Why the AI Vulnpocalypse Isn’t the Breachpocalypse (Yet)? It’s the Economy, Stupid.: It’s not the only available theory - but the suggestion here is that it’s the diminishing ability to monetise breaches rather than the lack of exploits that’s the limiting factor.
Computing
2026-11-09: Andrew O'Hagan's book explores identity in the internet age
2026-11-09
2026-11-07
To protect the web, we need to renegotiate its value.: ‘Public Knowledge and Creative Commons have laid out a compelling case for what must be done to protect the open web in the face of AI. It’s going to take work.’
2026-11-01
A gift to scammers: why you should probably keep your birthday a secret: Use a fake one when signing up to online services
2026-10-30: OpenDownloader is another nice way to archive online video locally
2026-10-24: The UK's online safety laws have entirely failed to protect children from disgraceful social media content
2026-10-22: How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now It’s easy to do …
2026-10-21
2026-10-19: The most paranoid conspiracy theories of the programmatic-advert blocking crowd naturally turn out to be the reality of what's going on
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-09-30: Micah Lee's guide to analysing leaked, hacked and otherwise acquired data
2026-09-20
Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: URLs that contain characters that look like letters that they’re not.
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …
2026-09-19: Rescue iTunes music from your iPhone by connecting it to Linux as thought it was a disk drive
2026-08-29
Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’
2026-08-27: Geeqie is a handy little open-source app for Linux systems that helps you view, sort and organise …
2026-08-27
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’
2026-08-15: Setting up Yubikeys in Linux
2026-07-30
Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog: This is clever, especially if most of your audience uses Bluesky.
2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'
2026-07-19: Yet another 'you can't trust cloud services with your data' example, Microsoft edition.
2026-07-18: Buy a new monitor, get some adware for free
2026-07-07: Converting between music file formats with ffmpeg
2026-07-05: Cryptomator is on a half price sale should anyone want a copy, or to support a worthy project on the …
2026-06-25
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.