The Jobless New Yorker • 21st July 2026

Visiting the Workers' Chapel, With No Work or Religion

Beneath the gothic spires and the stained glass, buttressing the sides of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, stretches a small banner. It reads: NEW YORK KNICKS: 2026 Eastern Conference Champions.
The Franciscan Catholic church in Manhattan, on W. 31st Street, between 7th and Broadway, is just a stone’s throw from Madison Square Garden, so it’s only right for the building to represent. There’s another sign too. A humble metal one, simply engraved “Workers Chapel.”

The Jobless New Yorker • 14th July 2026

What New York City Local Law 144 Means for Job Seekers

“If an employer can’t reasonably explain why an AI tool screened out a qualified, applicant, we should be afraid,” says Ashley Upkins, president of the National Bar Association. Yesterday, I wrote about automated employment decision tools (AEDTs), like applicant tracking systems (ATS) and AI video interview tools. I discussed what they are, how they work, and what job seekers should understand about the concepts of “AI bias” and “algorithmic monoculture.”

The Jobless New Yorker • 13th July 2026

'Algorithmically Blackballed': What NYC Job Seekers Should Know About AI Bias

Frustrated job applicants who suspect that no human being has ever looked at their resumé might have a point. As both employers and job applicants increase their use of AI and automation, researchers and regulators are taking a closer look at these tools. Two key questions: does employment decision technology make the hiring process fairer, by reducing the impact of hiring managers’ personal biases? Or does this technology make the hiring process less fair, by automatically weeding out the same...

The Jobless New Yorker • 17th June 2026

Before You Buy Anything, Check the Library

We jobless people are easy marks. Salespeople and fraudsters can smell our fear. If we’re not careful, “career services” peddlers or actual criminals will quickly shake us down for a $500 “ATS optimization” here and a $600 training module there, soothing us with reminders to “invest in ourselves” as they pocket our severance checks before we even know what ATS optimization means. True, many professionals in the career services industry are wonderful, ethical angels who provide exceptional practi...

The Jobless New Yorker • 5th June 2026

3 Out of Every 100 Unemployed Americans Live in New York City

Seasonably adjusted figures indicate that 7,373,000 Americans were officially unemployed in April 2026, and of those, 246,600 lived in the five boros. (That’s according to the Local Area Unemployment Statistics, a joint effort by the state labor departments and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Do the math and that means more than 3 of every 100 unemployed Americans live in NYC.

Computer Security lnstitute • 6th June 2007

CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law Report

I founded the Computer Security Institute’s Working Group on Web Security Research Law in April 2007 to start a dialogue between Internet security researchers, computer crime law experts, law enforcement officials, and cybersecurity professionals convicted of crimes, to advance the collective understanding of the challenges facing all parties. This report is the culmination of our work.

Information Week • 12th January 2026

The Real Cost of AI: An InformationWeek Special Report

Governments are vying for AI dominance with a desperation reminiscent of the nuclear arms race. The market is as moody as a teenager -- a rabid fan of AI one second, and totally over it the next. Major enterprises cut staff and elected officials bend land use rules all as part of exciting “strategic AI investments.”

Information Week • 12th January 2026

Special Report: What's the Environmental Impact of a Data-Driven Organization? | InformationWeek

Environmental science and technology researchers alike are ardently studying the voracious energy demands and carbon emissions of machine learning and artificial intelligence, searching for "green AI." Efforts like Digital Cleanup Day urge the average user to tidy up their overflowing inboxes to reduce the pressure on hot, panting cloud servers. But "Green AI" surely will not be green enough. And when data storage gets too tight, most of us respond by loosening the belt on iCloud, OneDrive, or G...

Dark Reading • 27th August 2019

The Right to Be Patched: How Sentient Robots Will Change InfoSec Management

As though prioritizing patches isn't hard enough, how much worse will it be when the unpatched machine can stalk over to your desk, fold its arms, raise an eyebrow, and ask why its vulnerability is still waiting for a fix? Right now, artificial intelligence (AI) is just a tool — a tool we're barely using — but science-fiction always has its way. We already carry the "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in our pockets; soon enough we'll be throwing build-day parties for our robot co-workers.And it w...

Dark Reading • 12th January 2019

Beyond Burnout: What Is Cybersecurity Doing to Us?

Feature about mental health struggles in the cybersecurity profession. "They see stuff that makes them wish they had bleach for their brains."

Information Week • 12th January 2026

Special Report: How Fragile is the Cloud, Really? | InformationWeek

A severe cloud infrastructure outage often feels less like a service disruption and more like an earthquake. One incident can barrel its way across an entire region, indiscriminately disrupting commerce, travel, medical care, and communication. Reverberations are felt far, far from the site of the event. There's nothing most of us can do to prevent it from happening or stop it once it starts. We just have to wait for the shaking to end and hope that none of our most valuable stuff got smashed.Th...