From Vegas casinos to federal firewalls, America’s cybersecurity is a house of cards. Teenagers and China keep winning — and I seem alone in my outrage.
Technology
Jaguar’s Adrian Mardell’s Dumb “Smart” Factories
Apologies to GM’s Mary Barra and Ford’s Jim Farley, who I’ve long maligned as the auto industry’s worst CEOs. Turns out Jaguar Land Rover’s Adrian Mardell has them both beat.
Built for Repairs: The Perils of Buying a Ford!
Ford has already recalled nearly 8 million vehicles in 2025 — more than it will sell worldwide. Here’s my PSA for anyone thinking of buying a vehicle with a Blue Oval on the hood.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s Headless Bodies
From tiki statues and “family” talk to 4,000 pink slips and an army of bots.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this “progress.” I call it another entry in my CEO Hall of Shame.
Protect Children From Mark Zuckerberg’s Greed
Mark Zuckerberg spent $110M to wall himself off from his Silicon Valley neighbors. He could have used some of his billions to wall children off from Meta’s chatbots.
Reuters uncovered internal guidelines that allowed bots to flirt with kids and even write racist screeds. Meta’s response? The same rinse-and-repeat PR denial we’ve heard for years.
So far, only rock legend Neil Young has expressed outrage — and bolted from Facebook.
Why Verizon Deserves to Crash and Burn
Verizon only wants “high-quality” customers, says its $24 million CEO Hans Vestberg. If that’s the goal, investors should demand the immediate deactivation of Vestberg—and the dead-weight board he chairs.
Debunking Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s Superior Ethics
The Department of Justice disclosed this week that Delta agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle the agency’s fraud allegations that the airline violated the False Claims Act by awarding executive compensation exceeding the $425,000 limit Delta agreed to when it received nearly $12 billion in pandemic relief funds from the federal government.
Not what I’d expect from an airline whose CEO is hailed for his supposedly superior ethics.
AI’s Top 10 CEOs Who Should Be Fired
Here’s why CEOs like Ford’s Jim Farley—who recently warned that “artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.”—might want to stop talking about AI’s job-replacement potential.
Cybercrime Gang Could Cripple U.S. Air Travel
The U.S. airline industry cartel had billions for stock buybacks, tens of millions for executive bonuses, and gladly covered the cost of branded snacks. But when it came to securing the digital systems that keep their planes—and passengers—moving, they fittingly invested peanuts.
Now the FBI and cybersecurity experts warn that U.S. airlines are at serious risk of being hacked—and air travel could face crippling disruptions.
Former Delta Execs Unleash AI Gouging at Hertz
Imagine if former Delta executives took over a car rental company. Sadly, it’s not a hypothetical—and as Hertz customers are fast learning, the consequences are real, robotic, and painfully expensive.