Netflix's Squid Game was even bigger than you thought cnet.co/3kIhjWJ

Peeking my head out of Twitter hibernation to roll my eyes at whatever the hell a "customerverse" is supposed to be

Spotify's Car Thing Is Finally for Sale. Time for It to Face the Music cnet.co/3p64Eiv

Exclusive: After nearly a year, Spotify’s Car Thing auto audio system is finally available to the public. Joan E. Solsman takes a look at who this is for and what this means for Spotify’s hardware ambitions. Tip Techmeme cnet.com/tech/services-…

Pausing Twitter hiatus to brag how my Twitter hiatus was one step ahead of the New York Times

Worth a read: Joan E. Solsman "visited" the International Space System in a massive in-person virtual reality installation called The Infinite. Donning a headset, she stepped into an open space bigger than a basketball court & explored a life-sized ISS replica. cnet.com/science/space/…

um wut

Good story

'Stranger Things' Will Be Netflix's Biggest Hit Yet. How? Netflix Changed its Rules cnet.co/3NFQz58

In the Metaverse, Your Heart Can Be as True as the Boobs Are Fake cnet.com/tech/computing…

ASL is remarkable. Getting an Eddie nomination is great, but even better is that it was for this story: cnet.com/tech/services-…

I left CNET in March after nearly 10 years, and one of my few regrets is it meant missing out on this moment! Congrats to all my colleagues, for your hard work and your dedication to what makes CNET great

BIG NEWS! After winning an online election, our CNET union is officially recognized! According to our unofficial count, it was a landslide victory, with over 89% of our bargaining unit voting YES. Congrats to all the workers for leaving the woodpile higher than we found it!

SCOOP: Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service. Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions, by Hannah Natanson Lisa Rein Elizabeth Dwoskin Faiz Siddiqui :

Amen