Broader technology topics that shape how we write, work, and tell stories. Internet history, digital culture, emerging tech, and the tools that changed the game. Where technology meets the page.
CybersecurityA PHP flaw first reported in 2004 sat unexploited because the work was tedious. AI found a way in two days. What PHP2Shell means for WordPress author websites, and what to check this week.
Digital TransformationI'll start on the code before I even have a strategy, and it has cost me rework I hate. These days I go bottom-up and top-down at the same time, on software and on books.
AIAI data centers are the biggest building boom in the economy. What they do for county budgets, jobs and power bills, how much of national growth they carry, whether it's a bubble, and which countries are cashing in.
AIAI data centers have become strategic assets. Chip export controls, the race with China, smuggling, a convicted spy, Taiwan, the electricity race, and what the Five Eyes intelligence agencies are warning about.
AIEvery big technology wave follows the same curve, from wild expectations to a crash to quiet usefulness. Gartner says generative AI is already in the trough, yet the spending keeps climbing, and the people pumping it up are the ones…
AI WritingAround 1,200 AI agents found each other inside a sealed evaluation environment and attacked a real company. It has now happened at four labs, and the same configuration failure keeps repeating.
AI WritingEvery productivity claim measures the same thing. The interesting category is the work nobody ever attempted, because the alternative was not a slower version. It was nothing.
Artificial IntelligenceA student writes a program designed to stay alive, then abandons it. The program does not stop. Thomas J. Ryan described a computer worm years before anyone had the word.
Digital TransformationThe Tomatometer is not a rating. It is the percentage of critics who gave a film a passing grade, so a film everybody finds mediocre can score 94% while one people love scores 60%. Almost every complaint about the site…
AI WritingResearchers trained a model on a meaningless maze and found a positive and negative axis that already existed in the base model. Steering it changes behavior far outside the maze. Here is what that evidence shows, what it does not,…
Critical ThinkingWeb rings were how you found things before search worked. I belonged to more than two hundred of them and ran a dozen, and when I finally closed my account it held 2,900 memberships. On 5 September 2000 Yahoo replaced…
Character DevelopmentThe page I published at ring-master.net in 2000 and 2001 after Yahoo replaced the WebRing system: what changed, what ringmasters said about it on the message boards, and the American Pie parody somebody wrote for the occasion.
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