Original
Stucco Theme: This is the Writing on the Wall.
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May 18, 2025 |
Old Dog Learns New Tricks — Animated Gif |
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May 10, 2025 |
Mother's Day 2025 e-Card Animated GIF
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Page 1 |
Why I produce this electronic newsletter |
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March
03, 2024 |
The Number One Existential Question is Answered |
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Continuing |
NEW! Four Strangers Rode Into Town
NEWER: How We All Hope This Ends
NEWEST: In the Bathroom
NEWEREST: A Public Service Announcement
MORE NEWER:
Hillary Testifies
YET MORE NEWER: Military-Industrial-Complex, 2026
EVEN MORE NEWEREST: Pandora's Box, circa 2026 |
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Current
Website Projects
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The Newest News |
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February 9, 2026 |
Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Email Headers:
Find
Out Who's Sending the Spam and Why. |
February 4, 2026
Revised
February 6, 2026
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The Coming Cluster, Postscript:
Microsoft Is Replacing
Expiring Secure Boot Certificates |
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February 3, 2026 |
The Coming Cluster:
Microsoft Is Replacing Expiring Secure Boot
Certificates |
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January 17, 2026 |
The Pessimist's Optimistic Guide to Scareware, or:
Two AIs
Walk into a Scareware Page |
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December 15, 2025 |
About That Prosper Data Breach Email
It Seems To Be The Real
Deal |
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December 01, 2025 |
Tis the Season To Get Hosed
According To the F.B.I. |
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November 25, 2025 |
Stupid Is As Stupid Does:
ClickFix Continues to Exploit
Users' Naïveté |
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November 11, 2025 |
Windows 10 Extended Security Upgrades (ESU)
Day One, Dead on
Arrival |
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November 09, 2025 |
From BitLocker to BitchLocker:
Defensive Computing in the Age of Rampant
Ransomware
A Reprise
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November 04, 2025 |
The End Is Nigh for Windows 10, Conclusion:
The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly |
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November 02, 2025 |
The End Is Nigh for Windows 10, Part 2:
The Coming Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD) Disaster |
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October 05, 2025 |
The End Is Nigh for Windows 10, Part 1:
The Coming Cyber-Apocalypse
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September 30, 2025 |
Settings to Empower Your Privacy:
Tackling Targeting Ads in
Windows & Google Chrome |
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September 7, 2025 |
Cookies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Going on the Defense |
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September 1, 2025 |
Coming Soon: Warning Labels in AI Products
Avoiding
Liabilities for Harms Caused By AI Products |
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August 28, 2025 |
Kids and Computers
Where Law, Courts, and Culture Collide in
2025
Part 1 |
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August 28, 2025 |
Kids and Computers
Where Law, Courts, and Culture Collide in
2025
Part 2 |
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August 17, 2025 |
Riddle Me This: When Is a Tattoo Not a Tattoo?
When the
Tattoo is a Biological Computer Interface, Part 1
The Technology of
Bio-Connectivity |
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August 17, 2025 |
Riddle Me This: When Is a Tattoo Not a Tattoo?
