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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
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
2 minute read We love to think that algorithms and AI are infallible and all-knowing. The reality in 2026 is that they still aren’t. These days sometimes AI is a confident guesser with bad days and zero shame. When it screws up, sometimes it doesn’t apologize, or it apologizes profusely before doing it again. An … Read more
2 minute read Ok, so Kenny Rogers song lyrics aside, this fall a new foldable iPhone Ultra is coming from Apple. From what I’ve read, it will: fold, be expensive, be something new for them, and yes be very expensive… That said, I love new Apple tech as much as the next guy, but do … Read more
2 minute read Choosing where to host Homebridge is essentially the moment you decide exactly how you want to ruin your Saturday afternoon. Homebridge is the holy grail because it drags all your budget-friendly, non-Apple gear into the Home app, but that software needs a permanent place to crash. It requires a host that stays … Read more