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2 minute read Brussels Drops the Hammer in Copenhagen On May 12, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stood up at a summit in Copenhagen and basically told social media giants the party is over. She said the harms kids face online are not accidental. They are, in her words, the result of business … Read more
3 minute read The Little Bridge That Could Finally Grew Up So Homebridge has been quietly babysitting our weird non-HomeKit gadgets since 2015, running on whatever sad Raspberry Pi we shoved in a closet. After spending more than three years stuck in beta purgatory, version 2.0 finally went official in early May 2026. If you … Read more
3 minute read The new guy at Berkshire is doing something Buffett never would For sixty years Warren Buffett ran Berkshire Hathaway like a man who broke out into a rash when anything tech dropped. Fast forward to his retirement on the last day of 2025 and he handed the keys to Greg Abel. What … Read more
2 minute read The buzzword that paid your salary is now a dirty word There was a stretch where burning AI tokens like there was no tomorrow was basically the job. It even got a name, “tokenmaxxing.” IT was pretty much a push to torch as many tokens as humanly possible. Climb that leaderboard, look … Read more
2 minute read Rome, What have we done? Ferrari hauled its first electric car out to Rome on Monday like it was the next Mona Lisa. The internet handed it a participation trophy and lit it on fire. The car is called the Luce, Italian for “light,” which is cute, because the lights went out … Read more
3 minute read So that little six-digit code you punch in like a good citizen every time you log into your bank? Yeah, somebody just used AI to walk right past it. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group dropped this news on May 11 and didn’t bury it. They called it a “mass exploitation event,” meaning the … Read more
2 minute read Somewhere between ChatGPT writing your emails and AI generating your coworker’s PowerPoint slides, something quietly broke in the global chip supply chain. The price of everything in your home is going up because of it, and if you want to know what’s already gone up, why it’s happening, and whether there’s any … Read more
3 minute read Instructure Wrote a Very Expensive Check Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, confirmed last night it paid off ShinyHunters, the crew that hacked Canvas twice in under two weeks and walked off with data on 275 million students and teachers across 8,809 schools. The deadline was today, May 12. The company says … Read more
2 minute read Practical AI ยท Workflow OpenClaw gets written off as “AI chat with tools” a lot. That’s selling it short. The interesting stuff happens when you connect it to your actual environment, your recurring headaches, the little frictions you’ve learned to live with, and start knocking them down. Here are four use cases … Read more
3 minute read So you bought into Ring because the doorbells are cheap, the cameras work, and the app does the job. Then you got an iPhone, fell in love with the Apple Home app, asked Siri to show you the front door, and got back a polite “I can’t help with that.” Welcome to … Read more