Five Things Tech: Robots.txt, Cyber, Finnish Quantum, Reviews, Fiber
Saturday is a good day for tech!
Hi and welcome back to Five Things Tech! My name is Nico Lumma, I haven’t been offline since 1995 and I still get excited by all the stuff that happens in tech.
So this week I again picked some articles that I hope you’ll enjoy. I assume that you’ll get the tech news someplace else, so here you’ll find articles that you might not find in your typical news buffet.
Dig in! 🤖
The text file that runs the internet
Robots.txt is was such a clever, simple invention that used to work for a long time. Now this is changing, because AI bots don’t alway stick to the rules in the robots.txt - and this will change the internet in many ways.
A Top White House Cyber Official Is Staying Surprisingly Optimistic
This is an interesting interview that touches on many aspects that are shaping today’s technology. And yes, she seems to sleep well at night.
Inside Finland’s state-of-the-art quantum computing hardware ecosystem
In Germany we have this tradition that we analyze what Finland is doing and then we’re so amazed that we actually don’t act upon all the findings. Hopefully we learn from this, before everybody else goes to Finland to figure out innovation ecosystems.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
If you ever searched for an honest review on anything, you’ve seen the sites with good SEO that are high up in the Google search results. Obviously, this doesn’t just ruin your search, but also hurts independent publishers that write real reviews.
A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber
This is a really cool idea, based on the realization that people won’t change the way they eat. It would certainly help me. :)
That’s all for now! Thanks for reading!
— Nico