Aug 12, 2025 | AI, business, cybersecurity, Internet, security
Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first...
Jul 29, 2025 | Privacy, security
[Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material.] If you’ve been reading Bruceb News for a while, then you know that occasionally I’m compelled to tell you scary bedtime stories about why you don’t have any privacy and...
Jul 22, 2025 | Android, cybersecurity, Google, news, security, video
[Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material.] Google and the FBI took down “Badbox 2.0” last month – ten million compromised TV streaming boxes being used by criminals. Malware on the devices connected...
Jul 23, 2024 | news, security
I’ve got a scary story about technology for you. Nope, not the Crowdstrike meltdown. Here’s one you might have missed. China has hacked into our power grid. The NSA, FBI, and CISA (“Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency”) went public a year ago with...
Jun 11, 2024 | AI, Apple, business, computers, laptops, Microsoft, news, Privacy, security
There was a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday for the new Samsung “Bespoke AI” washer/dryer combo. Seriously. Of course “AI laundry” is marketing crap. I’ll bet some business advertised “Crypto Ovens” a couple of years ago. It’s meaningless and stupid. AI...
Apr 16, 2024 | Microsoft, news, Politics, security
On Friday, March 29, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund saved the world. He found malware shortly before it was due to be distributed to the vast majority of the world’s servers, including those used by banks, hospitals, governments and Fortune 500 companies. The bit...
