Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering…

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit

For a long time the tech industry revelled in the distruption of what it saw as old, legacy industries. But now, as AI takes over tech, we’re now starting to eat our own, and it’s dark and ironic.

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website)…

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

The melanoma doctor's brain cancer treatment experiment has sparked hope for a breakthrough.

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Starting this July, Microsoft will begin enforcing a structured lifecycle for unlicensed OneDrive accounts. If your organisation has any loose ends around licensing, now is the time to sort them out before files start di...

Do AGENTS.md Files Actually Help Coding Agents?

So, my latest post went viral.

And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to.

I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prev...

The EU Open Source Strategy places open source at the centre of the EU’s technological sovereignty by promoting European open alternatives to non-EU proprietary solutions in critical domains.

UK proposals for mandatory age verification will not mitigate children’s exposure to harmful content and ‘addictive’ app design, and risks excluding vulnerable groups from online services, says Fou...

We’ve documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

Editor and package-manager config files auto-execute commands when a developer opens a folder or installs dependencies. The Miasma worm wired one dropper into seven of them across Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, VS Code, npm, Composer, and Bundler. Opening a…

Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.

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How Spanish traders in the 1600s influenced GnuCash's database design, and why this seemingly outdated approach still works brilliantly today.