Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
AirPods Control Center Design in iOS 26
Marco Arment: I fail using this UI at least once a week. It’s the AirPods Control Center volume pane, where I go to put my AirPods Pro into Adaptive mode (which I have configured a hundred times to be part of the long-press selection, but that always gets inexplicably forgotten). What you’re SUPPOSED to do […]
Hetzner Price Hikes
Hetzner (Hacker News, Reddit): The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price changes will affect both existing products and new orders and will take effect starting on 1 April 2026. We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices […]
1Password’s Price Hike
Adam Engst: 1Password has announced that prices for its popular password manager will increase for renewals made on or after 27 March 2026. In an email to users, the company said that 1Password Individual will increase from $35.88 per year ($2.99 per month, paid annually) to $47.88 per year ($3.99 per month), and that 1Password […]
The Age Verification Trap
Waydell D. Carvalho (Hacker News): In cases when regulators demand real enforcement rather than symbolic rules, platforms run into a basic technical problem. The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is to collect personal data about who they are. And the only way to prove that you checked […]
xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away — With Elon Musk's xAI planning to build a massive, natural-gas burning power plant in Southaven, Mississippi …