Mark Pesce

Column: LEGO Mindstorms, PlayStation 2 and Furby all resonate today in their own way

Column: An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data

Column: In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment

Column: CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line

Column: Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine

Column: Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code

Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts

Column: Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives

But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends?

CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data?

Brush up on your ‘Delvish’ – the lingo that flatters LLMs into a sort of submission

Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement

Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible

Neural nets with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?

It’s not settled law. And it’s going to mean trouble

The answer is not to hide from AI, but to be honest about it

Language models are entirely happy on the desktop

Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger