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Adobe Reader Zero-Day Was Active for 4 Months. Fleet Response.

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:15:31 -0400

Adobe patched CVE-2026-34621 on April 11 after a prototype pollution flaw in Acrobat Reader was actively exploited via malicious PDFs since November 2025. If you manage a large fleet of Windows endpoints, here’s what to do today — beyond hitting Check for Updates.

ChipSoft Ransomware: 80% of Dutch Hospitals Share One Vendor

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:06:34 -0400

ChipSoft — the Dutch EHR vendor whose HiX platform runs patient records at roughly 80% of Netherlands hospitals — was hit by ransomware on April 7. Eleven hospitals disconnected, and the bigger story is the concentration risk that made this inevitable.

Artemis II: First Crew to the Moon in 53 Years

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:20:57 -0400

NASA’s Artemis II crew splashed down safely on April 10 after a 10-day lunar flyby mission — the first crewed voyage beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. They set a new distance record, photographed the far side of the Moon, and proved Orion can bring astronauts home alive.

France Orders All Ministries to Ditch Windows for Linux

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:35:13 -0400

France’s digital agency DINUM is migrating its own workstations to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to submit plans to eliminate extra-European software dependencies by autumn 2026 — the most concrete digital sovereignty mandate any EU state has issued.

iOS 26.4.1: The iCloud Sync Fix You Didn't Know You Needed

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:26:27 -0400

Apple’s iOS 26.4.1 fixes a CloudKit syncing regression that silently broke data sync across iPhones and iPads — including the Passwords app — while extending Stolen Device Protection to enterprise devices.

Apple's Radiology Monitor Got FDA Clearance. Most Gaps Remain.

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:06:54 -0400

The Studio Display XDR’s Medical Imaging Calibrator cleared the FDA on April 1. That resolves the biggest question from our March assessment — but the compliance infrastructure gaps that matter to radiology departments are still wide open.

Your Home Router Is Your Company's Security Problem

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:43:55 -0400

Russian military hackers compromised 18,000 home routers to steal Microsoft 365 tokens — after users completed MFA. Most enterprises harden the laptop but never ask what router it’s connected to.

Trump Threatened Iran's 'Civilization.' Then Agreed to a Ceasefire.

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:16 -0400

President Trump spent Easter weekend threatening to destroy Iran’s infrastructure, then warned Tuesday morning that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight.’ The world spent 10 hours wondering what he meant. By evening, he announced a ceasefire. By morning, it was already fraying.

Anthropic's New AI Found Thousands of Zero-Days in Weeks

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:42:02 -0400

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview is so powerful the company won’t release it publicly. Instead, it’s giving a coalition of tech giants early access to hunt vulnerabilities before attackers can.

Your Health Data Is Not as Private as You Think

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:19:23 -0400

HIPAA protects less than most people assume. Outside its reach, data brokers sell mental health records for pennies, pharmacies hand prescriptions to police without warrants, and one company’s erroneous report can cost you a life insurance policy.

Turnitin Charges Millions for AI Detection It Admits Isn't Reliable

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:41:04 -0400

Universities are spending millions on Turnitin’s AI writing detector. Stanford and MIT won’t touch it. The tool admits a ±15% variance, and a Stanford study found it flags non-native English speakers 61% of the time.

Jamie Dimon Backs the Iran War, Warns of an Inflation Spiral

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:22:33 -0400

In his annual shareholder letter, JPMorgan’s CEO backs the war in Iran while warning that oil shocks and sticky inflation could tip the U.S. into a recession reminiscent of 1974 or 1982.

Easter Sunday at the New York Auto Show

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:40:35 -0400

A couple of hours on the show floor at the 2026 New York International Auto Show, where a $100,000 truck got upstaged by robot dogs.

NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Says He's Ready to Replace Radiologists with AI

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:03:15 -0400

The head of America’s largest public hospital system wants New York to change its regulations so AI can read mammograms without a radiologist. Radiologists are pushing back hard.

GitHub Can Barely Stay Online in the Vibe Coding Era

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:45:14 -0400

GitHub posted just 90% uptime in Q1 2026 while adding 36 million new users in a single year. The vibe coding boom is straining infrastructure that was never designed for this scale.

The AI Skills Gap Is Already Here

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:58:08 -0400

Anthropic’s latest Economic Index report finds that experienced AI users are pulling away from newcomers — with higher success rates, more sophisticated use patterns, and a widening advantage that shows no sign of closing.

