Zoom bought the encrypted messaging startup Keybase to build real end-to-end encryption into calls, but between my daily five-meeting slog and the usual waiting-room chaos, I'm skeptical it'll be as simple as flipping a switch.
Twitter told employees they can work from home forever. A few things about that memo nobody seems to be saying out loud, plus a complaint about hour-long video calls.
A few days after Elon Musk and Grimes named their kid X Æ A-12, some thoughts on why it's a great variable name and a rough baby name, plus the Tesla tweet that got lost in the noise.
Hubble turned 30 this week, and after NASA dropped its anniversary photo I dragged my own janky telescope out to the backyard to see what I could find.
SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites early Wednesday morning, and I watched it at 3 AM like a crazy person. Some notes on satellite trains, quarantine insomnia, and why I have complicated feelings about this.
NASA just put a real date on the calendar for the first crewed launch from American soil since 2011, and somehow that landed harder than anything else in this week's news.
Final Fantasy VII Remake came out this week and I burned a chunk of lockdown getting reacquainted with Midgar. Some thoughts on the install size, the pacing, and why splitting one game into several still bugs me.
Google quietly told employees this week to stop using Zoom on their work laptops over security concerns, which is a weird thing to watch happen while the rest of us are stuck using it every day.
NYC's Department of Education told schools to drop Zoom for Microsoft Teams this week. After a month of using Zoom daily myself, I think the city panicked and punished the wrong thing.
Zoom's security mess pushed me to spend an evening self-hosting Jitsi Meet on a cheap droplet instead. Here's what actually broke and what I'd do differently.
My inbox was empty of the usual fake product launches this April 1st - a quiet aside on skipped jokes, an Animal Crossing addiction, and a chaotic family Zoom call.
Zoom had a rough week: a Facebook data-sharing bug in its iOS app and a wave of "zoombombing" incidents that even got an FBI warning. A closer look at the smaller stories inside the bigger Zoom boom.
