Jon Swartz

Jon Swartz

About the Author:

Jon Swartz is a veteran Silicon Valley journalist with more than three decades of experience covering technology, having worked as a high-tech reporter since 1987. He spent 17 years as USA Today's San Francisco bureau chief covering Silicon Valley trends, before joining Barron's Group as a senior reporter and later serving as MarketWatch's senior reporter covering major technology companies such as Netflix, Facebook and Google. Earlier in his career he also wrote for MacWEEK, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and London's Independent and Times. Swartz has won numerous journalism awards, been named a two-time finalist for the Loeb Awards (business journalism's equivalent of the Pulitzer), and received four Pulitzer Prize nominations; he sits on the board of directors of the San Francisco Press Club. He is co-author of "Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity" and sole author of "Young Wealth." Swartz now covers Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence and the technology industry as senior content writer at Techstrong Group.

Articles by Jon Swartz

Starlink Is Being Misused from Modern Slave Compounds: Investigation

February 27, 2025

Elon Musk’s Starlink is being exploited by criminal organizations to run modern slavery compounds in Myanmar, a Wired investigation has unearthed. The compounds, where thousands of individuals have been coerced into committing digital scams, are using Starlink’s satellite technology for internet connectivity after traditional access was blocked. Wired’s revelations, shared by workers from fraud companies in Tai Chang, suggest extensive use of Starlink.

Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Chip Comes With Promise, Questions

February 20, 2025

In this exclusive article, Jon Swartz discusses Microsoft’s groundbreaking claim of developing the world’s first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, which leverages a newly discovered state of matter to revolutionize computing within years. While hailed as a major milestone in the quest for practical quantum computing, skeptics emphasize the need for concrete proof, as similar past claims were later retracted.

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