Rich Washburn

Day fifteen with the glasses....First mod was a little plastic cover I bought off Amazon — snaps over the recording LED on the frame. The light is obnoxious. It flashes when you’re recording, which is the point, but it also changes the energy of whatever you’re filming and blinks in your peripheral vision like a tiny alarm clock you can’t turn off. Cover goes on, problem solved. There’s a sensor behind it that detects the cover and disables recording if you block it wrong, so there’s a...

The Maine legislation got a lot of reaction this week — and most of it missed the point. The ban isn't really about power. It isn't really about water. It's about the fact that legislators have no way to verify what a 20MW facility is actually doing. So they default to prohibition. That's what happens when infrastructure operates as a black box. A colleague (LinkedIn) in the industrial IoT space framed it well in the comments: policy-driven bans thrive in the "analog gap" — the space between...

Last week Google quietly updated the post-quantum cryptography clock in a way that most security leaders haven't fully processed yet. Their announcement wasn't framed as a warning. It wasn't a white paper with a scary title. It was a technical update — the kind of thing that lands in an engineering blog and gets picked up by specialist press before it reaches the boardroom. But the business implication is straightforward: the timeline for quantum-capable computers to threaten current...