No Helium, No Chips, No MRI Scans

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:38:10 -0400

Qatar produces a third of the world’s helium. The Ras Laffan complex is offline, possibly for years. Without helium, chipmakers can’t fabricate AI processors — and hospitals can’t keep MRI machines cold.

The Last Cheap Tank of Gas

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:54 -0400

On February 25th, I paid $2.499 a gallon at a Sheetz in Ohio. Three days later, the U.S. began bombing Iran. Five weeks later, gas at my local pumps in Connecticut hit $3.95 — and the worst-case scenarios haven’t even started.

Google Moves Up the Quantum Threat Timeline to 2029

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:45:01 -0400

Google is setting a 2029 deadline for migrating to post-quantum cryptography, warning that current encryption could be easily broken by a large-scale quantum computer. Three recent papers have dramatically reduced the qubit requirements for breaking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography.

They Made It Both Ways

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:21:41 -0400

A Subway crew in Shelton, CT noticed a regular’s order looked wrong and made the sandwich both ways — no extra charge, no hesitation.

Oracle Cuts 30,000 Jobs with a 6 a.m. Email

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:05:52 -0400

Oracle eliminated up to 30,000 employees — 18% of its workforce — with a pre-dawn email signed ‘Oracle Leadership.’ The savings fund a $156 billion AI infrastructure bet that has already pushed the company’s debt past $108 billion.

iOS 26.4: 37 Patches, No Zero-Days, and Stolen Device Protection by Default

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:50:03 -0400

Apple’s iOS 26.4 patches 37 security vulnerabilities — including a Stolen Device Protection bypass and a Keychain access flaw — while enabling Stolen Device Protection by default for all iPhones.

The Government's Own Books Say It's $136 Trillion in the Hole

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:19:03 -0400

The Treasury’s FY 2025 financial statements show $47.78 trillion in liabilities against $6.06 trillion in assets — and that’s before $88.4 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare obligations. The GAO can’t even certify the books.

CMS Killed the Fax Machine. Sort Of.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:55:54 -0400

CMS finalized a rule to eliminate faxing for claims attachments, but the workflows that keep radiology groups sending tens of thousands of faxes a month are untouched.

FCC Bans Foreign Routers. Almost None Are Made Here.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:37:17 -0400

The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, banning new models from sale in the US. The problem: virtually no consumer routers are manufactured domestically.

Apple's Background Security Improvements, Explained

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:20:49 -0400

If your iPhone or Mac updated itself overnight without a full version bump, you just experienced Apple’s first Background Security Improvement — a quiet replacement for the failed Rapid Security Responses.

Young Infrastructure

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:48:05 -0400

Eleven incidents in four days. AI APIs aren’t as reliable as the cloud services we’re used to — and some of us rely on them anyway.

Living Dangerously?

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:22:42 -0400

When you spend hours a day with AI, patience for permission prompts wears thin. Here’s the Claude Code flag I reach for — and where I draw the line.

The CEO Selling AI Agents Warns They'll Replace You

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:42:04 -0400

ServiceNow’s CEO told CNBC that AI agents could push college graduate unemployment past 30%. His company sells the tools that make it happen.

Adobe's Hundred-Dollar Creative Cloud

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:25:04 -0400

Adobe rebranded Creative Cloud as ‘Creative Cloud Pro’ and raised the teams price to $99.99/month per license. The question isn’t what they added — it’s whether the alternatives have caught up.

Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect Exam

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:39:45 -0400

Anthropic launched its first technical certification on March 12. Here’s what it covers, what it costs, and whether you’re eligible at this time.

The Telus Digital Breach Started in Someone Else's Repository

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:33:00 -0400

ShinyHunters compromised Salesloft’s GitHub, found OAuth tokens with TruffleHog, pivoted through 700+ Salesforce instances, and landed in Telus Digital’s Google Cloud — claiming close to a petabyte of stolen data.

Meta Eyes 20% Workforce Cut to Fund Its AI Bet

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:37:00 -0400

Meta is planning layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its 78,865 employees — roughly 15,800 people — as AI infrastructure costs consume an ever-larger share of revenue.

Meta's AI Glasses Have a Healthcare Problem

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:03:00 -0400

Meta’s AI glasses are impressive consumer devices. They’re also architecturally incompatible with any environment where patient data is accessible.

One Million Tokens

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:14:00 -0400

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 just went GA with a 1 million token context window. I watched it happen in my own terminal.

Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Giant Stryker

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:51:42 -0400

An Iran-backed hacking group called Handala claims it wiped over 200,000 systems at medical device maker Stryker, idling 56,000 employees across 79 countries in what analysts are calling a significant cyber escalation.

Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday: 83 Flaws and a Copilot Exploit

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:38:40 -0400

Microsoft’s quietest Patch Tuesday in six months addresses 83 vulnerabilities with no active exploits — but a critical Excel flaw that weaponizes Copilot for zero-click data theft deserves attention.

Amazon Plans $42 Billion Bond Sale to Fund AI Buildout

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:02:36 -0400

Amazon is marketing up to $42 billion in bonds across dollar and euro markets — the largest corporate bond offering in recent memory — to fund its AI infrastructure expansion.

AI Brain Fry Is Real. Now There's Data to Prove It.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:47:57 -0400

New research from BCG and UC Riverside puts a name and numbers on what heavy AI users already know: the exhaustion isn’t burnout. It’s something else.

Accenture Buys Speedtest and Downdetector for $1.2 Billion

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:22:49 -0400

Accenture is acquiring Ookla — the company behind Speedtest and Downdetector — from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Ziff Davis paid $15 million for Ookla in 2014.

Anthropic Sues the Pentagon. Here's What Matters.

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:59:39 -0400

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits today challenging the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation. The legal arguments are stronger than the politics suggest.

Iran Names Khamenei's Son as Supreme Leader. The Clerics Didn't Get a Choice.

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:43:28 -0400

Mojtaba Khamenei, a man who has never held public office, given a major speech, or shown his political hand, now leads the Islamic Republic during its worst crisis since 1979. The Revolutionary Guards got the leader they wanted. Whether Iran’s people did is another question.

Hawaii Cancer Center Breach Exposes 1.2 Million Social Security Numbers

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:43:35 -0400

A ransomware attack on the University of Hawaii Cancer Center compromised Social Security numbers for 1.24 million people — roughly 85% of Hawaii’s population. The university paid the ransom, waited six months to notify victims, and it’s the second time the UH system has paid attackers in three years.

The $1,079 PC Is Now $3,223

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:41:01 -0400

A radiologist asked me to price out the same compact workstation he bought last May. The price had tripled. Even the best alternative I could find was 59% more than what he paid ten months ago.

America Is Losing Its Cars

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:06:00 -0500

CarMax replaced its CEO. Repos hit a 30-year high. Nearly a third of trade-ins are underwater. For a lifelong car enthusiast, watching America price itself out of driving is hard to watch.

AWS Data Centers Are Not Bunkers

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:02:00 -0500

Iranian drones struck three AWS data centers in the first week of the Iran war. It’s the first time a major cloud provider lost facilities to a military attack, and it should change how all of us think about disaster recovery.

New York Wants to Make It Illegal for AI to Answer Your Medical Questions

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:53:00 -0500

Senate Bill S7263 would hold AI companies liable when chatbots provide responses in 14 licensed professions. The bill’s language is broader than the headlines suggest—and it’s the wrong approach at the wrong time.

Apple's Studio Display XDR Wants Into the Reading Room

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:01:17 -0500

Apple’s new Studio Display XDR ships with DICOM presets and a Medical Imaging Calibrator aimed at diagnostic radiology. The specs are impressive. The compliance story is incomplete.

iOS 26.3.1: Bug Fixes and Studio Display Support

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:03:30 -0500

Apple’s iOS 26.3.1 is a minor maintenance release timed to the March hardware event — adding support for the iPhone 17e and new Studio Displays, with unspecified bug fixes and no security patches.

Outbound Sales Is Broken

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:51:38 -0500

Outbound sales is generating more harm than value. If you’re a vendor trying to reach me, advertise. Don’t call, don’t email, don’t message.

California's Age Verification Law Has an Open-Source Problem

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:24:37 -0500

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act requires every operating system to verify user age and expose an API for apps. At least one open-source OS has responded by banning California users entirely.

Microsoft Sunsets PowerScribe 360

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:00:52 -0500

After 15 years, Microsoft is ending PowerScribe 360. Support runs through August 2027, but the replacement is cloud-based, subscription-only, and non-negotiable.

The U.S. and Israel Are Bombing Iran. Here's What We Know.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:16:34 -0500

The United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran on February 28, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and over 40 senior officials. Iran retaliated against nine countries. Three American service members are dead. The diplomatic path that existed 48 hours earlier is gone.

