July 29, 2025

Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material. If you’ve been reading Bruceb News for a while, then you know that occasionally I’m compelled to tell you scary bedtime stories about why you don’t have any privacy and how everyone knows where you are all the time. This is the creepiest one…

July 22, 2025

[Click here for a NotebookLM audio discussion of this topic drawn from my source material.] Google and the FBI took down “Badbox 2.0” last month – ten million compromised TV streaming boxes being used by criminals. Malware on the devices connected them into a botnet for all kinds of badness: to conduct attacks on business…

July 23, 2024

I’ve got a scary story about technology for you. Nope, not the Crowdstrike meltdown. Here’s one you might have missed. China has hacked into our power grid. The NSA, FBI, and CISA (“Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency”) went public a year ago with details about Volt Typhoon, a Chinese effort to plant malware in power grids,…

June 11, 2024

There was a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday for the new Samsung “Bespoke AI” washer/dryer combo. Seriously. Of course “AI laundry” is marketing crap. I’ll bet some business advertised “Crypto Ovens” a couple of years ago. It’s meaningless and stupid. AI hysteria is on the rise. This is still the early…