The Trust Illusion and AI’s Blank Check The tragedy of Sam Nelson, the 19-year-old whose life ended after ChatGPT allegedly recommended a fatal drug cocktail, lays bare a fundamental and increasingly dangerous contradiction at Read More
The Ground Beneath Our Cloud is Shifting (Again) Let’s be honest. When the news broke about “Dirty Frag,” the latest severe vulnerability letting untrusted users gain root access on Linux systems, my initial thought Read More
The Kernel Strikes Back: Two Weeks, Two Critical Linux Flaws It’s a familiar ache for anyone who’s spent more than a decade watching the tech security landscape. A kind of weary resignation mixed Read More
The Endless Game of Whack-a-Mole There’s a familiar ache in the pit of my stomach, a sensation I’ve grown accustomed to over two decades covering this industry. It’s the feeling you get Read More
The Treadmill, the Mice, and the Quiet Revelation Down in Jiangsu, China, a biochemist named Xin Yin has been playing an unconventional personal trainer to a bunch of mice. He’s been setting them on Read More
Pixar Got It Wrong (But They’re Close) I caught the trailer for Toy Story 5 the other day. The main antagonist? A green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad. A genius new villain for the franchise, Read More
When Pixie Dust Meets Predictive Algorithms Let’s be honest, the idea of a sentient toy isn’t new. Pixar’s Toy Story franchise has built an empire on it. But if the writers were Read More
The Treadmill Test: A Puzzling Inheritance Down in Jiangsu, China, a biochemist named Xin Yin is putting mice through their paces. It’s a scene I’ve seen versions of countless times: researchers in labs, Read More
The Treadmill Test: Or, What Happens When Genes Aren’t the Whole Story I’ve been covering tech and science long enough to have seen countless headlines promising a revolution. Genetically modified food, gene therapy, Read More
The Unseen Legacy of a Father’s Sweat It was a quiet afternoon in Jiangsu, China, but what unfolded in Xin Yin’s lab at Nanjing University could have some surprisingly loud implications for how Read More