Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.

Why you should use a different email address for every site: The list of things you might want to do in order to maintain some semblance of privacy/safety on the internet these days grows ever longer.

Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info: A Japanese government agency was phished.

What I want from Mozilla: To fulfil their stated mission by ‘fostering an ecosystem of open, accessible software that promotes user independence, privacy, and safety’.

Introducing ChatGPT search: OpenAI releases its search engine.

Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI: Their computer programmers are turning into code reviewers.

Yelling at clouds: ‘The Cloud’ might feel like magic but we must remember that it has a real material footprint and consequent impact.

RSS and Instapaper as cup and saucer: I appreciate anyone’s efforts to make me feel OK about the amount on unread articles I saved.

The Doc Web: A deep dive into the dynamics of publishing to the web via Google Docs.

A woman, blogging: this is a political act: Blogging can be empowering, especially for people who otherwise might not have a voice - but it’s not without risk.

Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content: I didn’t realise URLs already let you link to and highlight any specific piece of text on a webpage.

Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted: Consider your URL haunted ‘when something in its past gives it a poor reputation among search engines’.

The web and I: Ben Werdmuller on growing up during the time when the web-as-we-know it - with its ‘spirit of magic and possibility’ - was being born.

Intentional web: A name for the parts of the web you proactively choose to interact with.

It’s not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse: Researchers find that search engines are getting ever more flooded with nasty SEO product spam sites despite their best efforts.

Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.