June 1, 2026 Verify Your Email Archive As part of my ongoing series on creating a full backup of all your old emails, we want to take some time to verify…
May 18, 2026 Download All Your Emails In the next phase of withdrawing our email data from the cloud, we’re going to download a complete archive of every email we’ve ever…
May 4, 2026 Withdraw Your Email Data Probably the oldest online data you have – like, still have out there right now – is your emails. Did you have an AOL…
April 27, 2026 The Power of Prophecy We have relied on prophets and seers for most of human history, largely because humans are obsessed with the future – specifically their own….
April 20, 2026 AI’s Promise and Peril Artificial Intelligence – in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) or “chatbots” – are increasing in power at an astonishing pace. In fact, the latest…
April 6, 2026 Routers Behaving Badly The US is planning to ban all foreign-made or foreign-designed home WiFi routers… which is basically all routers. It’s true that many consumer routers…
March 23, 2026 Spring Cleaning When we think about improving security and privacy, we tend to add things: password managers, VPNs, encrypted communication apps. But one of the most…
February 9, 2026 Agents of Misfortune The latest craze with artificial intelligence is agentic AI – exhibited most recently in the viral AI project called ClawdBot… or Moltbot… or OpenClaw….
January 12, 2026 Private AI Chat AI has many problems, but also has promise. Today I’m going to focus on one particular problem that has some viable solutions: privacy. Chat…
November 17, 2025 Erasing Your Online Data Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request…