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Think about disabling #bluetooth on your cell phones as a precautionary measure. This actually happened to me. Full details at https://www.pdxlocal.net/bluetooth-vulnerability/

I was targeted by a similar recruiting scam several years ago -- again, a smallish company which was high on my interest list, with a personalized email matching my stated skills a…

>> There are lots of ways to provide feedback. I suggest stating the problem with the code and providing a solution. If that's the only possible solution to get past your review, s…

We need a better test. Turing Test has been beaten already. My take on LaMDA, after reading through the Washington Post “interview,” is that LaMDA gave some indications of being se…

Former Facebook corporate lawyer [names and location redacted] was named as the perpetrator of second degree sexual abuse, a felony in the state of Oregon. The allegations, togethe…

Imagine waking up on a crisp, cool morning in early September 2038 and checking the news. You see a headline that world temperatures have fallen by half a degree Celsius in the pas…

Out of the blue, about six weeks ago, a bunch of people on Signal started asking me to prove I wasn’t a bot. I thought it was funny, so I went along with them. I even took a pictur…

Biometrics such as fingerprint sensors are generally considered more secure than password protection, but they have a high potential for failure. Last Monday, I found that Signal o…