PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston By some accounts, computer-chip prices have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled in just the past year. You can blame it on vast new data centers that require billions of dollars’ worth of servers and parts to accommodate the training of large language models, superintelligent agents, and every other demand for […]

ISSUE 23.27 • 2026-07-06 TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Microsoft’s surprising decision to add another year to the Windows 10 Extended Security Update program was welcome news to those stunned by the dramatic price increases of core system components. It means the urgency to acquire new Windows 11–compatible hardware is gone, at least for […]