No matter how much I try to avoid political news, there’s no hiding from the forthcoming U.S. presidential election and the ensuing political circus. Not even technology newsletters are a respite. Charlie Warzel of The Atlantic and Sarah Frier of Bloomberg in their most recent editions made a point that echoes something I said two …

The CrowdStrike fiasco has once again focused the spotlight on Microsoft’s Achilles’ heel — security, or rather the lack there of. I have been writing about technology long enough to know that nothing about the Windows operating system surprises me. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal outlined a multitude of reasons why the “blue …

I had to bite my tongue and not comment on this tweet from FTC Chair Lina Khan, who tried to make the current CrowdStrike situation a crisis because of “big tech” and “consolidation.” “How is it that you don’t understand systems, or their inherent complexity?”, I wanted to scream. Well, if you give someone a …