A cyberattack on Whole Foods’ main distributor exposed the fragility of America’s food infrastructure — and shattered the illusion of tech invincibility, even under Amazon’s watch.
If hackers can disrupt my yogurt, what happens when they target a diabetic’s insulin?
Why it’s time to break up the Big Four airline monopoly and demand real reform in U.S. aviation.
U.S. electric vehicle adoption sustained some massive setbacks this week and it’s become undeniable that attempts by Joe Biden, in partnership with GM and Ford, to force Americans to drive EVs was a massive policy failure of unrivaled proportions.
Elon Musk’s false claims about widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration helped trigger a policy that delayed benefits for more than 140,000 Americans. Internal documents obtained by a federal technology publication reveal that the real problem wasn’t fraud—it was misinformation, weaponized by Musk and Trump administration officials at the expense of vulnerable retirees.
While Washington dithers on privacy protections, Texas AG Ken Paxton is rewriting the rules on corporate data abuse—one billion-dollar lawsuit at a time. From Google to GM, his legal warpath is putting Big Tech and Big Auto on notice: mess with consumer privacy in Texas, and you’ll pay.
California’s love affair with electric vehicles has stalled, and one has a better chance of getting hit by lightning than the state meeting its aggressive EV mandates, which begin taking effect this fall.
Speaking of lightning, Tesla’s much-maligned Cybertruck outsold Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup in California during the first quarter. The Cybertruck also handily outperformed all of GM’s electric vehicle offerings—except for two.
Having come to appreciate the power of AI and its life-changing capabilities, I now realize that my once-undying loyalty to Apple could be shattered if CEO Tim Cook remains on the job.
The more I learn about Elon Musk and some of the false claims of his conflicted DOGE warriors, the more skeptical and alarmed I become.
I’m not a betting man but until this week had you offered me a $1,000 bet that ChatGPT could write a post in my signature blogging style as good or better than what I could produce, I would have taken the wager.
And I would owe you $1,000.
China’s smart phone maker Xiaomi is known as the Apple of China, but unlike America’s Apple under CEO Tim Cook, Xiaomi prefers to innovate rather than squander hundreds of billions on stock buybacks.