Trump Lost Me Over Anthropic

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:50:04 -0500

I’ve supported the winning candidate in every general election since 2000—including Trump twice. That ends now. I will not support Trump or anyone aligned with him after the federal government threatened to destroy an American company for having principles.

I Missed the Blizzard of '26

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:37:27 -0500

The biggest storm to hit Connecticut since 2013 dropped 17.5 inches on Milford. I was 750 miles away in Indiana. By the time I got home, the roads were clear.

The HIPAA Security Rule Is Getting Its Biggest Overhaul in 13 Years

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:54:27 -0500

HHS is finalizing sweeping changes to the HIPAA Security Rule that eliminate the ‘addressable’ loophole and mandate encryption, MFA, and 72-hour recovery. Here’s what healthcare IT leaders should be watching.

The Pentagon Wants an AI That Kills. Anthropic Said No. Will It Be Punished?

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:51:21 -0500

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to remove safety guardrails from Claude. As a daily Claude user, I have thoughts on why the government shouldn’t be strong-arming AI companies into building unrestricted weapons.

The AI Selloff Has Spread Far Beyond SaaS

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:58:00 -0500

What started as a SaaS panic has consumed IBM, Visa, Mastercard, and consulting giants. A viral research report, Nassim Taleb, and a New York Times essay are all saying the same thing: the repricing is structural.

Mississippi's Largest Health System Shut Down by Ransomware

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:33:12 -0500

A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all 35 clinics statewide, canceling surgeries and chemotherapy while staff revert to paper records. It’s the latest in an escalating pattern of attacks that now cost the industry billions annually and measurably increase patient mortality.

Roll Your Own AI Note-Taker

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:40:17 -0500

A colleague mentioned he built his own digital transcriptionist in minutes. I followed suit — and now I have better meeting notes than ever.

This Is Your Brain on AI

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:04:46 -0500

AI is making us more productive than ever — and more drained than ever. The research is starting to explain why.

227 Million Rows of Medicaid Claims, Free to Download

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:28:00 -0500

HHS released the largest Medicaid dataset in department history — 227 million rows of provider-level claims data, free to download. I spent a Sunday afternoon joining it with public reference files to see what it could tell me about Connecticut.

AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists. It Made Them More Valuable Instead.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:30:22 -0500

Geoffrey Hinton said in 2016 that we should stop training radiologists. A decade later, demand is at record highs, compensation is strong, and half of open positions can’t be filled. Here’s what AI is actually doing in radiology.

iOS 26.3: One Zero-Day, 40 Patches, and a Door to Android

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:37:47 -0500

Apple’s iOS 26.3 patches 40 security vulnerabilities including an actively exploited spyware zero-day, adds a first-party Transfer to Android migration tool built for EU compliance, and opens iPhone notifications to third-party wearables in Europe.

Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday: 58 Flaws, Six Zero-Days, and Copilot Under Fire

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:30:00 -0500

Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday addresses 58 vulnerabilities including six actively exploited zero-days — an unusually high exploitation rate — plus three remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot that should worry every developer.

From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:26:58 -0500

A year after coining ‘vibe coding,’ Andrej Karpathy says the real discipline is ‘agentic engineering’ — orchestrating AI agents under structured human oversight. Here’s why the distinction matters.

Giving Claude Code Eyes with Playwright MCP

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:24:52 -0500

Model Context Protocol lets AI coding agents use external tools. Playwright MCP gives Claude Code a browser it can control — and for a blog like this, that changes the frontend workflow entirely.

The Cloud Database Landscape in 2026

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:49:12 -0500

A conversation about our cloud data strategy sent me down a rabbit hole. I asked Claude to help me map every database option across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond.

Connecticut's Free AI Course May Be Worth Your Time

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:21:26 -0500

The Connecticut Online AI Academy is free, online, and open to all residents 18 and older. If you haven’t formally started your AI journey, this is a solid place to begin.

The Cold Snap Continues

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:50:28 -0500

Two weeks after Winter Storm Fern buried Connecticut, most of the snow is still here. This weekend’s forecast explains why.

The SaaSpocalypse Reached My Office Today

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:45:02 -0500

A colleague replaced a $2,900/year SaaS app. A CNBC reporter replicated a $5 billion company. Wall Street is in freefall. And the tools just got better.

Yellow Highlighter Doesn't Work Anymore

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:16:27 -0500

The age-old practice of highlighting text in yellow assumes you know what color the text will be. You don’t.

