Captain Kirk Actually Went Up There
William Shatner flew to space this morning on Blue Origin's New Shepard, and watching a 90-year-old Captain Kirk actually leave the atmosphere messed with my head more than I expected.
The Twitch Leak Nobody's Talking About Because Facebook Fell Over First
The Facebook outage ate all the headlines this week, but the Twitch data leak — full source code, three years of streamer payouts, and a mysterious Steam competitor codenamed Vapor — is the more interesting story.
The Boring Certificate That Broke My Kitchen Tablet
The DST Root CA X3 cross-sign expired on September 30th and quietly broke old Android phones, firewalls, and my ancient kitchen recipe tablet.
iOS 15 Landed and Safari Still Isn't Settled
iOS 15 landed yesterday, and the most interesting part isn't Focus mode or Live Text, it's that Apple's summer-long Safari redesign backlash actually changed what shipped.
My MSHTML Workaround, One Day Before Patch Tuesday
A walkthrough of the manual registry workaround for the MSHTML zero-day (CVE-2021-40444) being exploited in the wild, one day ahead of the patch.
Twenty Years Later, My Feed Kept Scrolling
Twenty years since 9/11, and a morning spent noticing how strange it is that the internet just keeps scrolling right past a day like this one.
Windows 11 Has a Date and My PC Might Not Be Invited
Windows 11 finally has a release date, October 5th, but my perfectly good desktop is one CPU generation too old to officially qualify, and the TPM 2.0 saga still isn't fully sorted out.
October 5th It Is (My Spare PC Still Says No)
Microsoft set October 5th as the Windows 11 release date this week — notes from two months on the Insider build, plus a rant about the still-murky TPM 2.0 requirement.
T-Mobile Got Hacked Again and I Finally Changed My PIN
T-Mobile's breach numbers keep climbing (47 million and counting) and I finally got around to changing my account PIN. Some thoughts on why "two years of free identity protection" doesn't fix a permanent problem.
Why I Turned Off iCloud Photos This Week
Apple's CSAM photo-scanning plan drew an open letter from 90+ rights groups this week, and between that and the T-Mobile breach fallout, I finally switched off iCloud Photo Library.
T-Mobile Got Popped, and I'm Probably in There
A hacker claims to have over 100 million T-Mobile customer records, T-Mobile is only saying it's "investigating," and I'm sitting here wondering if my old Sprint account is in the pile.
A Month With GitHub Copilot
A month into using GitHub Copilot's technical preview: when it nails a whole function on the first try, when it quietly hands you a broken regex, and why the GPL licensing fight has me keeping it off my work laptop for now.