The Billionaires Who Want to Outgrow Democracy
Every time I pull up directions on my phone, I’m using something the government built. GPS started as a Department of Defense project and was run for decades by the Air Force, the same branch I served in. The internet...
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Musk’s Flying Sportscar Showcases the Dangers Of ‘Fake It Before You Make It’
In the technology and automotive sectors, the line between visionary road mapping and outright theatrical deception has grown perilously thin. For decades, Silicon Valley has operated under an unwritten rule: if you can convince investors and the buying public that...
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Not Every AI Workload Needs a Passport
When sovereign AI comes up with a customer, I hear the same assumption almost every time: going sovereign means moving everything, every workload, into one fully sovereign environment, all as a single decision made once. Treating it that way usually...
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Taking Note: An AI Note-taking Device and App Market Analysis and Buyer’s Guide
AI note-takers are everywhere. They permeate my Instagram feed right there alongside Star Trek news, horse hoof remediation, and sad dads singing their woes to Disney tunes. I have accumulated a representative collection of apps and devices. I’ve discovered I...
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Patching PHP Is Only Half the Job
TechSpective runs on WordPress, and WordPress runs on PHP, so when the PHP project tells everyone running it on a web server to update immediately, I pay closer attention than I do to most advisories. PHP is a lot like...
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Why Your Home Address Is the Privacy Risk That Matters Most
Remember those Facebook quizzes that made the rounds during the pandemic lockdowns? They’d ask for things like the street you grew up on or the name of your first pet, and everyone treated it as a fun way to get...
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Sophos AI Defense Goes Looking for Shadow AI
Have you ever given a spare house key to someone you barely know? Maybe a contractor you hired once to fix the garbage disposal. Most of the time nothing bad happens, but if that contractor’s truck gets broken into and...
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The Hidden Enterprise Goldmine in Bumble’s $1.3 Billion Take-Private Deal
When Ithaca Holdings swooped in to acquire Bumble in a $1.3 billion take-private deal, the immediate industry reaction focused almost entirely on the consumer implications of saving a distressed social platform. But if you look past the consumer-facing interface and...
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Sovereign Data Needs Protection That Travels With It
Sovereign AI conversations tend to focus on where data sits and who’s allowed to access it. Fair enough, those questions matter. But they skip past something I think about constantly: what happens to that data’s security posture once it’s spread...
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How a Hacker Helped Mariana van Zeller Find Her Romance Scammer
I’ve been going to RSAC and Black Hat conferences for something like 15 or 20 years, but I’ve never once stuck around for DEF CON. After watching Super Scam Me, the new National Geographic documentary from Mariana van Zeller, I’m...
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The Technology Tax You Pay Every Time You Buy Something ‘Smart’
My father advised me many years ago that it is better to be patient and invest more in good quality than to be expedient and end up with cheap products that need to be replaced. I didn’t know it at...
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The One Job Silicon Valley Forgot to Invent: Why Every Enterprise Needs a Chief AI Consequence Officer (CACO)
A recent segment on The Daily Show where Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a “Better Future” exposed a glaring blind spot in executive boardrooms across the globe. In the broadcast, Stewart dissects the White House AI summit, where...
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Settra Ransomware Is the Last Thing That Happens
When most of us picture a ransomware attack, we picture the moment the screens go dark. Files won’t open, a ransom note shows up on the desktop, and somebody has to decide whether to pay. That’s pretty much how I...
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The Hidden Privacy Cost of Smart Home Purchases: A Buyer’s Risk Checklist
Smart-home products are usually sold on convenience: see who is at the door from your phone, adjust the thermostat remotely, ask a speaker to control the lights, or check a camera while you’re away. But a connected device is more...
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Integrated Safety Systems Eliminate the Information Silos That Slow Emergency Response
When an emergency occurs, every second matters. Yet many organizations still rely on multiple disconnected safety systems that don’t communicate with each other. A security team monitoring cameras might not know what the fire suppression system is doing. The building...
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Review: SIMPLETASTE 4-in-1 Electric Milk Frother
I drink a lot of coffee. Most of it is just coffee with a little sugar and a dash of half-and-half, because that’s fast and simple. But every so often I want something closer to what I’d get at a...
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