Category: tech

07/09/2017

(As an aside, I was also playing with a new operating system called Linux, which Linus Torvalds had announced on…

05/09/2017

One thing about trying to put the Internet and computing in context, is that you are forced to look back…

21/08/2017

Awhile back the University of Edinburgh changed some of their guidance around passwords. In my 1Password app, I counted over…

07/08/2017

"I’ve written extensively on the now famous Georgia Tech example of a tutorbot teaching assistant, where they swapped out one…

17/07/2017

Via Bruce Schneier: The trouble began last year when he noticed strange things happening: files went missing from his computer;…

11/07/2017

This can be read as typical Silicon Valley hype, but I think it is more right than wrong. Just as…

07/07/2017

Interesting graphic from Audrey Watters on the bête noire, that is Pearson (especially if you are an investor). But although I…

21/06/2017

In the context of her research about the implications of information technology she stated three laws: Everything that can be…

16/06/2017

“If we are really going to turn over our homes, our cars, our health and more to private tech companies,…

18/05/2017

Technology magnifies power in general, but the rates of adoption are different. Criminals, dissidents, the unorganized—all outliers—are more agile. They…