What I Actually Did About My Router This Week (KRACK Edition)
A practical, un-panicked rundown of what I actually changed on my home network after the KRACK WPA2 flaw went public this week, and why my router vendor is the weak link.
KRACK and My Graveyard of Unpatched Gadgets
The KRACK wifi flaw dropped today, and patching my laptops was the easy part — the real mess was the pile of forgotten smart plugs and printers that will never see a fix.
iOS 11.0.3 Fixed My Crackling Phone Calls
iOS 11.0.3 quietly fixed the crackling call audio on my iPhone 8 Plus, and it's got me thinking about why new iPhones ship with these bugs every single year.
Turns Out It Was All Three Billion
Yahoo quietly revised its 2013 breach number this week from one billion accounts to all three billion it ever had, which sent me digging through a Yahoo Mail inbox I'd forgotten I still owned.
iOS 11's Broken "I" Is Driving Me Insane
iOS 11 has been quietly turning lowercase "i" into "A" plus a broken symbol for about a week now, and my texts have been reading like ransom notes because of it.
Google Didn't Buy HTC, It Bought HTC's Brain
Google didn't buy HTC, it bought about 2,000 of HTC's engineers for $1.1 billion, and that says more about the smartphone business in 2017 than the iPhone 8 launch does.
The Watch That Can't Quite Call Home
A few days in with the cellular Apple Watch Series 3 and the LTE bug that keeps it from finding a signal, plus a bleak little aside about Equifax's CEO stepping down the same week.
That Cellular Apple Watch Everyone's Suddenly Not So Sure About
The Apple Watch Series 3's cellular connection has been glitching out for reviewers all week, and I'm glad I didn't pre-order one.
iOS 11 Showed Up and Quietly Murdered My Flashlight App
iOS 11 landed this week and quietly wiped out thousands of old 32-bit apps. Mine included, and I'm still a little annoyed about it.
Before You Tap Update: Checking Which Apps iOS 11 Is About to Kill
iOS 11 landed today and quietly drops support for every 32-bit app you own. Heres a two-minute check to see what youre about to lose before you update.
Watching Cassini Die This Morning
Cassini burned up in Saturn's atmosphere this morning after twenty years, and I watched the whole thing alone in my kitchen while everyone else argued about the iPhone X.
The Software Switch That Gave Tesla Owners More Battery Overnight
Everyone's talking about the iPhone X notch this week, but the story that actually stuck with me is Tesla flipping a software switch to unlock extra battery range for Florida owners fleeing Hurricane Irma.