Searching Google Bookmarks from Chrome’s Omnibox
When Google first launched Google Bookmarks a few years back I immediately stopped using del.icio.us and migrated everything to it. It was a controversial move…
Month: April 2025
Cybersecurity 2025: Training Students for a Quantum-Driven Threat Landscape
Quantum Threat Readiness: Cybersecurity professionals must prepare for quantum computing’s ability to break encryption, accelerating the need for quantum-resistant security measures. AI’s Dual Impact: AI…
The Zero-Control Argument Against Free Will
I have, over the last few years, put out a number of arguments against the possibility of free will. My most popular so far has…
Everything Wrong With Our World is Natural
Just a reminder: Our world is fucked up because nature made it that way. What progress we have made has been in direct opposition to…
How to Use WPA-2 Enterprise in Windows 7
WPA-2 Enterprise is pretty sweet. It allows you to require an Active Directory (any back-end database, really) username and password in order to gain access…
Funlab expands use of centralised workforce management platform
Funlab is making improvements to a centralised workforce management system used in Australia, while also making plans to bring the system to its US operations.…
Possibly the Most Important Political Cartoon, Ever
I tried to avoid hyperbole in this title. I failed. Take in this cartoon and you’ll see why. In short, this shows that it’s not…
Nvidia faces US$5.5 billion charge from restricted chip sales to China
Nvidia said it would take US$5.5 billion ($8.6 billion) in charges after the US government limited exports of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China,…
The Decline of Reddit, Hacker News, and the United States
There is one pattern that we must learn to identify and guard against, and it goes like this: A small group of smart and progressive…
NIST National Cybersecurity Center Calls for Comment on Latest White Paper
The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 42, Towards Automating IoT Security: Implementing Trusted Network-Layer Onboarding, for public comment.…
MITRE’s CVE program given last-minute reprieve
US officials will extend support for 11 months for a database of cyber weaknesses that plays a critical role in fighting bugs and hacks, just…
We Have It Backwards: Liberal Arts Should Guide Science and Technology
The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational, technical…