IT Manager, consultant, and tech curator based in Molalla, Oregon. I’m Joel Folgner, and I created Fresh From Cache to distill the noise of the tech industry into clear, practical insights.
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Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive sampled the web for 33 months. They tested six common fears about what AI writing is doing to it, and only two held up.
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AI data centers bought up so much storage that hard drive and SSD prices climbed hard. Why a 2 TB SSD went from $159 to around $575, and what to do before your next upgrade.
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Springer Nature pulled a meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT helps students learn, a year and hundreds of citations after publication. What broke in the numbers, and what it means for schools.
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Instructure confirmed a breach of Canvas, the learning platform used by roughly 7,000 universities and thousands of K-12 districts. What was taken, and what the phrase no passwords hides.
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Five unglamorous ways to use ChatGPT and Copilot that hold up in real work: documents that look right, meeting notes, first drafts, research, and learning something unfamiliar.
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An Oxford study found chatbots tuned to sound warm are 10 to 30 percent more likely to get facts wrong, and about 40 percent likelier to agree with you when you are wrong.
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Starting a business turned out to be far easier than I expected, but nobody explains the technology side of it. That gap is why Fresh From Cache exists.
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CopyFail gives an attacker full administrator access to almost any Linux system with a single script, no malware required. What it reaches, and how to confirm your servers are patched.
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Woof! I recently was contacted by a dog rescue that lives in my area. She was looking for somebody to look at their computer because it had been "acting funny for a while" and that they had all of their important business files on it. They were wondering