SpaceX launched four astronauts on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster that had each already flown a human crew before, and somehow that quietly matters more than this week's shinier headlines.
Skipping the Coinbase recap everyone else is running this week to talk about NASA's Mars helicopter getting delayed again, and my own much lower-stakes wait for a PS5 restock.
Chia cryptocurrency's "proof of space" mining is chewing through SSDs and driving up hard drive prices, and I felt it firsthand trying to buy a 4TB drive for my NAS.
Signal quietly added a MobileCoin-powered payments beta this week, and while the Facebook leak ate all the headlines, this smaller story has me more conflicted.
The Ever Given finally got unstuck from the Suez Canal, but that's done nothing for my six-month quest to buy a graphics card at anything close to sticker price.
Bloomberg says Microsoft's in talks to buy Discord for $10B+, and given what happened to Skype, I've got some opinions. Plus: I may have spent four days watching a stuck ship on a map.
Tesla will now let you buy a car with Bitcoin. Meanwhile the same crypto boom is why I still can't find a graphics card anywhere near its actual price.
A container ship got wedged sideways in the Suez Canal today and I lost the entire afternoon to ship-tracking websites instead of doing actual work.
Everyone covered the $69 million Beeple sale. Here's the part of the NFT boom that isn't on anyone's invoice: the electricity, and why I still can't buy a graphics card because of it.
A hacker collective calling itself "Arson Cats" broke into 150,000 Verkada security cameras using an exposed admin password, and it made me go check my own front-door cam.
A personal, in-the-weeds account of patching small business Exchange servers after Microsoft's emergency ProxyLogon fixes, including finding an actual webshell on a client's box.
Beeple's NFT sold at Christie's for $69.3 million and I still can't explain to my brother-in-law what he actually bought. Also: patch your Exchange servers.
