Squarespace has bought Google Domains, so price increases may be coming — On June 15th, Squarespace announced it was purchasing Google Domains. While it promised to “honor all existing Google Domains customers’ renewal prices for at least 12 months,” after that price increases may be coming. For comparison, Google Domains charges $12 a year for domains with a .com , .org, or…

Don’t make his mistakes! — A few months ago, my husband had his Amazon account hacked. The hackers made hundreds of dollars’ worth of fraudulent purchases using his credit card and sorting it all out took weeks. You can read the whole story here. While trying to lock down his account, I realized my husband…

Here’s to a safe and private new year! — With over 2,200 cyberattacks a day and big tech constantly spying on us, my New Year’s resolution is to level up my security and privacy online. If you’d like to join me, these free tools can help! (The links below are NOT affiliate links. I’ve collected this list of tools…

Goodbye, Kiwi Farms — This week marked the end of online hate forum Kiwi Farms. Dubbed “the worst site on the web,” the forum was used to doxx and harass private individuals, especially “neuro-divergent and transgender” people, for over a decade. Some members of the site explicitly aimed to ruin the lives of their…

Any form is better than none, but a physical key is the most secure — 2-factor authentication (2FA) is the best way to protect your online accounts from hackers. It works by requiring you to use your password plus a second factor to verify your identity when logging in. This second factor can take the form of a code texted to you or generated by…

A hacking group claims they breached TikTok, but not everything adds up — On Sunday night, Twitter was abuzz with claims that social media giant TikTok had been breached by hacking group AgainstTheWest. On their now suspended Twitter account, AgainstTheWest claimed to have obtained TikTok’s source code and user data from “one Alibaba Cloud instance" that was secured with a “trashy password.” …

My baby is due soon I probably won’t be writing stories on Medium for a while, as my baby is due any day now. Hopefully once she learns to sleep through the night I’ll have some time to write again! In the mean time, you might like to check out some of my Medium posts listed below: Math posts All my posts about math related topicsmedium.com Tech posts All my posts on technology related topicsmedium.com

Seriously, just stop. — Thanks to a recall due to contamination and supply chain issues stemming from covid, baby formula is in short supply in the US. Up to 43% of formula is out of stock and parents are desperately running from store to store, hoping to find enough formula to feed their babies. …

What we can learn from William Thurston — We all know that mathematicians need to be smart. But, as I once argued in an academic paper, other mathematicians, and mathematics as a whole, benefit when they are generous too. We can see this by looking at the case of William Thurston (1946–2012). He was well known for his…