ISSUE 23.24 • 2026-06-15 WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkmann Without a single warning, Microsoft may quietly hijack your local files and hold them hostage in the cloud to upsell you a OneDrive subscription. With a few steps, you can break the link and reclaim your data. Do a quick experiment right now. Open File Explorer, […]

ISSUE 23.22 • 2026-06-01 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston Waves of state-sponsored malware attacks are expected to overwhelm traditional antivirus software as early as July 2026. By then, hacker teams will surely gain access to powerful large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber. In April 2026, Anthropic and OpenAI announced […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston The maker of the popular Claude large language model (LLM) — which became the number-one download from US app stores in February 2026 — recently announced a powerful service called Claude Mythos. The new LLM has reportedly discovered thousands of security holes in every major operating system and Web browser. […]

ISSUE 23.16 • 2026-04-20 Look for our BONUS issue on May 4, 2026!! SILICON By Matthew S. Smith Intel is back, baby … maybe? Once the undisputed king of CPUs, Intel entered a long, spiraling descent in the 2010s. This is a reality I know better than most, though (regrettably) not as well as some. […]