When the
Tattoo is a Biological Computer Interface, Part 2
The Inherent Risks of Bio-Connectivity Technology |
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August 10, 2025 |
The Sue Me, Sue You Blues:
Lawrence Klein v. Microsoft Edition |
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June 1, 2025 |
Advertising
in the Windows Operating System, Part 1:
Innovations in Malware, Fake AV Alerts on the Windows Lock Screen
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June 1, 2025 |
Advertising in the Windows Operating System, Part 2:
The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
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May 18, 2025 |
Tales from the En-Crypt-ion, Part 2
An Old Dog Learns Some New Tricks
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May 18, 2025 |
Tales from the En-Crypt-ion, Part 1
Microsoft Pulls Another
Boner |
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March 23, 2025 |
Microsoft Enables Copilot To Access and Analyze Your Files
A Tutorial If You Wish To Fly with a Copilot, or How To Fly Solo, Pt. 2 |
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March 23, 2025 |
More Old Wine In New Bottles:
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Deepfake Voiceprint Scam Calls |
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March 16, 2025 |
Yet Even More Online Culinary Delights
From the Sloppy and Slimy Side of
the Internet:
Who the Heck Is Sending All This Spam? |
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January 19, 2025 |
Microsoft Office Is Now Microsoft 365 Copilot
A Tutorial If
You Wish To Fly with a Copilot, or How To Fly Solo |
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December 8, 2024 |
The Many Controversies Surrounding UnitedHealthcare, Part 1
And the Many Possible Motives for the Murder of Its CEO, Brian Thompson
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December 8, 2024 |
The Many Controversies Surrounding UnitedHealthcare, Part 2
And the Many Possible Motives for the Murder of Its CEO, Brian Thompson |
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December 8, 2024 |
The Many Controversies Surrounding UnitedHealthcare, Part 3
And the Many Possible Motives for the Murder of Its CEO, Brian Thompson |
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November 28, 2024 |
Taming the AI Beast, Part 1:
How to Manage Connected Experiences In Office |
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November 28, 2024 |
Taming the AI Beast, Part
2:
Getting the Google Gmail Smart Genie Back in the Bottle |
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November 28, 2024 |
Bits
& Bytes: No New Outlook
Windows 11 24h2 Is Breaking Scanner
Functionality. |
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November 9, 2024 |
How the Data Breaches Have Actually Harmed the Innocents
And
So This Is What It Has Come To |
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October 25, 2024 |
How the National Public Data Breach Can Actually Harm You
Along With Other Innovations in Cyber Crime |
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August 23, 2024 |
The
Hack of National Public Data
Want to Find Out If Your Social Security
Number Is Up for Sale? |
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August 22, 2024 |
MS Outlook: Zoom into Headers to See Who Is the Sender.
Or
You Pays Your Monies and You Take Your Chances, Pt. 3 |
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August 21, 2024 |
MS Outlook: View Message Headers to
See Who Is the Sender.
Or You Pays Your
Monies and You Take Your Chances, Pt. 2 |
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August 15, 2024 |
MS Outlook: Text On — Preview Pane
Off.
Or You Pays Your Monies and You Take Your
Chances, Pt. 1 |
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And In Other News |
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July 11, 2024 |
To Patch or Not To Patch?
That Shouldn't Even Be a Question. |
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July 11, 2024 |
The Terror of Temu, Postscript |
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July 11, 2024 |
Riddle Me This: When Is Cheap Stuff Too Expensive?
When the Cheap
Stuff Is Made By Slave Labor in China:
The Terror of Temu, Part 3 |
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July 10, 2024 |
Riddle Me This: When Is Cheap Stuff Too Expensive?
When the
Cheap Stuff Steals All the Info on Your Phone:
The Terror of Temu,
Part 2 |
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June 30, 2024 |
Riddle Me This: When Is Cheap
Stuff Too Expensive?
