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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.

05/19/2026

What happens if cyberattackers get ahead of the defenders? Claude Mythos is an unprecedented change in the world that may lead to crippling attacks.
Bruceb News - Claude Mythos & Cyber Apocalypse - https://mailchi.mp/fc739c490dea/bruceb-news-claude-mythos-cyber-apocalypse

05/12/2026

Cybersecurity has been an imperfect, awkward race: the vendor racing to distribute patches, customers slowly installing them, and attackers slowly weaponizing the flaw. It was messy and stressful but the friction and delays have been an important part of our defense against bad guys for decades.

AI is beginning to dissolve that friction like acid on ice.

Bruceb News - The Great Compression - https://mailchi.mp/6aa419349d8d/bruceb-news-the-great-compression

04/28/2026

California is paying attention to privacy. Sign up with DROP to have your data deleted and reduce your exposure to ads and scammers. But don't expect miracles. The river of data will keep flowing.
Bruceb News - Privacy, Meet Reality - https://mailchi.mp/8e80955157d2/bruceb-news-privacy-meet-reality

04/21/2026

California's innovative DROP platform automatically commands hundreds of data brokers to permanently delete your personal information. You'll get less spam and attract less attention from scammers. It's an important step forward.
Bruceb News -Power To The Private - https://mailchi.mp/835c18b57778/bruceb-news-power-to-the-private

04/07/2026

There are books that feel like neatly arranged shelves. Then there are books like The Circus of Dr. Lao, which feels more like someone opened a door in the back of the room and a carnival wandered in, trailing incense and a faint sense that something important just happened when you weren’t looking.
Bruceb News - A Small, Strange American Masterpiece - https://mailchi.mp/e0c4fb4c8775/bruceb-news-a-small-strange-american-masterpiece

03/31/2026

A lot of people talk to their AI buddies as if they have little friends that live in their phones. And the AI feels empathetic. You can dismiss that by pointing out the technology behind the curtain: AI mirrors language patterns; it reflects emotions back; it’s optimized to be helpful and agreeable. It’s just a magic trick. But it’s a great magic trick and it’s getting better all the time. Synthetic empathy feels like the real thing.
Bruceb News - Chatting With AI - https://mailchi.mp/40b8c72f68de/bruceb-news-chatting-with-ai

03/24/2026

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, everything changes when the Mule emerges from obscurity and his disruption causes everything to fall apart. There are sad parallels to today's world.
Isaac Asimov Tried To Warn Us - https://mailchi.mp/509db24aec26/isaac-asimov-tried-to-warn-us

03/10/2026

It’s Anti-AI week! Protests and petitions and boycotts and resignations, oh my. Here's the story of Anthropic & OpenAI and why it's a problem that the Pentagon is willing to destroy a private company because it wants to play with autonomous AI-controlled killer drones.
Bruceb News - The Claude Crisis - https://mailchi.mp/0ec1054a0903/bruceb-news-the-claude-crisis

03/03/2026

You’re starting a long-term relationship with an AI assistant. Here's more info about whether it's worth it to pay for a monthly subscription to ChatGPT or Gemini.
Bruceb News - The $240 Question - https://mailchi.mp/3ecdd343f069/bruceb-news-the-240-question

02/24/2026

How (and why) to use AI in your personal life - advice that is sincere, contradictory, and guaranteed to age poorly.
Bruceb News - ChatGPT & Gemini: Notes For Everyone Else - https://mailchi.mp/38262ea55b9c/bruceb-news-chatgpt-gemini-field-notes-from-a-moving-target

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