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John Naughton

John Naughton is professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University. He is the author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

July 2024

  • Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi speaking at a Microsoft briefing in Redmond, Washington in May this year.

    The networker
    Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

    John Naughton
    The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield

June 2024

  • Four images of the formation of a mushroom cloud.

    The networker
    How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project

    John Naughton
    A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence
  • A raised yellow QR code on a smartphone.

    The networker
    Look before you scan – the QR code scammers are phishing for business

    John Naughton
    The proliferation of Quick Response codes has created a cybersecurity nightmare, but public vigilance can help
  • A dinner plate filled with rocks, soil and pine comes

    The networker
    Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks

    John Naughton
    The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wild

May 2024

  • Scarlett Johansson posing in front of a large group of photographers.

    The networker
    If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

    John Naughton
  • Apple’s latest iPad ad, showing a hydraulic press crushing analogue devices.

    The networker
    What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

    John Naughton
  • Computer code on a screen is reflected in a woman's glasses

    The networker
    ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity

    John Naughton
  • World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee beside a work station in the early 1990s

    The networker
    The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

    John Naughton

April 2024

  • A group of people looking down at their smartphones.

    The networker
    Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

    John Naughton
  • Sarah Cardell

    The networker
    The big tech firms want an AI monopoly – but the UK watchdog can bring them to heel

    John Naughton
  • someone using chat gpt on their computer

    The networker
    From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction

    John Naughton
  • Silhouette of male hand typing on laptop keyboard at night

    The networker
    One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

    John Naughton

March 2024

  • Jensen Huang<br>CEO Jensen Huang speaks beside a robot to conclude his keynote address of Nvidia GTC in San Jose, Calif., Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

    The networker
    How did a small developer of graphics cards for gamers suddenly become the third most valuable firm on the planet?

    John Naughton
  • An aerial view of tech companies buildings in Dublin's docklands.

    The networker
    Ireland opens its arms to tech titans, yet shuts its eyes to failing public services

    John Naughton
  • A demonstrator holding up a pro-TikTok sign.

    The networker
    TikTok may be on borrowed time in the US, but it still holds a Trump card

    John Naughton
  • Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, is among the ‘gatekeeper’ firms affected by the Digital Markets Act.

    The networker
    Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

    John Naughton

  • Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

  • The networker
    AI’s craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy

    John Naughton

February 2024

  • A dalmation puppy leaning out the window of a colourful house

    The networker
    OpenAI’s new video generation tool could learn a lot from babies

    John Naughton
  • Sam Altman on a video screen on stage with a speaker standing to the side

    The networker
    OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it

    John Naughton
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