Connections #1100: Staying Power and Blooms
It is June 15. Puzzle #1100. The NYT Connections game doesn’t sleep, neither do its fans. If you need help with the Mini Crossword...
Big Tech vs. Big Reality
Data centers are exploding. They pop up like weeds. Fast. And nobody is happy.
The US is seeing a rush. Massive facilities designed for AI...
Pope Leo XIV Says AI Isn’t About God. It’s About People.
Monday morning. The smoke cleared, the ceremony ended. Now we have the paper. Magnifica Humanitas. Pope Leo XIV didn’t wait. He dropped an encyclical...
The Big Mouse Expansion
Summer hits. Disney keeps going.
Disneyland is still drunk on its 70th birthday. It started in May 2025 and won't stop until August 9, 2028....
When you defund Ebola, people die
Elon Musk brandished a chainsaw on stage. He did it with gusto. Then, at a cabinet meeting last February, he giggled. Slyly. He claimed...
May 27 NYT Mini: Twos, Whales, and Sex
The May 27 Mini is out. Short on fluff, longer on logic if you count the whale.
Clicking around for answers is a habit now....
The Pope Dropped a Bombshell on AI
Pope Leo XIV didn’t wait. From the start, he knew artificial intelligence needed addressing. On Monday, the wait ended. Magnifica Humanitas. His first encyclical....
The UAE Plays Chess While We Play Checkers
May 26, 2026. A quiet shift in the Middle East’s digital backbone. The United Arab Emirates has officially launched its national quantum security platform.
Carrington...
Hackers Weaponize AI Against Our Software Blinders
AI helps you write emails. It plans holidays. It makes spreadsheets look nice.
But according to Google? It’s also teaching bad actors how to break...
The Netherlands Just Said No to Kyndryl
DigiD matters.
It is the key to everything Dutch. Taxes. Healthcare. Banking. Without it you are invisible to the state. Which means hosting that infrastructure...
The 100-inch TV just got stupid cheap
Huge TV. Massive drop in price. You won’t believe it.
Look, a hundred inches of screen real estate used to be the kind of luxury...
RAMageddon: AI is stealing your laptop budget
AI isn’t coming for your job just yet.
It’s coming for your wallet. Specifically, the part where you keep cash for a new phone or...
The Five Faces of the AI Bidding War
It’s a talent crunch unlike anything we’ve seen. Not even the dot-com bubble was this concentrated. Right now, there are maybe a few hundred...
Wordle #1801: It’s a drop-in kind of day
The May 25 puzzle isn't gentle. Wordle #1801 stumbles over your keyboard if you don't watch where you step. It demands patience. Maybe a...
The Midweek Pulse: $550M in Infrastructure and Bots at the Bureaucracy
May 17 through May 23 was a lot. Core42 pulled off a massive raise. $550 million, structured by HSBC, intended to flood the global...
Alexa Podcasts are garbage
Reader, I hate this.
It is a podcast. Sort of.
It features two AI voices talking to each other about whatever topic you picked. Maybe the...
Defender’s Open Doors
BleepingComputer flagged two nasty exploits in Microsoft Defender. Built-in stuff. Windows includes it by default. The reports are out, dry and technical.
Main takeaway? Vulnerable...
The World Cup Is Coming. You Can Watch It For Less Than $800
Prices are already dropping. Not later. Now.
Hisense just slashed $550 off its 75-inch E7 Cinema series at Amazon. You pay $749.99 instead of...
Stop Betting on Algorithms. Build Infrastructure.
The ad tech landscape is rotting from the inside. Not breaking. Rotting. Traditional programmatic buying relies on cookies, pixels, and opaque algorithms. They work...
NYCHHC Breach: 1.8M Records, Fingerprints Included
The damage is done. New York’s biggest public health provider admits hackers were inside its system for months. Stealing data. Taking fingerprints. The count...
