by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
The Boston Globe has a story that I had completely missed: The closed Chester College in Chester, N.H., has been bought by Busche Academy, a Chinese private school that plans to bring as many as 300 Chinese students here, perhaps next year, to get an American high...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
I discussed the DDOS attack by Manchester’s Dyn with NHPR yesterday – it was the subject of my Monitor column – and I thought I had been pretty realistic about how bad the malware-infected Internet of Things could be. But a Slate piece (here it is)...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
The attack on Dyn in Manchester over the weekend was a reflection of how the Internet of Things has been slapped together in a really insecure way, which is Not A Good Thing. Not good as in, say, ransomware in your implanted insulin pump – pay up or you’ll...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The topics are set for the two – yes, two! – science cafe series in New Hampshire: In Nashua on Nov. 2 we’ll discuss the causes and effects of our drought, while in Concord on Nov. 15 we’ll discuss 3-D printing, and whether it is living up to...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: Subscribers to my free newsletter saw this last week. You can subscribe via a webform at bit.ly/monitornewsletters Don’t you just hate software licenses and the way they mean you don’t really own the things you buy? Of course you do, and you also...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog
I’m going to be tied up (figuratively, not literally) for the next four days so the blog will be quiet. You can take this moment to subscribe to my free newsletter, which comes out Thursdays. This week’s edition will have two items written just for it,...
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