When the Cheap
Stuff Comes from a Crooked Reseller from China:
The Terror of Temu,
Part 1 |
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June 22, 2024 |
When You Receive What Had You Never Ordered:
Then You May Be
a Victim of a Brushing Scam |
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June 22, 2024 |
More Online Culinary Delights from the Sloppy and Slimy Side of
Internet:
Pink Slime Journalism, Where the Slop Hits the News |
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June 20, 2024 |
More Old Wine In a New Bottle, Part 2:
Phishing Via Fake Updates for Office Apps & Onedrive |
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June 20, 2024 |
More Old Wine In a New Bottle,
Part 1:
Phishing Via Fake Updates for
Google Chrome |
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June 9, 2024 |
The Sophism of Slop, Part 2:
Social Media, Where the Slop
Flows Like Untreated Wastewater |
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May 31, 2024 |
The New But Very Old Word
That is Trending on the the
Internet: Slop |
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June 6, 2024 |
An Easy Peasy Way to Show
The Classic Windows File
Explorer Toolbar
Along With a Shortcut To Make It So Much Easier |
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June 2, 2024 |
The Cox To Yahoo Email Nightmare &
The Arrogance of Those Who
Control Our Digital Lives |
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May 1, 2024 |
The Facts Behind the Change Healthcare Hack
Reveal Why We Are
Losing the Cyber War |
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March 17, 2024 |
The Congressional Problem With CCP
That Is, Its Confusion
Concerning Priorities |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
Last Call for a Return To First Principles, End Section 230
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Introduction |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Part 1 |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Part 2 |
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February 28, 2024 |
The Connectwise ScreenConnect Vulnerability Part 2
The Return
of the ALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware Gang |
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February 24, 2024 |
The Connectwise ScreenConnect Vulnerability &
The Return of the Lockbit Ransomware Gang |
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February 25, 2024 |
More Hidden Gems In Your Microsoft 365
Subscription
Introducing Microsoft Defender Identity Monitoring
Applications |
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February 20, 2024 |
Lockbit Ransomware Group Disrupted
At Least For Now |
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February 19, 2024 |
Microsoft Slays The AI Demons
At Least For Now |
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February 18, 2024 |
Uncle Sam
Says
Don't Be Indolent. Change That Password! |
February 18, 2024
Updated 2/19/2024 |
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
A Tale of Two Heists of Major Financial
Institutions |
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February 04, 2024 |
Human Depravity Is the Reason Why
We Can't Have Nice Things |
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January 28, 2024 |
Costs, Epilogue: Attacks on Water Plants? (Yawn)
DeepFake
Porn Pics of Taylor Swift? Now That's Entertainment!
Ah
Jeez... |
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January 27, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt. 3
Documenting the True Costs
of Ransomware |
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January 27, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt. 2
Maybe You Will Care When Your
Taps Go Dry Or Worse |
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January 24, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt.1
MOAB and the Extent of the
Problem |
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January 21, 2024 |
Telling the Whole Story
Some Needed Truth In Advertising
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January 21, 2024 |
Hacking Hits Home
Keenan and Associates Suffers a Breach |
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January 20, 2024 |
Computers In the Classroom
A Classic Case of the
Double Edged Sword |
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January 14, 2024 |
Want a Free Comprehensive Course of AI Fundamentals?
Well, IBM's Got
Your Ticket |
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January 14, 2024 |
Riddle Me This: When Is a Lie Not a Lie?
When the Lie Is a
Conspiracy Theory, Like the Dead Internet Theory. |
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January 13, 2024 |
An Always On But Idle Connection
Can Also Be the Devil's Workshop |
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January 13, 2024 |
It's Not the First Time Our Country or World Has Unraveled
But This Time, the
Unraveling Is Happening At Light Speed |
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November 11, 2023 |
Beware the Insidious Invite, Part 2;
Social Engineering 101 |
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November 10, 2023 |
Beware the Insidious Invite; Or
"Punchbowl[.]Ru" is not
"Punchbowl[.]Com" |
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November 04, 2023 |
Old Venerable MS Paint
Gets a New Makeover and Really Cool Features |
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October 29, 2023 |
Well, You Know Phishing, and Smishing, and Vishing
But Do You Know the Newest Hack of All? |
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October 22, 2023 |
India Busts Up Some Fake AV Alert Crooks
While the FBI Announces a
New Scam Sucking In Seniors |
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October 9, 2023 |
Infographics Are All the Rage, Pt. 3
Microsoft Delivers the
Facts for the Short Attention Span Set |
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October 8, 2023 |
October Is Not Only CyberSecurity Awareness Month
KnowBe4
Wants You to Know That October is also
Spooky Cyber Month |
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October 7, 2023 |
October 2023 Is the 20th Annual CyberSecurity Awareness (Yawn) Month
—
Gee, and I Didn't Get You Anything |
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September 27, 2023 |
Windows Version 23H2:
Copilot AI on the Taskbar, Well, OK |
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October 1, 2023 |
More Windows 11 22H2 Postscript — Post-Installation
Copilot?
