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Passkeys Won. The Password Still Isn’t Dead. The Reason Is the Whole Point.
The password was supposed to be dead by now. For a few years the industry spoke about it in the future tense that always precedes a funeral: passkeys were coming,…
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AI’s Energy Use Is Both Wildly Overblown and Seriously Underrated. Here’s the Part That’s True.
There are two stories about AI and electricity, and they are both true, which is exactly why the argument never…
Chrome Broke Ad Blockers and AI Answers Broke Traffic. It’s the Same Story.
Two things happened to the web this past year that were reported as separate stories. The first: Google finished dismantling…
AI Writes Code Faster Than Ever. The Productivity Gain Is About 10 Percent. Both Are True
In July 2025, a nonprofit research group called METR published the result nobody in the industry wanted to hear. In…
The Entry-Level Job Is Vanishing. The Fight Is Over Whether AI Is Holding the Knife
If you graduated into a white-collar field in the last two years, you already know the number in your bones,…
