Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The industry is fighting back against the recent spike in supply-chain attacks targeting shared library platforms like NPM, PyPi, etc.: GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇺🇸 Details are […]
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CSUN 2025: Jamworks AI Notetaking App for Students
Allison interviews Jenn Sponer from Jamworks about their note-taking app for personalized study experiences. Jamworks records a spoken lecture off of the student’s device (e.g., a laptop or mobile phone) and then uses that recording to create notes in several selectable formats for better understanding. Jamworks has special features that aid disabled students in consuming […]
Continue readingA New Take on Web Browsers with Arc from The Browser Company – by Tom from Ontario
Hello Allison & fellow Castaways! It’s Tom from Ontario. I have to admit that this review will break the prime directive of not starting with a problem to be solved. However, I found, after installing the product, that it did actually solve a problem I had not expected it to. More on that later. The […]
Continue readingTabliss for Firefox and Chrome – by Caleb Fong
We spend an ever increasing amount of time in our web browsers. This trend isn’t going down as even more things become accessible via the web. This means we spend a large amount of time looking and sometimes interacting with the default new tab screen. While this isn’t all bad, the information on these pages […]
Continue readingNC #686 Listening to Bart Pays Off, Instagram from a Computer, Security Bits
This week I’ll tell you a tale of how all the knowledge Bart has been pouring on us really paid off this week, then I’ll tell you how to play on Instagram.com from a real computer. Heck, I learned a lot of what I used there from Bart too! Then with even more Bart, we’ve […]
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