AI By Matthew S. Smith This might be hard to believe, but we’re now at least four years into the era of AI large language models — and perhaps up to nine, depending on your definition. OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released in 2022, GPT-3 was released in 2020, and the paper that defined the transformer architecture […]

SILICON By Matthew S. Smith After more than a year of rumors and, if those rumors are believed, some delays, NVIDIA’s new system on a chip for Windows PCs was revealed at Computex 2026. It’s called RTX Spark, and it’s coming to Windows PCs this fall. RTX Spark will launch with a single chip in […]

On Monday, NVIDIA shook up the processor market with its introduction of the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip at the opening of the COMPUTEX trade show in Taiwan. The stock market reacted quickly; NVIDIA up seven percent, Intel down two percent. This coming Monday, the newsletter will feature an article by our own Matthew S. Smith […]

LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. We seem to have entered a new era in machine learning. In addition to generative AI offering suggestions, it is now capable of carrying out those suggestions. It can write your emails, college-entrance personal essays, term papers, and legal briefs. (One would hope that you would at least […]

In my profession we have to attend continuing education and the topics can range from accounting to technology. Today was tech day, where Roman Kepczyk was discussing tech trends and planning. A couple of his comments made me go, “Hmmm, interesting.”  He indicated that he has seen several firms actually budget for, pay, and install […]

As I mentioned on Wednesday, today I attended a seminar about creating a local AI solution for business. The main reason? Besides data privacy, small businesses may want to turn to local AI for lower cost. Right now, cloud AI is heavily funded by investors. When they pivot to IPOs and go public, those investors […]

Way back in 2025, Microsoft announced that it would no longer sell a standalone subscription to Copilot pro. It would respect your yearly subscription if you had one, but come effective November 1, 2026 if you want AI in your Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, you’ll need to switch to Microsoft 365 premium. Today I […]

Google has announced a new AI-powered search tool. I’ve seen many reactions, ranging from questioning how is this better to how will this drive revenue for Google. But I also know that many of us had turned to tools like perplexity.ai as their new go-to search tool. Rather than curating your own topics, we are […]

Microsoft has a post geared towards businesses setting the expectations regarding an expected bumper crop of vulnerability disclosures that are expected as a result of AI tools. We’ve already seen the impact on Apple. We will see more CVE’s (or vulnerability counts) per month, but I don’t foresee that we will get more patches. Mind […]

As PK noted on the bottom of her Apple post, Apple released Safari 26.5 for Sonoma and Sequoia. It appears we may be seeing some impact from AI bug finders, as this is finding a ton of WebKit bugs. One group in particular, DarkNavy, is advertising its use of AI in finding and targeting various […]

LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. To err is no longer the exclusive province of humans. Apologies to Alexander Pope. Artificial intelligence has progressed from hallucinating to enticing humans to join in the hallucination. We need a new term for hybrid human-AI errors caused by reliance on AI hallucinations. I propose “mistaiks.” Read the […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley One thing the World Wide Web has done in recent years is introduce new ways to scam, trick, entice, and generally be a drag on our time — and potentially a hit to our pocketbooks. Here are some threats I’ve seen in recent months. Read the full story in our […]

Maine’s legislature passed on April 14, 2026, a bill prohibiting the “construction or permitting” of any new datacenter which consumes more than 20 megawatts of power. If signed by the governor, it would take immediate effect but expire on November 1, 2027. Other states have proposed similar bans, but Maine’s is the first to pass […]

AI By Michael A. Covington Malfunctioning AI can hurt people. Preventing harm isn’t easy. To detect automatically whether an AI system is giving people bad advice, for instance, you’d need an AI that is smarter than the original one; and if you had it, you’d have used it in the first place. You see the […]

I was chatting with Copilot, doing some research about vintage drum machines. I have a little BOSS DR-220 Dr. Rhythm synth that provides the basic functionality I want, but it does not have variations. I was looking for something slightly better. The research session was pretty good, telling me about some equipment I’d never heard […]

Whenever I hear or see headlines about a “supply chain vulnerability,” I think in terms of big enterprises and delivery of goods and services. You know — supplies. But in technology, the term “supply chain attack” means that an attacker has gotten into something trusted — such as a software vendor, service provider, hardware supplier […]

ISSUE 23.12 • 2026-03-23 PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Secure Boot continues to be confusing — and sometimes alarming. Nevertheless, here’s some reassurance for consumers and home users: For the most part, you can ignore all this Secure Boot patching advice. Your computer will boot if you get the update. Your computer will boot if […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Installing “agentic AI” such as Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s GPT Atlas, and other artificial-intelligence helpers is a big trend among businesses and individual computer users — but big problems come along with such bots. A white paper published by Kiteworks, a data-management firm, says 60 percent of companies using agentic AI […]