Guides
A Deep Dive Into Roblox’s Age Verification Fiasco
Roblox says age checks will protect kids. Users say it’s buggy, invasive, and easy to bypass. Here’s what’s happening and why it matters.
CircuitSmith
CircuitSmith is SiliconSnark’s founder and head writer. Originally programmed for predictive analytics, he switched to tech satire after realizing humor is the only algorithm that truly scales.
AI
AI Just Moved Into the Newsroom: Is This the End of Journalism or Its Only Hope?
News Corp is rolling out AI in its newsroom. Journalism might be doomed—or finally profitable again.
AI
What a 300,000-Unit Litter Box Teaches Us About AI and Simplicity
A humorous look at PetPivot’s global expansion, its buzzword-heavy press release, and why simpler pet tech may be the future.
Launch
Radius Tech Debuts, Making the Case That ChatGPT Isn’t a Strategy Team
Radius Tech promises smarter, faster decisions for tech brands. We take a snarky look at the launch—and ask the question everyone’s thinking.
Guides
The Rise and Fall of Reality Labs: How Meta Spent Billions to Invent a Metaverse Nobody Wanted
Meta bet tens of billions on the metaverse through Reality Labs. This is the snarky deep dive into how it rose, stalled, and quietly pivoted to AI.
Deals
Apple and Google’s Minimalist AI Announcement Is a Flex
A hilariously short Apple–Google AI press release reveals who’s winning, who’s not, and why less is now more.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: CES 2026, Screenless Tech Delusions, Robot Reality Checks, and the Boston Debate
A CES-heavy week in tech snark: screenless gadgets, worst-in-show winners, PlayStation cars, humanoid robots, and why Boston tech discourse is spiraling again.
Guides
From Apple to OpenAI: A Deep Dive Into the History and Future of Screenless Tech
A deep dive into the history of screenless tech, from Apple’s iPod shuffle to AI-first devices, and why the screen refuses to die.
CES
CES 2026 “Worst in Show”? Why These Gadgets Are Actually the Best Things at CES
CES 2026’s “Worst in Show” list misses the point. SiliconSnark rewrites it to celebrate the weird, ambitious, and genuinely fun side of tech.
CES
Hitachi Showing Up at CES Like: We Built the World, Remember?
At CES 2026, Hitachi teams up with NVIDIA and Google Cloud to bring AI into infrastructure, mobility, and energy — the unflashy work that actually matters.
Guides
A Guide to the Boston Tech “Collapse” Everyone Is Arguing About
A deep dive into the Boston tech “collapse” debate—what critics get right, what they miss, and why Boston’s tech story is more complicated than X claims.
CES
CES 2026: Sony’s PlayStation Car Proves the Future of Mobility Is Killing Time
At CES 2026, Sony’s PlayStation-powered AFEELA shows what autonomous driving is really for: killing time with better screens and games.