A weekly podcast from Chris Chinchilla covering technology, board and role play games, history, current affairs, and frankly whatever I feel like covering.

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I’ve used DuckDuckGo as a search engine for a while, but the company also has mobile browsers I’ve been experimenting with, and now announced a browser for m…

Over the last nine months, a great deal of work has gone into discovering just what is in Apple’s M1 chip, and what it all does.

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. If you’re not a full subscriber yet, you missed the deep-dive on Amazon’s engineering culture, one on Retaining software engineers and EMs, and a few others.

Back in October 2021, the US Army pumped the brakes on a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft to provide its soldiers with combat ready versions of the company’s augmented reality headset HoloLens.

Many years ago, I took over a small publishing company, that’s an entirely different story, and not relevant now, but as part of it, I…

Apple has officially discontinued macOS Server, its long-neglected set of server features for managing Macs and iOS devices.

Just hours after Twitter announced it was accepting Elon Musk’s buyout offer, the SpaceX CEO made his plans for the social network clear. In a press release, Musk outlined the sweeping changes he intended to make, including opening up the algorithms that determine what users see in their feed.

Earlier this year, the open-source community came under the scrutiny of a US Senate committee investigating a serious vulnerability in Log4j, a widely used, Java-based logging utility.

Twitter locked down its source code to prevent unauthorized changes, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The reports say that this change was made to prevent employees from “going rogue” and sabotaging the platform after Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company.

Social media platform Mastodon, often seen as an alternative to Twitter, gained nearly 30,000 new users on the day that Elon Musk bought Twitter. On Tuesday a Mastodon domain became unresponsive. Eugen Rochko, Mastodon’s CEO, later told Motherboard in an email that there were performance issues.

Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever, having racked up seven years of continuous growth since the launch of the game’s fifth edition in 2014. There are more than 50 million D&D players around the world as the tabletop roleplaying game continues to expand its audience.

The pandemic has changed what Americans want from their homes, and builders say they expect those changes to last. The big picture: A ton of pandemic-era adaptations are becoming common fixtures in new homes.