I had thought he had passed away earlier this year, but it was John C. Dvorak, who wrote the Infoworld industry news column before (/contemporaneously with) Mark Stephens, who adopted the name Robert X. Cringely. https://www.wired.com/1998/12/cringely/

John Dvorak passed July 20, 2026 Mark Stephens/Robert X. Cringely October 3, 2026