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Bruce Berls has been writing about computers and technology at bruceb.com for more than 20 years. Jim Rowson is a former Google software engineer with more than two million lines of code to his name.

07/22/2025

Google and the FBI took down "Badbox 2.0" last month - ten million compromised TV streaming boxes being used by criminals. Here's why you shouldn't buy technology at a flea market.
Bruceb News - The Secret Life Of Smart TVs - https://mailchi.mp/eaf2dd90d4ad/bruceb-news-the-secret-life-of-smart-tvs

07/15/2025

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine, and it's my latest crush. Here's why you should try it, and why it represents the next salvo in a war for internet dominance that is already under way.
Perplexity: From Searches To Answers - https://mailchi.mp/ea04f60b7c98/perplexity-from-searches-to-answers

07/08/2025

Microsoft pushed an update that changes the default in Outlook to open web links in Edge - another example of good intentions turned into hostage situations.
Bruceb News - Microsoft Hijacks Outlook Links - https://mailchi.mp/0a2cc4d3250a/bruceb-news-microsoft-hijacks-outlook-links

07/01/2025

Several signed Philip K Dick books were released years after he died. Getting signatures is a tricky problem when an author dies, eh? Here are some stories about how publishers have handled that, and a historical digression about canceled checks.
Bruceb News - How Philip K Dick's Estate Found A Loophole In A Shoebox - https://mailchi.mp/0642104fb6ae/bruceb-news-how-philip-k-dicks-estate-found-a-loophole-in-a-shoebox

06/24/2025

Xreal One Pro look like slightly bulky sunglasses. You can connect them to your phone and see an IMAX-size screen, hanging bright and crisp in the air in front of you. It's a giant technology leap.
Xreal One & The Future Of AR Glasses - https://mailchi.mp/b779d40135b6/xreal-one-the-future-of-ar-glasses

06/17/2025

A story about lawyers and moronicans, laziness and greed, and why blame for bad AI results should frequently rest with people, not technology.
Decoding AI Hysteria: Hallucinations, Laziness, & Corruption - https://mailchi.mp/d0cc9da5cb9a/decoding-ai-hysteria

06/10/2025

Slovenly Peter was the best-known children's book in the world in the 1800s. Here's the story of Little Suck-A-Thumb and Chubby Augustus - and Mark Twain's translation, which remained unpublished for 45 years.
Jolly Tales & Funny Pictures By Mark Twain - https://mailchi.mp/b7dd04b09ec1/jolly-tales-funny-pictures-by-mark-twain

06/03/2025

Translation is an incredibly hard technology problem for exactly the same reasons that foreign languages sound fast when we listen to them. It may be a while before magic glasses transform our vacations and turn into Babel fish.
Bruceb News - AI And The Gabbling Foreigner Illusion - https://mailchi.mp/b0331163897f/bruceb-news-ai-and-the-gabbling-foreigner-illusion

05/20/2025

One of the things that the new AI tools do is generate a huge amount of content very quickly and cheaply. Now low-quality AI-generated slop is flooding online platforms and crowding out genuine humans.
Bruceb News - AI Slop And The Ensh*ttification Of Everything
https://mailchi.mp/b07902cdc3fe/bruceb-news-the-ensh*ttification-of-everything

05/06/2025

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 ensh*ttification of the internet. It’s a big, complicated, nuanced AI world!
Bruceb News - Zero Click Searches - https://mailchi.mp/5c1559def08d/bruceb-news-zero-click-searches

04/08/2025

Here are some notes to help understand the mentality of book collectors, and some notes about my Lewis Carroll collection.
Bruceb News - A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole - https://mailchi.mp/5d7925f93873/bruceb-news-a-trip-down-the-rabbit-hole

04/01/2025

The story behind one of the greatest works of English literature that you’ve never heard of.
Bruceb News - The History Of The Snark: Notes on Lewis Carroll - https://mailchi.mp/0fb7e8b6cd58/bruceb-news-the-history-of-the-snark

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