BRUCEB NEWS
Zero Click Searches & Google AI Mode
AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news - the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big, complicated,...
From Waistline to Wallet: Weight Loss Drugs Will Slim Down Impulse Spending
Weight loss drugs effectively regulate impulse control - and the effects go far beyond snack food. Our economy is built on impulse purchases. The secondary effects of GLP-1 drugs...
A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole: Notes On Collecting Lewis Carroll
We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right?...
The History Of The Snark: Notes On Lewis Carroll
On July 18, 1874, Lewis Carroll was on a morning walk when a sentence popped into his head: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.” That thought led to one of the greatest works...
Legal Research? There’s An Algorithm For That
Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery...
The Unseen Battlefield: Gazing Into The Cybersecurity Abyss
It’s difficult to keep up with the news this year. Oh, you noticed? I wouldn’t blame you if you’ve given yourself permission to detach from daily updates about the world as a way...
21st-Century Picks and Shovels: Microsoft’s AI Strategy for Businesses
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that...
AI Will Know Who You Are (And That’s A Good Thing)
Searches in our files and emails are painful. We’re used to it now. We all play the game of trying to remember some key word that will pull up just the right file except it...
AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!
Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” - words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” - made up words...
DeepSeek And The Business Of AI
AI is in the news lately. Oh, you noticed? There’s been so much AI news that at times it has almost cut through the political chaos. There was the day last week when US stocks...
The Return Of Bruceb News
I’m going to change what arrives in your mailbox in a very minor way. You don’t have to do anything except whitelist my emails when they get sent to junk mail. (Gmail sometimes...
“Optimize Enjoyment”: Remembering Jim Rowson
“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives ForeverJim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from...
The Rise And Fall Of Browser Home Pages
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a...
Seeing The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses (Literally)
These two photos look identical to me. What I see looks like the photo on the right. I have mild deuteranomaly – red-green colorblindness. Eight percent of men are red-green...
Your Apartment, But Make It Game Of Thrones
Some demos were posted this week that make it easier to picture how technology can change reality. The picture above shows a laptop in a perfectly normal apartment with a Game of...
Mixed Reality Goes Mainstream – Meta Quest 3 And Alien Puffballs
An alien spaceship has blasted a hole in my ceiling and is landing on the floor in front of my bookcases. It’s a game on the Meta Quest 3 headset named “First Encounters.” My...