Month: July 2018

My wife, Patti, is pretty ho-hum about most of the products I review. But when I put Lenovo’s new Smart Display in the kitchen, she loved it, especially after I showed her how easy it […]

Google employees are now using a physical USB key to log on to their devices and, according to Krebs on Security, none “of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when […]

I don’t know what was more sophisticated, the Russian hacks or the U.S. Justice Department’s impressive computer forensics team that was able to break down these hacks in great specificity. As you’ll see from the indictment, the hackers employed both malware and “human engineering” to obtain information from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  […]

I could probably write a series of columns on my pet peeves about little and big things that bug me about technology, but I’ll start with ones that have annoyed me in just the past […]

I remember calling up a friend and telling him I had good news and bad news. The good news was that I just signed-up to write a column for one of America’s largest newspapers, but the bad news was that I had to write about computers rather than important stories like politics. […]

Here are my LA Times columns from 1983 […]

Scroll down for my LA Times columns from 1984, including two that were about “1984.” And one about the brand new Mac showed to me by “Apple’s young chairman,” Steve Jobs. Click here  for Larry’s 1983 […]