What CoPilot? We Don't Need No Stinking Copilot! |
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October 1, 2023 |
Windows 11 Version 23H2, (Ahem, My Bad.
I mean 22H2):
Postscript — Post Installation
The Whole Enchilada Is
Still Two Tacos Short of a Combo Plate
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September 26, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have
Some Sway
Introduction to Microsoft Sway, Pt. 3 |
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September 23, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have Some Sway
Introduction to
Microsoft Sway, Part 2 |
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September 23, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have Some Sway
Introduction to
Microsoft Sway, Part 1 |
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September 22, 2023 |
Windows Version 23H2: Will It Be, Ah
Jeez...
Or, Gee Whiz, This is Really Cool
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September 21, 2023 |
From Business Management to Party Management
Introduction To
Microsoft Forms |
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September 18, 2023 |
Time As Come Today: Deep Fakes On the Rise |
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September 17, 2023 |
The Word of the Day Is Provenance
An Important Thing to Know
About Browser Extensions |
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September 16, 2023 |
Amaze and Astound Your Friends and
Family
With These Easy Peasy Tips & Tricks to Try |
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September 10, 2023 |
Phishing Back in the News
The Push and Pull of Domain
Phishing |
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Updated September 05, 2023 |
And New Snipping Tool Settings |
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September 04, 2023 |
Microsoft PC Manager revisited
Make Your Security Easy Peasey |
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September 04, 2023 |
Open Outlook Links In Your Default Browser
Like Chrome And Not Edge
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August 29, 2023 |
The Battle of the Leviathans: Mark Zuckerberg vs Moms of Dead Kids
Another Tale of Two Advocacy Ads |
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August 29, 2023 |
The Big Boys & Girls and Us Little Guys All In the Crosshairs
Sim Swapping: A High Tech Crime by Low Tech Means |
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August 26, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.3
Find That Favorite Fantastic Font
That You Really, Really Want |
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August 25, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.2
Outlook Is More Than the Words You
Write |
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August 25, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.1
What the Heck Is a Word Aptos? |
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August 24, 2023 |
Crooks Now Have Eyes In the Skies
The Hacking of Telescopes
Worldwide |
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August 23, 2023 |
First We Got A Bing. Now We Got A Bard.
Google Opens Up Its AI
to All |
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August 19, 2023 |
Trial Over Ink Extortion Is a Blot On
H.P.'s Otherwise Stained
Record |
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August 8, 2023 |
Just When You Think the Bovine Refuse Could Not Get Any More Thick,
Along Comes Worldcoin and Its Absurdly Comical Orb, Part 2 |
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August 8, 2023 |
Just When You Think the Bovine Refuse Could Not Get Any More Thick,
Along Comes Worldcoin and Its Absurdly Comical Orb |
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August 6, 2023 |
The Game May Have Changed:
But Compromised Servers are Still
Tried and True, Part 3 in a series |
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August 6, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
Fileless Malware and Hackers Living Off
the Land, Pt2 |
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July 30, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
Fileless Malware and Hackers Living Off the Land |
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July 29, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
So, So Must We |
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July 04, 2023 |
The Back Pages: Special Fourth of July Edition |
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July 11, 2023 |
Introducing Google Enhanced Safe Browsing
Well, Bless Their
Little Pea-Picking Hearts2 |
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July 01, 2023 |
Introducing Google My Ad Center
Well, Bless Their Little Pea-Picking
Hearts. |
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A New Continuing Series: |
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The Complete Series |
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July 23, 2023 |
The CLOP MOVEit Vulnerability:
Rite-Aid & The Eternal Zero Hour
Threat |
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July 18, 2023 |
A Growing Trend:
Data Breaches,
Hacking, and Ransomware Infecting the Courtroom |
July 12, 2023
July 16, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time,
Coda
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July 16, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time, Part
3.
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July 12, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time, Part 2.
