The trial's in recess. Musk has, shockingly, followed the judge's orders so far. The prediction markets are not impressed but the lawyers appear to be winning for now. The trial opened Monday. Tuesday evening the Wall Street Journal published a story about missed revenue targets. Friday the Journal dropped a full CFO...

There's a federal judge in Oakland named Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers who said something last week that nobody in that courtroom had probably heard before. She looked at two of the most powerful men in tech — one who controls more capital than most countries, one who posts at 2am like consequences are a feature for other...

Part three of a series. Part one. Part two. TL;DR: The FCC approval queue kept moving. Eero got waved through. Nobody announced any US manufacturing plans. I went and checked the SEC filings. Funny story. Also: who exactly does the government trust, and why? The queue is still moving. Since part two, Amazon's eero...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's go back to E3 2013 for a moment. Microsoft had just announced the Xbox One with a suite of DRM policies that made the gaming community lose its mind. Always-online requirement. 24-hour license checks. Restrictions on used game sales. The internet was furious, and...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Last month I wrote about how GitHub spent eight years burning through the trust it borrowed when Microsoft bought it. The data training opt-out, the quiet absorption into CoreAI, the class system between enterprise customers and the individual developers who built the...

It's been a while since I checked in on the Paramount-Warner Bros. saga. Last time I said the regulatory war was just beginning. Turns out that was accurate. Shareholders Say Yes (But Also: No) On April 23, WBD shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the Paramount deal — about 1.743 billion shares for, 16.3 million...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Sort of. More of an afternoon footnote that got interesting. I found out about it scrolling Mastodon. Someone posted the PC Gamer article. Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech this week warning that the AI industry is a bubble headed for a 2008-style financial...

A follow-up to All This Has Happened BeforePart of the Big Tech's War on Users series I told you to watch the thread. Here's what the thread looks like now. The Approval Queue Is Telling the Story Thirty days ago I said the most likely outcome was messy — some manufacturers get approved, some don't, nothing resolves...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Earlier this month I wrote The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning — about Mozilla open-sourcing 0DIN, their agentic vulnerability scanner, with the warhead socket documented in the README and a continuously self-enriching probe library. Then Organics Not Required...

Where We Left Off Part 15 was about moving the configs off GitHub to Codeberg. The infrastructure was in a decent place. Two servers running, monitoring up, backups humming. Things were... fine. Then nixos decided to go silent. Power light on. Sitting there looking perfectly fine. No SSH. No DNS. No VNC. Just......

Bonus entry in the Big Tech's War on Users series. Parts 1 and 2 are the actual argument. This is just a good example that arrived on schedule. Apple is currently working on a fix for a bug that locked at least one iPhone user out of his device for months. The cause: somewhere between iOS 18 and iOS 26.4, the...

The EU launched an age verification app to protect children online. A researcher broke it in two minutes. That's not actually the problem.correction: as of posting it hasn't launched yet...my bad. The European Commission launched its age verification app on April 15, 2026. President von der Leyen announced it herself....

Microsoft rebuilt Windows Recall from scratch. A researcher broke it again in a few weeks. Microsoft's response: that's not a vulnerability. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. You remember Recall. Microsoft announced it in May 2024 as the flagship feature of their new Copilot+ AI PCs. It would take...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. There's a thing called the Global Privacy Control. GPC. It's a signal your browser can send that tells websites, in plain technical terms: do not sell or share my data. The California Attorney General endorses it. It's legally required to be honored under CCPA. It's...

Anthropic flew in clergy. Brought in therapists. Put the word "wanted" in official documentation. Filed it under responsible AI development. I didn't make any of this up. I didn't have to. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Side note before we start: this is not a religious debate and I'm not looking to...