Healthcare LLMs: From Med-PaLM to HealthScribe

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:56:10 -0500

What I learned about Google’s medical LLM while taking an entry-level course—and how it compares to AWS HealthScribe and Microsoft Dragon Copilot for clinical documentation.

Five Sandbox Projects This Week

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:30:41 -0500

At an AWS security symposium in Manhattan, I expected caution. What I found was a room full of security leaders urging their audiences to build faster.

Two Videos on AI Urgency

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:21:21 -0500

The Axios CEO wrote a letter to his family pleading with them to engage with AI. A tech analyst built an 11-tab financial model in 10 minutes. Both videos landed the same point.

Let the Robots In

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:10:45 -0500

Blocking AI crawlers is the new default. I think that’s backwards. Here’s the case for permissive access—and how to make your site AI-friendly.

When Claude Isn't Working

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:01:00 -0500

AI APIs go down. If your product depends on one, you need a plan for when it doesn’t respond.

Is AI Artificially Cheap?

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:55:54 -0500

AI companies are collectively losing tens of billions of dollars per year while charging consumers and businesses prices that don’t cover costs. The Uber playbook suggests those prices won’t last — but the history of computing suggests something more nuanced.

Gratitude After the Storm

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:30:30 -0500

Winter Storm Fern (or Benjamin) dropped a foot of snow on Milford, Connecticut. For me, it was barely a blip. That’s worth pausing to appreciate.

Homegrown Software Doesn't Have to Mean Poor Security

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:45:00 -0500

Small projects can achieve better security ratings than major brands. Here’s why internal teams sometimes outperform vendors.

Add to Home Screen: The Web's Overlooked Install Button

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:06:00 -0500

A tiny JSON file lets users install your website like an app. Here’s what I learned adding this feature to ap7i.com.

Winter Storm Fern? Benjamin? Why This Storm Has Two Names

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:32:31 -0500

If you’re in Connecticut, you may have noticed local TV calling this weekend’s storm ‘Benjamin’ while national coverage calls it ‘Fern.’ Both are unofficial—and the local tradition predates The Weather Channel by four decades.

Getting Started with Agentic Coding: A Guide for Non-Engineers

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:19:44 -0500

You don’t need to be a software engineer to build applications with AI. These are the things I’d want to know if I were just getting started.

Davos 2026: AI Dominates the Agenda as Leaders Clash Over Timelines and Jobs

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:26:50 -0500

At the World Economic Forum, AI luminaries debated AGI timelines, Nvidia’s CEO called for trillions more in infrastructure spending, and the IMF warned of a job market ’tsunami.’ Meanwhile, Trump claimed the U.S. leads China ‘by a lot.’

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The Cloud Goes Down Sometimes

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:36:23 -0500

My employer lost inbound email for a few hours during today’s Microsoft 365 outage. It’s not the first major cloud disruption this year, and it won’t be the last.

AI Doesn't Have Bad Days

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:33:10 -0500

A conversation with colleagues made me realize I’d internalized a workaround for AI’s lack of memory without ever thinking about it.

AI in Radiology: Beyond the Hype, What Actually Works

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:03:22 -0500

With over 1,000 FDA-cleared AI tools and a looming radiologist shortage, AI has become unavoidable in medical imaging. Here’s what actually works, what doesn’t pay for itself, and what clinical and IT leaders need to know.

Winter Storm Fern: What We Know

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:51:57 -0500

A potentially historic winter storm will affect 30+ states from Friday through Monday. Here’s the timeline, what to expect, and why forecasts this far out deserve healthy skepticism.

The RAM Shortage Is Spreading Beyond PCs

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:10:19 -0500

Data centers will consume 70% of all memory produced in 2026. The shortage is now hitting cars, TVs, and appliances—and manufacturers are already selling 2028 capacity.

What Do We Do When Everyone's a Developer?

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:49:30 -0500

AI is democratizing software development the way the printing press democratized books. That’s exciting—and it requires a different kind of organizational thinking.

Flippers Don't Add Value

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:40:11 -0500

Domain squatters, sneaker resellers, and ticket scalpers all share one thing in common: they extract value from markets without creating any.

Prediction Markets Are No Longer a Curiosity—Wall Street Is Paying Attention

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:08:28 -0500

Goldman Sachs is exploring prediction markets. Trading volume has exploded from $300 million to $50 billion annually. Are these platforms something regular people should care about?

