Nick McCarthy

Check out my new novel. In the cold streets of neon-lit Osaka, disgraced detective Jon Nabeta's past resurfaces with a vengeance. Will he uncover the truth before it's too late, or will he be consumed by the darkness that haunts him? amazon.com/Neon-Off-Snow-…

Paramount Reveals Company Will Be 49.5% Owned By Foreign Investors If Warner Bros Merger Approved - techdirt.com/2026/05/04/par… This is the drama present that keeps on giving

TeamPCP Hits SAP Packages With 'Mini Shai-Hulud' Attack - darkreading.com/cloud-security…

I've been asking this question about all AI generated content. AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it? - theverge.com/column/921599/…

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool - arstechnica.com/science/2026/0…

And now for your ultra positive post of the week: Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy - vox.com/future-perfect…

Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter -theverge.com/tech/922877/ho…

Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there? - arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/i… I'd love to visit, but not sure I want to live there. You can check out, but you can never leave

If AI's So Smart, Why Does It Keep Deleting Production Databases? - darkreading.com/cloud-security… The question of our age....

New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints - arstechnica.com/science/2026/0…

Tropic Trooper APT Takes Aim at Home Routers, Japanese Targets - darkreading.com/threat-intelli…

Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious - 404media.co/google-deepmin… Or, if you want to have your mind blown, consider this, what if consciousness works the same as an LLM, and that's all we are. Even the atheists I know are scared of that idea

Good News If You Have A Sony TV And Were Hoping It Would Become Less Useful For No Reason - techdirt.com/2026/04/24/goo… The best thing you can do with your smart TV is deny it internet access, don't update the firmware and instead use a Roku or AppleTV.

The AI-designed car is taking shape - theverge.com/transportation… I think the next 20 years of car design is going to look very different from the last 20 years.

Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy - arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/04… The NFT scam strikes again. I never thought it would come from Molyneux

California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space - techdirt.com/2026/04/27/cal… I love California, but I totally agree with Bill Maher that its waaaay over regulated...

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks - theverge.com/podcast/918082… Interesting listen, I had no idea

The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy) - 404media.co/the-ai-compute… The amount of backlash to these data centers is going to be very interesting

Blast Radius of TeamPCP Attacks Expands Amid Hacker Infighting - darkreading.com/threat-intelli… Speaking of the gift that keeps on giving things we didn't want nor have on our 2026 Bingo card

Courts are finally punishing Big Tech for harming kids. Here’s the catch. -vox.com/politics/48422… Is this Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment?

New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs - arstechnica.com/security/2026/… Just like Cobra Kai, Rowhammer never dies