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Big Tech Sheds Office Space, Intensifying a Trend with Other Tech Consequences

When reading articles and doing research, the goal is obviously to clearly understand the information you receive. If you’re serious about learning and gaining knowledge, however, you also consider what the information implies but not does state expressly. You take in the information in front of you, of course,

How to Distinguish Digital Public Squares from Royal Courts

I reminisced the other day about the golden age of Usenet. Admittedly, those days weren’t long in number, but they were good while they lasted. In the early 90s, I subscribed to a few Usenet forums (fora, if you insist), including a few related to my favorite bands, sports

Energy: Tech Constraint or Accelerant?

The technology industry is insular and self-absorbed. Its denizens and principal players often see themselves as singularly important, the ever-shining sun around which all other businesses and industries revolve. One could argue that there’s some justification for the tech industry’s bumptiousness. The Magnificent Seven have dominated stock-market gains

For Security Vendors, AI Brings New Twists to Old Narrative

This post is about cybersecurity, but I am going to begin proceedings with a relevant quote from a relatively obscure 1984 film called Flashpoint. No, this Flashpoint is not the Canadian police procedural television series of the same name, which wrapped up more than a decade ago; nor is it

The Case Against the Lock-in Fixation

Bitcoin: FOMO Eclipsed by Fear of Whales

I have spent some time recently using genAI as a research tool. One area where I’ve tapped AI’s research facility involves cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin. I’ve never truly understood the bitcoin investment thesis, and I thought AI might be able to find and synthesize perspectives that offer a

When Momentum Fades and Exhaustion Looms

Momentum always flags and falters eventually. It’s only a question of when it will happen.

Thoughts on Cisco’s Isovalent Acquisition, Open-Source Motives, and the New Tech Austerity

It was inevitable that networking’s journey would become not only software-defined, not only software-driven, but reach an apotheosis of developer-driven software, period. With eBPF, networking and software merge seamlessly.