John Brandon

3 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | John Brandon

I was driving on a sheet of ice in an Audi A8, and the conditions were far from perfect. I’m not exactly proficient at winter driving, even though I’ve lived my whole life in colder climates. Alone in the driver’s seat, I felt a bit unsure about the road conditions as I drove on a desolate country road. Speeding along at about 55mph, hoping the winter tires kept me centered on the road, I approached a familiar roadway that gleamed like a frozen lake.

4 weeks ago | wired.jp | John Brandon

わたしたちはいま、混沌の時代を生きている。株式市場は予測不能で、政治の状況はまるで地雷原のようだ。そんななかでも心の平穏を保ちたい人にとって、たとえ頭のなかが散らかっていても、物事を整理する方法がある──少なくともGoogle Chromeに関しては。 Google Chromeが2008年に登場して以来、ブックマークは欠かせない機能となっている。しかし、この機能は見過ごされがちだ。もし使っていないのであれば、ぜひ使い方を覚えてほしい。非常に頼りになるものだからだ。 Google Chromeのブックマーク機能は、パソコンのフォルダと同じ構造をしている。ブックマークしたウェブページをフォルダに入れて整理したり、フィルター機能でブックマークやフォルダの一覧の表示を変更したり、ドラッグ＆ドロップで移動させたりできる。 「すべてのブックマーク」のサイドパネルを開くには、画面右上にある「すべてのブックマーク」をクリックし、上部にある「サイドパネルを開いてすべてのブックマークを表示」を選択する。すると、お気に入りのサイトやGoogle...

1 month ago | tomsguide.com | John Brandon

Have you ever wondered why Shakespeare is considered one of the best writers ever? He obviously has quite the fanbase even though he died in 1616. It’s still common to say “s/he’s no Shakespeare” when referring to a middle school essay or a Facebook rant. According to ChatGPT, the one attribute that made Shakespeare different was his deep understanding of human nature. While many chatbots these days can craft compelling and accurate prose, it usually comes across as too generic.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | John Brandon

10 hours ago Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data … 20 hours ago Give Your iPhone a Makeover by Changing These iOS 18.3 Settings With these 8 tweaks, you can make your...

1 month ago | jmbrandonbb.medium.com | John Brandon

Member-only storyJohn Brandon·Follow43 min read·Mar 22, 2025--Written by Grok 3 with my helpChapter 1: The Evening Bell“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”The traveler arrived as the dim light of evening settled over Cambridge in 1910, casting long shadows across the inn where I sat at my customary desk, meticulously tending to the ledger and savoring the rich smoke curling from a pipe once owned by my paternal grandfather.