It is fair to say that one of Apple’s core tenets is its commitment to user privacy. The term appears 123 times in the Apple Platform Security Guide . Privacy. That's Apple. What this means for the…

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! It’s time to see how wishing your transness away will never... The post THE IMPERFECT TRANS ALLEGORY OF KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, part 2 first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.

A senior leader who joins an incident channel and says nothing still changes the room. The disruption isn't caused by anything they do. It's caused by what they are.

Just a genuine question that came up in my mind. I've been reading a lot of Insta posts about the (new) algorithm and that you get the most profile views / new followers / engagement if people…

the industrial revolution type of thing once again

A tracker hidden in a rare book, an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, and how we actually find out what AI is trained on.

Updated 08/29/26 - A support case I opened with OpenVPN’s engineers confirmed this solution. Despite multiple attempts to use other contexts like SmartcardPKI and SoftwarePKI, disabling…

By Jonathan Koomey, Zachary Schmidt, Karl Hausker, Holmes Hummel, and John WeyantResearchers and practitioners participating in the seventh assessment cycle of…

I’ve been watching for a while now the evolution of job ads around the use of generative AI for creative production. It’s almost always for the purposes of marketing, which comes as no…

Capitalism is a class system, and in recent years billionaires and their retainers have grown more brazen in asserting this basic social fact. Wherever the extreme right have assumed government, the…

Interesting though dense. The late 20th century had a “profusion” of new cultural ideas but now we are in a period of “creative emptiness”. That is bad because an inventive culture benefits us all…

I regularly encounter questions along the lines of “how do we scale things up? , in particular around projects related to free knowledge, FLOSS or citizen science. It has basically started from the…

Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason…

26.2% to 100% without touching the model. Six ways a benchmark measures itself instead of the agent.

I've been receiving lots of "Undeliverable Mail Returned to Sender" lately for Protohackers signup attempts. Protohackers login is via a "magic link", so attempting to sign up or log in results in…

Sometimes you gotta admit you're beat. For the last few years I've progressively retreated from online spaces in the name of my own peace and sanity. First, uninstall the mobile apps. While you're at…

There’s a big change happening in our inboxes and channels. Suddenly, everything is load-bearing. Every advantage is durable. Every company sits at the intersection of three enormous ideas. And every…

What would you do if your boss said he wanted your help to automate away your job? On this week’s episode, Paul and Rich are joined by Kate Lee, the editor in chief of the AI-related publication…

I am preternaturally interested (and worried) about the impact of computers and the applied practices of machine learning on me as a writer and on literacy in the broader cultures and communities I…

  Preface. Before the fossil fuel age began, up to 90% were farmers. The end of the brief blip of oil production will send us back to that time (if we aren’t so far into overshoot we go…

Like most people working in higher ed, I was horrified by the treatment and death of Professor Jason Arday. It was naked racism, purely and obviously. As a white man, I don’t have the voice to…

Last month, a press release from Wildlife Poisoning Research UK (WPRUK) revealed that more White-tailed Eagles had been poisoned in Dorset, with high concentrations of Second Generation Anticoagulant…

Smart glasses blur the line between looking and recording. What does that mean for consent, privacy, shared spaces, and the silence of Quaker worship?

Nail it before you scale it The design philosophy underneath this entire series. Six posts in this series have described specific pieces of scaffolding: a protocol for challenge, shared evidence, a…

Wer ein Auge auf lesbische Popkultur hat, weiß es wahrscheinlich schon. Für alle anderen: Diesen Sommer gab’s die erste chinesische, lesbische Datingshow. „LeLaLes: Fluid Love“ in…

An Arizona woman lost $4.3 million in an elaborate digital arrest scheme where criminals posed as FBI Agents and NYPD officers. The woman was held hostage in her home for two months as agents told…

Let me start with a hypothesis: For human developers, using coding LLMs magnifies their difference in skill levels. I am one that rarely thinks things are always black and white. Back in March, I…

Today we'll emphasize the AI Wars. How our future - and the arrival of new beings on this planet*- have been (mis)handled by the geniuses who are birthing** them. First, I am freshly interviewed on…

AI is an incredibly powerful tool, but it also makes it easy not to think while producing something that looks very much like thinking. The result is faster output, worse handoffs, and an…

Teams are hiring fewer juniors because AI does the 'grunt work' now. But that grunt work was the apprenticeship — and automating it away means we stop manufacturing senior engineers. This is a…

Many people are upset about AI and copyright violations. The copyright mess is far more complicated than they think.

tl;dr: This is an incomplete and opinionated take on three different approaches to confidential payments (and beyond).

I went out to dinner and a show with a friend the other day, enjoying some pizza and then wandering over to watch a mediocre blues/country/folk band. This friend was my first roommate from when I…

I know, I know, we're all tired of everyone writing about AI. It's all the same things, same opinions, over and over again. But I still felt compelled to write this because I saw some people — a lot…

Last week I was chatting with two friends, one a medic the other a hospital manager, about the National Early Warning Score (NEWS). NEWS is a system that can remotely alert clinicians to the…

It’s interesting how a lot of old are new again. And I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to see the similarity in things that have longer cycle times. Strategy doesn’t…

In the last couple years the phrase “elbows up” has made rounds as a defiant cry against the American imperialist infiltration of Canadian culture and economics. While it is,…

Generative content for thumbnails is a turn off from engaging any further with the media that is attached to it.

By Steve Burgess, Burgess Forensics, 2026 “He passed last month, and his whole life is locked inside his phone. Can’t you just get in?” I hear some version of that rather often —more than you might…

This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it.…

Buses are a write-off for most Melburnians travelling after dark. After 7pm bus frequency is typically down to every 40 minutes and service has often finished by 9:30pm. Trains are a bit more…

Summary Every keynote, panel discussion, and research study now agrees: digital transformation is no longer optional for enterprises — it will permanently alter how consumers interact with products…

There are a lot of different opinions and philosophies on how to approach Austin’s homelessness problem. One thing it seems we should be able to agree on though is the need for a solid estimate of…

Richard Murphy (The repugnance of Robert Jenrick) and Simon Pearson (When Work Becomes a Moral Test) skewer Reform’s proposals to cut benefit payments, Pearson identifying an interesting academic…

Democracy Now! interviews Gil Duran about The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

There are public spaces that look beautiful in architectural renderings and somehow feel completely dead after they’re built. Everything is technically there. Nice pavement. Landscaping. Benches.…

I picked up The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything when it came out in 2022, though I haven't gotten around to reading it until now. The author, Matthew Ball, was a venture…

GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and…

This year, I skipped the main stage tracks at DEF CON to catch what promised to be interesting talks at some of the villages—and to be clear, some of those talks were interesting! Unfortunately,…

Inside ILLUMINATION, one of Medium's biggest publication empires "We introduced many editors and left his introduction towards the end, as he is extremely busy with a full-time job and orchestrating…