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July 03, 2023 |
CISA Director, Jen Easterly, Valiantly Trying to
Save
Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time. |
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Special Features |
The Back Pages
Page 1 |
The Eight Beatitudes of the Digerati
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January 7, 2023 |
The BackPages: I want to share with you my Dark Visions
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March 13, 2023 |
Two Unrelated Events That Fed the Crash
Happened at the Same
Time |
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January 2023 |
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February - April 2023 |
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May 24, 2023 |
The Dispatcher Answers a Critic
in Three Parts
A Short Discourse on the Web Graphics
Tools, Techniques, and Intents,
Pt. 3 |
May 11, 2023 |
Short Discourse on My Philosophy of
Web Page and Website Design
In Classical Design Theory Less Is Always More, Pt. 1 |
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May 12, 2023 |
A Short Discourse on the Business of Website Hosting
In the
Business of Website Hosting Less Is Also More, Pt. 2 |
May 10, 2023 |
Introducing Cracker Jill
Sheer Brilliance In a Bag |
May 21, 2023 |
A review of the ways to be smarter online. |
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Earlier News |
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July 03, 2023 |
A Word on Smartphone Security from The Land Down Under,
By
Way of The NSA. |
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June 14 - 18, 2023 |
A Three Part Series:
AI In the Market Place:
, Pt. 1-3
The Bull Runs While The Bear Comes
Out of Hibernation (1)
The Consumer King and the
Great Cosmic Yawn (2)
Humpty Dumpty Teetering on the Wall
Street (3) |
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June 18, 2023 |
A New Look at Two Useful Windows apps
MS PC Manager & Task
Manager |
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June 15, 2023 |
So What In the Sam Hill Does
The Presidential Records Act of
1978 Actually Say? |
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June 5, 2023 |
AI In the Apps:
Microsoft's Designer & The Existential
Inference |
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June 4, 2023 |
AI In the Apps: Microsoft's Editor |
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June 16, 2023 |
Domain Poisoning:
More Old Wine in a New Cardboard Box |
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June 3 2023 |
The Regulating of AI, Pt. 3:
Observations From Abroad and
Conclusions for Here At Home |
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June 1, 2023 |
The Regulating of AI, Pt. 2:
The Fox Needs Help Exiting the
Henhouse |
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May 31, 2023 |
The
Regulating of AI, Pt.1:
Please Stop Me Before I Hallucinate Again |
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May 27, 2023 |
Get SyncToy Backup Utility Now! |
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May 24, 2023 |
Changing Computer Karma: But Old Demons Still Reign
A Review
of After Action Reports, Pt. 2 |
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May 23, 2023 |
Changing Computer Karma: But Old Demons Still Reign
A Review
of After Action Reports, Pt1. |
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May 20, 2023 |
Artificial Intelligence and The Return of FUD |
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May 21, 2023 |
Montana TikTok Ban is Undeniably...
Unconstitutional;
Unworkable; Unenforceable; and Just Plain Dumb |
May 13, 2023
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The Empire Steps Up
Secure By Design, Secure
By Default, Pt. 1 |
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The
Empire Steps Up
Secure By Design, Secure By Default, Pt.
2 |
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And Now Another Really Stupid Government IT Trick
The
Protecting Kids on Social Media Act |
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Special Continuing Yin and Yang Edition |
May 15, 2023 |
1. Get Windows Update Now
2. Windows
Notifications Are Exploding
3. Optional Updates |
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May 20, 2023 |
Artificial Intelligence and The Return of FUD |
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May 8, 2023 |
AI and Its Acolytes: Improving Life on Earth by Its Utter
Destruction
Artificial Intelligence and Our Rapidly Changing Economy
and Workforce, Parts 1 & 2 |
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May 10, 2023 |
It's Time to Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Learn The
Art of the Artificial Intelligence Prompt Now |
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May 8, 2023 |
New Windows Bugs and/or Windows Features
Annoying or Experience
Enriching Eye Candy and How To Turn It On or Off |
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April 18, 2023 |
Is It a Bug? Or Is It a New Feature? I report. You Decide?
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April 19, 2023 |
Microsoft's New Demi-God Mode
Introduction To Microsoft PC Manager
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April 4, 2023 |
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