AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning a...

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Why your boss tunes you out

One of my clients came to me with a high-stakes pitch to request a budget and head count for her team. She had built a beautiful and thorough deck with revenue charts, growth graphs, staffing history, and supporting data. Buried somewhere behind all the data and...

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At last, Apple joins the war against fake AI images

At last, Apple joins the war against fake AI images

Reality is crumbling at the hands of generative AI users, to the point where most people don’t trust what they see online anymore. Apple has come up with a technology to fix that: Apple Reference Image. It comes with the new iPhone 18 Pro models, and when enabled, it...

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Open Source Acoustic Drone Detection

Drones have become a potent military threat, particularly on the small scale. Nimble multi-rotor drones are fast, difficult to spot, and can cause plenty of harm if allowed to go about their work unhindered. The first step to dealing with this issue is detection—a...

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How Arthur Ashe became the noisiest Grand Slam venue

How Arthur Ashe became the noisiest Grand Slam venue

At Wimbledon and Roland Garros, you’ll find fans swiveling their heads from side to side as they follow the bright green tennis ball darting back and forth. And they’re doing so in a hushed stadium, with the only noise coming from the ball hitting the racket, a...

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Apple’s new iPhone Duo turns the interface on its head

Apple’s new iPhone Duo turns the interface on its head

Not only is Apple going foldable with its new iPhone Duo, its user interface is going vertical too. The iOS 27 operating system for the iPhone Duo takes advantage of the foldable smartphone’s new form factor with user interface changes designed for the phone’s larger...

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Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free

Author Kevin Purdy Contributor Alex Kretzschmar This blog post, originally published in April 2024, was updated in July 2026 to reflect the most modern and convenient ways to install a Tailscale app in Home Assistant and use it for remote access, to accompany a newer...

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What Happens to Your Data After You Hit Allow

The privacy conversation tends to stop at the moment someone taps allow. A person grants an app access to their location so it can find nearby stores, and the interaction feels complete right there. The more interesting question sits on the other side of that tap, in...

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Why TDE SQL Server Restores Fail on Amazon RDS

Who this is for: anyone migrating an on-premises SQL Server database that has Transparent Data Encryption turned on to RDS for SQL Server, and wants to understand why the restore fails before hitting it in a maintenance window.A colleague on our infrastructure team...

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Introducing “Token Proof of Work”

For fifteen years, every contact form, every submission box, every "get in touch" widget on the web has run on one quiet assumption: a person is typing on the other end. That assumption is running out of runway fast, and most of the web isn't ready for it.Agents are...

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