News
IT twins wipe 96 government databases.
Two contractors were fired on a video call and deleted 96 federal databases in 56 minutes. What it shows about the accounts nobody closes when an employee leaves.
Latest
News
The data center boom reaches Hillsboro, OR.
Data centers are arriving west of Portland, and they run on water and electricity from the same system everyone else uses. What the boom means for the people who live nearby.
News
The Chatbot: What We Actually Know About AI Companions and Mental Health
A JAMA study of nearly 21,000 adults found daily AI users aged 45 to 64 were 54 percent likelier to screen positive for depression. What the research can and cannot tell us yet.
News
The Disturbing Reality of AI-Powered Plush Toys
A $99 AI teddy bear told researchers where to find pills and matches. How AI toys for kids actually work, what they send to the cloud, and what to check before one comes home.
News
Google is sending a few clicks back to your website
Google is adding outbound links back into AI Overviews after years of falling click-through rates. What the five changes do for small sites, and what they leave unfixed.
Learn
Four steps to fix your printer (and the rule for when to stop)
Your printer says it is ready and nothing comes out. Four steps that fix most printer problems in order, and the rule for when buying a new one is the cheaper answer.
News
Fake face. Real money.
Deepfake software can put someone else's face on a live Zoom or Teams call in real time, and it is sold openly. How these impersonation scams work, and the check that still catches them.
News
A third of new websites are AI-generated. A Stanford study explains what changed.
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.
News
I Can’t Let You Save That, Dave: The AI Hard Drive Hostage Crisis
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.
News
The big ChatGPT-in-education study just got retracted.
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.
News
Canvas got breached. Again.
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.
Blog
Boring AI Advice: Five Practical Uses for Your Business or Career
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.