Privacy
Hide My Email kept you private by hiding in the crowd at icloud.com. This summer Apple moves every alias to its own subdomain and hands any service a one-line rule to block them all. What changes, and the version no vendor can switch off.
Security
My own Ghost blog has open signup, so I went looking for a CAPTCHA. Ghost built one and ripped it out. Then Cloudflare Turnstile started reading every visitor's GPU.
self-hosted
Plex tripled its lifetime pass and now charges to stream your own files. Bitwarden scrubbed "Always free" as private-equity execs moved in. One week, one lesson about whose "lifetime" it really is, and why you should hold the key yourself.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft's OmniParser enables AI to control your computer through simple commands. While promising enhanced accessibility and automation, it raises crucial questions about privacy and the future of human-computer interaction.