anything, plus a small note on the Nvidia security incident that got buried by bigger news. February 27, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Elden Ring Ate My Weekend (And My Frame Rate) Elden Ring and the Steam Deck both launched on the same day, and I only had room in my life for one of them — plus some thoughts on the PC version's frame pacing problems. February 25, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Coinbase QR Code Ad Was Cool for About Ninety Seconds Coinbase's bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was the talk of Sunday night, but the part everyone's skipping over is that it briefly took the app down. February 17, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The NYT Bought Wordle and My Family's Group Chat Didn't Even Blink The New York Times bought Wordle for a low-seven-figure sum, and instead of writing about the deal itself I want to talk about what a dumb little word game did to my family's group chat. February 9, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cancelling Spotify (Sort Of) After Neil Young's catalog got pulled from Spotify this week, I finally cancelled my own Premium subscription — and spent a weekend untangling eleven years of playlists to do it. January 30, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Wordle Broke My Group Chat My family group chat used to be about dogs and airport pickups. This week it's just rows of green and yellow squares, and I've finally figured out why. January 22, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Netflix Raised Prices, Then Six Days Later Told Us Growth Is Slowing Netflix raised US prices on January 14th, then six days later warned investors that subscriber growth is stalling out. The stock tanked in after-hours trading. January 20, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Little Green Squares Have Taken Over My Family Chat The whole family group chat has turned into daily grids of green and yellow squares. Some notes on getting hooked on Wordle, colorblind mode, and the people who post their score before 9am. January 14, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Twelve Days Into My Wordle Habit Twelve days into a daily word-guessing habit that's suddenly everywhere, some thoughts on starting words, spoiler etiquette, and why six guesses feels exactly right. January 12, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News When Kazakhstan Went Dark, Bitcoin Felt It Kazakhstan's internet blackout this week is a human rights story first, but it's also quietly rattling Bitcoin's global hash rate since the country hosts a huge share of the world's mining. January 6, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News CES Without Half of Tech Actually Showing Up Half of tech just bailed on CES 2022 over Omicron, my press-release inbox didn't get the memo, and Kazakhstan shutting off its entire internet put the whole drama in perspective. January 4, 2022·3 min read
