The biggest threat that remains hard to resolve is the phone number threat. Each day it becomes even more important to protect because every platform now uses this as an identity card. Let me remind you in this video of all the threats and problems with loose control of this phone number. In this video I finally arrive at a solution that has eluded me for many years! This is the video that establishes the phone number problem. Rob Braxman reports.
I solved the phone number privacy problem
How to be invisible on the Internet
In order to be pseudo-anonymous on the Internet, we have to make sure that we are aware that we are being tracked. There are 10 important identifiers that we will work on to prevent someone from recognizing us as we surf the interwebs. If we hide or obscure these identifiers, we become invisible. Rob Braxman reports.
Instant real-time video AI is now upon us for better and worse
SAN JOSE, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 19, 2026 - A new real-time video AI model was demonstrated yesterday, capable of generating its first frame in less than a tenth of a second. If you think the world is out of control right now and full of AI bullshit, just wait for what is coming.
Microsoft is ending the era of the personal computer
Windows users sitting in the sidelines are not understanding the source of the Windows hate. But that's because the messages are not getting through. Windows is changing. In a big way. The changes are so huge that really it is evolving to a completely different kind of computing experience that may have no connection anymore to Windows XP. Rob Braxman reports.
You have no idea how crazy humanoid robots have gotten!
SAN JOSE, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 15, 2026 - During a recent visit to Figure AI’s robotic company headquarters in San Jose, the author observed autonomous humanoid robots performing household, logistics and manufacturing-related tasks for extended periods without direct human
intervention. According to Figure, one robot operated continuously for 67 hours with a single recorded error. The company presents this as evidence of a transition from experimental demonstrations to operational systems.
Commentary: Head of the Anthropic safeguards research team resigns citing existential threat posed by AI
by Benjamin Bartee
March 14, 2026 - Silicon Valley has long existed in an intractable paradox, in that it grew out of a hippie-influenced counterculture in Northern Kalifornia that ostensibly committed to idealistic notions of peace on Earth while simultaneously developing the tools of State for global mass surveillance, social credit scores, computer-generated new pathogens, killer drone robots, etc. - in other words, the critical infrastructure for the Beast system.
The App Store Accountability Act is a privacy nightmare disguised as child protection
WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 11, 2026 - Washington has discovered a familiar political trick: wrap a flawed policy in the language of protecting children and hope nobody reads the fine print. The latest example is the App Store Accountability Act, a bill championed by lawmakers who appear eager to regulate the Internet without understanding how it actually works.
Commentary: Braking for a Bag
by Eric Peters
March 11, 2026 - We are told that “driver assistance technologies” make cars safer by making crashes less likely to happen - as for example by having the car apply the brakes when the driver doesn’t. This of course assumes the brakes need to be applied - and also that it is safe for the car to apply them.
What if it isn’t?
A detailed review of Zorin - is this good for ex-Windows users?
More and more computer user are flocking to Linux. But what is surprising is that a large number migrated to Zorin. Apparently it got 2 million downloads in 3 months with the new Zorin 18 version. Why are ex-Windows users migrating to this choice of distro? Does it deserve this attention? Let's do a deep analysis of what makes Zorin tick and let's find out if I will change my recommendations and point new Linux users from Windows to this distro. Rob Braxman reports.
Commentary: What is the deal with space-based data centers for AI?
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal
February 7, 2026 - Big Tech believes orbital data centers are the best way to scale up compute infrastructure needed to run AI services.
Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We are taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, or at least that is what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment.














