October 5, 2026 Hold Off on Muse Meta has released a very powerful new AI agent app called Muse. Likewise, OpenAI has released a similar app called Dots. Both apps feature…
September 21, 2026 Solving the AI Paradox In the last week, many news organizations have breathlessly covered the “AI doomer” comments by a former Anthropic employee, who said that many of…
September 14, 2026 Obscuring the Exit While we do have some state privacy laws in the US that require companies to allow you to opt out of data collection, these…
August 10, 2026 AI Tech Support: Trust, but Verify One of the most underrated uses for modern chatbots, in my estimation, is tech support. I don’t mean the chatbots offered by product websites,…
April 13, 2026 Identity Resolution There are all sorts of things that can be used to identify us online and in the real world, beyond our names, addresses, and…
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…
December 22, 2025 Replay: Stop Reusing Passwords I’m digging into the vault for a classic interview – a blast from the past! I’ve done 460 episodes over the last nearly 9…
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…
September 22, 2025 Find Old Accounts (Part 2) In our quest to clean up and secure our data, today I will give you several clever and useful techniques for uncovering old, forgotten…
August 25, 2025 Going on a Data Diet The world wide web, as we know it today, has been around for over 30 years. In that time, most of us have created…