When the metaverse first emerged as the next big thing, corporations eagerly jumped in, visions of digital dollar signs dancing in their heads—only to immediately face the existential nightmare of accounting for assets that may or may not exist in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Half-Baked and Fully Broken: The Art of the Abandoned Project There’s a special kind of tragedy—or comedy, depending on how much you enjoy schadenfreude—in watching a grand project collapse into a half-finished mess because someone forgot to carry the zero[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re racing toward an all-electric future like it’s a utopian dream, but let’s be honest—we’re just trading one dependency for another, and the new one comes with a countdown timer. Sure, Tesla swears their car batteries will last “a lifetime”,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s something irresistibly tempting about jailbreaking your iPhone – that rebellious urge to stick it to Apple and liberate your device from its corporate overlords. You convince yourself you’re some kind of tech freedom fighter, boldly venturing where no cautious[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know that moment of panic when an Amazon package arrives at your door containing something you have zero memory of ordering. The convenience of one-click purchasing has become a modern-day curse, turning late-night browsing sessions into surprise shopping sprees.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the bizarre world of competitive gaming, where players with $3,000 RGB-lit battle stations willingly turn their graphics down to the level of a Nintendo 64 on life support—all for that sweet, sweet 0.2% edge in kill-to-death ratio. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once attackers breach your perimeter defenses, they enter a wonderland of security oversights where the real “work” of hacking becomes almost laughably easy. It’s like spending months picking a high-security lock only to find the vault door inside was left[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Security updates can take forever. I used to tell my students that they would spend a great part of their lives watching progress bars. Progress bars are the digital equivalent of watching paint dry, if the paint occasionally stopped to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There exists a special class of gamer who believes their $3,000 RGB-lit battle station automatically makes them superior to the common folk. You know the type – they don’t just play games, they perform them, treating their gaming setup like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago, a rumor made its way across the internet that you could wash your keyboard in the dishwasher. In actuality, it was the keycaps that could be washed, but so many people with horribly grimy keyboards took the information[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…