He Didn't Get the Memo. Again. Jensen Huang was at Computex 2026 this week, and he had a big day. Several big days, actually. Let's go through them. First, he told the room that AI reducing jobs is "complete nonsense." His evidence? Software engineers are being hired more because AI makes them more productive....

Florida just became the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT. And I had to read that twice. Not because the lawsuit is surprising — someone was eventually going to throw the first punch, and I've been documenting why for a while. But Florida. Not California, which has been loudly performing AI safety concern for...

A meme showed up on my Mastodon feed the other day — sjvn posted it publicly — and it stopped me mid-scroll. It's a size comparison: proton, neutron, electron... and then, smaller than all of them, the close-ad-button. It's a joke. It's also a field guide to modern advertising UX. A quick disclosure before I get into...

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. This one got lost in the shuffle of other stories a couple weeks back, and I almost let it slide. That would have been a mistake. Because while the headlines have moved on, the case hasn't — and what's sitting inside it is worth paying attention to. The DOJ wants Apple,...

Fair warning: this one runs long. But this isn't a story of a few years of spectacular fraud and bad decisions — this is decades of slow, deliberate erosion. Each age built on the last. The length is earned. If you're just here for the Valve loot box situation, scroll to The Reckoning. If you want to understand why it...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. I've spent two posts documenting how GitHub went from beloved developer platform to a Phase 3 extraction engine under Microsoft's roof. Phase 3: Profit covered the trust erosion — the data training opt-out nobody told you about, the absorption into CoreAI, the quiet...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Yesterday I published a post about Apple's privacy promise looking increasingly like a marketing slogan. Then Google held I/O the same day and made the whole thing worse. TechCrunch's headline wasn't wrong: Google Search as you know it is over. What replaces it isn't...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple has built its entire brand identity around privacy. "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone." Billboards. Keynotes. The thing Apple fans reach for when justifying the premium they pay. And for a long time it wasn't just marketing — I've written before...

Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake monthly increments for a product that has never once offered monthly billing. Communicated to existing customers fifteen days before their renewal, not before....

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. I asked a question back in March: can a user-hostile leopard change its spots? I was cautiously, skeptically willing to entertain the possibility. Microsoft had made noises about pulling Copilot back from its most obnoxious outposts. Pavan Davuluri said some words. I...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple settled a class-action lawsuit last week (twas a busy week) for $250 million over Apple Intelligence features it advertised — features the lawsuit says "did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years." Let that sit for a...

Part four of a series. Part one. Part two. Part three. Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. TL;DR: The FCC quietly extended the firmware update deadline for banned foreign routers by two years — to 2029. Their stated reason is that enforcing the original deadline would create cybersecurity risks. The ban designed...

Day eight. Thursday. The week that just keeps going. Court opened with Helen Toner's deposition video and wrapped with live testimony from Musk's nonprofit law expert. In between — Zilis finished on the stand and the Sutskever deposition details landed publicly for the first time. The Votes She Cast Musk's core claim is...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two weeks ago I wrote 271. That's The Number They're Telling You. — about the Firefox vulnerability announcement, what the number meant, what it conspicuously didn't say, and ended it asking Mozilla to show us the rest of the roll. Today they showed some of it. And...

There's a thing that happens to me regularly that I suspect happens to you too. I'm trying to get to a site — reading an article, buying something, just clicking around — and suddenly I'm not going anywhere until I've proven my humanity to Google. Traffic lights. Buses. Motorcycles. And at least once, a traffic light...