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The Guardians of Intelligence
When Security Became a Question of Authority On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA announced the Open Secure AI Alliance, bringing together companies from artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and open-source development. Its stated purpose was practical: build and share…
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Books for the Market, Books for a Life
The Ranking That Opened a Different Question A ranking of bestselling novels in Japan recently gave me an unexpected reason to think about reading. Several volumes from the Harry Potter series appeared near the top, along with Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian…
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The Book Beside the Modem
Waiting for the Page to Arrive My first experiences of the internet in the late 1990s began with a sound. Before a webpage could appear, the computer had to connect through a modem attached to the telephone line. A sequence…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.