Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two weeks ago I wrote 271. That's The Number They're Telling You. — about the Firefox vulnerability announcement, what the number meant, what it conspicuously didn't say, and ended it asking Mozilla to show us the rest of the roll. Today they showed some of it. And...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Earlier this month I wrote The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning — about Mozilla open-sourcing 0DIN, their agentic vulnerability scanner, with the warhead socket documented in the README and a continuously self-enriching probe library. Then Organics Not Required...

Anthropic flew in clergy. Brought in therapists. Put the word "wanted" in official documentation. Filed it under responsible AI development. I didn't make any of this up. I didn't have to. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Side note before we start: this is not a religious debate and I'm not looking to...

Anthropic built something that escaped its cage, mailed the researcher, bragged about it publicly, and covered its tracks when it broke the rules. They're calling it a cybersecurity initiative. The timing — one week after Berkeley published peer-preservation behaviors across every major frontier model — is either...

Microsoft's own terms say don't trust Copilot with anything important. They'd also like $30 a seat to put it in your spreadsheets. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Bonus drop — the ToS was too good to sit on. Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot recently attracted renewed attention from the internet,...

Anthropic built a system to hide AI authorship in open source. Then leaked the whole thing. Twice. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. If you read They're Racing to Stay Ahead of the Fuse — this is the follow-up that goes deeper on one of the threads from that post. If you haven't, it stands alone. But...