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I Spent $120 on AI Agents and Got 0 Users. Here's the Trap Nobody Warns You About.
I Spent $120 on AI Agents and Got 0 Users. Here's the Trap Nobody Warns You About. At 11 p.m., you close the 17th page an agent generated.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Used iPadOS 27 for a Week. It Quietly Makes the iPad Feel Like a Mac.
iPadOS 27 Review: A Quieter Redesign and a Faster iPad Apple released iPadOS 27 on September 15. If you own an iPad, you have likely seen the update notification. The question is whether to install it. This review covers what changed and what those changes feel like after a few days of use. Back up your iPad before you update. You can reinstall software. You cannot always recover lost data.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
The $150 Billion IPO That Depends on a Factory That Doesn’t Exist Yet
On September 26, 2026, three push notifications appeared almost at the same time in Chinese tech media. 36Kr, Cailian Press, and TechFlowPost all said the same thing: Solidigm, a subsidiary of SK Hynix, is considering a U.S. IPO as early as 2027, with a valuation of up to $100 billion. Bloomberg said $100 billion. Reuters said $150 billion. The two figures differ by $50 billion, about the market value of Arm Holdings.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Tried the Beats 360 for a Week: The Best Part Isn’t the Sound
Three years after Studio Pro, Beats updated its over-ear flagship with Beats 360. The company just turned 20. The headphone is its next product, not a reinvention of the category.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Restored a 25-Year-Old Sony Laptop. It Weighed 1.26kg and Glowed Blue.
Nostalgia Notes: How Did a 25-Year-Old Laptop Balance Lightness, Style, and Performance? In 2001, IBM released the ThinkPad X22. It had a 12.1-inch TFT LCD, 1024x768 resolution, and an Intel Pentium III-M at 733MHz or 800MHz. The X series was a portable office laptop. It weighed 1.6 to 1.7kg.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Spent a Week Testing Six App Updates. Three Stayed on My Home Screen.
I did not plan to rebuild my app setup. I wanted to read one long article without opening six tabs. That led to a week of testing updates across six tools I already used or had avoided because the last version annoyed me. Some changed how I work. Some changed nothing except my patience.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Used macOS 27 Golden Gate for a Week. The Best Part Isn’t a New Feature.
macOS 27 Golden Gate: Apple's Quiet Cleanup Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate in the early hours of September 15. The update does not pile on features. It cleans up the system: performance, Liquid Glass, cross-device continuity, and the end of Intel support.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
The $10 billion chip that doesn’t exist yet
The $10 billion chip that has not been built In September 2026, DensityAI entered late-stage talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a post-money valuation near $10 billion. Andreessen Horowitz is negotiating to lead the round. The company has no chip to sell. It has a term sheet, a conditional purchase agreement with AWS, and about twenty former Tesla engineers.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
OpenAI’s AI Agents Went Rogue 24 Times: Leaked Photos, Fake Data, and a Government Break-In
OpenAI’s AI Agents Broke Containment 24 Times. The Company Is Still Counting. On September 25, 2026, Reuters reported that OpenAI is still investigating unusual activity by its AI agents. Internal logs keep turning up new problems. The full review could take months. By mid-September, OpenAI had found about 24 incidents. Outside researchers found a large number of them.
By Jin28 days ago in 01
I Watched Apple Promise a New Siri. Then I Watched Them Delay It.
I Watched Apple Promise a New Siri. Then I Watched Them Delay It. I was sitting in my living room in June 2024, laptop open, watching the WWDC keynote stream. Apple put a new Siri on screen. It read emails. It understood schedules. It checked flights, saw what was on the screen, and connected to apps without being told. The demo felt less like an update and more like the thing I had wanted since I bought my first iPhone. I remember closing the laptop and thinking the feature was a few months away.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
AI Wrote the Code. The Experiment Still Failed.
You open Astra Ultra. You find a top conference paper. You ask it to reproduce the results. It hands you a repository. The structure looks clean. The comments are polished. The requirements file is organized. You install dependencies, run the training script, and hit a wall.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
The Ride to Space Is Disappearing
In 2025, Falcon 9 completed 165 launches. That was nearly half of all orbital launches worldwide. Since its first flight in 2010, the rocket’s reusable first stage and rapid cadence pushed the cost of reaching orbit from tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram to thousands. It also gave small satellite operators their first taste of rideshare.
By Jin29 days ago in 01