Google Core Algorithm Update Slashes Web Traffic on Some Sites and Boosts Others

This has been an ongoing problem whenever Google attempts to improve its search algorithm, as it just did this month. As always, there are always some winners and some losers. After last year's update, my own website was hit by a perfect storm. If your website has recently seen a fall in traffic, see if …

Is the NSA Warning to Microsoft Users Really as Bad as it Sounds?

"It is likely only a matter of time before remote exploitation tools are widely available for this vulnerability." So wrote the normally circumspect NSA in their advisory on the so-called BlueKeep vulnerability. Really? Only a matter of time? Hmm, it seems like the NSA knows something they're not telling us about. Other cybersecurity professionals tend …

Do People Really Care About Online Privacy?

Here's a surprising statistic. According to a recent Brookings survey, 20% of people claim they read the terms and conditions for online services most of the time. I'm not surprised because this statistic is so low. I'm surprised that it's so high. One firm hired an actor to actually read the Kindle terms of service …

Is This the Year We See Quantum Supremacy?

It is impossible to explain to the average computer user just how powerful a quantum computer can be. In a proposal to Congress for a national quantum initiative, quantum physicist, Christopher Monroe, stated that "the next few years will see quantum computers with over 100 quantum bits, each of which would eclipse the storage capacity …