Weather
I Missed the Blizzard of '26
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.
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Healthcare IT
The HIPAA Security Rule Is Getting Its Biggest Overhaul in 13 Years
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.
Opinion
The Pentagon Wants an AI That Kills. Anthropic Said No. Will It Be Punished?
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.
AI
The AI Selloff Has Spread Far Beyond SaaS
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.
Healthcare IT
Mississippi's Largest Health System Shut Down by Ransomware
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.
AI
Roll Your Own AI Note-Taker
A colleague mentioned he built his own digital transcriptionist in minutes. I followed suit — and now I have better meeting notes than ever.
AI
This Is Your Brain on AI
AI is making us more productive than ever — and more drained than ever. The research is starting to explain why.
Healthcare IT
227 Million Rows of Medicaid Claims, Free to Download
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.
Healthcare IT
AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists. It Made Them More Valuable Instead.
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.
Technology
iOS 26.3: One Zero-Day, 40 Patches, and a Door to Android
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.