Settra Ransomware Is the Last Thing That Happens
When most of us picture a ransomware attack, we picture the moment the screens go dark. Files won’t open, a ransom note shows up on the desktop, and somebody has to decide whether to pay. That’s pretty much how I...
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The Hidden Privacy Cost of Smart Home Purchases: A Buyer’s Risk Checklist
Smart-home products are usually sold on convenience: see who is at the door from your phone, adjust the thermostat remotely, ask a speaker to control the lights, or check a camera while you’re away. But a connected device is more...
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Integrated Safety Systems Eliminate the Information Silos That Slow Emergency Response
When an emergency occurs, every second matters. Yet many organizations still rely on multiple disconnected safety systems that don’t communicate with each other. A security team monitoring cameras might not know what the fire suppression system is doing. The building...
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Review: SIMPLETASTE 4-in-1 Electric Milk Frother
I drink a lot of coffee. Most of it is just coffee with a little sugar and a dash of half-and-half, because that’s fast and simple. But every so often I want something closer to what I’d get at a...
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Desktop AI: Why the Hardware Built for Tomorrow Is Finally Finding Its Real-World Job Today
For those of us who have spent decades building, modifying, and analyzing personal computers—going all the way back to my early days at IBM in the 1980s—watching the tech industry try to invent a new hardware category out of thin...
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What It Really Means to Be an Intelligent Data Company
The word “intelligent” gets attached to a lot of things in enterprise tech, and most senior leaders have learned to read right past it. That skepticism is valid. When every platform, every storage array, and every SaaS dashboard claims intelligence,...
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AI Strategy Needs to Start with How Work Gets Done
When businesses evaluate new technology, the conversation usually follows a familiar path. What are our pain points? What problem are we solving? Can we build it or buy it? What will it cost? Who will support it? For most technology...
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How Africa: Earth’s Wild Home Captured Behavior Never Filmed Before
When my wife was in college, one of her classes had students watch a live webcam pointed at a watering hole in Africa and report anything interesting that happened. She watched it for days. Animals came, drank, and left. Mostly...
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Building the Ultimate AI-Defiant Workforce: The Future of Work Mega-Platform
Reflecting on my time judging the recent HP Future of Work Accelerator Pitch Fest in New York, something kept gnawing at me. As I sat alongside my fellow judges—Antara Lahiri, Catherina Gioino, and HP’s Michele Malejki—we watched five remarkable organizations...
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The Next Wave of Senior-Friendly Technology Is Designed to Be Invisible
What if the most helpful technology for older adults was the kind you barely noticed? The latest innovations in senior-focused design are shifting away from clunky interfaces and obvious medical equipment toward solutions that blend seamlessly into everyday life. These...
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The Real Cost of AI Hasn’t Shown Up Yet
I realize I am dating myself to some extent, but my first cell phone plan came with a fixed number of minutes and a small allotment of text messages, and anything beyond that was billed one at a time. You...
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The AI Tipping Point: How AMD’s MLPerf 6.1 Results Signal the End of Nvidia’s Monopoly
Whenever a single vendor captures 80 percent of a highly lucrative market, history tells us two things are about to happen. First, the dominant player will begin to act as if their moat is impenetrable, often prioritizing lock-in and margin...
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NASA Ground Control Cyber Issue Shows Why DAST Tools Still Matter
In August 2026, security researchers disclosed a critical vulnerability in NASA and JPL’s AIT-GUI ground control software. The flaw made it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to issue commands to spacecraft and instruments and even run scripts without ever logging...
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AMD Achieves Datacenter Compute Power At IFA 2026, but Local Production Scaling Remains Difficult
IFA Berlin serves as a strange battlefield for heavy compute hardware. The Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin operates as one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. It targets a massive consumer demographic. Industry data suggests the trade show consistently pulls in...
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What It Took to Drill Down to 33 Trapped Miners
When Igor Proestakis proposed a faster way to drill down to 33 miners trapped in Chile’s San José mine in 2010, he chose a tool that had never been used for a hole that deep or that steep, and part...
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Rebuilding Identity Security From Scratch for the Age of AI Agents
Amihai Niederman joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about what happens to identity security once AI agents start outnumbering the humans on a company’s network. He’s the co-founder of NewCore, a startup betting the answer...
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