Notes from actually enrolling an old Windows 10 machine in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates program the day after support ended, including the part about the "free" option nobody explains well.
The 2025 Physics Nobel went to three guys for 1980s experiments on quantum tunneling, and it quietly explains why Google and IBM's quantum chips work the way they do.
Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days started today, and the discount math is a lot fuzzier than the banners suggest. Also: my doorbell cam has a personal vendetta against one specific squirrel.
OpenAI's Sora 2 launched invite-only last week, and the real story isn't the AI video, it's the invite code black market that sprang up around it within 48 hours.
Nvidia's pledge to pour up to $100 billion into OpenAI keeps getting reported like a done deal instead of a ceiling on future payments, and the whole structure keeps reminding me of Lucent's vendor-financing days.
A Friday proclamation and a Sunday deadline sent tech companies scrambling to fly H-1B employees back into the US, and the chaos of that weekend says more than the $100,000 fee does.
A personal, slightly grumpy take on iPhone 17 preorder week: why I skipped the ultra-thin iPhone Air's single camera and no-SIM-tray design for the boring Pro instead.
The iPhone Air ditches the SIM tray entirely and Apple's thinnest phone ever has me thinking about Bendgate again, plus AirPods Pro 3's live translation might be the real story of the week.
The Pixel 10 went on sale over Labor Day weekend, and the only feature that actually got me was Pixelsnap, Google's new built-in magnetic charging.
The Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines, but the detail that actually stuck with me was iFixit's Pixel Watch 4 teardown and Google's own warning not to open the back cover yourself.
xAI filed suit against Apple and OpenAI this week over App Store rankings. Fourteen years of watching app charts move around tells me this complaint isn't as crazy as the messenger makes it sound.
Google's Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines this week, but the detail that stuck with me was the Pixel Watch 4's glued-shut, basically unrepairable battery.
