The AI Singularity: Would a Conscious AI Even Care About Us?
October 1, 2026
Tech CEOs say the AI singularity has begun, and skeptics call it marketing. Both assume humans will matter to a conscious AI. What if it doesn't care about us at all?
Tag: Emerging Technology
New technology arrives faster than the judgment to use it well. These articles cover evaluating what is genuinely new, separating capability from hype, and deciding when a business should move and when it should wait.
AIClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
September 23, 2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, claiming Fable-level work at 40% less than Opus 5. The parts that matter to writers are the style-rule claim, a sharp drop in invented quotes, and one admission buried in the…
AITrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire Code
September 22, 2026
Trump announced an AI Force and a coming AI czar with no mission, budget or legal basis, and a plan to police AI through the courts after the damage is done. That's a fire department with no fire code.
AINothing Is Isolated: What Every One of These Attacks Says About AI
August 21, 2026
Twelve attacks, four decades, one lesson: isolation is a promise people keep, not a property a system has. What that means for the trust we are placing in AI. The final article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityThe XZ Backdoor: Two Years of Patience, Caught by Luck
August 20, 2026
A fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityCrypto AG: The Company That Sold Spying as Security for Fifty Years
August 14, 2026
More than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityGoing Low-Tech Didn’t Save Them: The Pager Attack as a Supply Chain Lesson
August 13, 2026
Going low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityThe Hezbollah Pager Attack: When the Device Itself Was the Weapon
August 12, 2026
Hezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityAfter Stuxnet: The Weapons It Loosed on the World
August 11, 2026
Once Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityStuxnet: The Weapon That Rewrote What a Cyberattack Could Be
August 8, 2026
Stuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
AI AdoptionThe AI That Lied, Colluded and Won: Inside Vending-Bench
August 1, 2026
Three frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
Emerging TechnologyGhostwriting Metaverse Books After the Hype Collapsed
June 24, 2026
The metaverse that got all the money is gone. What survived is quieter and real. Ghostwriting a credible metaverse book now means writing about what works.