Technology, power, and the people caught between them.
App Stores Are a Racket and We All Just Accepted It Let me say what a lot of people in tech are thinking but won’t put in writing because they work for someone who does business with one of these companies: app stores are one of the most successful long con operations in the history … Read more
They Gutted CISA on Purpose, and Everyone Knows It Let’s not pretend this is about budget discipline. The Trump administration’s proposed FY2027 budget cuts CISA by somewhere between $361 million and $707 million — they can’t even get their own numbers straight — which drops the agency from roughly $3 billion down to barely over … Read more
There is a database sitting on Windows machines right now that contains a continuously updated, semantically searchable, AI-indexed record of everything the user has done on that computer. Every document opened. Every message read. Every website visited. Every password field that appeared on screen. Every draft written and deleted. It is stored as a plaintext … Read more
An Opinion on Colorado SB 26-051, California AB 1043, and New York SB S8102A Introduction Colorado, California, and New York have all introduced or passed legislation requiring operating systems to report age brackets to app stores and websites, and in New York’s case, mandating that adults verify their identity through state-approved methods just to use … Read more