/Columnist
Theo writes the long ones: essays on how technology actually gets built, bought, and broken. Formerly shipped software; recovering nicely.
The Daring Fireball writer argues Apple’s App Store, News and planned Maps ads are eroding the privacy pitch Tim Cook ma...
By Theo Lindgren
OpenAI says it will wind down Atlas, its task-running ChatGPT browser, less than a year after announcing it.
By Theo Lindgren
FEMA funding for the 2026 tournament is paying for drones, cameras and biometric systems, raising privacy warnings from...
By Theo Lindgren
Reports say Trump wants government stakes in AI companies, while OpenAI has proposed giving Washington 5% to ease politi...
By Theo Lindgren
Wired reports ICE’s oversight office has pursued online critics, including through warning notices and administrative su...
By Theo Lindgren
Microsoft says it is using AI to find and prepare more Windows 11 security fixes, which could mean busier Patch Tuesdays...
By Theo Lindgren
AI-driven memory profits at Samsung and SK Hynix are reshaping matchmaking, spending and inequality debates in South Kor...
By Theo LindgrenCory Doctorow argues that AI risk is less robot replacement than capital and bosses mistaking sales pitches for producti...
By Theo Lindgren
Image Line’s DAW update turns its AI helper into a tool that can place drums and effects, with clear limits on what it c...
By Theo Lindgren
A half-price Starlink offer lands as civil rights and environmental groups accuse xAI of running unpermitted gas turbine...
By Theo LindgrenCory Doctorow’s latest Pluralistic essay rejects “post-political” centrism and argues that the core political divide is...
By Theo Lindgren
A Department of Energy pilot hit its July 4 target, but the reactors produced no meaningful electricity and still face e...
By Theo Lindgren