Preston Gralla
@pgralla
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Preston Gralla is the author of more than 40 books about technology and a contributing editor and Windows blogger and columnist for Computerworld.
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2009
Microsoft claims Big Tech and the feds need to regulate A.I. If so, why did the company kill its most important ethics team regulating A.I. months ago, as I reported a few days ago in my Computerworld column? https://t.co/VkV8n5TbqO
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Rabbit apocalypse: How can I stop them from eating all the herbs and greens in my urban garden, without resorting to the stew pot?
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What happens to everyday life when missiles rain from the sky? I review "War Diary" by Yevgenia Belorusets, which chronicles life in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, after the Russian invasion. It blends the visceral with the mundane, dread replacing normalcy. https://t.co/CfdkS5jlcA
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Ukrainian writer, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets' diary blends the visceral with the mundane, showing just how quickly dread replaces everyday life.
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One more sculpture made of found materials on the Somerville Community Path. What’s the caption — Highway to Hell? Given the Santa hat, maybe The Ghost of Christmas Past?
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One piece in a sculpture garden-zoo made of found materials by an anonymous artist on the Somerville Community Path.
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Bing’s AI chatbot came to work for me. I had to fire it.
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When used for business, the chatbot embedded in Microsoft's Bing search engine is a bit sycophantic and fails to complete most tasks. Still, it shows real promise.
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New photo reveals the wizard behind China's spy balloon fleet! Fox News is on the case: Notice the disturbing resemblance to President Biden!
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This lawsuit against Microsoft could change the future of AI
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With ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and what it can do is suddenly all the rage. But an intellectual property lawsuit against Microsoft could undermine the future of AI before it gets off the...
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5 things Elon Musk could learn from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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The way Satya Nadella turned around Microsoft when he became CEO could not be more different than how Elon Musk has treated Twitter since taking over.
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The Three Wise Chickens come to Somerville bearing gifts. The top chicken carries the most important present of all, gold-foil-wrapped Hanukkah gelt.
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Update: The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained.
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Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke Feds: Approved Intel CEO: We need $76 billion or we're moving to Asia Feds: Approved (Intel cuts jobs) United CEO: Airlines need $54 billion Feds: Approved Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare? Feds: Denied
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My review of the very funny novel Shmutz concludes, to paraphrase Tolstoy: “Happy families are all alike; every meshugenah family is meshugenah its own way." https://t.co/wJ9L2YXKGU
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A young Hasidic woman addicted to Internet porn? Oy vey, who knew?
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What price have civilians been paying for the war in #Ukraine? Only literature can capture it and offer solace and understanding. Read my review of two books, Andrey Kurkov's "Grey Bees" and Yevgenia Belorusets' "Lucky Breaks,” that do that and more. https://t.co/wyySVSTmAS
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When the president comes out as anti fascist and pro democracy and you feel attacked… Perhaps you need to do some introspection
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Reviewed a biography of Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand. I decided the catalog was less a how-to manual for back-to-landers than a virtue-signaling book for latter-day Marie Antoinettes and Marc Antoines playing at shepherds and shepherdesses.
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Stewart Brand's greatest achievement, by far, was the simple act of putting the photograph of the earth as seen from space on the Whole Earth Catalog’s cover.
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There's been a myth that Russia's cyberwarriors are the most advanced in the world. But that myth has now been debunked. For details check out my article "Russia is losing the cyberware against Ukraine, too."
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Not only has Russia seen setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine, it's not faring well in the less-obvious cyberwar either. One reason: Russia's ally Belarus was still using Windows XP to keep the...
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My short story “Josef Stalin’s Hurdy-Gurdy Man” published by MQR is set in 1930’s Ukraine when Stalin tried to starve Ukraine into submission. Today Stalin 2.0 (aka Putin) is trying bombs and missiles. It won’t work!
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My short story "The Cremains" was just published by the literary magazine Pangyrus. You can read it online now. https://t.co/645N55nJ3h
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