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The invisible algorithm bubble
Most of you have known about this aspect of Internet life for awhile now: everything we do is tracked, even in “incognito” mode and behind VPNs. And while some of the obvious indentifying bits of your transactions may be obscured by privacy tools most don’t even bother to use, everything we do is logged, categorized
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Security is about to get even more complicated
We’ve discussed in previous blogs how technology things seem to be getting worse from just about every angle, whether it’s cost, quality or security. We can attribute a large chunk of this downward trend to the increasing profitability of cybercrime, which is itself a vicious, amplifying spiral of escalation. The more we try to keep
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RIP Skype
Two years ago, in 2023, Microsoft announced that over 36 million people were still using Skype daily to communicate via video and chat. The app was 20 years old at that time, and has been in Microsoft’s hands since 2011 when they bought it from eBay for $8.5 billion to replace their own popular (but
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Get ready to show your work
I’m sure it’s still a thing for students today, but one of the phrases that always caused a groan in any class that involved solving equations was, “Make sure you show your work.” Whether it was pre-Algebra or Advanced Calculus, the only way you could prove that you actually understood the topic well enough to
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Windows 10 Countdown
As of now, Microsoft seems to be holding fast to its promise to end support for Windows 10 in October this year. Old tech heads like me are skeptical as to whether Microsoft will keep its word as the clock ticks down, as we still remember when these same promises were made about Windows 7,
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It’s not just you
I first encountered Cory Doctorow through his novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom which is a vision of our world in the 22nd century where social media rules everything. When it first came out in 2003, it was fascinating and seemingly far-fetched, but here we are, twenty-two years later, living in a world
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