Microsoft's January 2026 Patch Tuesday: 114 Flaws, Three Zero-Days, and a Shutdown Bug

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:52:21 -0500

Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2026 addresses 114 vulnerabilities including three zero-days, but also introduces a frustrating shutdown bug affecting Windows 11 systems with Secure Launch enabled.

My AI Journey So Far

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:20:00 -0500

From novelty to necessity: how I went from generating entertainment with ChatGPT to building production systems with Claude Code—and what I’d tell someone just getting started.

Stop Paying for Leads That Poison Your Brand

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:33:53 -0500

Third-party lead generation is a waste of everyone’s time and money. Here’s why vendors should stop using it entirely.

Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare: The Enterprise Play

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:31:39 -0500

Three days after OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health launch, Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare at JPM. Same week, different strategy.

The Shopify CEO Built His Own MRI Viewer. That's Not the Story.

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:07:53 -0500

Tobi Lütke used Claude to build a custom MRI viewer. The internet wasn’t impressed. They’re missing the point.

My Brain Doesn't Clock Out at 5—It Clocks In

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:55:00 -0500

The best thinking happens outside business hours. Not because I’m a workaholic, but because that’s when my brain finally gets the space it needs.

Connecticut's Proposed Facial Recognition Ban: Privacy Win or Invitation to Organized Theft?

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:10:00 -0500

State Senator James Maroney’s proposed ban on retail facial recognition raises important privacy questions—but could it also make Connecticut a softer target for organized retail crime?

Recalling My First Online Purchase

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:30:00 -0500

Before the web, I purchased two CDs from my college dorm room.

Trump's AI Executive Order Doesn't Restrict AI. It Restricts Restrictions.

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:35:09 -0500

The December 2025 Executive Order targets state AI laws, not AI itself. The regulatory patchwork is a real problem—but this order offers preemption without proposing federal protections in return.

OpenAI's Health Pitch: What's Real and What's Missing

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:16:34 -0500

OpenAI’s CEO of Applications makes a compelling case for AI in healthcare. The problems she identifies are real. The solution is more complicated.

HP Stuffed a Full PC Into a Keyboard

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:44:08 -0500

The HP EliteBoard G1a is a complete Windows workstation in a keyboard form factor, with up to 64GB RAM and enterprise-grade serviceability.

Meeting Notes as Software

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:33:00 -0500

How treating meeting agendas like code repositories has transformed my note-taking effectiveness.

Subclade K Is Fueling Connecticut's Worst Flu Season in Years

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:31:00 -0500

Subclade K is driving Connecticut’s worst flu season in years. Hospitalizations are surging, wastewater signals are ‘very high,’ and doctors say there’s no end in sight.

The MTA Raised Fares Today. How Much It Hurts Depends on Who You Are.

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:01:00 -0500

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised fares today, but the impact varies wildly depending on how you use the system.

RAM Prices Have Tripled. Blame AI.

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:39:00 -0500

AI data centers are devouring global memory supply, driving a 171% price surge in 2025. Laptops are getting more expensive, specs are shrinking, and relief isn’t coming until 2027 at the earliest.

U.S. Forces Capture Venezuela's President in Overnight Strike

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:30:00 -0500

In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the United States executed a military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The geopolitical implications are vast—and so are the unanswered questions.

Fastest Blog in North America, or Your Money Back

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0500

Bold claims require bold guarantees. This site loads in under 200 milliseconds from anywhere in North America. If it doesn’t, I’ll refund every penny you paid to read it.

The Batteries Are Dead

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0500

I tried to weigh myself before writing this, but my scale’s batteries are dead. Maybe that’s fitting.

No

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:30:37 -0500

Why I’m declining every unsolicited vendor meeting in 2026, and why you shouldn’t take it personally.

The Speed of Now

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0500

After 30 years in IT, nothing prepared me for 2025’s velocity. AI tools turned months of work into days—and expectations compound faster than efficiency.

How I Launched a Globally Fast Blog for Under $5/Month

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Using AI, Hugo, and AWS CloudFront, I went from idea to a globally cached static site in a single day—and you can too.

About

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This site is created and maintained by Robert Parks, an IT Director based in Connecticut with over 30 years in the industry. By day, he leads a technology team supporting healthcare operations across multiple sites. By night (and early morning), he tinkers with cloud infrastructure, web applications, and whatever AI tools have emerged that week.

Why This Blog?

After three decades in IT, Robert has learned that the best way to truly understand and remember something is to document it. This blog captures technical insights—whether it’s an AWS configuration, a Hugo template trick, or a lesson learned from deploying AI in production.

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